![]() ![]() ![]() Not only do you get a bunch of sexy new guns to play with in the form of the BFG, Railgun, and Chaingun, but enemy AI has also been enhanced, your Strogg enemies running away, hiding, regrouping and even ducking for cover. The core gameplay remains much the same at heart, of course, but it’s also seen meaningful improvements in several key areas. ![]() And so, what we’ve got here is a game that’s an entirely separate narrative entity to the Lovecraftian monster-slaying of its genre-defining predecessor, with dank medieval mazes and cosmic horrors replaced by bleak sci-fi environs and biomechanical mutants.Ĭaptured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) During its development, Quake II wasn’t actually intended as a sequel to Quake at all until it became clear that using the successful IP would help improve those all-important sales figures. Let’s kick off with the main campaign itself and, depending on who you ask, this is perhaps the very best Quake game in terms of its single-player offering ( Quake 3 is the still MP maestro, in case you were wondering). Well, let’s not beat about the Big Gun here, this really is another flawless victory for retro FPS fans, a truly exhaustive revamp of Quake II that respectfully tweaks and refines the core gameplay of a bonafide classic whilst making sure to pack in every bit of extra content we could have possibly asked for…and then some. Look, we already went and slapped a big fat 10/10 on Quake Remastered when it dropped almost exactly two years ago, calling it “a stellar port of one gaming's true greats and an essential addition to your Switch library.” So what on Stroggos are we meant to say about this absolutely cracking remaster of its absolutely cracking sequel? Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Watch on YouTube ![]()
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