FULL METAL JACKET FOR QUAKE 3

Website: http://www.planetquake.com/fmj/

After Frontline Force and Day of Defeat, Full Metal Jacket is the next mod to be expected in this war genre, only this time not based on the Half Life engine, but the (loved by all) Q3 engine.

The name and idea for this mod are diverted from the war-movie Full Metal Jacket, not that you'll find parts of the movie in this mod, but it is a war mod that situates itself in Vietnam. The version I got to play was an alpha version, but looked impressive nonetheless. Upon starting the mod you're sucked right in, thanks to the adjusted menu and matching sounds. In FMJ you either choose for the side of the Vietnamese or that of the US marines. You can choose between different game modes, being: deathmatch, team deathmatch, mission mode and campaign mode. Everyone knows the first 2, but what are those other modes all about then? Well, mission mode can be compared to assault for UT, one team has to destroy a target and the others needs to stop them, in campaign mode you're playing a sort of mission, but now the next map will be determined by the winning team. In this mod they've also tried to achieve reality as much as possible, you will break your leg's falling off of a 15 m high canyon, and you wont be able to run as fast with an m60 as with a knife. on top of your screen you see a miniature 3dmodel of yourself which shows what you're doing. The map's look very detailed and are completely in style, very much unlike the original q3 maps these map's are mostly outside area's and heavily feature water and jungle environment's. Also you can expect a vast array of weapons, including the all-too-known AK-47, the M16a1 and the M60. But expect to see players running around with real rocket launchers as well. The graphic's look slick and are right up there with q3's, although it does need a rather medium-end pc.