You are humanity’s last hope to stop the Strogg, a hostile alien race waging war against Earth. Play this military sci-fi FPS, now upgraded for modern platforms with improved visuals, new campaign content, online multiplayer/co-op, and more.
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Very Positive (65) - 100% of the 65 user reviews in the last 30 days are positive.
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Overwhelmingly Positive (7,195) - 95% of the 7,195 user reviews for this game are positive.
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Nov 11, 1997
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About This Game

Developed by id Software in 1997, Quake II is a critically acclaimed first-person shooter that introduces an entirely new science fiction narrative and setting. Now, experience the authentic, enhanced and complete version of the original.

Features


Experience the Military Sci-fi FPS, Enhanced

Get the Original Mission Packs: The Reckoning and Ground Zero

Play the All-New Expansion “Call of the Machine”

Get Quake II 64 for Free

Enjoy Online & Local Multiplayer/CO-OP

Play Together with Crossplay

Get the Original & Enhanced Versions

Experience the Original Game, Enhanced


Enjoy the original, authentic version of Quake II, now with up to 4K* and widescreen resolution support, enhanced models, improved enemy animations and gore, improved and restored AI behaviors, enhanced cinematics, dynamic and colored lighting, anti-aliasing, depth of field, the original, heavy rock soundtrack by Sonic Mayhem, and more.

Play the Intense Military Sci-fi Campaign


Mankind is at war with the Strogg, a hostile alien race that attacked Earth. In response, humanity launched a strike on the Strogg homeworld...it failed, but you survived. Outnumbered and outgunned, fight your way through fortified military installations and shut down the enemy's war machine. Only then will the fate of humanity be known.

Get Both of the Original Mission Packs


Quake II includes both original mission packs: “The Reckoning,” featuring 18 campaign levels and 7 deathmatch maps, and “Ground Zero,” featuring 15 campaign levels and 14 deathmatch maps.

Mission Pack: The Reckoning


In the first official expansion pack for Quake II, you are part of an elite commando force that must infiltrate a Strogg site. 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.

Mission Pack: Ground Zero


In the second official expansion pack for Quake II, you, and a few marines are the lucky ones. You've made it to the surface of Stroggos in one piece and are still able to contact the fleet. The Gravity Well, the Strogg's newest weapon in its arsenal against mankind, is operational. 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.

Play the All-New “Call of the Machine” Expansion


A brand-new Quake II experience from MachineGames consisting of 28 campaign levels and one multiplayer deathmatch map. In the depths of Strogg space lies the Machine, a singularity capable of collapsing the fabric of reality. Fight across time and space to find the Strogg-Maker, destroy it, and change the destiny of man and machine.

Get Quake II 64 for Free


Enjoy all 19 campaign levels, 10 multiplayer deathmatch maps, and an additional, original soundtrack in this release of the original Quake II version for Nintendo 64.

Enjoy Online & Local Multiplayer and CO-OP


Fight the hostile Strogg through the gritty, military sci-fi campaign and expansions in 4-player online or local split-screen co-op, and compete in pure, retro-style combat with support for 16-player (online),*4-player (local split-screen), or *8-player (local split-screen) matches. Bot support for offline and online DM and TDM modes included.

Play Together with Crossplay


Play the campaign and all expansion packs cooperatively or go toe-to-toe in multiplayer matches with your friends regardless of platform! Crossplay is supported among PC (controller-enabled), Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, PS5 and Nintendo Switch.

Get the “Original” and “Enhanced” Versions


Play whichever version of Quake II you prefer. Ownership of Quake II gives you access to Quake II (Original), the fully-moddable, untouched version of the game that has been available for years, and Quake II (Enhanced), the recently released version of the game with improved visuals, all-new campaign content, enhanced multiplayer support, crossplay, controller support, and more.

*Maximum display resolutions vary by platform.

*Supports 4-player local split-screen multiplayer.

*Supports 8-player local split-screen multiplayer on PC.

System Requirements

    Minimum Spec (1080p/60 HZ)
    • Win 10 64-bit version
    • Intel Core i5-3570 @ 3.4GHz or AMD Ryzen 3 1300X @ 3.5GHz
    • NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 TI (2GB) or AMD HD 7750 (1GB)
    • 8GB System RAM
    • Minimum 2GB free space on hard drive
    • High speed broadband connection required for online play
    Recommended Spec (*4K/120 HZ)
    • Win 10 64-bit version
    • Intel Core i5-6600k @ 3.5 GHz or AMD Ryzen 5 1600 @ 3.2 GHz
    • NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (8GB) or AMD RX Vega 56 (8GB)
    • 8GB System RAM
    • Minimum 2GB free space on hard drive
    • High speed broadband connection required for online play
    *Compatible display required

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