The Invulnerability Sphere deflects all incoming attacks but renders you stationary, and the Kamikaze sends a shockwave ripping through the arena at the cost of your own life. There are also new special items, similar to “runes” in Classic Quake CTF mods. For example, a Guard benefits from increased health and armor, Scouts boogie along and fire at an increased rate, and Doublers do two times the damage. Team Arena’s big addition to the Quake universe is a variety of different character classes, which are assigned by grabbing flashing color-coded pick-ups that give new abilities. It might not be up to the quality of Unreal Tournament, but it definitely has its own brand of twitch action. Then id tried to remedy this issue with Team Arena, an add-on disk that needs the original Quake 3 to be installed.

There was a superfulous CTF mode bundled into the original package, but it was clearly an afterthought. Quake 3 Arena did excellent deathmatch in its day, but as far as the online crowd is concerned, team-based action is where it’s at.

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