Agreed...NOT revolutionary, but sometimes old-school just plain RAWKS!
No keycards to look for.
No carpal-tunnel inducing control scheme to fumble with.
No time-slowing, perception-twisting gimmicks.
No maze-like levels to run through over and over again looking for that one nondescript door I didn't see.
Me. Them. Weapons. BOOOOOM!!!!
About the last time I felt a rush this strong was with Painkiller, another old-school shooter. In another review, I lambasted "Battlefield 2" for being too convoluted to bother with. It and the other games of its ilk take too long to get involved with, too much time to become proficient with. Quake 4 just reinforces this feeling for me. Shooters have become too needlessly convoluted in an effort to "be different" from what has come before, when in fact what has come before is JUST SO DAMNED GOOD!
This game's a superb, guns blazing and blow-them-all-to-hell BLASTFEST!!! Take my word for it; crank up the difficulty, turn the sound up, settle back and waste some Strogg; you'll be glad ya did, soldier!