Armed only with a pistol, you must get up, rendezvous with the rest of your squad, and turn the tide of the war. You wake up in the wreckage of the crash with a battle raging around you. In the campaign's opening cinematic, you see Kane and his fellow Rhino Squad members board their transport and fly toward the planet, only to be shot down by an enemy missile, in true Starship Troopers fashion.

In Quake 4, you switch to a new character, Matthew Kane, who is part of the marine invasion force that appears in orbit moments after the defenses come down. In Quake II, you played a nameless marine who battled his way to bring down the planetary defenses of Stroggos, the home planet of the Strogg, an alien race of cyborgs that is at war with humanity. However, we should also note that both versions of Quake 4 are going to be as similar to each other as possible, and the single-player game on both platforms will have all the same levels, monsters, and weapons.Īs we've noted in our earlier previews, the single-player story in Quake 4 picks up immediately after Quake II. The single-player campaign represents a return to the story arc that was established in Quake II, while the multiplayer game builds off the fast-paced, twitch-based combat that was perfected in Quake III: Arena. We should first note that Quake 4 feels like two entirely different games. Quake 4 will offer a comprehensive single-player game and highly competitive multiplayer for the PC and for the Xbox 360. So when Activision offered us a chance to play both the single- and multiplayer modes of the PC version, as well as part of the Xbox 360's single-player game, we of course jumped at the opportunity. Second, it most likely will be an Xbox 360 launch title, so it will help usher in the next generation of consoles. Obviously, it's the latest chapter in the Quake franchise, the series that practically invented the 3D first-person shooter as we know it. Quake 4 is one of the big games going into this holiday season for a couple of reasons.

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