Enemy Territory: Quake Wars preview for PS3

This month we take a hands-on look at Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. It's a team-based Battlefield-esque shooter that should fulfil your shooter requirements whether you're in it for the fast-paced action or the stealthy sniping. There'll be plenty to get your teeth into with lots of missions that pit you against opposing teams - and it looks great. That's the good news - the not-so-good is that there's no launch date as yet, it'll be ready when it's ready. In the meantime then, whet your appetite for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars with our hands-on preview.

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Enemy Territory: Quake Wars preview for the PS3

If there's one thing you may be thinking the PS3 doesn't need more of, it's online shooters. With Vegas and its sequel filling up the stealth play ranks, UT3 taking the honours for fast-paced action, and Resistance doing a good job of plugging the rest of the gaps, the PS3's online line-up seems pretty solid. It's lucky for us then that no matter what type of shooter you like playing, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars should have something that'll appeal to you, thanks to its unique brand of Battlefield-esque gameplay.

Made by British software house Splash Damage, the same people behind the free Enemy Territory mod for Wolfenstein, Quake Wars takes the Enemy Territory concept, and places it into the Quake universe. Letting you play as the Strogg, or the Global Defence Force, you'll be fighting alongside up to sixteen other players, as you blast your way across a variety of mission-based maps, striving to push back the enemy forces, and secure the victory for your team.

And in actual fact, it's the mission-based maps that are what really set Quake Wars out from the crowd. Whereas games like Battlefield have you simply trying to hold onto a certain number of flags until the enemy's score has depleted, in Quake Wars, you'll be either completing missions, or trying to prevent their completion, depending on your team's role on the map.