Quake II

Developer: id software Publisher: Activision, Inc. Technology: id Tech 2 Release Date: December 9, 1997 Chat-Room: #quake Buy Physical: ebay.com Buy Digital: gog.com, Steam

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Shortly after landing on an ALIEN surface you learn that HUNDREDS of your men have been reduced to just a few. Now you must FIGHT your way through heavily fortified MILITARY installations, lower the city's defenses and shut down the enemy's WAR machine. Only then will the fate of HUMANITY be known.

Larger Mission-Based levels
• You have a series of complex missions.
• What you do in 1 level could effect another.
• 1 false move and you could alert security, flood an entire passage way or worse.

Superior Artificial inteligence
• This time the enemy has IQ's the size of their appetites.
• They can evade your attack, strategically position themselves for an ambush and hunt your ass down.

In-your-face sound and graphics
• Hear distant combat explosions and rockets whizzing past your head.
• With a compatible 3-D Graphics accelerator, experience smoother 16-bit graphics and real time lighting effects.

Wicked multiplayer capabilities
• More than 32 players, friends or foes, can go at it in a bloody deathmatch via lan and over the internet.

taken from the back of the box

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Magazine features

• Computer Gaming World #161 - Dec 1997
        Monster Buyer's Guide
        4 page ad
        CGW Does Dallas

• Computer Gaming World #162 - Jan 1998
        Read.Me on Demo
        Game of E3 ad

• Computer Gaming World #164 - Mar 1998
        Action Game of the Year
        Review

• Computer Gaming World #165 - Apr 1998
        Best Game Ever ad
        Strategy & Tips

• Computer Gaming World #166 - May 1998
        Read.Me
        Strategy & Tips

• Computer Gaming World #167 - Jun 1998
        Understanding 3D
        Dwango ad (2-page)
        (CG Tips)

• Computer Gaming World #168 - Jul 1998
        Dwango ad (1-page)

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How-to-play On-line

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