No screaming 12 year olds. No noobtubers or 360 noscopers. No "I f**ked your mother last night". And no campers.
Only rocket jumps, strafing, rail gunz and 100% pure skills.

11/10 - Would play again.... for real.

Quake III Arena is a true Arena Shooter classic and one of the best first person shooter games of all time. Quake III Arena will always be one of my most favorite FPS games, and it's fun never stops.

10/10 A true FPS Classic. :D

Pros: quake3
Cons: ...

THIS > QUAKE LIVE
BY FAR
The ONLY time I would EVER go back to QL is if they rolled back the DISGUSTING update.

Legitimately one of the greatest games ever made (ignore my playtime, I haven't had it on Steam for very long).

Lemme explain for a second. The skill ceiling of this game is so god damn high if you were to design a building with a similar ceiling height, that ♥♥♥♥ would get destroyed by the moon. Every single time you play you get your ♥♥♥ kicked, but every single time you play you want to keep playing because it's SO. GOD. DAMN. GOOD. Everything is perfectly balanced (okay, maybe the machine gun is a little weak, but it's the starting weapon). No loadouts, no leveling ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥- just a game of pure skill and nothing else. Quake is basically the chess of the video game world. Almost everyone is better than you (it's what, fifteen years old at this point?), but it instills this everlasting desire to still be the best there is. Very few games can do that, and it's exactly what makes Quake SO ♥♥♥♥ING GOOD HOLY ♥♥♥♥ HAVE I SAID THAT ENOUGH YET.

Don't even bother with Quake Live. Recent changes have casualized the hell out of it, and messed with the balance (in a negative way). Paying $15 for this game is totally worth it, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Very rarely do I say this, but this is, for sure, a 10/10

If you disliked Quake Live because how limited it was. Then get Quake III Arena!

The main competitor to Unreal Tournament '99. This game is moddable, and you could find hundreds of custom models to play as, like Vash the Stampede, Darth Vader, and so many pop culture characters to find, download, and play as in Quake III Arena. Even you can download hundreds and hundreds of custom maps to play with others!

Regardless of the complaints being multiplayer-focused, it is still super fun, jump, run n' gun fun! Even id Software was nice enough to give us a single player game to get to the top in the campaign. Also, if you want to hone your multiplayer skills, bot match that is easy to find unlike Quake Live. Also, the Multiplayer is still alive to this day, knowing that people prefer this game over Quake Live.

If you were disappointed with Quake live, then get this!

P.S. You can actually see people's models unlike Quake Live! And it's also completely Buy-2-Play without having to pay for some silly premium content. Just buy and have fun.

Best multiplayer FPS ever. Q3DM17 <3

My sister and I used to play this all the time. She isn't here anymore and just having this installed on my Steam library is the most absolute important thing in my mental state. I'm not giving a sad story however, what I'm telling you is this game will leave you with memories. Out of all the things my sister and I did, this is the strongest memory. This game is legendary and I know not many people play it at all anymore. Though this game is worth every cent put into it ever. to anyone who has played this, I know you have tons of memories too.

Must have classic. And you dont need fancy GPU to max it out ;)

acquire q3a, disregard live

No1 fps shooter, best ever, speed, adrenaline, old school feel <3

This is a game arguments can be decided over, LANs made legendary with, and true bragging rights can be attained. There is no other purer test of arena FPS skill than Q3 (arguably Rocket Arena).

In the world of FPS gaming I feel like challenging someone to a 1v1 in Q3 is like saying "How about we settle this like men and take it outside?" There no perks, leveling, or gimmicks to hide behind. It is just you and your opponent and someone is going to eat ♥♥♥♥.

Tight fun gameplay. Probably the best Quake game I have played

A true classic. This game will probably live forever in the hearts and minds of its fans. It is THE definitive FPS arena deathmatch game. I fear to imagine how many hours I have in my old CD version of this game.

Fraggin' since 1999. Excellent/10

I just bought this again. After not been playing it for like 6-7 years.

And oh boy was i surprised. The game is still extremely good. And also looks good, 15 years after it was made.
You got to wonder how John Carmack pulled this off. The man is a genious.

Do not let the 1999 year of release scare you, this game is still extremely impressive, and highly competative.
Actually one of the most competastive shooters of all time. And of the games that created Fatal1ty :)

10/10

Classic meat and potatoes FPS deathmatch done to perfection.

It's fast, fluid, acrobatic, skillful, well balanced gunfighting. Gameplay this good will always be good.

Considering Q3A is now 16 years old the graphics still do the job quite well. The bad@ss glitchy industrial electronic music fits the style and pace of the game perfectly.

The community for this game is great, there are tonnes of mods and custom maps to keep you busy.

Play it, enjoy it, don't camp, just bunnyhop.

10/10

Fantastic game, even though this game is quite old I'm still playing it at some point if I get bored. Lots of cool characters to select from, unique guns, great gore and super fun to play! I love the maps very creative ideas just to send you flying away with the best scores.

I played singleplayer, oh god this was a funny experience for me, but you can actually talk to the bots! I did it when I first started, oh god it was priceless you may remember Justin Bieber for his most hated song 'Baby', you can encounter that little easter egg when you talk to the bot.

Interesting yet funny game, wish most of my friends got this so I could play with them sometime.

10/10

Best FPS ever recommend it to anyone whos getting into FPS games that are not COD Or battlefield or any crappy Realistic shooter exsept Counter Strike (best recomended u play quake 3 with the CPMA mod)

The perfect deathmatch game with an excellent ballence between speed and accuracy.

That it still works after 15 years and is good for lower powered laptops makes it almost essential.

Add to this the thousands of third party mods and you have to say this is one of the best games ever made.

Up until a few days ago I had never actually played this game. I just finished single player on skill 3, so might as well do a writeup.

It can be a bit jarring getting a hang of the rocket launcher at first, so you might want to try on skill 2 or even 1 to start with. But once you've picked up a rhythm you can turn up the skill level a bit and just enjoy yourself.

The soundtrack is one of the best I've encountered in a game.

Remember that I've really only done *single player*. For a game that was designed mostly for *multiplayer*. And it was still hella fun.

(Ignore the length of time I've spent playing this, I've mostly been playing it in ioquake3. It has red/cyan stereo support. Oh yes.)