Game Reviews

Quake II

Quake II is one of the best first-person shooters there is. You are a Marine, trapped on an alien planet, and trying to get to the hangar to get out. The graphics are, on the most part, excellent. The game play is very good, the types of guns you can get and upgrades make it a complex and fun game to play. It can get a little repetitive, walking around and constantly killing aliens, but it is always fun. There are 6 different types of aliens in the game, from some you can kill with up to 3 blaster shots (head shots count extra, and so do torso shots), to guys you pretty much can’t kill with a blaster, because they would take almost 50 shots. These guys you can kill with a machine gun, a rail gun, a super-shotgun (a secret gun I found), or even chuck a grenade at them. The game can lag a little bit when there is a lot of stuff going on, like 4 people coming at you at once and you are trying to move and shot, but it doesn’t happen often.
There are 12 complex levels, each with different types of problems you have to get past, like the power is out and you have to restore it to be able to open a series of doors, and then destroy the power cubes so the aliens can’t follow you. This level took me about half an hour, no cheats, no walkthroughs, and it was one of the first. One of the higher levels took me almost two hours to beat, it was so hard. You can save whenever you want, which is good and bad. It makes the game easier, good, but that is also bad because you can save whenever you do anything at all, making the game too easy. All in all though, it is a great game, definitely worth owning.

Benn Ackley