Quake II

Quake II is a military science-fiction first-person shooter set in a war between humanity and the hostile alien Strogg. After humanity’s strike on the Strogg homeworld fails, you fight through fortified installations to shut down the enemy’s war machine and determine humanity’s fate.

The campaign

The game includes the original campaign and two mission packs. In The Reckoning, you join an elite commando force infiltrating a Strogg site, moving through industrial landscapes, waterways, air ducts and mutant-filled canyons before stowing away on an alien spacecraft to destroy a secret moon base. In Ground Zero, you and a few surviving marines reach the surface of Stroggos and contact the fleet, which is trapped by the operational Gravity Well. You must free your comrades and destroy the weapon as the remaining ground forces dwindle.

The Call of the Machine expansion adds a campaign of 28 levels and a multiplayer deathmatch map. You fight across time and space to find and destroy the Strogg-Maker, a Machine in the depths of Strogg space that can collapse the fabric of reality. Quake II 64 is also included, with 19 campaign levels, 10 deathmatch maps and an additional original soundtrack.

Multiplayer

You can play the campaign and expansions in online or local split-screen co-op for four players. Multiplayer supports online matches for up to 16 players, local split-screen matches for four players, and, on PC, local split-screen matches for up to eight. Bot support is available for offline and online deathmatch and team deathmatch. Crossplay lets players cooperate through the campaign and expansions or compete in multiplayer matches across supported platforms.

Original and enhanced versions

Quake II includes both the fully moddable, untouched original version and an enhanced version with improved visuals, new campaign content, expanded multiplayer support and crossplay. The enhanced version also supports widescreen resolutions up to 4K, with maximum resolution varying by platform. Its enhancements include updated models and enemy animations, improved and restored AI behaviors, enhanced cinematics, dynamic and colored lighting, anti-aliasing, depth of field and the original heavy rock soundtrack by Sonic Mayhem.