Quake 4

Think of it as a Doom 3-ified Quake II, also, the multiplayer is a mildly different but still sweet flavor of Quake III.

Great, solid game. Like Doom 3, didn't get the recognition it deserved. A lot of tweaks needed to get it running well 20 years after release though.

Were is Quake 4 remake?

Bland. Gets better after the stroggification but I'd still give it nothing higher than a 6.

More fun!

quaker

its perdy

It's a decent game, just not a Quake game

It's Quake! I would like to see another single-player chapter be developed though.
I love all the different types of machinery going on and the fact that you change into a Strogg!
Very good game...go buy it and play it! It's fun!!

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lo jugare si le hacen un remastered como al 1 y al 2

I'm biased since this game was my childhood and the nostalgia runs strong, but here it goes. This is my third time purchasing Quake 4, I've spent hundreds of hours playing it on other platforms. I spent dozens of hours modding it and creating custom levels and skins. I certainly got my money's worth every time I bought it. Gameplay is tight and feels satisfying, even compared to newer games. The enemies have a nice and natural progression from grunts to the heavy bosses that come in later. There is a variety of guns from the blaster all the way to a dark matter gun (I wish it was the BFG though). Definitely a great addition to the Quake franchise and a must play if you haven't done so by now.

Oldie goldie and still fun to play.

This game is hilarious when you get to the tank.

if you completely ignore the first half of the game, it's fire

Shallow but fun

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