Welcome back to the Virtua Ghostly SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKIES!!! once again! We're rolling this out for 2025 and taking a look at one of the most awesome horror based First Person Shooters ever made. With Nine Inch Nails at the helm of the soundtrack and monsters at every turn, get ready to blast through the one and only Quake!
Quake has been covered a lot on Planet Virtua, and there are several reasons for this. It was a landmark game for the first person genre and opened up all new layers of gameplay and reality through unlocking the third dimension. Doom was much more limited in scope because of its 2.5D approach to FPS. Quake changed everything. It was hard work, but it was also a labor of love. This is why it is very refreshing that the game is still very alive to this day. People still play it, and that is obvious when you just open the game, get into a DM server and start lobbing grenades at N000000000bs!!!!
In 2023, Quake got a whole new makeover. It's a win-win for all of the Quake fans, because they can still play the old version on Steam. Much like Doom 1 + 2, Quake opened up all of its maps and even offered up playing the fan made mods as well as the official mods. This new version is dirt cheap, even the PS5 version is available for 9.99 at the time of this article's writing. This includes the mod QDoom as well as several others that change the entire experience.
The game looks amazing, even with a slightly shinier shell, it still retains the old polygons we fell in love with. Quake now has all of the official add-on levels and lets you select which level from each expansion you want to go. The movement is smoother and there's a lot less graphical lag. This includes whether you want to split screen and play a second player in Death Match or Co-op. You can play through the entire game with a second player and have access to all of the death match maps if you feel like blowing their head off.
This also opened up internet servers that allowed players to go back to the Death Matching days of old. Quake has always had a great culture of multiplayer, and it's refreshing to see them open back up to a whole new crowd. This allowed old friends to get back in the ring and test their skills in blasting through metal!
This is just the tip of the iceberg for the entire package. The add-ons you get with all of this and the downloading capabilities are through the roof. One game that uses the Quake engine, while giving it a complete makeover, is Slave Zero. This game is an entire different game, but it's still a good little first person shooter with some rather unique settings. They give the entire game new purpose and the levels are a lot of fun to play through.
Quake was do for a bit of a remaster and this brought it about in style. If you owned Quake on Steam already, you got this update free. Yeah, ID Software games have been pretty generous with their newly refurbished games and I mean that in more ways than one. The downloadable content is free, you get to explore the entire game through level selects and it gives you a whole new outlook on how to play in Quake Multiplayer.
