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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.

Ughhh...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: February 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Everything about this game is terrible, which is surprising since ID used to make the most amazing games. Let's face it- since John Romero left everything has gone downhill. Rather than anxiously awaiting each level, I constantly asked myself "Will this game ever end?"
The music is horrible- repetitive generic metal songs with occasional electronic elements. The monsters are boring and overused. The levels are for the most part bland, though a few do stand out. The main character also seems to have 6 different voices.
There is absolutely no story whatsoever. It's just the same "Go to this room and get this item so you can go to next the room" type of game (Wolfenstien 3D, Doom, Heretic), poorly disguised. In fact, when you beat the game, instead of finding out what happens you get a screen which reads "THE END."
The worst part has to be the weapons, however. The Super Shotgun goes through ammo like crazy, the Machine Gun constantly raises itself when firing so you have to keep tapping the fire button or soon you'll be shooting above your enemies, the Rail Gun takes about a second to fire, then needs to recharge itself, the Rocket Launcher also has a recharge period, and the BFG takes forever to even fire! Much longer than the original took.
In short, this game was a complete letdown. I should have spent the money on a disk of Doom wads instead.

Quake II

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: September 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Quake II is a first person shooter by Id software and Activision. It is the sequal to Quake, which is the first real 3D game and one of the most important game in FPS history. The plot is you play a marine in space who crashes in an alien planet. Quake2's single player gameplay is quite dull, But compared to the orginal Quake it is much better. You need to solve mission objectives to complete a level. There are 39 levels in 9 hub levels and they are as closely intertwined as Hexen's hub layout, So you need to travel back and forth to complete one hub level. There are also lots of villans to deal with, Alien mutant creatures with guns insted of hands and many others in all shapes and sizes, Unfortunatly the enemy AI is poor. There are lots of weapons too and even the first weapon is a blaster gun with infinte ammo, No Axe here. I Played Quake2 on the default OpenGL video mode, The graphics are very good and the game runs very well, Even faster than Quake. But the charecters dont look real and the game looks cartoony. Quake2 has a very good multiplayer gameplay, The connection, maps, weapons and the multiplayer options are a great improvement from the first game. Quake2's single player game is quite bad but the multiplayer gameplay is very good.

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.

fun..for about 20 min

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: May 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I liked this game a lot but the only drawback was tha i have windows xp and w/ windows xp the graphics really [were bad]. It totally took away from the gameplay. If you're looking for a really good shooter go try Ghost Recon. but otherwise quake 2 is pretty good for the money. Be warned xp users their is a fluke in this games graphics for xp. It worked better on my friends 98 than on my xp so something is up. If anyone knows how to fix this graphics problem please write it into a review

Lone soldier is back in another mindless adventure

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: November 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The first impression you get from this game is one of awe as there is a whole cinematic prelude into the game, with a battle in space, followed by a crash landing of a lone soldier into an alien planet. You are that soldier and must gun your way through monsters and 39 levels with missions. What I mean by missions, is that in each level you have stuff to do, such as collect explosives, then place them to blow up a power grid, or realign a satellite dish. If this sounds complex, don't worry just walk up to something and it is done (quite brainless). This game is your stereotypical shooting game, you run in a first person game, with one of seven guns you can pick up and with this game you get a full 360 degrees motion with your gun, so its more than shooting straight. With other shooting games you fight against waves of monsters, in this game there are pretty much 10 - 20 creatures per level, making the levels go by quickly. This release is in a jewel case, so it does not take up much space.

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.

Quake II

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 22, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Yuck! It pathatic the sequal to Quake one of the best games of all time. This one looks like a cartoon and no fun to play. The charecters look like puppets and the AI is pretty dumb. The gameplay is very dull, It is an embrassement to Quake.

Not as good as the first

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I was a little disappointed in this game. I love the ambience of the first Quake, and Quake2 just doesn't have that frightening, creepy aspect. Also the first Quake is much harder. I beat this game's butt in less than 2 weeks on the HARD difficulty setting. A word of advice: after installing the game, immediately download the patch from ID software. Otherwise, games in progress will be unplayable after you install the patch. Like I said, all this and I STILL beat the game in less than 2 weeks. Friend, I'd skip this one and go for Half-Life.

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.

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