Quake II, released on December 6, 1997, is a first person shooter computer game developed by id Software and distributed by Activision. It is not a sequel to Quake; it merely uses the name of the former game for commercial purposes. The soundtrack was provided by Sonic Mayhem, with some additional tracks by Bill Brown. The main theme was by Rob Zombie.
A direct sequel, titled Quake 4, was released in October 2005 for the PC, and later for the Xbox 360 and the Apple Macintosh.
The action takes place in a science fiction environment. In the single-player game, the player is a human soldier (known only by his alias, 'Bitterman') taking part in 'Operation Alien Overlord', a desperate attempt to protect Earth from alien invasion by launching a counter-attack on the home planet of the hostile cybernetic Strogg civilization. Most of the other soldiers are captured or killed almost as soon as they enter the planet's atmosphere, so it falls upon the player to penetrate the Strogg capital city alone and ultimately to assassinate the Strogg leader, the Makron.
Unlike Quake, where hardware accelerated graphics controllers were supported only with later patches, Quake II came with OpenGL support out of the box.
The latest version is 3.21. This update includes numerous bug fixes and new maps designed for multiple players deathmatch. Version 3.21, available on id Software's FTP server, has no improved functionality over version 3.20, it simply is a slight modification to make compiling for Linux easier.
Quake II uses an improved client server network model introduced in Quake.
Download Game Content : ftp.games.saix.net/
Server Name |
IP Address & Port |
| -= SGS Q2 DM Server =- |
196.4.79.38:27910 |
