Quake 3 Ported to Android; Runs Impressively

Pretty Awesome! Android needs more ports like this! The iPhone fad is over, Android is the future!

Well smart phones are pretty much pocket computers. As their tech matures I see a lot of old computer titles getting a second life in this format.

I remember back when

I put both games on my Motorola Droid and it's simply awesome. The controls need tweaking, and there a weird thing going on with Q3A's CD number, but as it stands, I will probably spend many sleepless nights reliving my old Quake days.

Speaking of Quake....

Impressive... someones gotta do a Zune HD port. Still seriously lacking in apps by the way, six months in. I wonder how the Tegra with its slower ARM11 processor would perform in Quake 3?

Man, I remember my K6-2 with a tnt 2 card ran that game at 1024x768. O.k that phone has a lower res, looks like lower textures, and no Aureal 3d sound (I miss the Vortex), but it sure is alot smaller .

There are a few games that this might work for with a bit of tweaking. Some phone company just needs to make a controller specifically for the phone. Use that Blue tooth interface, add in some sort of angled stand for setting it on a desk or table and presto you have nice portable gaming

I WANT!

I remember playing Q3 in one of my schools computer labs at lunch (maybe because I couldn't convince our dumbass IT to allow WoW in the network. Would have been pimp having our own private server just for the school).

=D

Sweet. By the way, I'm curious, how much fps they got in quake 3 for N900 and the Iphone ?

I like the ending of the video, "I'm not use to using two hands" LOL. I just thought it was hilarious because he stated he played FPS games on a PC, and with PC games your still using both hands. 1-Mouse 2-Keyboard. Sounds like two to me hehehe.

But does it run ...?

No seriously, phones have come a long way, but there still is a 10 years gap between PC and Phone hardware capabilities. It's impressive for a phone to run such 3D graphics, but the supported 3D acceleration is still years behind. iPhone and Android only have fixed function pipelines (DirectX 7) (Android has experimental programmable shaders, but even those are not latest generation)

Seeing the speed at which phone hardware catches up with PC hardware in terms of capabilities, I would expect the gap to shrink even more in the following years. One day a phone capable of running Crysis will come, and we all will be able to once more ask "the question"

Thats actually pretty cool, being able to run Quake 3 Arena on a smart phone, but it's not suprising being able to run it especially when this has a PowerVR GPU and a 400Mhz CPU, although, i'd give wanting to play on a smart phone a miss especially for action games, unless....it was a platformer but cool none the less

You can play it on your browser actually.
www.quakelive.com

Cool the touchscreen works too

Meh, I'd wait for ID's official port with decent controls when it comes out for the iPhone.

Are there any Amiga emulators for phones? Huge archive of great games, really low-spec hardware to emulate, low native resolution and easy controls... Having Speedball II, The Settlers and Project-X in my pocket would be fantastic.

Thank you Open GL, if it was in the proprietary Direct X from Microsux this could not happen.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. FPS games play like crap on these types of devices. There I said it!

chew my boomstick!

old school computers also ran Q3 at higher resolutions than the crappy smarphones of today. They also did it at higher than 20fps with sound which ill bet makes it feel sticky.

This makes me curious what kind of results Tegra will turn out running old school FPS.

(1/2)I'm gonna overclock my Droid today and see if I can get better frame rates than that. Does anyone know where I can get those .pk3 files so I can run the port? I don't have the cd.

Yes But does it play Crysis?

Hopefully, Smartphone Reviewers will now publish objective Benchmarks so we can compare performance of all smartphones: want to see result for N1, HTC Desire, N900. Also useful to have a review comparing the alleged inefficiency of Android, to Maemo or its new name

How long does it play for? 10 minutes? It's kinda cool but I am not impressed. There is no reason to have this game on here, you can't even play it. Two fingers? Good luck having any fun with it. It should have shoulder buttons. This is just cool for bragging rights. Wish the guy wasn't talking. Kind of annoying.

IMHO developers time would be best spent making games tailored to the hardware they have. Let's face it, smartphone processing horsepower will always be generations behind desktop, plus interface limitations, plus screen size, etc. If they want make smartphone games and make money at it they need to make games that are tailored to the small form factor and power restrictions of the device rather than trying to port over games that "sound good" but "play poorly" because they were originally meant for the desktop.

I've purchased some of these ports for my iPhone, especially id software's stuff. I am sure they sell like hotcakes because of id's name alone. There have a great WOW factor but no lasting playability. It's always like "Why the hell am I playing this on a phone when I could actually be enjoying playing this on my desktop instead of fighting the limitations of the phone?"

I used it for about 15 minutes without any hitches after installing. Just awesome to be able to show a cell phone running a complex 3-D game.

I don't play video games much at all, (no implications there) but this a ridiculous display of how far mini pc/cell phone era has come. Yes, it is very tough to play, but the concept of the a 1st person multiplayer shooter on a cell phone is an achievement. My moto Q purchased in '06 wasn't going to attempt this. It is truly bridging a gap between devices like the PSP/Nintendo DS and another device that has a much broader platform.

I'll be interested how these devices progress in another 3 years or even further 10.