The sound was incredible, but the screen color palette uffff, was so ridiculous that hurt my eyes, (if I remember correctly, 256 colors-----> like supernintendo). The colour palette induced me to depression.
afaik it's 24-bit if you're using the ezquake client. It comes with OpenGL features so a whole load of awsome stuff like glows, outlines and motionblur (yes, it works on my computer, no need for gl3 stuff) and more visual stuff.
For those who play TF2:
Btw, Being dead refers to its inability to reproduce addicting players like it used to?