[et:qw]: The Annual E3 Awards: 2006

(nUllSkillZ) #1

At Planet Quake I’ve found the link to
The Annual E3 Awards: 2006
You should have a closer look for ET:QW.

(kamikazee) #2

Nice find. At least they got taste in multiplayer games. :stuck_out_tongue:

(madness) #3

hehe…nice :slight_smile:
They also gave MP of the year 2003 to W:ET
QW could be 2006 :d

(Fab) #4

Heres the 1UP equivilent: http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3150431&did=1

(kamikazee) #5

No sign of Battlefield on that page. :smiley:

(Gringo) #6

A great result all round then! :clap:

(Rhoades) #7

Nice. This game is really going to be popular.

(crumblycake) #8
  1. Battlefield 2142
    “It was a no-brainer…”

You can SAY that again.

(mortis) #9

Backrager 2142 is just cheap knock off. But it will still be popular, because that is the way popularity works. I think that QuakeWars will be a big hit, but I don’t think it’s a guaranteed knock out of BF2142 or UT2007, although I have no doubt that ETQW looks to be the best game by far.

Consider RtCW:ET. Awesome team gameplay. Great balance of cartoon action and semi-realism. Insane price. #1 game? nope. hardcore fanbase? yes.

However, Camperstrike is still the #1 game, and has been for many years. It’s simple, understandable, and extremely popular (thus lots of filled servers in your area).

Which is the better game? RtCW:ET Which one is better from a marketing point of view? Camperstrike.

My point is that even a truly awesome game like QuakeWars will not shield us from the fanatical followers of BF2. If BF2142 has uber weapon unlocks and a bunch of meaningless e-member-enlarging persistent ranks, it will compete, even if it’s a laggy POS.

One thing I like about SplashDamage is that they never take their eye off of gameplay, even when faced with slick marketing adversaries who will toss out early beta quality software just to cash in the year of the futurisitic-FPS games. I’m hoping ETQW will be like an avalanche in the FPS world toward complicated engaging team play, instead of glorified deathmatch with an objective loosely attached (CTF, for example).

It takes a brain to be good at ET; you need a focus on objectives, wily strategy, an itchy trigger finger, but most of all it takes practice and patience to know when to charge out with your pliers at just the right moment, and how to perform each class according to the scenario and your abilities. So here’s to hoping that the masses are more intelligent than I give them credit for! :slight_smile:

(Gringo) #10

Well said!!!

(Senethro) #11

I’ve no doubt that the pros will take to ETQW but I’m worried that mainstream/casual gamers will ignore it just because its scifi or because they’ve never heard of the ET series. Or that cheap people will refuse to pay for QW when they have W:ET for free. You need 20 pubbies to make a pro and new blood to keep a game alive.

A low price tag would help. I get the impression that the cost to produce is about half of what EA would mis-spend. Any idea what the $/£ retail price will be?

(Schizma) #12

Yay, QW beat Bf2142, I’m guessing ET:QW will be $60 just like all the other new PC games they never really get much more then that unless they are like special edition or something.

Love Discussion

(Joe999) #13

here’s the ign awards:

Best PC Multiplayer: Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

(kamikazee) #14

I’m nitpicking again, but it bothers me that “RtCW:ET” is so often used when the game itself says “W:ET”.

BTW: The guys at IGN had allso some wretched info about ET:QW’s ancestor. They call it an add-on of RtCW…

But we know better! :smiley: (Or so do we think)

(madness) #15

it originally was an expansion pack… :banana:

I wonder what was supposed to happen in the singleplayer portion :> what was the story?

(ParanoiD) #16

ET:QW wont knock out UT2007. You just cant compare those 2 games. UT is for the fraggers with just guns in my eyes. (lets say the rambo medics can bette rplay that game). As we knoe BF2142 will also a hit because <15 year old kids buy it as they dont know better and they just see aal the commercials as EA pumps millions in the commercials…

(QuakeDaily) #17

id have a list on their main page of all the awards won so far:

http://www.idsoftware.com/

(ayatollah) #18

Remeber it is a Quake game, and with that comes the recognition. People may not pick it up due to the ET roots but the Quake name will give the people not in the know a reason to have a look at the game. With a bit of marketing this game could, and should, become a huge hit.

(Hakuryu) #19

I have a feeling that BF 2142 is going to be the BF:Vietnam of BF2 (read it a couple times, it will make sense).

(Zyklon) #20

Those were my first thoughts when I heard about it, jsut after thinking “Oh look, an ET:QW copy!”