The Quake III style of play is very fast and requires skill to be played successfully online. OpenArena's gameplay attempts to follow Quake III Arena: score frags to win the game using a balanced set of weapons each designed for different situations, with just minor changes to the rules enabled by default (like awarding a character for 'pushing' another character to their death).Įach match happens in an 'arena': a map where players try to kill each other some arenas are designed for Capture the flag and similar gametypes, so are built with two bases (usually identical, apart from the colors), for the two teams.
