What is Quake II?
Quake II is a first-person 3D game developed by id Software. It’s the second game from id Software to use a real 3D engine. Based on WinQuake, a native Win32 application, Quake II runs on either Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0 or later in its first release. id Software is the company responsible for creating the first-person shooter perspective genre when they released Wolfenstein 3D and then Spear of Destiny, the sequel to Wolf3D. Then it was well underway to release the game that would make the PC a games platform to be reckoned with: Doom, arguably one of the top 5 games of all time, if not the first. Doom 2, Ultimate Doom and Final Doom followed shortly. While every competing company was trying to beat Doom for its sheer gameplay brilliance, id started development on “the next big thing”: Quake. Using a real 3D engine, Quake surpassed everything in terms of internet community known to date and now id did it all again. Quake II, much more than a mere sequel, is totally different from Q
