Posted on: June 30, 2017
Fraguul
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One word: music
Best soundtrack in a PC game to date. Still banging to this masterpiece.
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Quake II
Description
Developed by id Software in 1997, Quake II is a critically acclaimed first-person shooter that introduces an entirely new science fiction narrative and setting. Now, experience the authentic, enhanced and complete version of the original.
Features
Experience the Military Sci-fi FPS, Enhanced
Get the Original Mission Packs: The Reckoning and Ground Zero
Play the All-New Expansion “Call of the Machine”
Get Quake II 64 for Free
Enjoy Online & Local Multiplayer/CO-OP
Play Together with Crossplay
Get the Original & Enhanced Versions
Experience the Original Game, Enhanced
Enjoy the original, authentic version of Quake II, now with up to 4K* and widescreen resolution support, enhanced models, improved enemy animations and gore, improved and restored AI behaviors, enhanced cinematics, dynamic and colored lighting, anti-aliasing, depth of field, the original, heavy rock soundtrack by Sonic Mayhem, and more.
Play the Intense Military Sci-fi Campaign
Mankind is at war with the Strogg, a hostile alien race that attacked Earth. In response, humanity launched a strike on the Strogg homeworld...it failed, but you survived. Outnumbered and outgunned, fight your way through fortified military installations and shut down the enemy's war machine. Only then will the fate of humanity be known.
Get Both of the Original Mission Packs
Quake II includes both original mission packs: “The Reckoning,” featuring 18 campaign levels and 7 deathmatch maps, and “Ground Zero,” featuring 15 campaign levels and 14 deathmatch maps.
Mission Pack: The Reckoning
In the first official expansion pack for Quake II, you are part of an elite commando force that must infiltrate a Strogg site. Once inside, you must scour industrial landscapes, crawl through waterways and air ducts, navigate treacherous canyons teeming with vicious mutants, stow away on an alien spacecraft, and destroy the enemy's secret moon base.
Mission Pack: Ground Zero
In the second official expansion pack for Quake II, you, and a few marines are the lucky ones. You've made it to the surface of Stroggos in one piece and are still able to contact the fleet. The Gravity Well, the Strogg's newest weapon in its arsenal against mankind, is operational. With the fleet trapped around Stroggos, only 5% of ground forces surviving, and that number dwindling by the second, your orders have changed: free your comrades and destroy the Gravity Well.
Play the All-New “Call of the Machine” Expansion
A brand-new Quake II experience from MachineGames consisting of 28 campaign levels and one multiplayer deathmatch map. In the depths of Strogg space lies the Machine, a singularity capable of collapsing the fabric of reality. Fight across time and space to find the Strogg-Maker, destroy it, and change the destiny of man and machine.
Get Quake II 64 for Free
Enjoy all 19 campaign levels, 10 multiplayer deathmatch maps, and an additional, original soundtrack in this release of the original Quake II version for Nintendo 64.
Enjoy Online & Local Multiplayer and CO-OP
Fight the hostile Strogg through the gritty, military sci-fi campaign and expansions in 4-player online or local split-screen co-op, and compete in pure, retro-style combat with support for 16-player (online),*4-player (local split-screen), or *8-player (local split-screen) matches. Bot support for offline and online DM and TDM modes included.
Play Together with Crossplay
Play the campaign and all expansion packs cooperatively or go toe-to-toe in multiplayer matches with your friends regardless of platform! Crossplay is supported among PC (controller-enabled), Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, PS5 and Nintendo Switch.
Get the “Original” and “Enhanced” Versions
Play whichever version of Quake II you prefer. Ownership of Quake II gives you access to Quake II (Original), the fully-moddable, untouched version of the game that has been available for years, and Quake II (Enhanced), the recently released version of the game with improved visuals, all-new campaign content, enhanced multiplayer support, crossplay, controller support, and more.
*Maximum display resolutions vary by platform.
*Supports 4-player local split-screen multiplayer.
*Supports 8-player local split-screen multiplayer on PC.
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Time to beat
7 hMain
9.5 h Main + Sides
15 h Completionist
8.5 h All Styles
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User reviews
Posted on: December 20, 2017
Hereditary88
Verified ownerGames: 128 Reviews: 2
FPS Games Made Right
Quake II is one of my all time favorite games and the Quake and Doom series are on the top of my list, I actively play both even in 2017. Quake II is one of the games that set a standard that all FPS started to follow in terms of strafing and mobility trumps tactical decisions. The multiplayer requires true skill and is still fun to play with a group of friends. The campaign tells a story although not a really in depth one and you gather most of it from reading your PDA and listening to the radio chatter throughout the game. I own the game and it's two mission packs: The Reckoning and Ground Zero already and on disc so I had no need to purchase this game a second time. I would recommend this game to anyone who likes the FPS genre and likes a fun game altogether.
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Posted on: January 26, 2018
freeness
Verified ownerGames: 854 Reviews: 28
A Second Serving
Initially, I thought Quake 2 was just another throwaway Sci-Fi shooter. It may not be as unique as The Offering, but that doesn't mean that what we got isn't superb in its own right. You know the drill: run, jump, and shoot your way through some of the best-designed levels in shooter history. What's Quake 2 got to offer that the competition doesn't? The AI was the first to grab my attention. Sure, half of them shoot from afar and the other half run at you with hacksaws, but it's the details that matter. Like a soldier picking up their sidearm and taking a few pot shots at you before kicking the bucket, or blasting off a Strogg's head so they shoot wildly into their former allies. The levels are a standard id Software affair (i.e., great) and even though I miss the Cthulu horrors from The Offering, I gotta say a lot of the Strogg look great. Plus the engine is leaps and bounds more impressive (and stable) than the last iteration. The expansions are more of the same. As good as the base game is, both The Reckoning and Ground Zero feel gratuitous. There's a lot of reskins and overlapping weapons/powerups. The level design is blatantly amateurish compared to vanilla. If you're going to get the base game (and you should), you might as well give the expansions a try. Don't expect anything mindblowing.
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Posted on: March 3, 2019
BFBunny
Games: Reviews: 7
We just lost a third of the platoon!
Base game is decent if you don't mind the industrial style interiors, but you're fighting human mechanical hybrid monsters so it makes sense they wouldn't be interested in interior design. Best played on Hard or nightmare even then not that difficult. Story is meh. You alone are going to destroy the strogg home world. Just like any 80s action movie then! Game makes you feel like you're in a war zone at the start. Ships overhead audibly thunder overhead and snippets of radio crackle in your ears. The intro cut scene is a real gem. This feeling of being part of your team fades towards the end as you take on the evil overlord boss... ...in space. It's actually really fun. Grenades and super shotgun sound really satisfying even today. Enemies do duck in open spaces when you shoot at them, some run away from grenades, others revive fallen comrades and enemies shoot their weapon with their dying breath. Most have fairly obvious tactics and a lot of the ranged enemies are easier close up if you can get close. Flies congregate over killed enemies. You can run and gun (most fun) or you can play it tactical as your entry weapon, the blaster has unlimited ammo and can be used to snipe far off enemies. Good amount of secret areas and couple of hidden levels is still a fun novelty. Some outdoor bits and some sections in mines. Stroggos is certainly not a place for a holiday vacation. A lot of oppressive architecture and brown / grey pallet. Quake 2 uses a lot of assets from the first game while being nothing like it. You'll notice recycled sound effects and objects. It's not a bad thing. Quake 2 is it's own game really. Quake 2 is a bit slow. You'll probably end up turning always run to on. It doesn't really change the genre a whole lot. Maybe some day they'll re-boot the strogg lore in an old school re make. Never really liked the expansions personally, but they're worth playing for some extra levels / different weapons and enemies. Multiplayer in quake 2 is a lot of fun.
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Posted on: August 17, 2023
BoriiSJZ
Verified ownerGames: 44 Reviews: 6
Quake 2 finally did it
after years, quake 2 got its Enchanced edition! And it works Amazing!
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