I guess at that point the gaming world split into UT fans and Q3 fans, and a fierce rivalry began. Of course I'd love to say I was a big Quake III fan, but the truth is I cut my teeth on online gaming in Unreal Tournament. By this point both Quake and UT had made online multiplayer gaming a very polished and fun exercise. Within a few years, the Quake engine had been refined to the point that when Unreal Tournament came out in 1999, a few months later Quake III was available to compete with this pretender to the throne. Despite the laggy gameplay - when it sometimes felt you can fire a shot, go make a cup of coffee, and come back 10 minutes later to see it miss the target - the game picked up fans left, right and centre. When Quake first came out in 1996, it wasn't the single player aspect of the game which captured gamers' imaginations - it was the multiplayer component of the game which really took off in a big way.
Along with Doom, Quake is one of the most famous names in the gaming world.
