14 DAY TRIAL // Congratulations for clicking on this headline. In a few moments you'll be playing Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars, as we've finally made available the free downloadable demo of the game right HERE, on Softpedia. Below, you have your basic system requirements, a little stuff on the demo's main features and a few, yet important notes for ATI users. Read on, it's quite necessary...!
The game's community website says that the demo of Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars comes with the final version of Valley, one of the larger battlegrounds in the game. Set in Yosemite, California, Valley has the Global Defense Force on the attack, as they attempt to foil a Strogg contamination plot centering on a water treatment facility. Valley features a great blend of close quarters infantry action, vehicle battles and aircraft dogfights, and the varied terrain combining mountains, waterways, tunnels and industrial structures allows for many different playing styles. To top it all off, there's a multitude of optional side missions and plenty of opportunities to try out the various defense turrets, artillery and radar deployables - Valley is a prime example of the frantic and diverse action you'll find in Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars.
Gamers are advised to take a look at this site for a full run-down of the team objectives, secondary missions and a host of tactical tips for getting the most out of the various GDF and Strogg weapons, items, deployables and vehicles.
What you may find quite appealing is that the demo also features ETQW's bots, enabling you to explore the map and gameplay in single-player mode with computer-controlled opponents, or use the bots to fill up empty slots on multiplayer servers. The same website claims that id Software has also included the standalone server as well as the server launcher tool, so you can host your own online and LAN games.
System Requirements:
- Microsoft Windows XP/Vista (Windows 95/98/ME/2000 are unsupported) Microsoft DirectX 9.0c (included) - CPU: Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 2800+ processor (Pentium 4 3.0GHz or equivalent for Windows Vista) - RAM: 512MB RAM (768MB for Windows Vista) - Video Card: 128MB NVIDIA Geforce 5700 or ATI Radeon 9700 (full list of supported chipsets below) - HDD Space: 750MB of free hard drive space, plus 200MB for Windows swap file - Internet: Broadband connection and service required for full gameplay and downloads. Features may change without notice.
Supported Video Chipsets
- NVIDIA GeforceFX Series (5700 or higher, not including 5700LE and 5700VE) - NVIDIA Geforce 6 Series (6200 or higher) - NVIDIA Geforce 7 Series (7300 or higher) - NVIDIA Geforce 8 Series - ATI Radeon 9700 or higher - ATI Radeon X700 or higher - ATI Radeon X1650 or higher
Now, what everyone needs to remember is that in order to run the ETQW PC Demo, all players using ATI video chipsets must download and install the hotfix available here. This fix is required for all ATI cards despite instructions which may state otherwise. Once a driver update dated September 10th, 2007 or later is installed, this hotfix is no longer required.
HERE's the download link for the demo again and remember that the full version launches September 28th in Europe and Australia and on October 2nd in North America.