Quake 3 condenses the FPS genre into the simplest form possible.
Which is surprising when you consider that Quake 3 is less of a game than any of its predecessors.
Released side-by-side with Epic's Unreal Tournament, it became a cult FPS and is regarded by many as id's magnum opus. In 1999, id Software did something that, depending on who you ask, was genius or stupidity: release an FPS game that almost completely eschewed single player gameplay and focused on multiplayer. Awesome deathmatch redeems this meatless meal