Few games are able to solicit such fervor among fans.
For the past few years, id has dominated the first person shooter landscape with its seminal shooter. Fewer games still could even approach the frenzied action and mayhem that Quake could provide yet many folks balked when id announced that Quake III would be a multiplayer-intensive game. Game servers were choked with so many Quake players that took upwards to 20 minutes just to log on. Quake III is one of the best-looking games out right now, bar none. Framerates were consistently in the upper 50's, even at a resolution of 1024x768 using 32-bit colors with textures maxed out on an AMD Athlon 700MHz processor.