This time around, ID has taken a different approach in developing their latest installment of the Quake series.  Quake 3 abandons the traditional find-the-key and navigate-the-maze format and adopts a strictly death match oriented style of play. That's right, there's no plot here...just a frantic and messy race to kill or be killed.  While the graphics are stunning and the gameplay is solid for the most part, it doesn't feel like there's much strategy involved.  I often found myself just scrambling around the arenas shooting everything and everyone in sight to stay alive, when I expected to be able to strategically place myself for an ambush, ect.  In addition, some of the guns have unbalanced power.  The gun you start with, an automatic machine gun, is extremely weak and is therefore useless against opponents in most cases.  Unfortunately, Quake 3 was meant to be enjoyed online with other players, so the one player mode of the game gets stale after a while (the AI is cheap and the ending is a joke).  Still, if you have a PC with a 3D card and love first person shooting games, Quake 3 is worth looking into.