Yet, over the course of two reboots, they’ve been sent down divergent paths: Doom is now id’s flagship campaign shooter, while Quake Champions represents the studio on the stages of esports events around the world. Quake has a place in the pantheon of single-player PC games – just as Doom was instrumental in inventing competitive shooting. ![]() ![]() Which is why Quake III Arena’s plot can be covered in a single sentence: “The greatest warriors of all time fight for the amusement of a race called the Vadrigar in the Arena Eternal.” Vague, pithy, and pliant. As the id biography Masters of Doom tells it, the team had independently developed a mish-mash of art assets, engine wizardry, and weapons – multiplayer maps were simply the best way to cobble them together. ![]() ![]() But the series eventually dropped single-player for practical reasons.
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