Quake II follows the story of Quake, a game I’ve still never played. I understand, however, that Quake is very similar to Doom, another game that I haven’t played, but am at least somewhat familiar with.
Quake II is about aliens and you killing aliens with a variety of large guns. To be honest, I don’t know any more than that. I never actually played the single-player version of this game. I was only in it for the multiplayer.
I really only played this game to test out the network in my apartment. My roommate and I had just discovered networking and needed some way to try it out. Other than the Internet connection sharing. That’s boring. Running virtual avatars around virtual rooms filled with virtual explodey things on the other hand. Way more fun.
[...] Quake II was pretty fun, but I only really played the multiplayer portion, and I know I’m not alone in that. And when the next game in the series finally rolled around it was nothing but multiplayer deathmatch stuff, which I always thought was kind of odd. [...]
[...] liked other games in the Quake series, even though I wasn’t very good at them. So when I found a game in the [...]