History VideoGame / QuakeIIIArena

* SidelinedCharacterCrossover: ''Team Arena''[='=]s Fritzkrieg is the closest thing to a ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein}}'' representative.

** This series of games feature characters from most of Id Software's major FPS games until its release date battling it out for supremacy, such as the SpaceMarine from VideoGame/{{Doom}}, the ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'' dude (referred to as "Ranger"), and several characters from ''VideoGame/QuakeII'' including the generic Grunt, Bitterman (the protagonist of the main ''Quake II'' game), Major, and a [[GiantMook Strogg Tank]]. The only major missing figure is VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein}}'s B.J. Blazkowicz.[[note]]Well, him and VideoGame/CommanderKeen, but then again, HideYourChildren[[note]] To make up for it, ''Team Arena'' adds Fritzkrieg, a reconstructed soldier from WWII.

%% * AscendedGlitch: The Strafe Jump, with a tutorial and training course in ''Live''.

%% * BeamSpam: The Lightning Gun.

* AscendedGlitch: The Strafe Jump, with a tutorial and training course in ''Live''.

* BeamSpam: The Lightning Gun.
* BilingualBonus: One of Fritzkrieg's death sounds has him shouting "Scheisse!" Which is the German word for "shit"

* ChainsawGood: The Gauntlet, a wrist-mounted circular saw. You recieve a ''humiliation'' accolade for making a kill with it enhancing the psychological gratification of using it.

* RecycledInSpace: The ExcusePlot can be summed up as "''VideoGame/MortalKombat'' with guns".

* ItsAllUpToYou: The "One Flag" CaptureTheFlag challenges in ''Revolution''. You're on your own against a team of bots who will prevent you from getting to the capture limit.

* CherryTapping: The game actually gives you a ''humiliation'' award for killing your opponent with the Gauntlet. This fact makes the otherwise useless Gauntlet a popular weapon, especially in ''Live'', where other players can see how many people you "humiliate" during all your game sessions.

* ChainsawGood: The Gauntlet, a wrist-mounted circular saw. You recieve a ''humiliation'' accolade for making a kill with it to enhance the psychological gratification of using it.

* ChainsawGood: The Gauntlet.

* DownloadableContent: The quake games have generally had a wealth of user-made free content, and ''Quake III Arena'' is no exception. New maps, models and skins aplenty.
** One notable player model was Horny, the famous demon from ''[[VideoGame/DungeonKeeper Dungeon Keeper]]'': Created as a CrossPromotion by [[Creator/BullfrogProductions Bullfrog]] and [[Creator/IdSoftware id]] developers. [[https://www.bluesnews.com/s/8180/horny-model-released 1]]

[[folder:Quake III Arena (core game)]]

''Quake III: Arena'' is the third entry in the ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'' series. It was developed by ''Creator/IdSoftware'' and released for PC in 1999.

The game has an ExpansionPack in the form of ''Quake III: Team Arena'', made by Id themselves, which was focused in team games. Here you must choose a team and duke it out with the other clans. It adds three new gamemodes, all of them team-based: "One Flag CTF", "Harvester" and "Overload".

* CanonWelding: The game is notable for incorporating characters and other elements from both the original ''VideoGame/QuakeI'' and the previously unrelated ''VideoGame/QuakeII'', thus placing them in the same universe, while also adding the ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' series for good measure. ''Quake III: Revolution'' also brings Bullfrog's ''VideoGame/DungeonKeeper'' into the fold.

** One notable player model was Horny, the famous demon from ''[[VideoGame/DungeonKeeper Dungeon Keeper]]'': Created as a CrossPromotion by [[Creator/BullfrogProductions Bullfrog]] and [[Creator/IdSoftware id]]. developers [[https://www.bluesnews.com/s/8180/horny-model-released 1]]

** Krusade (PaletteSwap of Klesk) in ''Revolution''.

The game has an ExpansionPack in the form of ''Quake III: Team Arena'', made by Id themselves, which was focused in team games. Here you must choose a team and duke it out with the other clans. It adds three new gamemodes, all of the team-based: "One Flag CTF", "Harvester" and "Overload".

* ArmorMeterPoints: Expressed in an icon+number fashion.

* {{Bowdlerization}}: In order to get the "T" rating, ''Live'' had to drop every topic/reference to alcohol, drugs, rear-guards, sex, porn, depictions of violence with animals and Satanism. Many maps had also renames (for example "Apocalypse Void" was renamed to "Terminal Heights").

* BonusStage: After finishing the Vadrigar in ''Revolution'', you get a special challenge called [[VideoGame/DungeonKeeper The Keeper, where you face The Reaper and The Mistress]].

* BonusMaterial: After finishing the Vadrigar, you get a special challenge called [[VideoGame/DungeonKeeper The Keeper, where you face The Reaper and The Mistress]].

* MythologyGag: The rocket jumping training tutorial is shaped after [[VideoGame/QuakeI the "Introduction" difficulty selection map]].

** Orbb is absent in ''Arena Arcade''.
** The map "Fatal Instinct" (q3tourney5) is absent from ''Arena Arcade'', and it took several Premium Pak updates until it was introduced again in ''Quake Live''.
** In addition, the maps "Brimstone Abbey", "The Nameless Place", "Dredwerkz", "Lost World", "Space Chamber" and "Apocalypse Void"/"Terminal Heights" are also absent from ''Arena Arcade''.

* DemotedToExtra: Hunter becomes just another challenger in ''Revolution''.

* MythologyGag:
** There's a "Double Damage" item in ''Revolution'', which just doubles the damage output, similar to the namesake item from ''VideoGame/QuakeII: Ground Zero''.
** The challenges "Military Mayhem" and especially "Generations" in ''Arena Arcade'' pits you against former main characters VideoGame/{{Doom}}, [[VideoGame/QuakeI Ranger]], [[VideoGame/QuakeII Bitterman, Grunt and Stripe]].
** Several of the map names are taken from ''Quake Live'' such as "Chemical Reaction"[[note]]''[=Q3A=]''[='=]s "Deva Station"[[/note]], "Cobalt Station"[[note]]''[=Q3A=]''[='=]s "The Bouncy Map"[[/note]], "Rebound"[[note]]''[=Q3TA=]''[='=]s "Capture Chamber"[[/note]] and "Beyond Reality"[[note]]''[=Q3A=]''[='=]s [[BossBattle "The Very End Of You"]][[/note]].
* TimedMission: The "Short on Time" and "Hustle" challenges in ''Arena Arcade'' are about scoring the most frags in a short period of time.

* BossRush: The "Who's The Boss" challenge pits the player against every previous boss until that point[[note]]Anarki, Hunter, Klesk, Sarge, Uriel[[/note]].

* ContinuityNod: The description for the map "Cobalt Station" says that "veterans of the arena call this map 'Bouncy'". This is a reference to the map's original name back in ''[=Q3A=]'', "The Bouncy Map".

* GimmickMatches: Most of the challenges take place in the other gamemodes aside of Free For All. Some of them have perks, though:
** The "Short on Time" and "Hustle" challenges are time-based matches where you have between 3 and 1 minutes to win by scoring the highest amount of frags.
** There are low-gravity based mchallenges such as "High Flying", "Long Jump" and "Zero G".
* Letters2Numbers: The challenge "Death B4 Dishonor".

** Several of the map names are taken from ''Quake Live'' such as "Chemical Reaction"[[note]]''[=Q3A=]''[='=]s "Deva Station"[[/note]], "Cobalt Station"[[note]]''[=Q3A=]''[='=]s "The Bouncy Map"[[/note]], "Rebound" and "Beyond Reality"[[note]]''[=Q3A=]''[='=]s [[BossBattle "The Very End Of You"]][[/note]].

All of this, of course, not counting the countless of ports and forks which have spawned ever since Id released the source code in 2005, which allowed Q3A to be played in virtually every device in existence, as well as spawning many [[FollowTheLeader clones]] and derivated games such as ''VideoGame/AlienArena'', ''VideoGame/OpenArena'' and ''VideoGame/WorldOfPadman'', as well as former {{game mod}}s turned standalone games such as ''VideoGame/Q3Rally'' and ''VideoGame/UrbanTerror''.