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General FAQ

What is Quake 4?
Who is developing Quake 4?
Who will publish Quake 4?
What gaming platforms will Quake 4 be for?
What's the current release date for Quake 4?
When will a Quake 4 demo or "test" be publicly released?
When will the SDK be released?
What engine is Quake 4 powered by?
What about Quake 4's system requirements?

Single Player FAQ

What's known about Quake 4's Single Player?

Multiplayer FAQ

What's known about Quake 4's Multiplayer?

Modifications

What kind of modification support does Quake 4 have?

FAQ Information

Who wrote this FAQ?
What can we do with this FAQ (distrution wise)?
When was this FAQ last updated?

General FAQ

Quake 4 is the next game in id Software's infamous Quake game franchise, all started by Quake itself in 1995. Quake 4 is continuing Quake 2's and is planned to be a DOOM 3 engine powered in your face sci-fi flick action game. However, it is not being developed by id Software.

Quake 4 is being developed by Raven Software, who have developed Triple-A quality titles such as the Star Trek: Elite Force, Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, Jedi Academy and Soldier of Fortune game series, and many more.

Quake 4 will be published by Activision.

Quake 4 will be for Windows and Xbox 360.

The PC version has already been unleashed, but the Xbox 360 version port has been slated for November 18th, 2005! There's also a Mac OS X version port of it pencilled to come out soon enough. (roughly Q2-3 2006)

It's out! Weighing 55.97MB (for Win32 OS platform) and 61.32MB (for Linux OS platform), being sure about specifics and details. Download it at Worthplaying.

It's been released! Weighing 326MB, head on over and download it over at id Software's site.

Quake 4 is powered by the DOOM 3 engine which should do all the 5 year lasting a million bucks worth miracles visually, audio wise, physics wise and etc that DOOM 3 does.

Nothing is officially yet known of Quake 4's system requirements, but it's ideal to keep an eye out on the system requirements page.

Single Player FAQ

Quake 4's Single Player is set out to be a DOOM 3 engine powered sci-fi fast action paced Single Player mission continuening the Quake 2 story. This time there will be support for vehicles and there will be some twists and turns in the story as well as some interesting new events, such as the invasion of Earth and continuation of the War of the Strogg, being captured and mutated with Strogg amplified capabilities, and so forth. Quake 4's Single Player will indeed be strong, to say the least.

Multiplayer FAQ

Quake 4's multiplayer component will be very similar to Quake 3 Arena's, a deathmatch, team deathmatch, lastman standing, tournament, or CTF based fast paced action multiplayer, but this time of course with new maps, weapons and characters to choose from as well as DOOM 3 engine powered multiplayer goodness, which makes the ultimate combination of a fantastic engine and fabulous multiplayer.

Modifications

Well, for starters, the QE Radiant map editor that shipped with the game, which is in a nutshell, identical to the build of it that shiped with DOOM 3, should fulfill all your map editing suited needs. Then there's the SDK. This has just recently been released.

FAQ Information

Westley Merlin AKA Wester, who's contact details can be found on the staff page.

Currently it's ideal if this FAQ wasn't distributed at all as the net can be quite an uncontrollable mess at times and this FAQ is still under-construction, but if you really want to use it on your website a link to http://quake4.dasmirnov.net/info/faq.php will probably be enough.

This FAQ was lasted updated on Tuesday, April 18th, 2006 at 15:25 UTC.