[quote name='Capitalizt']I downloaded the demo of Quake Wars and wasnt impressed at all. The voices sound like crap...all muddy and scatchy...and it seems to run like old Quake 3...with choppy animation for the characters and no *SOLID* feeling when you shoot someone. It's not even close to Team Fortress 2 in terms of polish.
Have they made any significant improvements to it with the patches?[/QUOTE]
Yes. They've put out a couple of patches since release and have improved the gameplay balance, fixed a number of bugs, and improved MOD support. A number of folks were unhappy with the low number of maps (12) but the first 5 or 6 community-developed maps are playable now. The "official" support by Activision has ended, but the original developers are working directly with ID to make sure that support continues going forward. An official competition patch and another gameplay patch are both in beta currently.
They've also released an updated demo based on the new patch level, if you haven't tried the demo recently, give it another whirl.
At $15 this is a steal.