Do you really need a review for Quake 2? Just buy the damn game before Carmack comes to your house and Quad damages your teeth in.

Just 10/10.

When I played Quake 4, I discovered a second disc in the game, which featured Quake 2. Out of curiousity of trying, I have to say I loved Quake 2 more than Quake 4!

As a person who's been playing old school first-person shooters since Duke Nukem 3D. It is horribly addicting, fast paced, intense, and overall fun! Like a Typical FPS before Half-Life 1, it was a satisfyingly ultra-violent game where you take down cyborg aliens know as the strogg, and given lots of weapons and kill them however you want. Each weapon has a pros and cons. For example, the BFG 10k is a devastating weapon, but could hurt you if you are too close and consumes lots of ammunition.

In the story, you are BItterman, a soldier from earth invading Stroggos to destroy the Stroggs invading humanity and prevent them from turning humanity into cybernetic slaves. While landing with the army, you got hit by a cowboy, and you land somewhere else. Thankfully getting hit saved you when all the soldiers were pinned KIA or MIA.

Also, thanks to steam, we still have a dedicated audience of multiplayer to this game! Like the single player game. Super addicting! All I can say about the Multiplayer, it is a total blast with deathmatch, team deathmatch, Capture The Flag, and so many other modes! Especially Co-Op!

Also, try to find the Ultimate Quake Patch for the soundtrack! Sonic Mayhem has made the best soundtrack for the Quake series.

Amazing game, get it!

Heyyo, a classic fast-paced FPS game... Quake II had a really large campaign that could be played coop. Lots of fun.

Quake II Is honestly one of the best games I've played.
It is a classic Fast Paced Sci-fi Shooter, Released in 11 November 1997, Which haves Stunning unique levels for its time, The game provides mouse support, a Variety of weapons to blast the faces off anyone who tends to get in your way, such as Shotguns, SMGs, Grenade Launchers, Pistols, and Of course, Rocket Launchers.
Quake II has got to be one of the best things I have bought for $10.

What an awesome game. Put it on your flash drive and play it at school or your grandma's house, 100% of all PCs will run this game perfectly. You have nothing to lose, play this

There's no doubt in my mind that Quake II is the king of arena FPS'. With new weapons, faster combat, a great soundtrack, and lots of maps to have carnage on, Quake II is the kind of game that newer arena shooters try to be and just can't quite make it.

You get a railgun.
10/10

Quake 2 is simply a classic, and one of few games I've personally mastered. Quite literally, the moment achievements come out on the game, if they ever do, I'll be among the first to get them all.

Quake 2 is basically a game where you infiltrate and alien world in order to kil their leader and make way for a larger-scale attack, while deactivating defense grids and blowing up a giant gun battery. You also kill things.

The game has very little story, delivered in the manual of the game (which i don't think comes with the game), but basically you're a soldier who deploys in a drop pod to the world named Stroggos. Your pod gets hit hugely off-course, and you land in an outpost of not much consequence.
You are totally alone. No buddies, no air-support, all you have is your blaster, and your PDA which give you stat readouts on the area (like how many people are still waiting to die, or how many secrets) but more importantly, your objectives beamed down from the capital ship in orbit into said PDA.

The game is essentially as good as FPS adventure action games get witohut going into arena FPS territory, and is (in my opinion) the only one to do this to date.

The game has level stats exactly like in Duke Nukem 3D, Quake 1 and even Doom 1, and the secrets are always really good and memorizing their locations can become second-nature and are even instrumental on Hard+ difficulty.

Quake 2 is an FPS that can be played mainly as a singleplayer game, but has Multiplayer and even Co-op, and lived in the days when Balancing wasn't even a matter that was at all important in the eyes of Developers.

Multiplayer is essentialy arena-FPS and that's awesome.

The game has 3 mission packs, 2 of which are on Steam (and i think the 3rd is too).

For anyone who likes FPS games that doesn't easy-mode the experience by giving you regeneration, checkpoints, and newly refreshed ammo and weapons at the beginning of every new level, Quake 2 is a must have.

While not what people were expecting from a sequel to Quake, it still keeps to the Quake roots, and I enjoyed it very much.

Quake II adds an actual storyline to the Quake series. In this game, you're fighting against the Strogg, once again all by yourself. The levels are objective-based, however they still play pretty much the same as original Quake levels, but less maze-like for the most part. This may put some people off.

The game has been given a complete graphical overhaul; more or less every texture and model in the game has been completely remade to fit the look of Quake II.

I would write more, but I haven't played this game in a long time and my memory of it isn't too good. What I will say, though, is that it's still a fantastic shooter well worth your time. It's not what you were expecting, but it's a good game in it's own right.
Oh, and yes, multiplayer is still there in all it's glory, but it still uses the direct IP method of the original so you must scavenge the internet once more for servers that are still alive

A 15 year old classic!

Oculus Rift owners, try Quake 2 VR. One of the best Oculus experiences.

I have fond memories of this game. While Quake had good multi-player, Quake 2 had good single player and multi-player. Still to this day one of my favorite games.

When this game came out, graphically it was amazing. But it reigning as "King" of graphics was very short lived. 6 months later, Unreal came out. But it's multi-player and mods kept it one of my favorite games. I played this A LOT. I fondly remember people always accusing me of cheating thinking 'Nobody could be THAT good'.

This game had so many mods that you could play this for months and not get tired. Like Half-Life 1/2, it was a great game, but the mods is what make it one of the greatest games of all time.

This is the best game on Steam, belive it or not.

Quake gets hightech in this bigger outerspace version with huge levels and many objectives. A more conventional industrial rock soundtrack sets the new pace of this heart-pounding sequel for many hours of stressful fun.

awsome game, even better than the first one. most sequels arent better than the original, and quake 1 was amazing by itself. 10/10 would replay multiple times

its like Quake 1 only infinitely better but still not as fun as Doom

Wish the soundtrack accompanied the purchase. Still, a legendary game. 10/10

what do you mean there's a quake 4????????

The entire world population is divided in those who like Quake II, and those who haven´t really played it yet. A worthy follower of part 1.

Runs fine on WinVista with Ultimate Quake II Patch:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1756937


Revival of a classic:
10/10

Sonic Mayhem soundtrack... INSTA BUY IT NOW