PCF's games editor James Carey may be currently sunning himself to a healthy all-over walnut brown in LA for the E3 show, but he's also a hideously mutilated zombie. AND IN THE GAME. Ahahahahah, etc.
But this is no uninspired compare-'em-up - we've actually made Games James into a playable Quake 4 multiplayer character, complete with bump-mapped five o'clock shadow and authentic crazy, staring eyes. OK, so the lack of laser face-reading tech in the office means it's not exactly a perfect likeness, but given that there's only the merest of handfuls of playable third-party Q4 models in the world at the moment, we're pretty gosh-darned proud. Download the pk4 file of CareyZombie from here and drop it into /baseq4 in your Quake 4 installer folder to see him in action yourself - it's fully compliant with the latest patch.
Incidentally, the only other Q4 models we've found so far are these anime ladies, which we heartily recommend. Seeing pink-haired, cat-suited Japanese cartoons legging it around amidst Q4's default zombies and marines (and now scrawny journalists, of course) is a sublime sight.
The second part of our first-of-its-kind modelling guide is in PCF 187 (on sale now) the third in PCF 188 (on sale next Thursday) and the final mile in PCF 189 (covering how to make your digital monstrosity playable), which reaches hungry newsagents on June 15.
