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| - Quake III Revolution (Q3R or Q3:R for short) is the "port" of Quake III Arena for the Sony PlayStation 2 game console. Unlike the original PC game and the Sega Dreamcast port, it does not support online playing, anyway it supports up to four human players by split-screen, and has got a different "single player" mode (which is not limited to deathmatches). The game isn't bad, even if loading times aren't fast (but there are some games that have worse) and it lacks mouse support. Control responses cannot be the exactly same as the original game... but anyway, there are various controller layouts that you can choose from, and if you select the right one for you, with some practice you can do something good. The one called "Advanced" resembles the original Q3 controls enough (with the left stick to move forward/back and strafe left/right, and the right stick to look up/down and to turn left/right). Being a PS2 game, you can't download and add extra stuff to the game, but there is already enough inside it. Quake 3 Revolution contains some features from Quake 3: Team Arena (like its three new weapons), and some new gametypes that were not part of Q3:A or Q3:TA. Unlike Q3A and Team Arena, Quake 3 Revolution source code has not been released under a free license, so the only way to add its particular gametypes (e.g. the "Possession" gametype could be nice!) to OpenArena would be to program them from scratch. If you think you can help our developers in doing that, take a look to our forums... in this thread we talked a bit about that. The game has got two main sections: Arena and Campaign.
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