I just downloaded and tried the demo for Quake 4 and I have to say this has to be the biggest disapointment in a looooooooong time.

It looks like a 5 year old game with garish colours, sluggish action and run-of-the-mill plot.

It uses the doom3 engine and suffers (like that game) with the whole thing being too dark. I played with the brightness on max in a pitch black room and still couldn’t see most of what was going on. The parts I could see where all neon green.

Something I found odd was pressing the mouse button doesn’t fire the current weapon - I had to go into the control settings to change this.
Isn’t making mouse button 1 the fire button the most logical thing ever? Why on earth change that????

A few screenies of what I see - un-retouched.

Remember these screenshots are taken with game brighness on maximum! I’m not sure how they got those PC screenshots on their site - but certainly not from the game I just played.

Sorry but I won’t be buying this game, not only does it look awful and play dreadfully - but I quit the demo 25 mins ago and I can still hear the game music playing :s

Guess I’ll have to wait for quake 5 or another UT (which were always better anyway) :)