Quake II is the Playstation port of a classic FPS PC game. As far home ports of Quake II go this would have to be the best available and it is something of an impressive technical feat given the limitations of the original Playstations hardware. Quake II is a game from ID the developers who also made the Doom the first game to really put first person perspective shooters on the gaming map, and like Doom Quake can be considered among the true classics. Quake II sports one of the very best 3D graphical engines on the Playstation One, while it may look dated by today's standards this port is not far from being a perfect port of the PC original. Even the N64 the ...  Read the complete review

Quake II was the follow-up to the mightily impressive Quake, a 3D FPS (first person shooter) which was revolutionary in both its design and execution, leaving the predecessor Doom in its wake. Doom was not part of the indomitable Quake series, but the next step in the evolution of the genre and a pioneer in gaming. ID software, not content with the largely hellish yet at the same time medieval, macabre and vintage setting of Quake, decided to take a different route with Quake II, shunning the earthy Quake for a very futuristic setting which would not look out of place on some of the latest ...  Read the complete review