Quake Live
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
Fast-paced arena combat where players and monsters are shot with rockets, rails, and other weapons, producing sprays of blood and exploding bodies into chunks (gibs).
A minority of maps carry a dark gothic-demonic atmosphere, but the tone is competitive action rather than fright.
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What it is
Quake Live is an online arena first-person shooter, a modernized version of Quake III Arena, in which players battle on more than 100 maps across a dozen fast-paced deathmatch and team modes, either against other people on public servers or against computer-controlled bots. Combat is the entire focus: you sprint and rocket-jump through futuristic and gothic arenas, fragging humanoid gladiators and demon-like opponents with an array of sci-fi and conventional weapons. Kills are bloody, with blood spray and enemies exploding into gibs, and this happens frequently and rapidly. There is no story campaign, sexual content, drugs, or gambling. Multiplayer matches include in-game text communication with strangers, and there is no anti-cheat or content moderation on public servers.
How it's framed
The game frames violence as pure competitive sport — a fast, skill-based arena contest scored by frags rather than a narrative. Killing opponents earns points and the gore is stylized and cartoonishly over-the-top rather than presented as suffering, with respawns making death consequence-free and abstract.
Details
- Developer
- id Software
- Publisher
- Bethesda Softworks
- Released
- Sep 17, 2014
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