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Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is Based on id's radically enhanced Doom 3 engine and viewed by many as Battlefield 2 meets the Strogg, and then some. In fact, we'd venture to say that id took EA's team-based warfare genre up a notch or two. ET: Quake Wars also marks the introduction of John Carmack's "Megatexture" technology that employs extremely large environment and terrain textures that cover vast areas of maps without the need to repeat and tile many small textures. The beauty of megatexture technology is that each unit only takes up a maximum of 8MB of frame buffer memory. Add to that HDR-like bloom lighting and leading edge shadowing effects and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars looks great, plays well and works high end graphics cards vigorously. The game was tested with all of its in-game options set to their maximum values with soft particles enabled in addition to 4X anti-aliasing and 16x anisotropic filtering. |
It would seem from our benchmark results that Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is a game that really appreciates the new Core i7 architecture. Our GTS 280 XPS 730x review system was able to beat out the dual Radeon 4870 equipped reference system by a healthy margin and even caught up with the dual GTX 280 equipped reference system, with only 5fps seperating the SLI configuration with our single-GPU review system.
