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`Enemy Territory: Quake Wars' puts you on the battlefield of the future

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"Enemy Territory: Quake Wars"

Format: PC

Style: Single-player action (up to 32-player via Internet or LAN)

Publisher: Activision

Developer: Splash Damage/id Software

Release: 2006

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Throw any comparisons, good or bad, to "Quake 4" out the window right now - "Enemy Territory: Quake Wars" has a plethora of its own unique reasons to be on your radar.

London-based developer Splash Damage (which did the fantastic "Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory") and "Quake" originator id Software are undertaking a hugely ambitious project with this team-based online-only shooter. Slapping a sci-fi "Quake" skin on "Battlefield 2" gameplay would be a relatively simple (and no doubt lucrative) endeavor, but what Splash Damage has planned for "Quake Wars" goes far beyond that.

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