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Review: Quake 2 - Test #1 - Part 1© Dan Finkelstein
Oct 28, 1997
Before I start my review of the first Quake 2 "test", let me just tell you a little about the events leading up to the release, and what I was thinking. It was last Saturday, if I remember correctly, around 11 o'clock in the morning, and like most good college students, I was sleeping. Eventually I wake up and decided, hell, might as well get started on that project for History class. So I turn on my computer's monitor, and groggily check my e-mail and ICQ messages. One, from a friend, simply states: "Quake 2 is out". So I'm like "Yeah.. right".. this is the same guy who tricked me a few weeks ago. So I (once again, groggily), load up Netscape, and slowly type in "www.bluesnews.com" and hit enter. When it took a LOT longer than normal to load the page, I started to have suspicions. I slowly scrolled down, and.. OH MY GOD!!! THERE IT IS!!!! I scrambled to click on a link to download it. Alas, "Server full". Tried a different one. "Server full". Eventually a link from download.com wasn't that busy, and several minutes later (100mb Ethernet connection..heh heh) I was unzipping Quake 2 Test #1.
My first reaction -- why the hell is the window so small? Indeed, for some reason, Quake 2 defaults to play in a little window. This is not a DOS program, like the original Quake, but a full-fledged Windows 95 application, which means that it's open to the same problems that face other Windows 95 games. Of course, my luck being what it is, when I tried to flip Quake 2 into full screen mode, the game bombed. Tried it again -- same thing. Eventually, I changed my video driver to the one that DirectX5 suggested I use, and Quake 2 decided to work.
So to the game. Overall impression: Holy crap! There is a saying in the "Computer Game Industry". Well, actually, it's an acronym: M.O.T.S. More of the same. Well, Quake 2 is definitely more of the same. Gameplay is almost identical to Quake 1, although id has lots of new cool weapons, like an Uzi, laser gun, and the long-awaited "BFG 3000" (although it's not in this demo). Of course, the ol' rocket launcher and grenade launcher are in Quake 2 as well. Other new features include the ability to crouch (making crawling around in low areas possible), as well as dropping weapons and items.
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