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Quake II reimagined

When Quake, a first-person shooter video game, developed by id Software and published by GT Interactive came out in 1996, it was a breakthrough, transformative, disruptive milestone in PC gaming and has been a legend and foundational example ever since.  Quake II release one year later had improved graphics and game mechanics and was an all-time hit—21 years ago. Run, ...

Jon Peddie

When Quake, a first-person shooter video game, developed by id Software and published by GT Interactive came out in 1996, it was a breakthrough, transformative, disruptive milestone in PC gaming and has been a legend and foundational example ever since.  Quake II release one year later had improved graphics and game mechanics and was an all-time hit—21 years ago. Run, shoot, duck, die. Battlefield V has fantastic graphics, is almost totally outside (no small rooms or long corridors like the original Quake) and yet the gameplay is almost exactly the same. Run, shoot, duck, die. But Battlefield V could brag
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