The result was an addictive, repetitive and brutal deathmatch experience that continues to be played to this day in various forms.
Choosing to forgo the single player campaign, and thus the 'story' element of Quake Arena was instead a purely multiplayer experience, even offline with bots in place of humans.
Quake III Arena was id Software's latest and greatest first person shooter in December 1999, and it's a game that has aged with grace and a still-active community.
