Even the weapon selection was carefully chosen for the game’s competitive balance, starting everyone off with the gauntlet (a chainsaw fist, basically) and letting you find a mess of classic guns on the map. You moved fast and fluid, and shooting never felt more natural. Running on id Tech 3, Arena was a faster beast with some technical change-ups, including real time reflections that get shown off in the tutorial map. That change in focus also gave the game a different feel. The game got a huge community around it, and id was sure to keep them placated with ports, re-releases, and even a version of the game for browsers now moved to Steam. Upon realizing just how big the deathmatching scene was for the Quake games, id Software decided to make the next one online play focused, and it paid off. Releasing just a month after Epic beat them to the punch with Unreal Tournament, Quake III: Arena is the moment that the entire focus of the franchise made a hard right turn.
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