Quake II

Not as good as Quake 1, and the story/atmosphere is atrociously bland, but it still stomps 90% of FPS games that release nowadays for half the price. The new content added by Machine Games also of course adds a load of replayability, and it's fun with friends to play through either the entire campaign, the new wave-based horde mode, or just boogie on down in classic deathmatch with bots or friends.
The weapon sandbox is quite fun and weapons are crunchy and impactful, albeit a bit bland, but it's always satisfying gibbing enemies and corpses. There's also a pretty extensive behind-the-scenes gallery for concept art and development history, as well as a model viewer allowing you to easily see the changes the remaster made. This time around it allows you to even change your player model in the singleplayer campaign and be a Bitterwoman rather than a Bitterman, so that's always a plus for me.

the soundtrack is probably in my top 30 albums of all time and mogs the hell out of quake 1's boring ass ambience and whatever which only gets the praise it does because trent reznor worked on it. sonic mayhem would make trent his ♥♥♥♥♥. the game is good, too.

Again, what a fine FPS. A shining example of the medium's great quality, and an absolute classic by Id Software.

This was my first quake game and I have been playing it for the past 1.5 years , I have this game in my PlayStation and Nintendo switch because I genuinely can’t put it down, every modded console I have has a homebrew port if this , personally 9/10 game.

Not much I can say 30 years later that hasn't been said. Amazing game with great graphics and an interesting story. Great soundtrack. I love the way you return to previous maps and have equipment inventory (similar to Hexen)

Back in the day, Quake 2 was the reason I bought a Voodoo 2. I remember saving up allowance, eventually being able to buy the thing, then installing it into my computer. When all was said and done, I fired up the game and wondered why everything still looked and ran the same. That's when I learned that I had to manually switch the renderer. That experience of switching from software rendering to hardware rendering and seeing the colored lighting for the first time was mind-blowing. I spent the next year playing nothing but Quake 2.

This is still a great game. It might not have the legacy of Quake 1 or 3, but I probably spent over a thousand hours playing Q2 multiplayer and I still love it. This remaster looks great, feels good, and has a small but active multiplayer community.

Harder than other FPSs of the time, but still a blast. I don't like the mission system: it forces you to backtrack on older levels just to find and press a button that you totally forgot it was there. I had to use the walkthrough several times.
I'm also shamefully savescumming, I don't see how I could survive any other way.
There is something cumbersome about how this game plays; perhaps the backtracing, the slowness of swapping weapon animation, together with how fast the enemy behind the next corner can kill you.
I suck at FPSs, but still enjoying it, though.

For me personally Quake II has always teetered on a fine line between fun and mid. It becomes very repetitive but as long as you keep moving and shooting it's absorbing and worth the price of admission. This remaster is excellent and fixes all of the annoying issues with the original version and the new episode, Call of the Machine, is probably the best part. Well done again Nightdive.

Quake II was a fun ride. I'm a sucker for SCI-FI, and this game is pure sci-fi action greatness. Different from the first's gothic/medieval atmosphere(which was also amazing), so I understand if fans of that wouldn't like this direction, but for sci-fi fans like myself, this was a fun FPS to play through as a precursor to the next main singleplayer entry in the series, QUAKE 4, which was just as fun to me. Nostalgia!
Badass guns, and a badass soundtrack to go with it. Beats most modern FPS still. No added nonsense, just pure sci-fi fps fun just as it's supposed to be. Long live QUAKE!

Don't get me wrong, the railgun is good, the music is also good, and the death match is probably solid.

That being said, this is probably the most dull fps i've played, levels and enemies just kinda blended together and i wound up in a state where i only did everything i could for the game so i wouldn't have to touch it again.

The Quake franchise is special, never ages & always remains fantastic and fun to play, especially the classics. Glad to see it being brought to Steam! 9.001/10

One of the best games of all time.. no question. The new Episode is FANTASTIC! Top tear stuff.. better than all these rubbishy indie, so called "boomer" shooters flooding Steam.. Buy it.. buy it now!

Great remaster of a classic. Feels like childhood again

fun and exactly what a remaster of a game should be

DO NOT LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE THAT SAY QUAKE 1 IS BETTER. THEY ARE SHILLS PAID BY TRENT RENZOR TO SELL HIS ALBUMS.

- AI SLOP DETECTED -

☑️ No
🔲 Yes
🔲 Massively here

- WOKE INFECTION DETECTED -

☑️ No
🔲 Yes
🔲 Massively here

- DIFFICULTY -

🔲 My 95 year old grandma could play it
🔲 Easy
☑️ Normal
🔲 Hard
🔲 "Dark Souls"

- GRAPHICS -

🔲 "MS Paint"
🔲 Bad
🔲 Meh
☑️ Graphics don't matter in this game
🔲 Good
🔲 Beautiful
🔲 Masterpiece

- MUSIC -

🔲 Bad
🔲 Not special
☑️ Good
🔲 Beautiful

- STORY -

🔲 This game has no story
🔲 Like playing "Temple Runners" for the story
🔲 It's there for the people who want it
☑️ Umm Good?
🔲 Well written
🔲 Epic story

- PRICE -

🔲 It's Free
🔲 Underpriced
☑️ Perfect price
🔲 Could be cheaper
🔲 Overpriced
🔲 Complete waste of money

- REQUIREMENTS -

☑️ You can run it on a microwave
🔲 Potato
🔲 Average
🔲 High end
🔲 "NASA" computer

- LENGTH -

🔲 Very short (0 - 3 hours)
🔲 Short (3 - 15 hours)
☑️ Average (15 - 50 hours)
🔲 Long (50 - 90 hours)
🔲 Extremely long (90 - 110 hours)
🔲 More than 1 week (170+)
🔲 No ending

- FUN -

🔲 I'd rather watch paint dry
🔲 Hard to enjoy
🔲 Repetitive
☑️ Actually pretty amusing
🔲 Ride of your life

- REPLAYABILITY -

🔲 It's a one - time experience
🔲 Only for achievements
🔲 If you wait a few months / years
🔲 Definitely
☑️ Infinitely replayable

- WORTH BUYING -

🔲 It's Free
🔲 No
🔲 Wait for sale
☑️ Yes


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GAMES I HAVE PLAYED

One of my favorite tech demos. If you've never modded this one, the community inclusions are worth the price of admission alone.

A classic game that pushed first-person shooters forward especially in online multiplayer mode. As a singleplayer game though, the first Quake game has superior weapon design, enemy design, level design, and overall theme. Still a great game, of course, but I just wish Quake II wasn't such a radical departure from the orginal Quake.

Hell yeah. Played this thing multiple times from beginning to the end, and the remaster is absolutely incredible. They improved everything, in the best way possible. You can see that they did it out of love for the title, not just for quick cashgrab.

Still one of the best "boomer shooters" out there, even all these years after the release.

a classic PC game that influenced everything in 3D that came after, the nightdive reproduction improves every aspect of the game in all ways possible

nice boomer shooter. still enough people to play coop

Muito bom, só faltou uma coisa. Precisa de um suporte ao um vibrador quando matar algum inimigo

Possibly the greatest shooter to ever come into existence.

Veeery goooood job. The new Call of the Machine campaign is fantastic.

Although Doom 1 and 2 are quite playable in my opinion, Quake 2 feels so insanely modern in comparison I believe it stands head and shoulders above them in terms of being playable by a modern audience.

This game set the new standard, and that's not even taking into account engine lineage.

That SMG is so fun to use but so weak against medium-sized enemies, it's outrageous. But I guess I can deal with it... Again, it's so fun...

Quake II feels like Id Software looked at Quake I, and said "Hey, what if we made a sequel that's significantly more unenjoyable/annoying to play?".

The guns don't feel as good to use, damn near ALL of the enemies are a chore to fight, and the levels don't feel as engaging.

This next thing is purely a me thing, but the shift away from Quake I's dark fantasy theming into Quake II's sci-fi theming REALLY disappointed me as I think that's what made the first game so unique to me.

All in all, Quake II is a very flawed continuation from Quake I's masterful design.

Played it in my youth and it still is a lot of fun today. A classic 3D Shooter of its time.

Квейк 2 сама по себе игра не плохая, однако сильно меркнет в сравнении с первой и четвертой частями

Враги сталии более надоедливыми, кардинально изменился внешний дизайн(не в лучшую сторону как по мне) и с обновлением движка движения главного героя стали более резкими будто

Если играть сразу после первой, то игровые механики уже станут не интересными, ведь новых здесь толком и нет

Лучше погонять в первый квейк и обойтись без второго

I enjoyed this game back in the 98'. After beating it again now, its still a fun FPS. 10/10

I still come back to this legendary classic game... Old Grognard here....

The original Quake was a gothic Lovecraftian nightmare. Quake II abandons all of that for basic sci-fi, making it feel less like a sequel and more like an entirely different thing. Thankfully, it's still a fantastic shooter. The weapons are excellent, the campaign is more cohesive than the original, and the action remains fast, responsive, and satisfying nearly 30 years later. The Railgun alone is worth the price of admission. While this may not feel totally like Quake, judged on its own merits, Quake II is still one of the best FPS games of its era.

Great game! Runs great on pretty much anything, has an active multiplayer, and has a fun single player.

took me a bit to warm up to it at first as the movement was different and the weapons dont feel as powerful /visual feedback doesnt make em feel like they got cahones but idk
then i started to like it

Played the original once, as well as RTX, before this one and this is by far the best way to play.
Super smooth on modern hardware, fully compatible, and has lots of nice quality of life updates that make it a great play again. Also the new campaign Call of the Machine is really good, if a bit spikey in difficulty. All in thoroughly enjoyed revisiting this one, and its a must play for any boomer shooter fans.

Quake II is such an awesome game.

You boot it up and 5 minutes later you're blasting Strogg into chunks with a super shotgun while metal music is kicking. No crafting. No battle pass. No "talk to the villagers." Just pure f*cking violence.

The Strogg are still some of my true favorite enemies in gaming too. They're disgusting. They're ugly. They're half machine, half corpse, and every weapon in your arsenal feels specifically designed to turn them into spare parts.

ohh man, the guns. The shotgun. The super shotgun. The railgun. Absolute p*rnography.

What I love most is that Quake 2 never wastes your time. It knows exactly what it is. Here's a gun. Here's a horrible cyborg. Solve the problem.

Thankfully it goes straight to the point, you never get lost, the compass is really helpful and well made.

The enhanced version is fantastic too. It cleans modernises everything without messing with the soul of the game, runs great, includes a ton of content (all the expansions and Quake II 64), and even comes with the original versions if you want to play it exactly like it's 1998 on a PC that sounds like a tractor engine.

It is really worth it, i recommend buying the whole Quake saga when it is on sale, you wont regret it.

I've finished this game more times than I can count and every time I tell myself "just one level before bed."

That is always a lie.

10/10, the Strogg have been getting slaughtered over and over again for almost 30 years and I'm still not tired of it.

No gimmicks just skill...one of the best games before the world went soft...

the campaign is great and the deathmatch is even better

This is all I need. Which is funny, because I couldn't get into Ready or Not because the unrealistic AI would lazer beam me through walls, but when it happens in this game it's like, ♥♥♥♥ yeah!!
Call of the Machine is soo ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ good, I can only hope one day indie devs finally get over their love affair with pixellated looking build engine games and start putting out decent shooters like this, one can only hope...
Killer ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ soundtrack too.

Excellent single player and online play from this re-release of a verified classic.

It's a nice throwback to my childhood. Quake 2 after school on an old pc with a small monitor. No internet, no hassle. Launch and play

Censoring the dev docs of a singular word is absolutely ridiculous this day and age for a thing marketed to adults. Why are we so prissy that we continue to do this. Are we not adults capable of handling mature subject matter. the game is great but this is the kind of thing i liked games for. They were not for normies. Now we are afraid we will offend the normies. Fuck them.

While I do prefer Quake I, this is still an amazing game, and of course with any Quake, it has a good-ass multiplayer.

This was the game that got me addicted to multiplayer FPS deathmatch back in the late 90s. We used to have this secretly installed and accessible via the network from any classroom computer in my high school. Absolutely fantastic quality shooter game - quite possibly the best FPS game of all time. The single player campaign was also fantastic.

I truly miss FPS games like this one.

EDIT: Quake II 64 is pretty fun but not enough for me to recommend this game.

In all aspect except the technical, this game is worse than Quake 1. The guns are slower to swap and take longer between shots to shoot. Most of the enemies hit scan. The game itself looks uglier than the first game.

The main game is the most bearable campaign to play, the original mission pack are miserable, and while the new DLC from MachineGames is pretty it still suffers from Quake 2's dull gameplay.

If you have to play it, then play it with a friend at least.

Classic game. Among the first of a type. Play through for some old school FPS.

Night Dive studios have done another outstanding job, delivering yet another cult classic to modern systems and so much more!

Game is pretty good, remaster is very good.

Game gets really old and fast though. I finally got every achievement, but it really wasn't worth it. So many of the expansion campaigns are slogs. Do yourself a favor and stop playing as soon as it stops being fun.

disclaimer: i'm friends with someone close to the doom and quake remasters, so i'm a little biased, but:

those crazy b*stards, they did it - they made quake 2 a fun game to play. the compass gets rid of the constant aimless backtracking to find what door that last button opened (now that microsoft owns activision, they should add the same compass to hexen 1 and 2!!!!). the machinegun's recoil doesn't just move your camera up. the enhanced models by nightdive are, like with their work on quake 1, fantastic. the "id vault" where you get to look at all the models and swap between new and old versions is a lot of fun, and the descriptions of each enemy/weapon give me the same satisfaction i got reading them in physical strategy guides as a kid. the dynamic shadows are subtle but really effective. just an all around good time!

campaign is 10/10 co-op junk food, call of the machine is a genuinely good gaming experience and running 1v1s on the n64 maps is fun as hell. fuck power shield though. all my homies hate playing with and against power shield.