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You play as a human marine stranded on the Strogg homeworld after a failed assault. To help humanity’s war effort, you fight through hostile alien installations and carry out missions against the Strogg war machine. Combat centers on fast movement, aiming and choosing from a varied arsenal of firearms and weapons. Explore connected areas, find keys and equipment, activate machinery, and revisit locations as new objectives open routes forward. Optional secrets and supplies reward searching. The package includes the main campaign, The Reckoning and Ground Zero mission packs, the Quake II 64 campaign, and the Call of the Machine expansion. Campaigns can also be played in co-op; multiplayer includes deathmatch and team deathmatch, with bot support.

A stranded marine fights through Strogg installations, chaining missions, weapons and objectives in a fast-paced sci-fi FPS.

Released 03 Aug 2007

95%positive of
10k player reviews

$9.99

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FPS

Classic

Fight the Strogg

Backtrack Through Bases

Carry Tactical Gadgets

You are humanity’s last hope to stop the Strogg, a hostile alien race waging war against Earth. Play this military sci-fi FPS, now upgraded for modern platforms with improved visuals, new campaign content, online multiplayer/co-op, and more.

Developed by id Software, Nightdive Studios, MachineGames · Published by Bethesda Softworks

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Players Praise Most

Fast, Weighty Combat
Expanded Campaign Content
Heavy Metal Soundtrack
Helpful Compass

Common Player Critiques

Confusing Backtracking
Repetitive Base Environments
Uneven Expansions
Difficulty Spikes

95%

positive of 10k player reviews

From the Devs

Developed by id Software in 1997, Quake II is a critically acclaimed first-person shooter that introduces an entirely new science fiction narrative and setting. Now, experience the authentic, enhanced and complete version of the original.

Features

Experience the Military Sci-fi FPS, Enhanced

Get the Original Mission Packs: The Reckoning and Ground Zero

Play the All-New Expansion “Call of the Machine”

Get Quake II 64 for Free

Enjoy Online & Local Multiplayer/CO-OP

Play Together with Crossplay

Get the Original & Enhanced Versions

Experience the Original Game, Enhanced

Enjoy the original, authentic version of Quake II, now with up to 4K* and widescreen resolution support, enhanced models, improved enemy animations and gore, improved and restored AI behaviors, enhanced cinematics, dynamic and colored lighting, anti-aliasing, depth of field, the original, heavy rock soundtrack by Sonic Mayhem, and more.

Play the Intense Military Sci-fi Campaign

Mankind is at war with the Strogg, a hostile alien race that attacked Earth. In response, humanity launched a strike on the Strogg homeworld...it failed, but you survived. Outnumbered and outgunned, fight your way through fortified military installations and shut down the enemy's war machine. Only then will the fate of humanity be known.

Get Both of the Original Mission Packs

Quake II includes both original mission packs: “The Reckoning,” featuring 18 campaign levels and 7 deathmatch maps, and “Ground Zero,” featuring 15 campaign levels and 14 deathmatch maps.

Mission Pack: The Reckoning

In the first official expansion pack for Quake II, you are part of an elite commando force that must infiltrate a Strogg site. Once inside, you must scour industrial landscapes, crawl through waterways and air ducts, navigate treacherous canyons teeming with vicious mutants, stow away on an alien spacecraft, and destroy the enemy's secret moon base.

Mission Pack: Ground Zero

In the second official expansion pack for Quake II, you, and a few marines are the lucky ones. You've made it to the surface of Stroggos in one piece and are still able to contact the fleet. The Gravity Well, the Strogg's newest weapon in its arsenal against mankind, is operational. With the fleet trapped around Stroggos, only 5% of ground forces surviving, and that number dwindling by the second, your orders have changed: free your comrades and destroy the Gravity Well.

Play the All-New “Call of the Machine” Expansion

A brand-new Quake II experience from MachineGames consisting of 28 campaign levels and one multiplayer deathmatch map. In the depths of Strogg space lies the Machine, a singularity capable of collapsing the fabric of reality. Fight across time and space to find the Strogg-Maker, destroy it, and change the destiny of man and machine.

Get Quake II 64 for Free

Enjoy all 19 campaign levels, 10 multiplayer deathmatch maps, and an additional, original soundtrack in this release of the original Quake II version for Nintendo 64.

Enjoy Online & Local Multiplayer and CO-OP

Fight the hostile Strogg through the gritty, military sci-fi campaign and expansions in 4-player online or local split-screen co-op, and compete in pure, retro-style combat with support for 16-player (online),*4-player (local split-screen), or *8-player (local split-screen) matches. Bot support for offline and online DM and TDM modes included.

Play Together with Crossplay

Play the campaign and all expansion packs cooperatively or go toe-to-toe in multiplayer matches with your friends regardless of platform! Crossplay is supported among PC (controller-enabled), Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, PS5 and Nintendo Switch.

Get the “Original” and “Enhanced” Versions

Play whichever version of Quake II you prefer. Ownership of Quake II gives you access to Quake II (Original), the fully-moddable, untouched version of the game that has been available for years, and Quake II (Enhanced), the recently released version of the game with improved visuals, all-new campaign content, enhanced multiplayer support, crossplay, controller support, and more.

*Maximum display resolutions vary by platform.

*Supports 4-player local split-screen multiplayer.

*Supports 8-player local split-screen multiplayer on PC.

Back of the Box

Platforms	Windows
Achievements	13
Age ratings	ESRB M — Violence Blood and Gore Language PEGI 18 — Violence USK 18 CSRR R — Violence Inappropriate Language ClassInd (Brazil) 18 — Violência Extrema NZOFLC R13 — Violence OFLC MA15 — Strong Violence Online Interactivity and Chat
Players	1–16
Play modes	Online co-op Online PvP Co-op campaign Local co-op Local PvP LAN play Split screen
Other modes	Deathmatch Team Deathmatch Capture the Flag Co-op campaign Bot matches
Multiplayer	Quake II supports single-player and multiplayer. The enhanced release explicitly includes 4-player online or local split-screen co-op for the campaign and expansions, plus competitive multiplayer with up to 16 players online and 4-player local split-screen on most platforms or 8-player local split-screen on PC. Cross-platform multiplayer is supported across PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, PS5, and Nintendo Switch. Bot support is included for offline and online Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch.
Multiplayer & mods	The package includes Quake II (Original), described as fully moddable, and reviews mention a large legacy ecosystem of multiplayer mods, maps, models, and modes such as CTF, Rocket Arena, ActionQ2, and Weapons Factory. The enhanced version is described as having enhanced multiplayer support, but the provided text does not confirm mod support parity for enhanced multiplayer.
Controller support	Xbox
Controller required	No
DRM / EULA	Requires agreement to a 3rd-party EULA Quake II EULA
Content notices	Violence Blood and Gore Language Interactive Elements Users Interact Age rating for: ESRB