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Quake 2

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Quake 2 is much more than a game; it's a gaming phenomenon. This game set the standards and provided the very engine of hordes of first-person shooters (as well as less kill-or-be-killed oriented games) that followed in its wake. It took online gaming to new heights with its plethora of multiplayer options. Gamers the world over designed their own maps and created their own online worlds in which to raise havoc against the Strogg hordes as well as their best buddies. Some seven years after its release (in 1997), Quake 2 is still more than capable of brazenly stealing one's entire day, weekend, week, and beyond. Quake was great fun, mind you, but there you were on defense, trying to defend your planet against these mechanistic aliens who decided that humans would make great raw material for new cyborgs (although some lucky individuals would of course find their ultimate fate in the form of exotic ingredients for certain Strogg gourmet delicacies). In Quake 2, you take the fight to the Stroggs, by gum; you smear their guts across their own walls; you add a little chaos to the uglified place they call a home planet, and you make those soldiers pay for having dared attack Earth; before you're done you bring Makron himself, the biggest and baddest Strogg of them all, to his knees before terminating him with extreme prejudice.

Those Strogg are wily, though. Oh, we all thought it was a good idea to secretly follow the brutes back to Stroggos through their black hole-generated gateway; they'll never see us coming, we said, and we'll be on them like white on rice before they even have time to blink a bio-mechanical eye. We were wrong. The Stroggs took out a majority of our pods before the invasion even got started, but you made it to the planet's surface - albeit way off target. You'll have a little help from HQ in terms of your missions, but it's pretty much up to you alone to somehow infiltrate and destroy the enemy. You'll see stuff here you never saw in Quake - new monsters, much smarter enemies (the Stroggs actually learned how to duck), more puzzles (albeit of the find button and push it variety), and - best of all - more carnage. When you get one of these guys down, you'd better make sure he's dead; a guy with no legs can still shoot a gun.

Some of these infernal puzzles can be frustrating at times, but just about any player can play this entire game in single-player mode and come out victorious (given enough time and saved games); then, once you start thinking you're all big and bad, you can play at a higher difficulty level. You'd better be good before challenging your friends to some multi-player mayhem; when you're ready to go online, though, you'll find countless multi-player options at your disposal. The world's pretty much your oyster when it comes to multi-player options, ensuring that Quake 2 will be played and played some more for a long time to come.

I love first-person shooters, but recently I've had a few disappointments. The "Wheel of Time," for example, needs some well muscled computer hardware to run decently, and my computer is just too wimpy. Also, Wheel of Time features a story with cut scenes that seems to detract from the game rather than enhance it.

Quake II was no disappointment, however. It runs well on my Pentium 266. Also, it's a good, old-fashioned shooter that allows the player to blast and blow up one's enemies in a way that's almost artistic. The enemies are powerful but conquerable, and the levels are interesting with pretty fair graphics.

To sum, Quake II is a very good game that deserves it popularity.

This is the quintessential first-person shooter. There are vary few people that can honestly say they haven't enjoyed this game. With a 3D card, the game goes into a new level. The multiplayer is the best you can find.

What can I say but, wow. First off, for all you potential buyers worried about your specs, don't. I'm running a pentium 166 MHZ MMX with 128M of ram, and while it clips somewhat at higher resolutions, this game still runs smoothly and efficiently.

And as for the game itself, a true marvel. The single player cops (and improves on) the Hexen idea of doing away with the "gets-old-fast" linear function of kill monsters, find key, open door, move to next level. And as for creepiness? Definitely not in as high supply as in the original, where the music alone had you ever on the lookout for a fiend jumping out of a window ready to lob your head off. But who can't feel when you enter the processing plant, and walk past the machinery where your comrades are being dropped into the bio-vats, and you hear there screams, just a little sickened, and a renewed rage to complete the game and bring down the Makron? The weapons are standard fare, my personal favorite being the return of the BFG (I thought sadly missing from the original Quake). And kudos to iD for softening the power of the rockets. It infinitely increases the fairness of deathmatch, knowing that you aren't at the ultimate mercy of some highly trained eye w/a weapon that will always kill you from 100 health with 1 shot dead on. And as for deathmatch improvements over the last quake, superb... definitely more evenly matched and more interesting (especially with actual weapon models now, as opposed to just 1 weapon model and the axe in the original)

My only complaint is that certain enemies have (on rare occasions) malfunctioned, they stop going after the player and just run in place, or back and forth, and even shooting them doesn't get them after you again....but as I said, this happens once in a blue moon, so not a real detractor. And they DO have a much more evolved AI. In some levels, they're even set to run away from you at first and lay ambush at a later spot, in the sneakiest of ways. And as for excelling over Quake 3 arena, the mission based style, while minorly cliched (the "Save the human race from the horrifyingly cruel aliens" routine), is far better than some boring slugfest with a bunch of bots, which is all Quake 3 provides, showing that id has extended its middle finger to single player gamers and given multiplayer fanatics all the cards. Shameful.

Even so, Quake 2 is worth the money, and great for all those who don't have a system to meet Quake 3's EXCESSIVELY demanding requirements

This game is one of the best old PC games you are going to find. Along with Duke Nukem 3d, Quake and Doom, this was one of the games that pushed forward the shooter genere of gaming to where it is today. This is also one of the few older games that works well not only on Windows XP, but also on Vista and Windows 7 as well.

This game is addictive as anything, the shooting is great, the violence is awesome, and the game play is phenominal. Controls are super easy and the graphics were great for their time. Do not hesitate to buy this game as you will love it and you will never stop playing it.

The game has great replay value as you can play on easy, medium and hard, and there are tons of secrets throughout the game. If it gets too easy for you, try beating the game with only your pea shooter blaster, you wanted replay value, there it is! Definately go out and buy this game it is an awesome addition to any collection. Regardless of how far graphics have come today, this game still beats out many current games in the shooter genere!! (I wont name names for fear of upsetting the little fanboys)

Also Quake 1 is just as awesome although I like 2 better. Quake 1 like Doom is the grandfather of modern shooters while Quake 2 is the father! you wont be disappointed with either game!

Go and get it NOW! You need this game!

It arrived early and I was given a free game with it. Very good company to do business with.

I've played this game forever and i love this game b/c it reduces my stress level. Unfortunately when my original copy somehow contracted a virus or something, the game wouldn't work. I was thrilled to discover I can order a copy from geekswholesellers through amazon. What i didn't know would happen is they sent the game, quickly too, is the game once loaded into your computer will not give you the option of saving your progress. It has over 20 levels and in order to accomplish your objective, you have to go between levels. Without the saving mode, it meant that all the guys you just killed, the game never recorded that you finished the level, so thus, there was no way to solve the game. I talked to someone who knows computers and they told me I purchased a knockoff game and was not the true game. So I would strongly advise ppl to please be aware of what they are getting online. Worst part is: I can't get my money back b/c in order to do that, i have to pay to ship it back to them which is the same price I paid to have it sent to me originally. Totally not worth it. Quake 2 is a great game, but I'm disappointed that the game was not what it should've been. I would recommend Quake 2 to anyone, but will advise them to not get it through geeks

Quake II is one of the original gems of PC gaming, if not just gaming itself. The graphics were pure gold for it's time (and really, they didn't age too bad). The soundtrack was killer. And the enemy types and guns were just huge. This is probably one of the best shooters to ever hit the scene and is still very much enjoyable to this day. The single player is incredible fun and can be played in co-op, much like all of the older id Software games. The game does have sort of the 'blue key' feel to some of the levels, but really, that added a bit to the game. Some may find that type of gameplay to be dated, but at least this makes a bit more sense rather just all doors being opened like todays games. Do aliens not have locks anymore? One of the coolest things about this game is having the a dead body attract flies to it (black pixels, to be exact) swarm bodies. It gives you a feel that there's stink in the game.

Multiplayer is amazing fun too, as it can host up to 64 players in arena style bliss. Using a service like Xfire of GameSpy, you can still play this game online and enjoy what many of us enjoyed years ago. There's still an active community and it's great to be able to tear it down, old skool, in this terrific game.

Quake 2 was one of my first PC games and I loved it, even after all these years I still play it...A little..

The games plot is alright in some specks...I really didn't care for the story to be honest with you but The graphics on this game were great for the year it came out.

The game play was just OFF THE HOOK. The game plays like doom but BETTER. The enemy A.I was good too....Not the best but good.
The Best part of the game is of course...THE GUNS!!!!!! The Guns just plain Kick a$$...

Also the game is fairl long...I enjoyed it..The game is pretty old..Probably 5 years old now. I doubt you can find this game but if you can GET IT! This game is not the best game ever made but it will be a solid fun filled game with top notch violence...yea the games pretty violent.

I haven't seen many FPS like Doom Or Quake 2...There great games

IF YOU CAN FIND IT GO OUT AND BUY THIS AWESOME GAME!!

Gameplay 5/5
Graphics 4/5..for its time
Length 4/5..

Over all.....4.5 out of 5

Later

Quake 2 is an awesome game. The levels and enemies and game play and sp + mp modes are well designed, and mp mode has a nice feel, unlike Q3, or UT. This game also features great graphics if you have a card like the 3DFX Voodoo or 3DFX Voodoo 2. OpenGL looks awesome. This game is good. It is even better than the old quake. It is true 3-D fps. On my system, I played this on a 64mb system, with a Pentium Pro processor overclocked to 233mhz, with 3DFX Voodoo 2 8mb video memory with Windows 98. Wow, the game is awesome. With 16-bit audio integrated, too. This game rocks. The zombies are cool, the graphics are great, the sound is alright. The only game that truly holds a classic legendary candle to Quake 2 is Unreal. Quake 2...