Quake Champions isn't a finished product yet, and that shows in a lot of ways.

Plus, giant chained eyeballs Early Access Kinks You are always competing for resources against your own team mates, whether that's a weapon, the quad damage upgrade, extra armor, ability timer speed ups, or even the storyline lore scrolls that spawn randomly once per map. There's an interesting mechanic in the spawning cooldowns that hearkens back to the golden shooter days of yore - before series like CoD and Battlefield existed - where you are basically opposed to everyone even in a 'team' death match. I've personally been favoring the hulking Scalebearer, who can suddenly rush forward with a deadly melee strike against anyone not smart enough to stay far away. It's a fun time figuring out the different ways the Champions play, with various tactical options available depending on whether you want to go invisible and pop up behind someone, lay traps, go full force melee, or see through walls to snipe an enemy. did I mention you can play as the Doom guy? That's always a good time.

There's a wide range of options, like an unholy paladin raised in an evil order as a child, the one lone assassin a species of pacifists had on hand, an interdimensional warlord, a reptilian soothsayer, and an anarchist obsessed with transhumanism who upgrades his own body for the ultimate highs. The arena-style format remains, returning this time with 11 different Champions of varying stats and abilities. While frantically killing all your friends, you might notice a few squamous statues, ominous carvings, or even see a tentacle pop out of a wall that very much reacts to being shot. Quake's odd but entertaining mashup of character and location types returns here, with a dash of Lovecraft and horror thrown into the sci-fi action shooter genre. With a new iteration of Unreal and even Duke Nukem on the horizon, of course Quake also had to be in the mix, with the Early Access Quake Champions offering up that oh-so-satisfying 'You Fragged So-And-So' feel (which will undoubtedly be preceded and followed by 'So-And-So Fragged You' a whole bunch of times).

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