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The first was better, harder, and smarter

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Quake II's plot doesn't make any sense cause why would ONE soldier go against an ENTIRE army of baddies, instead of his men fighting alongside him? I wished that your soldiers were also there, on the planet, with YOU killing baddies. And I also laughed my *ss off when I saw the ending. Games like Half-Life or the original Quake are FAR superior to this type of gameplay. But I've gotta admit... the weapons in this game are just plain BAD! And what I mean by bad, I mean GOOD. The original Quake I think was the first game to be skeletal-animated. And the AI in this game is stuupid! I just stood in front of a guy and shot, and the guy never fired back! What IS this? And Quake II's air enemies are just SO small I can't even see them! Quake II doesn't have Apaches like in Half-Life or any Gargantuas as well. Quake II doesn't have anything BIG... except for the guns. :)

best game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

this is an excellent 1st person game, best i've ever played. buy it, play it. replayable in whole or parts. worth 20 ,and i got it when it first came out for 50 and i've got my money's worth.

R.I.P. Quake 2

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: March 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I used to love playing Quake 2. I played it for hours on end. When I heard about it's impending release in 1997, I was stoked and could hardly wait for it to come out. And what did I do when it did? I played it AT LEAST 3 to 4 days a week from 1997 to early 2002. And guess what? I became freakin sick of it! I do not want to play this game ever again for the rest of my existence on this earth!! (Well, at least for 10 years or so) My point is, after you log hours and hours of gameplay, it starts to get old. FAST. Quake 2 may be a legendary game but I warn you don't overindulge. Play Max Payne, Deus Ex or Unreal Tournament 2003 instead.

Quake 2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: July 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The transaction was quick, shipped in two days and the product works great. My kids and I are having a blast with it.

Great, but not best in its class

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: July 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is the sequel to Id's original "Quake", perhaps one of the most (for lack of a better word) vicious first person shooters. (The evil enemies of that game projected more loathing and nastiness than you'll get from any real people, unless you work in prisons or a law firm). While this is supposedly a sequel to the original Quake, it's very different - the code now supports hardware graphics acceleration (you'll know the difference if you've got a card because the game starts up in low-res and non-accelerated mode) for one thing. For another, Id tossed out the plot of the first game, it's supernatural and occult-themed plot and all. You're now a futuristic super-soldier sent to a remote planet populated by evil aliens who've rained havoc back on Earth. Gone are the demons and zombies of the original, now replaced with alien cyborgs carrying particle weapons and all. (Terran soldiers are landed on hostile planets by loading them in coffin-like reentry vehicles and shooting them at the targeted planet in waves.) Still, despite the different storyline, it won't take fans of the original long to realize (if the packaging didn't clue them in) that they're playing Quake. Though the graphics are a light year ahead of the original (3d card support and all), some effects - like the distortion of being underwater - looks little changed from the original game. A lot of gameplay also remains the same (like looking for secret spots by searching for tunnels while underwater or in sewers). The locked doors that "are opened elsewhere" and even the grunts your charachter makes when trying to open locked doors or while jumping may inspire enough deja vu to take you from Quake2's alien planet to the Necropolis of the first game. Even the basic idea behind the levels seems a throwback to the bygone age that spawned the original - navigate a labyrinth looking for both a portal and its key. The basic alien soldiers seem little different than the army of the undead from the first game, and your shotgun or rapid-fire gun works just as well on cyborgs as on the last games demons. Much of the similarity between the two first Quakes is because of how far ahead the original Quake really was.

Any way you cut it though, the 2nd just doesn't lead the pack. For a true leap over its predecessor in the hyper-violent FPS category, and unless you're not stuck with something less powerful than a Celeron, try Star Wars: Jedi Knight, the sequel to Star Wars: Dark Forces.

I ran this game on a Pentium 200MMX, with 64mb of RAM and a 12mb 3DFx card - graphics were smooth and frame-rate was high.

Great, but impossible to fix technical problem

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 12
Date: September 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The game is exellent! BUT After I upgraded to the worst operating system... Windows XP...
The game did not work very properly anymore. Activision's technical support is pure s-. I contacted the fourms at Planetquake and I still did not got a reply from them... If you have Windows XP... YOUR OUT OF LUCK. The error you will get if you have XP is... ERROR:GAMEERROR:Function pointers have moved.
That occurs when I try to load the game... So do yourself a favor and buy a old machine with Win 95, NT, or 2000 to run this game properly.

Quake 1 was much better

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: March 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

quake 1 was much better, all this one has is improved graphics, other than that I think it stinks, quake 1 was more fun to play, this one was a dissapointment for me.

THE BEST GAME EVER

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: October 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is the best game even and i whanne buy it
but i don't know how please help...

Quake 2 Rules!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: July 31, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Hey, Quake 2 is the best game in the whole world! It is so fun! All I do is play multiplayer. I play against my friends and clan members...My favorite mod is Weapons Of Destruction.

Shake or Quake

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I am not to impressed with this game bacause 1 it gets boring after the 3rd time you've completed it. I have the PC version of Q2 and you get an extra 3 parts than the PS1. The first is a bones level where you get the super shotgun but it takes ages to get there. the 2nd is you end up in the an enemy warehouse. The 3rd is you go to an enemy mine. If you will have just started you have to use your blaster and find your shotgun a bit later on in the leavle. The secrets are a bit poor for you only get a health packs ammo power ups or a gun. I am not to keen on this game for it gets boring and you efortesly kill enimies with no heart in it at all.

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