I have so much I could say about this game but I will save you all the multi page rant and leave it on two things; one gameplay related and one story related.

On the gameplay side of things this game has far and away the worst boss fight I've ever seen. All of the gameplay mechanics come together in a way that just falls apart when you add an enemy that can only be damaged by a certain weapon type that has extremely nonfunctional aiming system, constantly charges at you as fast as possible, and it just keeps going into a second phase where it does the same thing but faster. The most sensible way I could find to beat this and the most sensible way guides I found showed to beat it were to pause the game when I managed to hit it somehow and just walk away for ten minutes because this game is so broken that if you're doing sustained damaged before pausing it will continue doing it after its paused. This game just, does not play well at all.

On the story side of things, major spoilers ahead, You basically are playing as a child in an adult's body the entire game and this becomes INSANELY uncomfortable considering how hard they sexualized "Aya" the entire game. Ignoring how hard it ruins the characters from the other Parasite Eve games and the story just does not make any sense on its own, this just skeeves me the hell out and I have to wonder what the fuck anyone working on this was thinking.

This may be my least favorite game of all time now.

1/10

I went into Quake 3 not expecting to like it much because of it not having actual campaign levels to play through since that was more or less what I came to Quake 1 and 2 for, and the only time I ever really got into the multiplayer side of an FPS was Halo when I was growing up. Now, imagine my surprise when it suddenly clicked for me that Halo just lifted its entire style from arena shooters like this.

Playing through the "story" mode and then hopping online with friends was a surreal experience for me because I was feeling nostalgia for a game I had never played while playing it, or rather I was feeling nostalgia for a type of game that I haven't really seen around as of late. I have to say, massively fun time for me getting to experience this. Its not perfect by any means, a lot of the maps aren't designed around smaller player counts so that makes the singleplayer stuff not always feel like the game is putting its best foot forward/makes playing with only three other people kinda limited in what maps are best for that. Not to mention actually getting into a game with friends is a nightmare in the modern day, but none of that matters a ton to me because once I actually got in a game it was just pure fun with my friends. At the end of the day, thats all that really matters to me with a multiplayer game really.

9/10