
The majority of the bonus disc contains a variety of trailers and gameplay footage from the game's development. Quake 4 also comes with a bonus disc, packed right into the case in a paper sleeve. While there are still some cool-looking areas, the frame rate troubles drag down the entire experience. Even when there's no action onscreen, just viewing the environments is enough to make the game run at a noticeably choppy rate. You'll know when that's happening because the rate of fire on your weapons slows way, way down. At some points, it gets so bad that the whole game starts to slow down, as well. Any time the action gets heated in a large or complex-looking area, the game starts to spin down to a surprisingly low frame rate, regardless of whether you're playing in HD resolution or on a regular TV. In addition, the frame rate is sort of a mess. A quick look up at the sky or at most of the game's wall and ground textures shows that the Xbox 360 version has significantly muddier textures. When running on a modern PC, Quake 4 looks fantastic, using the Doom 3 engine to display the alien world of Stroggos in a sharp, defined level of detail. The only real difference is in visual quality and performance. The multiplayer has been cut back to an eight-player maximum, as opposed to the PC version's 16-player matches, but that's still enough to make the maps feel populated.

The single-player campaign is lengthy and fairly varied.

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