Hi-Res Quake Wars Video!
Get 'em before you see the rubbish version on the official site!
The long-awaited Enemy Territory: Quake Wars sees something of a soft launch today by publisher Activision, with SPOnG hosting a rather impressive trailer video to commemorate 22nd July, 2005, hereafter known as Quake Wars Day. Click the link below to download the video.
Quicktime video (56.8Mb)
Though a national holiday is thought unlikely at this stage, the fact that we’ve gone to the trouble of encoding three different versions of the same video and then uploaded them to our file server is surely worthy of praise from above. Right now, SPOnG’s staff is unaware exactly how public holidays come into existence. Is it the queen? The prime minister? If you can bothered using Google to find out, do let us know in the forum below. And regional variations (like how it happens in the US, for example) would also be of great interest.
Back on topic, Quake Wars, an id Software and Splash Damage co-production, “Pits the armies of Earth against the invading alien Strogg in the ultimate strategic shooter.” And as you will see from the video, which is comprised entirely of in-game footage, the project looks very nice indeed.
And of course, don’t forget that Quake 4 is also in the works, extensive behind-closed-doors impressions of which you can read here.
Quicktime video (56.8Mb)
Though a national holiday is thought unlikely at this stage, the fact that we’ve gone to the trouble of encoding three different versions of the same video and then uploaded them to our file server is surely worthy of praise from above. Right now, SPOnG’s staff is unaware exactly how public holidays come into existence. Is it the queen? The prime minister? If you can bothered using Google to find out, do let us know in the forum below. And regional variations (like how it happens in the US, for example) would also be of great interest.
Back on topic, Quake Wars, an id Software and Splash Damage co-production, “Pits the armies of Earth against the invading alien Strogg in the ultimate strategic shooter.” And as you will see from the video, which is comprised entirely of in-game footage, the project looks very nice indeed.
And of course, don’t forget that Quake 4 is also in the works, extensive behind-closed-doors impressions of which you can read here.
Comments
PEN15 22 Jun 2005 17:46
1/7
Hey where the hell is the wmv version!!!???
fluffstardx 23 Jun 2005 07:10
2/7
*Hand gesture* You do not want WMV versions.
I get everything in Quicktime anyway; better format.
I get everything in Quicktime anyway; better format.
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Ditto 23 Jun 2005 07:18
3/7
fluffstardx wrote:
*Hand gesture* You do not want WMV versions.
I do not want WMV versions.
Boy, did that make me laugh.
You need to go home and rethink your life ;).
fluffstardx 23 Jun 2005 07:19
4/7
I actually do it to people in real life. Worryingly, it works...
tyrion 23 Jun 2005 12:21
5/7
Well if that's in-game on current hardware, colour me impressed! That's miles better at showing of the engine than Doom3 was.
Artificial lighting in dark rooms is much easier than natural light outside! But boy does outside look good.
Makes Killzone2 look a bit closer to reality too.
Admittedly this Quake footage is not up to the proposed quality of KZ2, but the difference is a small change in texture and shader quality and huge jumps in numbers of polygons. Next-gen GPUs may actually be able to produce the level of graphics we saw at E3. Not at launch of the PS3, but maybe within a couple of years.
Artificial lighting in dark rooms is much easier than natural light outside! But boy does outside look good.
Makes Killzone2 look a bit closer to reality too.
Admittedly this Quake footage is not up to the proposed quality of KZ2, but the difference is a small change in texture and shader quality and huge jumps in numbers of polygons. Next-gen GPUs may actually be able to produce the level of graphics we saw at E3. Not at launch of the PS3, but maybe within a couple of years.
tyrion 23 Jun 2005 12:22
6/7
fluffstardx wrote:
*Hand gesture* You do not want WMV versions.
Surely "that's not the codec you're looking for" would be better? :-)
PEN15 23 Jun 2005 17:31
7/7
fluffstardx wrote:
*Hand gesture* You do not want WMV versions.
I get everything in Quicktime anyway; better format.
I get everything in Quicktime anyway; better format.
QUicktime files are huge and when you have a slow connection it makes a difference. ANyway I downloaded it from gametrailers and forgot to watch it before I left for work.