This anthology includes twelve community-created mods, custom deathmatch maps, new skins, power-ups and more.Editor's note: We originally published this story in February 2015, but today, Digital Foundry Retro rolls out a new Quake 2 episode, featuring an extended look at the PC original, along with analysis of the original PlayStation, N64 and unofficial Dreamcast versions - in addition to the Xbox 360 port this article focuses on. With the fleet trapped around Stroggos, only 5% of ground forces surviving, and that number dwindling by the second, your orders have changed: free your comrades and destroy the Gravity Well.Įnjoy this collection of id Software’s top-picked, community-created mods and content. The Gravity Well, the Strogg's newest weapon in its arsenal against mankind, is operational. You've made it to the surface of Stroggos in one piece and are still able to contact the fleet. In the second official expansion pack for Quake II, you, and a few marines are the lucky ones. Taking out the Big Gun sounded simple enough, but the Strogg were waiting.

3 New Weapons - Ion Ripper, Phalanx Particle Cannon, and Trap.

Once inside, you must scour industrial landscapes, crawl through waterways and air ducts, navigate treacherous canyons teeming with vicious mutants, stow away on an alien spacecraft, and destroy the enemy's secret moon base.

In the first official expansion pack for Quake II, you are part of an elite commando force that must infiltrate a Strogg site. Only then will the fate of humanity be known. Outnumbered and outgunned, fight your way through fortified military installations and shut down the enemy's war machine.

To prevent the invasion, humanity launched a preemptive strike on the Strogg failed, but you survived. Mankind is at war with the Strogg, a hostile alien race planning an invasion of Earth. *Quake II now includes the main game and both expansion packs: The Reckoning and Ground Zero. Developed by id Software in 1997, Quake II is a critically acclaimed first-person shooter and sequel to Quake that deviates from the original by introducing an entirely new science fiction narrative and setting.

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