Quake 2 Enhanced Edition Review - The Final Verdict

Who ever is playing the gameplay is so bad at aiming

Game of the year 2023

I notice nobody in these reviews mention that there’s a grapple hook you can get from the console in any campaigns in the remake, bring the console down, command is GIVE GRAPPLE HOOK

Free for owners of the original and 20 bucks for everyone else, stellar performance on EVERY platform, and with as much content as it has and the I’d vault, playable e3 demos?!?! This is one of the greatest remakes of one of the greatest shooters of all time. Carmack continues to bless us all these years later not even being involved. Also that machine games campaigns is excellant. Like another comment said, compared to the average remaster, or new game for that matter, would be 6 x the price for 1/4 the effort and content. I love ID software.

They changed and ruined the original gameplay and balancing, you're better off playing the original Quake II with mods and source ports, this is such a halfa---sed remaster and pointless at that.

This is superb game.

This is a game from the golden age of PC gaming (1995-2002). I originally got Quake and Quake II the Christmas they came out (1996/1997) and event started making levels for them up until about 2000. From all the games I got back then - Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Half-Life, Kingpin, Blood etc these have been the only games I have re-installed every few years for the last 27 years. Several times I even started doing levels for a few months (which the remaster has gone and got me doing again - currently making a Quake and Quake II level). The new chapters are excellent, it just feels like a new reason to play the game, a huge nostalgia trip. Just a shame the community will never be as big and the multiplayer servers are no where near as varied or as busy. People are still making levels though.

black side bars are NOT annoying. mandatory, hideous "wallpapers" and stretched footage are. generally the writing of this video sucks.

I demand a full remareik of the lineup 6 version of quake 2

Полный херня тока одну версию переработанный а другие версии нету из основной куэика 2

When this game came out i was playing like crazy detmmatch and team deathmatch and when i bought voodoo 2 12 mb the game was even more beautiful

I was so happy when I saw this available to get on ps5, game of the year 😂. I really hope we get a remastered Unreal 2

You have such a 90s reviewer's voice and speaking style, very apt for this video.

this game is amazeballs

My mother always wanted to play this on console. Now she can.

Man this is awesome... I really want a VR mod for it now. There was a Q2 VR mod a few years ago, and it was decent but it needed some more polishing - hopefully they will come back and finish it. These old shooters feel SO GOOD in VR, just the environment and textures really work well on VR headsets and really bring you into the world, its fantastic.

Brilliant remaster and probably my favourite FPS ever. The railgun is a work or art. GIBS!

Textures, some models have very bad resolution. "Remaster" its look like video fix and modern patch for win10\11 system. No details for objects in 2023. The great remaster for game? Its Black Mesa for Half-life 1.

I was pleasantly surprised by the additional areas that were not in the original. It gives a sense that you are exploring the world again when you find an area that wasn't there before lol.

Um.. The new expansion is way better than the base game in every way

Flying berserkers have made them a bigger threat.

This is how remaster games should be. I love 1 and 2.

Now please let us get a Unreal Tournament remake! 🙏

Poor man's turbo kill....

I think RTX version its better than this

Alien trilogy by acclaim I think, don't forget alien resurrection PS1, night dive remasters, or hexen

This was my introduction to online multi-player just as awesome as I remember 😊

I hope this team can also make a complete remaster and reimagination of RTCW, along with prolog mission from consoles, and some more mod missions that fans created over time. That could be also worth replaying I guess!

why didn’t Quake 3 Arena 4k remaster for consoles a couple years ago get this type of buzz ? that games a classic though i haven’t played it since 99/2000

The person who is playing this is one of the worst FPS players I have ever seen

Probably the best classic fps remaster since Halo MCC

What's even more remarkable is like the first Quake remaster, you get this remaster completely free if you already own the original Quake 2 on Steam or GOG. Considering how most game companies are trying to get you to buy a game at full price several times over (with the port of Red Dead Redemption being the most recent fiasco) , id and Nightdive are really setting the gold standard in remasters.

Does it contain the original PC Sound track ??

I’m sad that it took 25 years for people to realize that this is a God-tier game. I loved it from the first minute I played it in 97.

They need to patch in the machine gun kick back for single player. If I recall correctly it was never in death match but it feels terrible in the remaster without the kickback.... But that is literally my only complaint. Such a good game.

I enjoyed Quake 1, hated Quake 2, and played the crap out of Quake 3 and all the mods (especially rocket arena) back in the day. Q2 made me sick feeling back then on CRT @60fps and it still makes me dizzy today at a locked 144fps... I played for a hour last night and I had to go lay down.

Sorry i don't like it and it still needs better new higher textures being made to it as this remaster still looks old with blurry low res textures it just doesn't give me any vibs to go back play it. But on the other hand the rtx version does but i just needs a 4090 as i want 4k maxed out ray tracing to appreciate the games remaster lol

Quake3 and Quake3 Team Arena were the hot shit!

If Rockstar priced Red Dead Redemption at $9.99 it would have received a much better welcome...

To me, this game will always have a special place in my heart as the first FPS I was exposed to after visiting a friends house.

Dident turn hitmarkers off

I hate the term boomer shooter, bloomers hated this kind of game. Doomer shooter would fit it more.

WHere do you buy it?

You can only polish a turd so much.

for $10 you cant go wrong, im surprised it was that cheap

The simplicity of retro shooters like this is what appeals to me the most. Quake 2 isnt bogged down with complex, half baked gameplay mechanics that you see in modern shooters. It's just, move, shoot, have fun and it's very refreshing.

About 2/3 of the way though the new campaign and it's great. Masterclass in level design - intuitive and interesting with tons of action and varied encounter scenarios.

Quake ll 1997 PC with 3Dfx voodoo card and dial up modem was my very first multiplayer ever played online 😎 thank you for this. Hope they bring the original Unreal next

My only gripe is that Quake 2 64 is not the authentic 64 version just modified to almost emulate it. The original Quake did a better job presenting the 64 version.

The trophies kinda suck too, they just require you to beat all of it while the original had other challenges.

Tempting! Although I don't have really strong memories of it, I do recall having finished this game and been quite absorbed by it while playing back in the day on my girlfriend's PC.

Yeah somebody needs to do a really good 4K reworking of the original single player Unreal. I think there's a fan project, but God knows when it'll be done…