And Quake 2 is excellent in level design. It's amusing that you point out switch and key hunts as if they were a bad thing.in a classic Doom forum! 90% of the modern WADs make use of this game mechanic because it is a natural way to create interconnected and non-linear level spaces. Single player Quake 2, with its more unimaginative weapons, more dumb enemies, more mid-size techbases, another drab palette, more literal switch or keycard hunts, did not. Objectively though, Unreal and HL made significant developments on the formula or technology. It's fun but forgettable, which is the reason why I think it has not enjoyed a very busy afterlife. Even from the first map! I think it might have been overlooked by brains too stunned at the leap in graphics and design at the time to really notice. I mean, it's not at all like that all the way through, there's a good mix of settings and scales taken as a whole. You raise a good point about the scale of Unreal. I feel like both games are more interesting and fun than Q2, but that's just taste.

My stance on the other game be well known around here parts :P This time around, the only way to defeat the enemy is to become one of them.It holds up far better to me than either of those games do now, and I have nothing in particular against Unreal but it's main thing was the scale of the maps which just seems pointless to me now, it makes it a chore to even start playing.

QUAKE IV – Continuing on from Quake II’s conclusion, take the battle to the heart of the Strogg home planet and become earth’s only hope for victory.

QUAKE III Team Arena – United by name and by cause, The Fallen, Pagans, Crusaders, Intruders, and Stroggs must channel their power into an allied operation, where teamwork is the only method of mass destruction.

Take on Alien races with explosive weapons knowing that only the victor gets to walk out alive.

QUAKE III Arena – Welcome to the Arena, where high-ranking warriors are transformed into spineless mush.

Only then can you destroy their secret moon base, and complete your mission. QUAKE II Mission Pack: The Reckoning – As part of an elite commando force, you must work to infiltrate a hostile Alien cite in order to stow away on an Alien spacecraft. You may have survived that, but The Gravity Well, the Strogg’s newest weapon in its arsenal against mankind, is now operational. QUAKE II Mission Pack: Ground Zero – Taking out the Big Gun sounded simple enough, except the Strogg were waiting. With your team reduced to but a few, and the odds stacked against you, will you be able to shut down the enemy’s war machine for good?

QUAKE II – Travel to Alien planet and fight to determine the fate of humanity.

Save the entire universe and stop QUAKE for good, or die trying in the two concluding chapters in the original QUAKE story. QUAKE Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity – Your journey has led you down a path of no return. Leap into the connecting portal and shut down the source of the evil for good. QUAKE Mission Pack 1: Scourge of Armagon – Their leader Shub-Niggurath may have been defeated, but the QUAKE forces still roam Earth. Experience the immersive world of Quake, a game still considered to be one of the most influential games of all time.

QUAKE – Stop the Alien invaders and take on 32 single player stages, and compete in 6 deathmatch stages.

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