Quake II
You are humanity’s last hope to stop the Strogg, a hostile alien race waging war against Earth. Play this military sci-fi FPS, now upgraded for modern platforms with improved visuals, new campaign content, online multiplayer/co-op, and more.
Quake II is a fps, classic and action game
developed by id Software, Nightdive Studios and MachineGames
and published by Bethesda Softworks.
Released on August 03rd 2007 is available only on Windows
in 6 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain and Russian.
It has received 8,861 reviews of which 8,457 were positive and 404 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.3 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
Minimum Spec (1080p/60 HZ)
- Win 10 64-bit version
- Intel Core i5-3570 @ 3.4GHz or AMD Ryzen 3 1300X @ 3.5GHz
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 TI (2GB) or AMD HD 7750 (1GB)
- 8GB System RAM
- Minimum 2GB free space on hard drive
- High speed broadband connection required for online play
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This is a suddenly-no-longer-underrated gem that's been recently overhauled for free by id games. The enemy models and wall textures/brushes have been upgraded slightly, but not so much that it looks too outside the original 1997 style. The game menus and cutscenes have been given a similar treatment, and the additional single-player campaigns AND the N64 version of the game have been added into the base game for free. Very cool! As for the game itself, this is the beginning of the fast, twitchy arena shooter style that dominated the late 90s and early 00s, only this one focuses on single-player. The sequel would do away with the campaign altogether and launch the online FPS revolution that changed PC gaming forever. But, back to Q2... This game crash-lands you (Space Marine "Bitterman") on a hostile alien planet filled with monolithic, industrial scenery and architecture. Not super far-off from Q1's aesthetics, but decidedly less lovecraftian and more... Paul Verhoeven? The enemies, known as the Strogg in-game, are a creepy collection of body-horror nightmare-scenarios, consisting of humanoids that've been "Stroggified" to varying degrees into freakish cyborgs. Some still look vaguely like people, others are so far from human they've been reduced to a brain in a vat. You'll wind your way through a bunch of not too dissimilar looking industrial arenas and corridors blasting Strogg and not much else. This game lacks even a 'use' button and is focused almost 100% on combat. Run, jump, shoot. Besides a little swimming, that's it! There's some key-hunting and switch-pressing just to pace things out properly, but not much in the way of challenging puzzles. In fact, there's none. Good stuff. While the visual style of the game is in keeping with the idea of moving thru an industrialised planet purely focused on making weapons of war, it still doesn't save it from looking a little monotonous. That said, the aesthetic of this game is something I keep coming back to and I enjoy it quite a lot. Is that a contradiction?! Yes. Yes, it is. The weapons in this game are plentiful and with just a few exceptions, VERY fun to use. Their sound design is on point, the updated weapons models look a lot better without being overdone, and the game does a good job giving you just the right amount of ammo to keep having fun without it getting into survival-horror territory, or on the other end, Serious Sam. The starting "blaster" laser pistol has infinite ammo but it's a chore to use. The story is thus: "Go to planet. Blow up alien guy. Blow up their stuff." Perfect story for this type of game 10/10 give 'em a fucking Emmy. If you're into FPS games at all, this is definitely worth playing, even just to get a good look at where a lot of the modern conventions of the genre started. This is a pure shoot-em-up experience and it's really fun even to this day. Rating: Old but GR8/10
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Quake II: 100% COMPLETION REVIEW If you love completing games, take a look at our [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44890520/]curator site. Quake II. Now in rare form. The Hex Engine's brains. ID's guts. Your soul. Simply put, this is as raw as it gets. Am I supposed to be killing enemies, or headbanging to the absolute FIRE that is the soundtrack? It goes through Heavy Metal, all the way to Groove Metal, to Industrial, to Alternative, with riffs that Metal bands wish they came up with earlier, like the main riff from "Quad Machine", or the one from "Kill Ratio". "Rage" sounds like a KoRn song. "Descent into Cerberon" sounds like a leftover from DOOM Eternal. Huge kudos to Sonic Mayhem, for doing one of the best game soundtracks of all time! As a Metal connoisseur who listens to this music genre exclusively, I totally approve of this. It sounds like a true Metal album, and one that you could listen to at anytime outside of the game. Hell, I'm definitely going to listen to "March of the Stroggs" next time I lift weights at the gym! Quake II feels ahead of its time, which sounds funny when said in a review written in 2024, but here we are. The Lovecraftian medieval gothic horror theme was ditched for a sci-fi, techno-cyber industrial aesthetic in this entry, which surprisingly still feels like Quake, despite bringing a whole different vibe. This remaster is a great package, since it contains Quake II, the two official mission packs, the entire game content of Quake II 64, an all-new expansion, development related notes and goodies, cut content seamlessly restored, and a fully working multiplayer component with just enough players to be enjoyable. All of it, while perfectly preserving the good old original title, despite the QoL and technical improvements. One can have fun for several hours here! Now THIS is the standard that should be set for remasters. Take notes, modern developers. The new piece of content, Call of the Machine, is reminiscent of the first game's remaster expansion, Dimension of the Machine, where one needs to complete six levels while occasionally coming back to a hub area. It was made by the same developers, MachineGames. In terms of quality, it's pretty decent. It expects the player to master the movement, and raises the skill requirement, which in theory would be a good thing, since the original game is sadly too easy to complete. At the end of the day however, it's an artificial difficulty raise. An overwhelming amount of enemies is NOT how you raise difficulty. It's also a gaming sin to recycle boss enemies. Well, if it's not made by ID, it shows. Despite my undiagnosed herpetophobia, I appreciated the section where we are forced to swim through sewer pipes with those sharks coming at us in tight places, which made me physically recoil from the screen. Running out of shotgun shells right then and there was horrifying to say the least, since it's the weapon that one shots these little phobia inducing bastards. This was as far as Quake II went about being a horror game. It's an alright expansion otherwise, despite these weird difficulty spikes. The Reckoning and Ground Zero are the official mission packs. They're almost as long as Quake II itself, and there's good variety of new weapons, scenery and heart pumping action. Also not made by ID, but made by very talented people as well back in 1998. These expansions are also much harder, but the great level design has higher influence in making cool encounters, varying between long corridors where one has to dodge incoming projectiles with finesse, and large open areas that require target priority. There's also Quake II 64, which is easy to complete and a bit short, but understandably so, since it's originally a Nintendo 64 game. I personally completed it in one sitting, during one full morning, starting at 8:30 AM after a nice breakfast with my grandparents. Well fed, awoken, ready to kick some Strogg ass. Achievement completion is simple in this game, since all that's required is to complete each campaign at least once, in any difficulty, so there won't be any guides linked here. It's advised to play in Nightmare difficulty from the get go, just for a small boost in challenge, otherwise the original game could become dull. Nightmare simply spawns more enemies in the level, and requires one not to be reckless, and instead mindful of what weapon to use against whom: not overwhelmingly difficult to play. The direction ID Software went with in Quake II was to make it feel like a power fantasy, like DOOM, rather than the hopelessness and level design cruelty of the first Quake. It's funny how our secondary objectives are always some sort of turning off machinery, disabling security or destroying Strogg this and Strogg that, reinforcing how badass our characters are. It never feels repetitive though, and the game is much better than that sounds, so it's meant as a compliment. The advertising for Quake II back in the day was exquisite to say the least: meat related puns, "Quake is everywhere!", late 90's crazy wording, "10 reasons why you died in Quake", etc. Quake II oozes 90's: how freaking cool is that?! We can "sink our teeth" and "get a taste" of it on ID Vault > Development, in the main menu. Before playing, don't forget to disable texture smoothing for the old school experience!
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It's refreshing to play Quake II again with uncapped framerate. You have to use D3D11 in Windows to avoid very slight input lag caused by Vulkan (if you're on Linux, Vulkan will be snappy instead). If you want to directly host a game with a client-server connection (without lobbies), you can do that by opening a LAN match and then letting your friend connect using "connect IP" from the game console. Replace IP with your public address. The inbound port you need to forward is 5069 UDP. This game gets an easy 9.5/10.
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Quake II is another in a long line of classic Id Software shooters, but I would hardly call it my favorite. The enemies seem a bit more frustrating to fight than in Doom and the original Quake, and that first Quake's slapdash but distinctive blend of gothic and sci-fi horror aesthetics is traded for more standard sci-fi military aesthetic. The level design is quite ambitious, however, with individual levels taking place across multiple maps that you travel back and forth between, and it still carries the hallmarks of Id's classic level design. It's not their best, but it's still a really good time.
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I decided to play through Quake 2 again after hearing that Nightdive Studios and other devs released an enhanced edition and man, I was very pleasantly surprised! Even after 27 years (and my God, do I feel old when typing this), the game is still a blast to play! The moment to moment gameplay is really one of the peaks of the FPS genre: movement is snappy, the guns feel very satisfying to use, and the music is awesome! When the enhanced edition booted up and the demo started playing with Sonic Mayhem's Quad Damage track...that entire feeling was awesome and it really showed you that you're about to play something adrenaline-pumping! Nightdive also did an excellent job with the remaster: the new lighting system looks fantastic and the newer character and environment models feel very respectful to the original. (It also plays very well and looks great on a Steam Deck OLED, I might add!) This enhanced edition also packs a ton of content: not only do you get the two official expansions but the N64 version as well which is a nice curiosity. Of course, the star of the show is the new Call of the Machine expansion by MachineGames which is fantastic - easily surpassing the other expansions and even the base game with its level design, creativity and intense action! A fantastic job overall and I am very much looking forward to the next game that Nightdive decides to remaster!
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Online players
111
Developer
id Software,
Nightdive Studios,
MachineGames
Publisher
Bethesda Softworks
Release
03 Aug 2007
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