One of the best games ever. Replayability is off the chain. Im turning 55 and I still play through this all the time. Ive never beaten it on the hardest settings so that will be the next run!
While lacking the atmosphere of Quake 1, Quake 2 is still a masterclass in old school FPS design, and incredibly fun. Another Id Soft classic. This Nightdive port is really good too. It feels great to play, runs perfectly, and includes both original expansions, a new expansion by Machine Games, and Quake 2 64 (which isn't actually a N64 port of the original Quake 2, but an entirely new standalone game), making this version the perfect one to play.
Quake II was on of the games I always wanted to try since I started gaming. For context, I started playing games in 2010. I just never played games for the previous 14 years of my life. That meant that I missed out on a lot of the retro greats. Quake II was one of those. I decided to get it in 2015 but couldn't figure out how to use sourceports or getting the soundtrack working. SO I just never played it but thought about it and even tried again but I just couldn't get everything working so I left it in my library. Then in 2023, the masters of remasters, Nightdive Studios released a remaster, with all the DLC, the N64 version and a new campaign. This review will be from a person who played the game for the first time after the release. Quake II is about war. and killing and stuff. I never bothered to follow the story. The level design was unique for it's time. You had a few levels connected to each other to form a hub (Or "unit" as the game calls it) with objectives to complete. You ...
Old school in the best way possible. The recent updates give a lot of content and QoL features all in one package. Rocket jump straight into the strogg NOW!!!!!
so fun!
So I am writing this as a negative review because of the DLC's, see Quake 2 is amazing and so is the Call of the Machine DLC, it shows that this was a DLC from 2023. HOWEVER the other DLC's and Quake 64 are quite bad. The Reconing is quote boring, most of it is just bland corridors, low tier enemies and the basic guns, thats about it, which gets tiring quickly. What is awfull though is "Ground Zero", which is a horrid DLC. Quake 2 and Call of the Machine have a certain type of level design which you can still see in the new Doom releases: Open arenas to fight the enemies in which you are given the space to take advantage of the movement and of explosive weapons. Ground Zero DOES NOT, 90% of it is crammed corridors with twists and turns with enemies hidden behind every corner, and I am not exaggerating, this is how most of this DLC is like, which results in a tiring gameplay loop of: "Enter room, retreat, wait for enemies to follow you down the corridor, shoot at them" or "peak...
Perfect like me
quake but better
Can't hate on this work of art. Listening to the OST still makes me shed a tear of joy.
Loved this old school game all the way through the later 90's. Great no nonsense weapons, lot of varied enemies... all that is good about old school is mastefully executed here. Fell back in love with this game again. If you loved this game get this without question, you can try Quake 2 RTX too. Music works, polished gunplay (fast switching a la Quake 3), improved enemy AI. All to love, nothing to hate.
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Quake II costs $9.99.
Minimum: 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 Recommended: Recommended Spec (*4K/120 HZ) Win 10 64-bit version Intel Core i5-6600k @ 3.5 GHz or AMD Ryzen 5 1600 @ 3.2 GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (8GB) or AMD RX Vega 56 (8GB) 8GB System RAM Minimum 2GB free space on hard drive High speed broadband connection required for online play*Compatible display required
Quake II is available on Windows PC.
Quake II has 91% positive reviews from 67 players.
Quake II was released on Aug 3, 2007.
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