Quake is one of the few games I didn't exactly latch onto late. It introduced me to the world of First Person Shooters, and I have looked back since. The game itself is very straightforward. Kill everything. I recall there was a story, but its been a few years since I've played Q1. The single-player campaign was fun and contained (at the time) phenomenal graphics. With a new style of gameplay viewing known as parallax id was able to create 3d worlds with decent textures that ran at decent frame rates. The game also featured music from Industrial group Nine Inch Nails and its frontman Trent Reznor. However, what everyone remembers about Quake was its 16-player multiplayer. Playable over DOS IPX, or networked TCP/IP Quake enabled us all to find out who was the best, who sucked, and who spawn-camped. It gave us new words like frag, tele-fragging, campers, rocket-jumping and a host of other exploitable tactics that are still used in FPS games today. These are guys that created something phenomenal that should be experienced at least once by everyone. If you don't, you're cutting your experience short.
Back in 1996, after the whole "Doom craze" had come and gone, a lot of generic shooters followed in it's footsteps, trying to imitate it but never quite succeeding at it. Then, just as summer began, an incredible game m... Read Full Review
Quake is the best in the series and one of the best, most influential games of the genre of all time. It was also the first fully 3D shooter. Unlike Quake 2 or Quake 4 you only fight in high-tech military bases at th... Read Full Review
