History VideoGame / QuakeIIIArena

** [[RandomTeleportation Personal Teleporter]]: Teleports its user to a random spawning point of the map.

** [[AutoDoc Medkit]]: Restores and overcharges the user's health by 100 HP.
** [[RandomTeleportation Personal Teleporter]]: Teleports the user to a random spawning point of the map.

** [[SuicideAttack Kamikaze]] (''Quake III: Team Arena''): Sacrifices the user causing an explosive blast that kills anyone on its radius.

* DefeatEqualsExplosion: Any player who dies while carrying the Kamikaze holdable powerup. When dying, (and if they're not gibbed) they will produce a huge explosion which shakes the arena.

* GatlingGood: The Chaingun.
* HumanAliens: The Aidami.
* NailEm: The Nailgun.

* SuicideAttack: The Kamikaze item.

* UseItem: The Invulnerability and Kamikaze are added to the inventory.

* {{BFG}}: It's a Plasma Gun on steroids, however...

* GatlingGood: The Machinegun.

* HappyEndingOverride: ''Quake'' and ''Quake II'' ended on triumphant notes, with the heroes destroying the enemy forces’ leader and escaping with their lives. ''Arena'' establishes that, rather than getting to hang up their weapons and return home as heroes, Ranger and Bitterman would go on to be kidnapped by the Vadrigar and thrown into a lifetime of eternal battle- and, in Bitterman’s case, he was recaptured by the Strogg and tortured beforehand.

* UseItem: Teleporter and Medkit.

* QuadDamage: In addition to the trope-naming powerup, there's also a pink-colored Double Damage.

* SuperSpeed: In addition to the Haste powerup, there's a Double Haste, which increases ''even more'' the movement speed and rate of fire. An analogy could be done here: the Haste is to the Double Damage what the Double Haste is to the Quad Damage.

** QuadDamage: Triplicates the damage output of its user.

** Haste: Doubles the user's walking speed.
** [[GradualRegeneration Regeneration]]: Regenerates the user's health up to a maximum.
** {{Invisibility}}: Turns the user invisible.

** Double Damage (''Quake III Revolution''): Doubles the damage output of its user.
** Super Haste (''Quake III Revolution''): Quadruples the movement speed of its user.

* ArtificialStupidity: The game uses an AI system based on brushes (firstly used on the Xaero bot mod for ''VideoGame/QuakeII'') instead of waypoint-based systems. This, however, doesn't mean that the bots will play like humans. They cannot jump, use platforms (there's a reason of why Q3 lacks platform-based maps, and uses jumppads instead) and they cannot navigate their way onto items which take some kind of risk to get. This is also a problem in its SpiritualSuccessor ''VideoGame/OpenArena''.

* AscendedFanfic: Plenty of third-party maps made their way to ''Live'':
** The game launched with [[https://lvlworld.com/review/id:203 "Blood Run"]] by Sten "ztn" Uusvali[[note]]Which also made its way to ''VideoGame/QuakeChampions''[[/note]], [[http://ws.q3df.org/map/q3wcp11/ "Industrial Accident"]] (later renamed to "[[Film/PulpFiction Pulp Friction]]") by Jason "Cornelius" Gill, and the Threewave CTF maps [[http://ws.q3df.org/map/q3w1/ "Bloodlust"]] and [[http://ws.q3df.org/map/q3w2/ "Courtyard Conundrum"]] by Dave "Zoid" Kirsch.
** Premium Pak 1: [[https://lvlworld.com/review/id:2175 "Realm of Steel Rats"]] by Jens Bergensten, [[https://lvlworld.com/review/id:822 "Dismemberment"]] by Mindi "Hubster" Burji, [[https://lvlworld.com/review/id:1717 "Aerowalk"]][[note]]More exactly, "Aerowalk [Hubster's Remix II]"[[/note]] by Hubster and Mattias "Preacher" Konradsson, and [[http://ws.q3df.org/map/cpm24/ "Phrantic"]] by Richard "Swelt" Jacques (all of them from the Challenge Pro-Mode Arena -CPMA- mod); [[https://lvlworld.com/review/id:1470 "Deep Inside"]] by J. Scott "Teddy" Drader and [[http://ws.q3df.org/map/ospdm6/ "Intervention" (formerly "Suicide")]] by Agust Atlason (both from the Orange Smoothie Productions (OSP) Tourney mod); [[https://lvlworld.com/review/id:44 "Japanese Castles"]] by Mike "[=g1zm0=]" Burbidge and [[https://lvlworld.com/review/id:1006 "Shinning Forces"]] by Ryan "[=Crewmaac=]" Villegas (both from the Threewave CTF mod); "Theatre of Pain" (formerly "High Noon") by Till "thefury" Merker, and [[https://lvlworld.com/review/id:80 "Overkill"]] by Wiebo de Wit (both from the Rocket Arena 3 mod); [[https://lvlworld.com/review/id:2043 "Battleforged"]] by Tom "[=Phantazm11=]" Perryman, [[https://lvlworld.com/review/id:2077 "Dreadful Place"]] by Pawel "Shadow" Chrapka, and [[https://lvlworld.com/review/id:2084 "Focal Point"]] by Simon "Sock" O'Callaghan.
** Premium Pak 2: "Thunderstruck" by thefury and [[https://lvlworld.com/review/id:2158 "Somewhat Damaged"]] by Adam "Brent" Bellefeuil (both from Rocket Arena 3) and [[https://lvlworld.com/review/id:2160 "Devilish"]] by Justin "[=StormShadow=]" Ingels.
** Premium Pak 3: [[http://ws.q3df.org/map/nodm16/ "Solid"]] by Swelt (from the CPMA mod) and "Window Pain" by Brent (from the Rocket Arena 3 mod).
** Premium Pak 4: [[https://lvlworld.com/review/id:1841 "Evolution"]] by thefury and "Three Story" by [=g1zm0=] (both from the Rocket Arena 3 mod).
** Premium Pak 5: "Double Impact" by Shadow (from the ''VideoGame/QuakeII'' multiplayer-only {{expy}} ''VideoGame/{{Quetoo}}'').
** Premium Pak 6: "Dies Irae" by Shadow (from ''VideoGame/{{Quetoo}}''); [[https://lvlworld.com/review/id:1279 "Skyward" (formerly "The Vast and Furious")]] by Brian "[=ButterB=]" Hahn and "Concrete Palace" also by Shadow.
** Premium Pak 7: "Toxicity" by Alexander Mader.
** Premium Pak 9: "Canned Heat" by thefury (from the Rocket Arena 3 mod); and "Wargrounds" by Shadow.
** Premium Pak 10: "Seams and Bolts" by Brent (from the Rocket Arena 3 mod).
** Premium Pak 11: [[http://ws.q3df.org/map/q3wcp9/ "Spider Crossings"]] by Dan "Scancode" Gold (from the Threewave CTF mod) and "Electric Head" by Brent (from the Rocket Arena 3 mod).
** Premium Pak 12: [[http://ws.q3df.org/map/q3wcp14/ "Camper Crossings"]] by Scancode (from the Threewave CTF mod).
** Premium Pak 13: [[https://lvlworld.com/review/id:2190 "Windsong Keep"]] by [=Phantazm11=].
** Premium Pak 14: [[https://lvlworld.com/review/id:2208 "Terminatria"]] by Russell "bst" Vint, [[https://lvlworld.com/review/id:2184 "Fluorescent"]] by Ferdinand "Cityy" List, and [[https://lvlworld.com/review/id:2131 "Corrosion"]] by [=Phantazm11=].
** Premium Pak 15: [[https://lvlworld.com/review/id:2121 "Left Behind"]] by Cityy.
** Premium Pak 16: [[https://lvlworld.com/review/id:32 "Wicked"]] and [[https://lvlworld.com/review/id:2213 "Use and Abuse"]], both by [=FxR/jude=] (50chickens), and [[https://lvlworld.com/review/id:1508 "Foolish Legacy"]] by Swelt (all of them from the CPMA mod).
** Premium Pak 19: [[http://ws.q3df.org/map/q3wcp18/ "Future Crossings"]], [[http://ws.q3df.org/map/q3w5/ "Gospel Crossings"]] and [[http://ws.q3df.org/map/q3wxs1/ "Railyard"]] (formerly "Silly Railings") all of them by Scancode (all of them from the Threewave CTF mod).
** Premium Pak 20: [[http://ws.q3df.org/map/q3w7/ "City Crossings"]] by Scancode (from the Threewave CTF mod); "Shaken Not Stirred" by Brent, and "Monastery" by [=g1zm0=] (both from the Rocket Arena 3 mod).
** Premium Pak 21: "Hen House" by thefury, "Dead and Gone" by David "[=SgtGhost=]" Levesque (from the Rocket Arena 3 mod); and [[https://lvlworld.com/review/id:2287 "McSarge's"]] by Cityy.
** Premium Pak 22: [[http://ws.q3df.org/map/q3wcp15/ "Industrial Revolution"]] by Joel "Johnny Law" Baxter (from the Threewave CTF mod); "Castle Deathstalker" by H. Scott "Deathstalker" Maclean, "Death or Glory" by [=SgtGhost=], "Drunken Mummy" by thefury (all of them from the Rocket Arena 3 mod); and [[https://lvlworld.com/review/id:1017 "Bitter Embrace"]] by Todd "Mr. Clean" Rose, and [[http://ws.q3df.org/map/phantq3dm5_mav4/ "Solarium"]] by [=Phantazm11=].

** The original PC maps "House of Pain" (q3dm2), "Arena of Death" (q3dm3), "Powerstation 0218" (q3tourney1), "The Place of Many Deaths" (q3dm4), "The Forgotten Place" (q3dm5), "The Bouncy Map" (q3dm16), and the original "The Very End Of You" (q3tourney6) were left out of ''Live''.
** The ''Team Arena'' maps "Teamwerkz" (mpteam5), "Capture Chamber" (mpteam7) and "Assassins' Roost" (mpteam8) as well as "Final Strike" (mpterra3) are left out of ''Live'' as well.

This game was designed almost exclusively with multiplayer mode in mind. Id had recognized the fact that the deathmatches were easily the most popular thing about ''Quake'' so far, and created this entry as a virtual arena for competitive online matches. The single-player mode contained only a very basic story, and was based around a series of tiers, with the player making its way to the final match against the Champion. As everything else, the available multiplayer modes included in the game were plain and simple:

* '''Free For All''': What other games call Deathmatch. Everyone for themselves, the one with the highest amount of frags at the end of the time period, or the one who reaches the frag limit wins.
* '''Team Deathmatch''': The team-based variation of Deathmatch. It also contains subtly different weapon/item rules than Deathmatch. Two teams of players are pitted against each other, the team with the highest amount of frags wins.

* '''CaptureTheFlag''': The classic gamemode, played on symmetrical maps. Two teams, each with their own base, and a flag inside of it. The objective is to steal the enemy's flag and bring it to the own team's base. After touching the own flag with the enemy's, the team scores a capture. The team with the highest amount of captures wins.

The game has an ExpansionPack in the form of ''Quake III: Team Arena'', made by id themselves, which was focused on team games. Here you must choose a team and duke it out with the other clans. New features include the ability to give roles to your teammates, voice messages, being able to select a face in addition to a skin, three new weapons in the Nailgun, the Chaingun and the Prox Launcher, ''six'' new items in the game's own version of the Runes from ''Threewave CTF'' (here they're Ammo Regen, Doubler, Guard and Scout) as well as two new "holdable" items: the [[SuicideAttack Kamikaze]] and the Invulnerability Force Field. It also adds three new gamemodes, all of them team-based:

* '''One Flag CTF:''' Regular CaptureTheFlag but with a twist: there's a neutral flag in the middle of the map. Both teams battle in order to bring this neutral flag to the enemy base and capture it. The team with most captures wins.
* '''Harvester:''' Each of the team's base has a skull receptacle. The middle of the map contains a skull generator. Every time a player from a team frags an enemy, a skull with the color of the fragged player's team appears on this generator. The player's team can collect these skulls and deliver them to the enemy receptacle. Touching the enemy team's skull receptacle while carrying skulls grant points respective to the scorer's amount of skulls (i.e. capturing 3 skulls grants the team 3 points). The team with the highest amount of points at the end of the match wins.

Like most PC games, ''III'' also has console versions. The first release was for the UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast in 2000, ported by Creator/RasterSoftware and published by Creator/{{Sega}}, and featured 4 player online crossplay versus Dreamcast and PC gamers. The second is called ''Quake III: Revolution'', and was released for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 in 2001, created by Creator/BullfrogProductions and published by Creator/ElectronicArts; this version features several elements (maps and characters) adopted from ''Team Arena'', along with a more mission-based single-player mode, and split-screen multiplayer for up to 4 players (sadly, it lacks mouse support and online play due to [[NoExportForYou the PS2's network adapter not being released outside of Japan until 2004]]). ''Revolution'' features the following gamemodes in addition to the classic modes from vanilla [=Q3A=]:

* '''One Flag CTF:''' Unlike ''Team Arena'', this version of the gamemode is played on Deathmatch maps, and a team must retrieve a flag, and the other team must prevent its capture. If the team manages to reach the score limit, they win.

In 2010, Id released a free web browser version of ''Quake III: Arena'' called ''[[http://www.quakelive.com Quake Live]]'', which also added many new maps (especially [[AscendedFanfic third-party ones]]) and some extra game modes. This version was later released on Steam in 2014, and made as a paid game in 2015. Plenty of new modes were added since its announcement such as "[[RaceAgainstTheClock Race]]", "Clan Arena", "Freeze Tag" (a LighterAndSofter version of Clan Arena), "Domination", "Attack & Defend" and "Red Rover". Instagib versions of FFA, CTF and Freeze Tag were also made available.

And finally there's a UsefulNotes/XboxLiveArcade version called ''Quake Arena Arcade'', a joint-effort by Id and Creator/PiStudios released in December 15, 2010. This game contains some new maps and characters.

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 (though not yet to ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' levels), as well as spawning many [[FollowTheLeader clones]] and derivative 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''.

* {{Bowdlerization}}: In order to get the "T" rating, ''Live'' has many of the gothic/demonic architecture changed or covered up by LCD screens, characters that were revealing being covered up, dead characters turn monochrome and didn't gib, and changing of several location names (for example "Apocalypse Void" was renamed to "Terminal Heights").

* DeathIsNotPermanent: If ''WebVideo/{{Arenas}}'' is any indication, characters are rebuilt between respawns. In the game proper, the bots even lampshade this.

The game has an ExpansionPack in the form of ''Quake III: Team Arena'', made by id themselves, which was focused on 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:

Like most PC games, it also has console versions. The first release was for the UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast in 2000, ported by Creator/RasterSoftware and published by Creator/{{Sega}}, and featured 4 player online crossplay versus Dreamcast and PC gamers. The second is called ''Quake III: Revolution'', and was released for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 in 2001, created by Creator/BullfrogProductions and published by Creator/ElectronicArts; this version features several elements (maps and characters) adopted from ''Team Arena'', along with a more mission-based single-player mode, and split-screen multiplayer for up to 4 players (sadly, it lacks mouse support and online play due to [[NoExportForYou the PS2's network adapter not being released outside of Japan until 2004]]). ''Revolution'' features the following gamemodes:

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''.

This game was designed almost exclusively with multiplayer mode in mind. Id had recognized the fact that the deathmatches were easily the most popular thing about ''Quake'' so far, and created this entry as a virtual arena for competitive online matches. The single-player mode contained only a very basic story, and was based around a series of tiers, with the player making its way to the final match against the Champion. As everything else, the available multiplayer modes included in the game were plain and simple: "Free For All" (regular Deathmatch), "Team Deathmatch", "Tournament" (also called "1on1") and CaptureTheFlag.

The game has an ExpansionPack in the form of ''Quake III: Team Arena'', made by id themselves, which was focused on 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".

Like most PC games, it also has console versions. The first release was for the UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast in 2000, ported by Creator/RasterSoftware and published by Creator/{{Sega}}, and featured 4 player online crossplay versus Dreamcast and PC gamers. The second is called ''Quake III: Revolution'', and was released for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 in 2001, created by Creator/BullfrogProductions and published by Creator/ElectronicArts; this version features several elements (maps and characters) adopted from ''Team Arena'', along with a more mission-based single-player mode, and split-screen multiplayer for up to 4 players (sadly, it lacks mouse support and online play due to [[NoExportForYou the PS2's network adapter not being released outside of Japan until 2004]]). And finally there's a UsefulNotes/XboxLiveArcade version called ''Quake Arena Arcade'', a joint-effort by Id and Creator/PiStudios released in December 15, 2010. This game contains some new maps and characters.

** The Vadrigar, the BigBad, was only mentioned in the PC version’s instruction manual (where they are vaguely described as a deity or deities that “virtually nothing is known about” who gathered the player characters together to fight), and the announcer was merely a disembodied voice that announced gameplay statistics and had no identity. ''Revolution'' reveals them to be [[TheDogWasTheMastermind one and the same]] and upgrades them to being the FinalBoss.

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* AscendedExtra: The following were just selectable skins in the PC version who got ascended to AI opponents in these versions:
** Krusade (PaletteSwap of Sarge) in ''Revolution''.
** Flisk (PaletteSwap of Klesk), Slammer, Stroggo (both of Biker/Hossman), Yuriko (of Slash) and Zael (of Uriel) in ''Arena Arcade''.

* NintendoHard: Go ahead, play on "Hardcore" or "[[HarderThanHard Nightmare!]]". The AI on any difficulties lower is intentionally handicapped, but here they will snipe you with a Railgun easily, react the moment they see you around a corner, and hold nothing back. If you can beat [[FinalBoss Xaero]] on Nightmare, you either gamed the AI or you're a genuine badass.

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!! The games have examples of:

* YourMom: Might occur if you try to chat with a bot (any who can reply to your messages, anyway) and actually manage to piss him off.

* DummiedOut: Two unused music tracks by Sonic Mayhem, unused announcer voices, a test map and more. More info [[https://tcrf.net/Quake_III_Arena here]].

* DummiedOut: The GrapplingHookPistol, accessible via cheating. It's modeled and works like it should, but its functionality is incomplete.

* DummiedOut:
** An incomplete UseItem, a Portal device. Like the Grapple, it's modeled, but its functionality is incomplete, and there's no model, sprite or effect for it, leading it to being a weird GameBreaker if added to a map. Should it have been completed with the functionality finished, it would have predated games such as NarbacularDrop and VideoGame/{{Portal}}.
** A minor one, but some bot chatlines were commented out, such as Angel's reactions when she gets killed by a player or kills with a [[SuicideAttack Kamikaze]]. They're a real thing for Fritzkrieg and Pi, however.

* BilingualBonus: One of Fritzkrieg's death sounds has him shouting "Scheisse!", which is the German word for "shit"