And yes, unlike other remasters, Quake comes with its full soundtrack intact, which means that the (at the time) heavily promoted Nine Inch Nails music is present and accounted for. The game’s still 25 years old and a few new lighting effects won’t change the fact that it looks a little dated, but it’s admirable that work was put into technical features like these instead of releasing the game as-is.Ĭontent-wise, you get the same game as before, but there is additional single player content as well, including a brand new expansion never seen before and support for user generated content. On modern consoles, Quake now supports 4K support (the system requirement for which is a PS4 Pro or PS5) and widescreen resolutions, as the original was released in the 4:3 days. And while your weapons aren’t as iconic as those in Doom, there’s a great range here as well. The game had a fantasy/medieval look to it which results in plenty of grey and brown tones, but you also get a ton of deadly traps to avoid in addition to the enemies you have to take down. The developers also really enjoyed playing around with their new toolkit, as Quake’s many traps show us. It’s in Quake where you can also see the foundations for what later became the kind of verticality we seen in present-day games like Doom Eternal – letting you jump over a ledge and aim downwards at an enemy to take him down before you even hit the floor. This new version of Quake also lets us play the game in split-screen multiplayer, which is a rare treat for those who enjoy shooters but also want to have couch multiplayer as an option. Quake was iD’s first game where you could actually look upwards and downwards, and visually you now had arches, pipes and other forms of geometry that were much more complex than the corridors and rooms of Doom. Obviously Quake isn’t as visually impressive as it was back in 1996, but it’s quickly apparent how it was a massive leap forward when you play it next to the also re-released Doom and Doom 2. The game is 25 years old now, and iD and Bethesda have revived it for a current-gen release with a free next gen patch on the horizon. We may all consider Doom to be the granddaddy of all shooter games, but PC gamers in the 1990s probably remember Wolfenstein 3D and others as earlier examples, and they will likely also remember the launch of Quake, which was billed as the first “true 3D” shooter out there – making the likes of Doom feel rather dated by comparison. Time for a look at five recent ports, as we check out the remastered version of Quake, Traffic Jams on PSVR, Pretty Girls Panic!, Alveole and the PC release of Cookie Clicker. ![]() Trade show season is always full of new announcements and upcoming hits, but this past week we also saw plenty of games re-appear on new systems.
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