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Thursday, September 7, 2006

Quake rocket-jumper video that kicks ass

Check out this 20-minute video of a virtuoso Quake III player doing the most amazing "rocket-jump" acrobatics I've ever seen. Rocket-jumping is when you point a rocket-launcher (or other seriously concussive weapon) at the floor near your feet, and jump just as it goes off, getting a boost from the concussion, riding the shockwave.

The creator of this 2004 video has turned on "God mode" so that the rocket blasts don't hurt, and then showed what a rocket-jumper with serious mad skillz can do when unleashed on the more imaginative Quake III maps.

There's something almost laugh-out-loud funny about the combination of Matrix-style editing and novel, precise rocket-jump moves. Even if you're not a Quake player (I'm not, particularly, though I live with a retired member of the UK national Quake team) this is every bit as engrossing as any parkour video or Olympic demonstration sport. Link (via Wonderland)

posted by Cory Doctorow at 07:31:59 AM permalink | Other blogs' comments

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