
The official Quake Wars website plays host to a large-scale invasion of intel about the GDF and Strogg armies from Activision's upcoming multiplayer shooter. Almost 40 classes, vehicles and deployables are now detailed, complete with a 360 degrees rotational view of each unit (presumably in-game models). All these can be found in the newly opened Armies section from the Quake Wars website, and just so you get an idea about what you'll be dealing with, here's a listing of all the units revealed so far:
GDF army
- Classes: Soldier, Covert Ops, Medic, Field Ops, Engineer
- Vehicles: Trojan (APC), Titan (tank), Platypus (boat), Husky (quad), Bumblebee (air transport), Badger (recon), Ananasi (air attack), MPC (all-in-one command bunker, radar post and missile launcher)
- Deployables: Anti-Missile, Anti-Personnel, Anti-Vehicle, Artillery, Radar, Rocket Artillery, Hammer Missile
Strogg army
- Classes: Aggressor, Technician, Oppressor, Infiltrator, Constructor
- Vehicles: Desecrator (tank), Goliath (mech), Hog (recon), Hornet (air attack), Icarus (wearable anti-gravity backpack)
- Deployables: SSG (Strogg Strategic Strike gun), Shield Generator, Rail Howitzer, Psi-Radar, Plasma Mortar, Anti-Personnel, Anti-Vehicle The Missions sections are still "classified", so we'll have to wait a bit longer to find out more about those.
Serving as the prequel to id Software's Quake II shooter, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars promises to be the ultimate online team and objective-based multiplayer experience. Set within the epic Quake universe in the year 2065, the game pits the Allied troops of the Global Defense Force (GDF) against a new Axis of Evil – the barbaric and technologically advanced Strogg - during their initial invasion of Earth.
Unlike its predecessor (Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory), Quake Wars will pit against each other two teams that are fundamentally different, making it a lot harder for the devs to predict every possible strategy the players might come up with. This is one of the reasons why, even though the game has already entered closed beta testing this summer, it won't be out until early 2007 at best.
In the meanwhile, Battlefield 2142 is desperately trying to fill its place, although the demo version released by EA is already suffering from various bugs and connection problems. Not much of a substitute, by the looks of it.




