Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Review - XB360

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars was a hit on the PC with a lot of people playing on the servers and enjoying the game. Now its the 360's turn to take a crack at it and it didnt do so well. Quake wars is an attempt at the battlefield formula with the all types of classes, vehicles and terrain for you and 16 other multiplayer buddies to frag eachother. This of course is not a bad formula but with a poor execution in a lot of areas it doesnt live up to what the PC had to offer. The first and biggest complaint is the visuals. The graphics took a massive dive compared to the texture and such that the PC version was pushing out. Everything is very bland and looks very blocky with no real textures on the maps. Same goes with the characters having very bland animations with many of them not doing anything at all due to server lag. Oh lag, an app killer! Yes, its very present in this title, some games I was in I could not even move at all and had to kill myslef a few times to reboot the map to another local to allow me to play. This is something that should only occur in a beta not in the retail. Ok, enough about the bad stuff lets talk about the positives. The game does a good job of giving you specific types of objectives to accomplish in order to win the round. Not just a deathmatch game, its an objective based type of game as well as gives you the ability to capture points on a map for different things to be done. The classes as well are very cool with each one having an advantage to winning the rounds, that made it cool to have one of each type on your team and not all soldiers or something. Also a cool feature is something similar to the perks system from Call of Duty 4. As you do specific task or do something achievement worthy you earn stars as well as abilities that make you run faster, load quicker or something like that. Now there is a single player game sort of you basically play all the maps against the AI, so practice really for the online version as also seen in shadowrun. Overall, this is going ot be a game that unless you have some buddies who are willing to play with you and you guys could work as a team to get the job done. You wont really find this game too appealing, when you could get a far better game that uses this same structure. It was a good attempt to bring a fun PC title to the 360, it just failed in many of the points that could of made it a fun title.


Overall Score - C+