Quake - Does it get you quaking in your boots? (Quake)

Member Name: Jazzy09

Product:	Quake
Date:	22/05/09 (37 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Wonderful graphics, fabulous sound effects and the best soundtrack for a game ever

Disadvantages: None

Genre: First Person Shooter
Released: 1996
Created by: ID Software
Soundtrack by: Trent Raznor

This was one of the first games I played over a network playing against other people in my college. I remember at the time that it was really fun, although I wasn't very good and used to get killed more times than I killed.

I remember the game being quite gory and would advise parents not to let young kids play this. The Quake brand is still going strong today and has massive online tournaments which thousands of gamers compete to be the best.

AIM OF THE GAME
You are a solider whose task is to stop the enemy called QUAKE. Secret experiments with teleporting and you can guess what happens. Yes an evil army comes through the teleportation portal (called a slipgate) and you must defend your world.

Throughout the game you must go through different gates to other realms taking on different evil creatures. A few of these realms take us to medieval times.

An important note and worth mentioning is that the actual storyline wasn't that important to gamers. This was mainly sue to the fact that two different types of stories had to be merged into one as the three level developers John Romero, Tim Willits and McGee all had different ideas about how the game should be put together.

GRAPHICS
The graphics were not the best but with a decent PC you would get a good return. The game was one of the first to be set in a 3-D world and every other game at the time found it hard to compete with Quake.

CONTROLS
The best types of controls which most users prefer were the mouse and keyboard. At first it is so difficult to handle using keyboard and mouse at the same time but after a while you do pick it up.

SOUND QUALITY
The audio in the game was very clear and could hear the monsters breathing down your neck as they approached you.

NUMBER OF LEVELS
Quake has 28 levels and each one very different. Each level contains different creatures to battle against and quenches your thirst for blood quite nicely.

One of the funniest moments I have had whilst playing the game was playing as an axe wielding psycho and taking on all those experts with laser weapons and they hated being axed!

MODES OF PLAY
Single player mode, Multiplayer mode and deathmatch mode. All of which are great fun but the best is the deathmatch mode. Here you are rewarded for how good you are at the game and not how lucky you get.

CONCLUSION
Overall this is a killer game and must be played by all you hardcore gamers. The visual and sound effects are out of this world and this game is as good as anything out there now and delivers an edge of the seat performance.

As the game got older patches and extra MODS were released to keep interest in the game alive offline as well as online.

RATING: 5/5

I would give this a higher rating if I could! Great game and lots of gore - a real gamer's delight!

Summary: This is one of the best first person shooting game ever! A must for any gamer!