Eminem is coming to Fortnite with the launch of the sport’s The Massive Bang dwell occasion. However if you happen to merely can’t wait to frag your mates as rapper Marshall Mathers, the true Slim Shady, you are able to do so proper now in id Software program’s Quake 3 Area.
Again within the yr 2000, Interscope Information commissioned an official map for Quake 3 named Power that additionally included the very tough likenesses of Eminem and Dr. Dre. The Power map consisted of a small, rundown metropolis block dressed up with signage for Interscope’s marquee hip hop artists. Designed as a promotional map for The Marshall Mathers LP and the Up In Smoke tour, it contains low-bit fee snippets of songs like “The Actual Slim Shady.”
Power map maker Pete “MeatPak” Parisi also created skins and bots of Dre and Eminem, with the latter completely extending his left-hand center finger. Eminem simply cherished to flip the fowl in press images on the time.
The official web site for Interscope’s Quake 3 Area map (preserved thanks to Archive.org) is among the most 2000s belongings you’ll ever see:
![A screenshot of the archive website for Interscope Records Quake 3 Arena Chronic map](https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/5NYPA32ex7JDLQ8MQ2_SGSIETmo=/0x0:1800x1131/1200x0/filters:focal(0x0:1800x1131):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25105298/interscope_quake_3_map_website.jpg)
Picture: Interscope Information by way of The Web Archive
The Power map and fashions for Dr. Dre and Eminem are nonetheless obtainable to obtain (free of charge) from locations like ModDB and LVL, the Q3A database. A replica of Quake 3 Arena will only set you back $5.99 on Steam, as half of the present Steam Autumn Sale.
Please understand that you’ll want not less than a Pentium II 400 or greater to benefit from the Power map, however that in case you have the means, you’ll get to get pleasure from the next caliber of gameplay.
For a extra narrative-driven Eminem online game expertise, try 50 Cent: Bulletproof for the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Transportable. Eminem performs a corrupt cop in that one!