October is not exactly summer, in fact it is fall, but who could ignore a release from id Software? They did, after all, practically invent the genre with Wolfenstein 3D. Let us take a look at how it stacks up against the other major titles that have been announced.

In many ways, first person shooters have not changed a great deal over the years. A game will still live or die based on speed and graphics. They are some of the most demanding games on your system. It is refreshing, therefore, to see games that do not suck up too much graphics juice. For a PC shooter to really make a splash it has to accomplish the impossible; it has to look better than much of its competition and it has to use less RAM and require a smaller video card to do it. Games that push the hardware boundaries too much tend to open to a lukewarm reception and take a while to get going. People do not want to reach into their pockets for new video cards too often. Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is rumored to be quite reasonable in the system requirements department. That is good news for everyone involved. (more…)