Source code for Quake II's 2023 rerelease is now available for all. The classic gameplay brings modern updates and is as modder friendly as Doom. The code is GPL-licensed and on Github now.
I never quite liked it as much as 1 or even 3, but it was genre defining back when it was new. People give a lot of praise for what Half-Life did for FPS, but Quake 2 did a lot of what Half-Life made popular, before Half-Life (by a year). It was also the first game, IIRC, to introduce reloading as a mechanic.
I don’t know if the whole game is worth playing but the intro alone was pretty groundbreaking for its time. Or well, one can just watch on youtube I suppose: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJoOViakt3I
Absolutely blew me away back when it came out.
I wish I could go back and play it again for the first time. It was one of the first games I played after getting my first voodoo card. It felt like I was experiencing the bleeding edge of tech.
Thinking about it, i can’t remeber a time in the last decade that a game made me feel that way. Crysis was probably the last time.
More on topic, yes everyone should own it. I think I bought a steam or GOG bundle and got all the doom and quake games for like $5-$10 or something like that.
I remember getting a Voodoo card specifically to play Quake II as one of the first hardware 3D games. Isn’t it the one where at the beginning you get out of a crashed rocket or something like that?
I don’t like it nearly as much as the first but it’s definitely worth a pickup. Still better than the vast majority of boomer shooters that have come out in the past 8 or so years. The remaster is well done.
Is Quake II worth picking up? I have the first one but never played the others
I never quite liked it as much as 1 or even 3, but it was genre defining back when it was new. People give a lot of praise for what Half-Life did for FPS, but Quake 2 did a lot of what Half-Life made popular, before Half-Life (by a year). It was also the first game, IIRC, to introduce reloading as a mechanic.
I don’t know if the whole game is worth playing but the intro alone was pretty groundbreaking for its time. Or well, one can just watch on youtube I suppose: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJoOViakt3I
Absolutely blew me away back when it came out.
I wish I could go back and play it again for the first time. It was one of the first games I played after getting my first voodoo card. It felt like I was experiencing the bleeding edge of tech.
Thinking about it, i can’t remeber a time in the last decade that a game made me feel that way. Crysis was probably the last time.
More on topic, yes everyone should own it. I think I bought a steam or GOG bundle and got all the doom and quake games for like $5-$10 or something like that.
Some games that did it for me recently:
I remember getting a Voodoo card specifically to play Quake II as one of the first hardware 3D games. Isn’t it the one where at the beginning you get out of a crashed rocket or something like that?
Messing around with VR gave me that sense of wonder again for a while. If you ever get the chance to play around with it i recommend it
I don’t like it nearly as much as the first but it’s definitely worth a pickup. Still better than the vast majority of boomer shooters that have come out in the past 8 or so years. The remaster is well done.