I cant believe they made the game more tedious than the original which was already a bit too tedious. Everything takes too long for no good reason (animations, puzzles, virtual reality, even opening doors is more complicated than in the original...) and it has the exact same maze-like corridor map which is just stupid and makes the remake completely pointless. Casual players should get SS1 Enhanced Edition instead. This is made just for the hardcore fans of the first game.
Q2 improved immensly over its predecessor. The weapons look killer (unlike in Q1), enemies and locations are way more diverse and interesting and it has more colours and sometimes it looks really beautiful. Level design is complex with a lots of backtracking but you somehow always find the right way very quickly even thanks to monsters spawns that lead you in the right direction. It also has some kind of story and a cool badass factor. The first Quake is a creepy survivor horror FPS while Q2 is more action like and it feels like you have it under control. Mission packs are as usually sub-par but the main game is amazing.
Beautiful stylish graphics and amazing dark atmosphere but it is so incredibly tedious because of some really bad design decisions that add up and make it a micromanaging chore of many units especially in the later stages of the maps.
You can buy guns anywhere but you can't buy ammo... Who had such an "amazing" idea? You should have too much ammo and not too little. I bought the game just to relax and shoot stuff and not to spend all my time looking for ammo boxes. That is really an odd design choice for an action game where basically everything is supposed to be destructed.
