iPhone game Eliminate runs Quake 3 maps

Andrew Williams

ngmoco's Eliminate can run Quake 3 maps, but sadly you'll have to have a hacked iPhone to make use of this sneaky feature

Published on Nov 4, 2009

Users of jailbroken iPhones have reason to celebrate today because some keen coders have managed to get Quake 3 maps running on ngmoco’s new first-person shooter Eliminate.

You can check out this revelation over at the homebrew forum over at Zodttd, where a user told the iPhone gaming world that Eliminate got on just fine with Quake 3’s PAK map files.

We wouldn’t recommend jailbreaking your iPhone just to get playing these Quake 3 maps, but it’s an interesting sign of what’s to come for Eliminate. It’s clearly been designed to allow for easy bolt-on level packs, so if the audience is there, you can expect reams of levels to start dripping into the game as in-game downloads.

Hopefully there’ll be a few that look a bit different from the game’s usual underplayed, robot-filled aesthetic.