Quake 4

quake 4 its like doom 3

It's a pretty solid Quake 2 sequel, and i'm glad to see the Quake fan base has warmed up to it over the last twenty years. It is essentially Quake's equivalent of Doom 3 in that it's slightly slower paced with more of a "horror" element than the pure action of the previous titles, but it's certainly not a bad game.

Para mi el mejor quake junto al 2

Quake 4 has not aged very well.

The levels are ugly and uninspired; the Strogg's facilities are not too dissimilar from the UAC base on Mars, but are way uglier than what you'd see in Doom 3. Navigating the levels is also a pain because of your slow moving speed and the sometimes confusing level design; not all doors are clearly marked as open or locked and there is a decent amount of backtracking. Not fun at all!

The gunplay is also boring; the guns have no punch to them and are as uninspired as the levels. The basic pistol is perhaps the worst pistol I have ever used in a video game. The enemies are either pushovers or tanks and fighting them is not fun in the least. Despite being released close in time to such classics as Half-Life 2 and F.E.A.R, there is little to no impact on your environment from your battles. Corpses disappear after a few seconds, leaving bare and boring rooms behind. It's baffling how few developers understand the importance of leaving traces after your battles behind. There are some turret sections and scripted events that are supposed to be epicsauce, but they are not interesting or fun either.

The graphics are fairly decent despite their age and the worldbuilding is nice; despite the backtracking being a hassle, they sometimes change it up by having soldiers arriving with equipment, taking care of the wounded and dead and inspecting Strogg machinery. You can also listen to them talk about stuff, which is great for immersion.

I don't recommend playing Quake 4 unless you are able to deal with boring levels and boring gunplay.

Better version of the original DOOM. Great story, fast moving, realistic as can be for a PC game.

Coming from Quake and Quake II, this is truly awful. The first major screw-up was disposing of the compass which wouldve made this dreadfully dark and bland world somewhat bearable to navigate. There's loading zones constantly and backtracking at the very beginning of the game instantly put me off.
Hard pass and especially at $15. It's doom 3 clone but far worse of a game and terrible end to this series.

Still one of the best FPS campaign games ever made, alongside legendary Half Life / Black Mesa.

Exquisite

Underrated Gem IMHO but its the same situation like Doom 3, it feels much different than the other games but still holds out in its own way by doing its own thing and is a pretty fun old school shooter

classic game. great play.

If by any chance you are reading this review and have not played Quake 4, I should offer a content warning- Quake 4 is extremely gory, even in comparison to other games made on Id tech 4, and has some wince-worthy scenes that some folks might not want to see.

I first received Quake 4 as a holiday gift years ago when it was new, and subsequently played the 360 version and purchased the id mega-pack to get the Steam version. It's one of my favorite games from that time (after the original F.E.A.R.) and, to me, emblematic of the quality you'd expect from Raven Software in the years prior to their sentencing to the Call of Duty mines. Games like Heretic, Jedi Knight II, Singularity, all good shooters.

For those unfamiliar, Quake 4 is a direct sequel to Quake 2, and bears no direct connection to other titles in the series outside of Quake Wars and certain playable characters in Quake 3 and Champions. Quake 4 tells the continuing story of humanity's struggle to overcome the alien Strogg, an army of brutal, hack-job cyborgs with a decidely bloodier appearance then say, the Borg of Star Trek. After successfully repelling a Strogg invasion of Earth (as loosely depicted in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars), human forces launched a counteroffensive against their homeworld of Strogos. A lone marine (known only by the name of Bitterman) managed to penetrate the Strogg defenses, disable their primary orbital defense cannon, and even assassinate their leader, the Makron (as depicted in Quake 2), opening the way for large scale infantry and armor deployment- this is where you come in in Quake 4, as the mute Mathew Kane, "one certified badass", newly-minted recruit to Rhino Squad.

A lot of people give this game a hard time, including Civvie, for things like its relatively slow player movement, linear campaign and a lack of interest in Quake 2 to begin with, preferring either the medieval, Lovecraftian environs of the first Quake or the multiplayer focus of Quake 3 to Quake 2's drab, twisting, and frankly, samey and confusing Strogg industrial complexes. That's fair, but I don't however share Civvie's pervasive and singular dislike for things like plot and dialogue in a videogame, or his insistence that "nobody cares about the Strogg". Though his theory that Quake 4 must have had a more complex weapon upgrading system prior to the decision to have NPCs simply hand them out to the player at specific points in the campaign I think holds weight.

Quake 4, now 20 years old as of this writing, is an example of a 2000s shooter that isn't garbage, and that is, of course, a short list. You can carry every weapon, most of these are powerful and flashy (I found the nailgun to be a personal favorite), and enemies come in various shapes and sizes and face you in fight arenas that bear more in common with Doom and Quake then they do with any two-bit milsim.

Quake 4 has a now-well known plot twist that has probably achieved Citizen Kane levels of osmosis by this point, but suffice it to say that your character undergoes a staggering change that is reflected in gameplay by increased movespeed, max health, a different hud and the ability to read text on and interact with certain environmental objects they could not before.

The game isn't perfect. The grenade launcher has a habit of blowing you up instead, there's never enough ammo for the nailgun, the combat balance is slightly inferior to that of Doom 3, and it is for better or worse what we called a "Pipe shooter". You go from Point A to Point B, shooting bad guys and pushing buttons along the way. I don't dislike pipe shooters out of principle- games like F.E.A.R. or Clive Barker's Jericho I had a great time with. Most people would count its vehicle segments against it as well, though of course I see those as high points. I've never understood the prevailing opinion against things like vehicle or turret sections and find it typical of a reality where people parrot youtubers instead of formulating their own opinions. Maybe people never did like vehicular gameplay, and that's why there's dozens of games that harken back to Doom, Quake, Blood, Duke 3d and so on, and almost none that take after Tyrian 2000, Descent, HAVOC, or Fury3.

When I last played Quake 4 in 2011, I wouldn't have hesitated to tell you to buy it on Steam and give it a try. These days I can't justify telling anyone to give Bethesda or Microsoft money. So set sail for open waters and go digging for it elsewhere, if you take my meaning. It's a good game.

Coming in very late to the party and never having tried any of the Quakes before. The only exposure I had to quake was when the first one came out on the N64 and I read all about it in an N64 magazine, hoping I could one day play it.
I didn't want to start with the first one because it would have been too dated for me, and skipping part 2 also I decided to go straight into the latest single player Quake in the series, only do-able with graphical mod enhancements.
I can see for its time it was great. Fun guns, fun enemies and the stages were.. average. This came out after Halo so the standards had been set where this fell a little below and this game was a little unorginal in almost every aspect, except the designs of the enemies were cool.
Nevertheless it was fun, i enjoyed my 14+ hrs of story mode to see finally what this was all about and it was great.
I would be very keen for a new Quake.

good

Quake 4 was certainly no masterpiece but it wasn't altogether a bad game and of course everybody who has played it will remember that one part. Quake 4 wasn't really all that good or bad, the shooting was alright, the enemies did what they were supposed to, and the story was there. For people who enjoy this specific era of shooters this is a great game to pick up and for people who just want to blast some more Strogg but otherwise there isn't a big reason to pick this game up or to ignore it, so in the end I enjoyed it and maybe you will too.

It's a little gem, maybe the graphics is a bit outdated but the gameplay is good (if you like old school shooter)

Cool

A fun classic FPS from the same people behind Doom 3. Sure its graphics are pretty dated by today's standards, but that doesn't detract from just how fun this shooter is. I honestly want to see more of this particular storyline with the Strogg.

good game,nothing to say at the least 8/10

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By no means a must play. Actually it's kind of painfully generic for a game carrying the Quake lineage.

That being said, the visual/audio design is delightful. And I can't explain why, but I just really like the game engine, id Tech 3. Shame it didn't take off like Source or Unreal. Something uncanny about how the environments and people look makes me happy lol.

I didn't hate my time with it, and the game actually gets a pulse for the last 1/3. I'd say this game is worth it if you are curious about id/Raven games. As always, wait for a sale.

Makes me wish Wolfenstein 09 comes back

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Very good game. Solid shooter

I like it follow on from Quake 2. Nothing new here linear but good fun never less . i'm using hi def textures Nvidia RTX4060.

Pretty bland and generic, even by 2005 standards. Getting it to run on my machine has been a nightmare and I had to resort to autoexec and config tweaks just to make it look decent. Even then, the game looks graphically worse than Doom 3 on the original Xbox did which is baffling since it's the very same engine and devs. You're not missing much by skipping this and i can see why it was the death blow to Quake's relevancy.

Cool monster designs and a certain cutscene was pretty gruesome, but there's not much else here, and Bethesda doesn't care about this game, and neither should you. Play Quake 2.

What if Quake, but Doom 3?

Pretty much it. Generic shooter, full of tropes that with hindsight are tired but for 2005 were top of the line. Not worth playing today unless you want a nostalgia trip or want to experience IdTech 4 without playing Doom 3.

I wish ID would give Quake the Doom 2016/Eternal treatment. The Strogg are pretty cool. Probably would've been cooler and more well received if they weren't stitched onto Quake at the last minute, lol.

Not recommended

-No mods seem to work with Quake 4 now. Followed the install instructions and crashes after waiting to load for 3 minutes. Without mods the game works kind of. The performance isn't that great and always has low quality textures as default even with ultra quality selected. Never had these many issues when running an AM4 system. Too many hoops to jump through for Quake 4 to work properly. Perhaps id should roll out some official fixes.

Its a rail shooter like Area 51 in the arcades. Not at all a fast twitch exploration and puzzle solving experience that quake and quake 2 where. And half the time you are in some situation like riding an elevator in extra real time listening to stale space marine small talk. If this was a movie it would be a MST3K classic.

exellent gameplay and storyline, long and exciting levels and characters

fun game but you can't change the quality of the graphics, I even followed a step by step video for the config files and it only created more problems for me. It looks like absolute shit and its incredibly annoying to have to play with the visuals looking like something that came out of a Playstation 2 game. Absolutely no excuses for this.

I love the stroggification scene.

With a bit of ini modifications this game actually runs really well on modern specs. Gunplay is solid, and the campaign keeps you going and on your feet the whole time. My biggest gripes are the levels that take you OUT of the action. Something about this era in game dev made people believe that you NEEDED multiple vehicle/rail sections. That's where this game feels its worst, in my opinion. Enemy variety is pretty decent, though i do feel the game relies on ambush tactics pretty heavily, which wouldn't be a problem if getting slapped in the chest by a strogg didn't hit like a truck.

Great game if you want to kill a few hours shooting alien scum and reliving the glory days of id Tech 4

Still remain My fevorite in the Quake Series.

Quake 4 never quite feels like a true Quake game, but when judged in a vacuum, it is a solid shooter. Like Doom 3, Quake 4 takes gameplay in a slower direction. It is just a shame that this style of gameplay has not aged as well as its predecessors. Anyone who likes slower shooters with horror elements will likely find fun to be had here, but for those who are fans of the old Quake games, this may be a disappointment.

PROS:
- Great graphics for the time, looking a lot like Doom 3 (running on the same engine)
- Fun gunplay, if a bit too slow
- Mostly solid enemy roster
- Usually fun vehicle sections that keep the game feeling fresh
- Decent multiplayer, though not nearly as good as Quake III's
- Okay value, taking around 5 hours to complete

CONS:
- it is disappointing that the Quake series has largely chosen Quake II's setting as its focus, instead of the far more interesting setting from the original Quake
- Some weapons feel far too underpowered to be viable, even late game additions
- Configuration may be needed to run at modern resolutions

A highly underrated Quake game with satisfying punchy gun play, a great atmosphere, and decent sci-fi story. Also plenty of body horror. Still worth checking out today.

I LOVE QUAKE 4 PLEASE BRING ENEMY TERRITORY QUAKE WARS BACK ON STEAM PLEASE

Still holds up - excellent game.

goat game, too bad bethesda messed up the graphics so you have to fix them before you play

great game

Quake 4 is the last game in the series that had a proper single player campaign and the only one so far that did not receive a remaster (technically, Quake III was remastered back in 2010 as Quake Live) and after finishing it, I can kinda understand why…

To begin with, the problems began even before I clicked the “New Game” button. When I firstly started Quake 4, it requested a CD-key, I thought it was fine because I clearly remembered that Steam had a “show game key” in its options but apparently, this feature was cut out long time ago. After looking into Steam forums and verifying game files 3 times in a row, the game finally let me in into the main menu, and I tried to set up the graphics settings and install OpenAL to fix the surrounding sound feature and… the game simply began to instantly crash on starting. After tinkering more with the settings, the game finally began to load and… it requested the key again… I tried various keys and keygens from the internet but they all were for some different game version (probably the CD one), so in the end I just gave up and simply downloaded a Jolly Roger version hoping that I would finally be able to play, yet, the problems only stopped temporarily. After about an hour the game began to regularly crash, mostly after the boss battles and during loading zones, until I had to search the forums again to learn that the game freaks out if you have a multicore CPU. You may ask, why I simply did not install a fan-made patch, and the reason is – there is simply none (which probably tells a lot about the fans’ attitude to Quake 4).

Speaking about the game itself… it is not Quake… I am already not a big fan of Quake II because it traded a unique mix of dark fantasy and sci-fi for a general sci-fi alien shooter but at least it still had a solid gameplay… Quake 4 has none of that. Your movement is slow, every level is some kind of industrial zone, levels are cramped and half of the missions require you to procced slowly with your squad or escort someone from point A to point B (in a damn Quake!). Difficulty levels do not add any challenge and basically just increase the enemies’ damage output and damage sponginess. While the shooting itself is not that bad, because of all the aforementioned issues, it becomes boring and tedious rather than fun and challenging.

Quake 4 also runs on the same engine as Doom 3 (which explains small cramped locations) and tries to put heavy emphasis on the story when the plot itself is as one dimensional as a line. Moreover, you cannot even regulate volumes of music, voices, and sound effects separately and the game has no subtitles, so even if you are a native English speaker you will barely understand half of the dialogues because most of them are inaudible with shooting and music on the background.

Furthermore, just like Doom 3, Quake 4 also somewhat attempts to be a horror, when the game is not actually scary except for one creepy chapter after the one infamous scene. Even though Doom 3 also was not the scariest game in the world, it had some lore and immersive sim-ish elements which helped to build up the atmosphere. The locations were eerie and a few enemy spawns made you jump, and, on top of that, the Doom series had already experimented with horror elements before that, particularly with PSX and Nintendo 64 ports of Doom I and Doom II. At the same time, Quake was always about fast-paced gameplay and challenging fights, and making it a linear companion-based mid-paced cover shooter just kills its identity. Yes, technically, the Quake II universe with its cybernetic Stroggs and alien theme has a potential to be a good body horror, however, just as I’ve stated above, the game is not scary except one relatively short chapter.

Finally, the main campaign is only 6 hours long, and while it may seem not that critical, Quake 4 is the only single-player game in the series that has never received any expansions and there are no real mods for this game. So, right now, for 15$ you only get a mediocre 6-hour campaign and a long-dead multiplayer, which I am not sure if anyone ever tried to revive (oh, and a crapton of headache trying to boot the game on modern systems). Is Quake 4 a terrible game? Not really, it is just a regular alien-themed shooter from 2000s. However, it is definitely the worst game in the series (technically, there is also Quake Champions but that’s a whole another story), and it is just sad to see that the single-player era of Quake ended so poorly.

Does this game need a remaster? Maybe, at least to make it start properly on the modern systems and have a working multiplayer; maybe we will even get an expansion from Nightdive and MachineGames just like in other remasters. However, I would rather say this game needs a proper remake. Rather make it an actual Quake game with fast gameplay and no companion crap, or a full-fledged body horror which would be dreadful and uncomfortable to play. With the modern graphics features and advancements, the latter can actually be achieved relatively easily.

Overall, should you play Quake 4? If you are a hardcore fan of the series – probably but do not expect much. If you’ve always loved the series for its gameplay – you better skip this one and get a new modern fast-paced boomer shooter like HROT or a good-old long-standing classic like Unreal.

I think the title of the game is a typo and is supposed to say Doom 4. If you don't like this game you're saying you're a stroyboy without saying you're a stroyboy.

This is a really damn good game. The game is vastly superior to Doom 3, as it has a less repetitive gameplay loop. The story is also better, taking place right after Quake 2, and there's unique npcs and it makes the game feel more lifelike. Only complaints are that the weapons feel too weak / the enemies are spongy, and that the story is way too short and ends on a cliff hanger. If we had gotten the expansion pack for Quake 4, maybe the last complaint would be gone, but I doubt it. It's been almost 20 years after that cliff hanger and we still got nothing. Such a shame. Also, this game works perfectly out of the box for Linux, and like many id software games, had Linux support, which is pretty amazing as Linux didn't take up a single percentage point when this game came out. All in all it's an 8.5 out of 10.

This game's only claim to fame was the stroggafication scene. legit everything else about this game is garbage. From movement, the guns to your smooth brain ai companions to the bullshit instant kill enemies that your guns are borderline useless against. its just a glorified tech demo that the developers didn't even bother making fun.

If you're looking for a Quake or Quake 2 vibe this is not for you. This is a far more military heavy, story driven game and I am a SUCKER for those types of games. If you are a fan of modern FPSs in general like COD or Halo you HAVE to give this one a go
Now, if you ARE looking for a Doom/OG Quake atmosphere, do yourself a favor and get the False Dawn Mod

Doesn't deserve all the hate. The 1st third is a bit slow but after that amazing gross scene well you move like you do in any other quake game & its pretty good. Anyway its Raven they don't really make bad games even this is better than most old fps games.

Underappreciated shooter from the period when FPS games were in an awkward place, struggling with finding a new identity.

The gameplay is very solid, dynamic, the guns pack a punch, the enemies are varied. Friendly NPCs are actually useful, and the set pieces are memorable.

One of the very few games that actually make very good use of the flesh-and-metal body horror aesthetic (something typical for Doom 3 engine games). Combined with the industrial and military sci-fi style it makes for one of my favourite looking shooters. Also the stoggification scene is perfect.

Only real downside is the game having problems running on modern hardware (I had to manually adjust config files to make the textures sharp) and the gameplay often taking place in very confined spaces with very little room to dodge the projectiles. Also the character movement sometimes feels a bit too slow to dodge projectiles, but that might be due to me being used to movement in boomer shooters.

My mom tells me "if you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say nothing at all".

Recommending for all the wholesome moms out there.



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No entiendo por qué venden algo que no funciona en hardware moderno. El juego corre pero no funcionan las luces y sombras, lo cual lo hace ver horrible.
El juego es recomendable Pero no lo compren en steam

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GREAT!