*Note – Game is still in Early Access.
Quake Champions is an Action Team Based Shooter and is now in Early Access on Steam. As someone who hasn’t really played online action shooters such as this usually, I found it to be quite exhilarating an experience. This game is really well crafted, with the characters all being their own and the world being something you want to run and shoot in for hours.
Quake Champions at its core is a serious team shooter, and one where clearly knowing who you are playing with will allow for some advantage. But, it is also raucous and chaotic fun playing with other random people. The game play is clearly quick and rather simple, but of course as you learn the arenas, you will be able to truly strategize. There are power ups to collect such as health, defense, ammo, and attack upgrades such as quad damage. These power ups do in fact respawn, so memorizing where they are would certainly be a good thing to do. While, not so hard to memorize where they are of course, you will be doing this while you play so you might lose your positioning. It really can get rather hectic.
There are 11 champions to play as, and as it is early access I am able to play as them all, with more coming in the future. My favorite has to be Nyx, as she is quite the lithe and speedy blue haired combatant. Though I also found Sorlag to be quite cool, and the other characters also beg to be played as. These other characters include, Anarki, Slash, Ranger, Scalebearer, Clutch, Galena, B.J. Blazkowicz of Wolfenstein, and of course the Doom Slayer from Doom. With all of these characters, they clearly have their own reasons and wants. They are all quite different from each other, and with new costumes to unlock they do honestly change quite drastically.
These characters also have their own attributes of course which change how they might play. What is good though, is that there is a series of videos to watch in game, to get you into it. While they may seem annoying at first, they talk about all sorts of things from the arenas, to powerups, and even talk about the characters themselves. It really is a good idea to watch all of the videos to really have your head on straight when going into the arena for the first time.
Just like other games of this nature there are lootboxes to buy and obtain through just playing. Getting these can obviously give you new weapons, costumes, and other goodies. While not essential, who doesn’t like opening a surprise? Though it is possible of course to get them through simply playing the game which is also good and gives you something else to have in mine when you are playing.
I also thought it was cool that they included lore scrolls for you to collect, giving you insight into this world you now find yourself in. In a world where detail matters, and characters are simply sent into an arena learning about the world they inhabit always does make the game that much more enjoyable.
The game is still in Early Access but what we have is excellent. Still, there are a lot of changes and additions that will be coming to the game as it approaches its full release, and we will look at it again down the line.
Quake Champions is a shooter that stands out among others and shouldn’t be missed. If you are a fan of classic Quake or Arena Shooters, you should give this one a look!
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Disclaimer: We were given a game key by Bethesda.