Quake was the cutting edge at the time-nothing came close-and for years 'Quake killer' was the moniker applied to any game that even dared to compete.Now, of course, in the post-Half-Life world, with shooters taking the genre into all sorts of innovative directions, you could argue that the world doesn't really need Quake anymore.īut Quake 4-big, loud, and beautiful-does exactly what it was meant to do.Picking up the plotline from Quake II (1999's Quake III: Arena was multiplayer only), Quake 4 puts you back on the planet Stroggos in the 21st century, where Earth wages a desperate counterattack against the evil cybernetic strogg, who-like most evil space aliens-seek to conquer our humble planet. At the time, running and gunning was all we needed, especially when delivered in a 3D environment as astounding as the original game's. The online multiplayer modes of Quake 4 should feel much more reminiscent of Quake III, with their large weapon selection, diverse battle arenas, and intense, kill-or-be-killed gunplay.Quake 4 offers nothing particularly new or innovative, and yet still manages to entertain because sometimes retro and dumb and obvious is exactly what we want-especially when it's done as slickly and professionally as it is here.Certainly first-person shooters have come a long way since id unleashed the first Quake on the world back in 1996. Ultimately, Kane may be called upon to sacrifice a bit of his humanness, for the sake of humanity's ultimate victory.While boasting substantial graphical and audio improvements as well, significant refinements to the A.I., the single-player portion of Quake 4 holds true to the originals, and the story picks up where Quake II left off. The fourth edition of id's popular first-person shooter returns to its roots, to offer single-players an extensive adventure in the role of a soldier named Matthew Kane. The forces of Earth take the offensive in Quake 4, in an effort to eliminate the Strogg menace at its source, once and for all.
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