Lives Forever, The World Is Not Enough, and a handful of others are in the works. Arena didn t deliver the innovation that the series resonated with in the past, especially when teams such as Valve and Epic appeared on the scene, but it brought a new level of sheer gut-wrenching mayhem and blisteringly fast action to the genre like never before. In many gamers' eyes, it was polished to perfection. Now it s March 2001, five months after the PlayStation s launch, and EA s Quake III Revolution, the third first-person shooter on the PS2 is upon us. Let s get this straight and out of the way real quick.
Revolution is a strange misnomer.
Despite the fancy title, this game doesn t deliver any kind of revolution by any stretch of the imagination, but rather, if you re a PC gamer, a devolution. They ll probably tell you it sucks, too, but they re wrong, dead wrong. It s not like I m winning money in contests over here playing Quake III on the PC, but I can keep up my end well enough. While comparisons need to be made to the PC for clarity, Quake III Revolution stands up quite well on the PS2. In fact, it's easily the best first-person shooter on the PS2.