Target Quake Arena

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Target Quake has been around since Quake 1, but has skipped the Quake 2 generation, and come back with a vengance under Avatar's wing. The mod is a contemporary approach to the once extremely well investigated medium of the 2D platform game. You would think that after 5 odd years of hundreds and thousands of platform games hitting the market in their late 80's early 90's heyday, that there was nothing left to explore... but quake brought multiplaying into the limelight well after the platforming glory days. We now have whole computer setups to ourselves, rather than having to share a screen with "2up". The new world of multiplaying in 2D is, until now, unexplored. You're going to be happy about the revisit.

Target Quake comes off as very similar to Contra, and perhaps a little like Smash Tv... for once you can shoot in one direction and walk in the other. The aiming is done via mouse, much like Abuse (www.crack.com) while running and jumping are controlled by your normal movement keys. Yay for no extra bindings! It takes a little getting used do - after all, it's not an FPS anymore.

Additional Gamemodes:

• Wild West Shootout
The object is to be the first player to press SHOOT when the scren says DRAW. Your time is listed immediately after you fire, with your opponent's time next to it when he fires. Whoever shoots first lives. You need only fire once.

• Volley Ball
The Volley Ball rules are pretty standard: One player stays at the baseline and serves when the ball appears. The other players try to return the ball when it gets bounced around. In typical Vball fashion, you can't hit the ball more than once in a row, and it can't bounce on any side more than 3 times. irst team to 15 wins, but you have to win by 2.

• TeamBall
The objective is to knock the ball into your goal, using force or your own body. The gauntlet is particularly good for aiming the ball. When a ball enters a Goal, that entire team is rewarded with whatever bonus the ball represents: Quad, Haste, or Railguns all around. There is one other ball, however: The Deathball. If this passes into your team's goal, you all die. Pay attention to the help messages that pop up in game for a reminder.

taken from PlanetQuake and the official website

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Installation

How-to play

Alternatively, launch Quake III Arena with the parameter +set fs_game tq.

The controls are like any other Quake 3 mod, except it's from a side view!

To play Wild West Shootout, set gamemode to TEAM DEATHMATCH and select TQWEST for the level.

To play Volley Ball, set gamemode to TEAM DEATHMATCH and select TQVBALL for the level.

To play Team Ball, set gamemode to TEAM DEATHMATCH and select any TQDM or TQTEAM level.

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