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A sequel in name only, this follow up to id’s 1996 Quake, is a first-person shooter revolving around the Earth-Strogg war. The Strogg alien race threatens the Earth, but Earth has launched a counter-offensive, Operation Alien Overlord. Overlord takes the battle to the Strogg homeworld with the ultimate objective of securing their capital city and killing their ruler.
As a FPS, Quake II contains a variety of weapons including the fall back Blaster, the Railgun, and the secret BFG10K. Health, armor, and ammunition pick-ups can be found during levels, as can the classic Quake’s Quad Damage power-up. Game play involves mowing down alien opponents as the player progresses through levels, completing in-game objectives. Quake II also comes with multiplayer support for Deathmatches. --MobyGames.com
See also: Quake, QII-The Reckoning, QII-Ground Zero, Quake II (Fruitz of Dojo), , Quake II for Mac OS X 1.x (Rhapsody), Quake III Arena, Quake III Team Arena.
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@dr.zeissler: "HiresTextures"
Thanks. Have you tried using these? I noticed user comments on that page reporting errors.
The person who uploaded them to moddb, says he found them elsewhere and originally they were all in ".png" format, which he converted to ".jpg" format before uploading.
I've downloaded them and looking at the "textures.shader" script for the shaders, they point to the original ".png" files, not the converted jpeg's. Perhaps that is why there were errors mentioned by some users?
Anyway, this is something you may want to look at, if you find any anomalies with the rendering.
"HiresTextures" https://www.moddb.com/games/quake-2/addons/quake-2-32-bit-high-resolutio...
The "Fruitz of Dojo" port runs on early OS X's, supports OpenGL graphics, is that what you mean?
See "Quake II (Fruitz of Dojo)" link in page above.
is there a ppc/osx(10.3) port of q2 available that can do highres textures?
It's up there now (DL #2).
You know restudying this page, I think a upload of the original disk, with cutscenes and all, is desperately needed. Also addons; I don't think i've ever successfully compiled ccd2iso.
Like Quake 1, if Anyone's having difficulty downloading Frutz of Dojo's latest Quake2 Build or a mirror's simply not working, you can download the latest version of his build on wayback here: https://web.archive.org/web/20121006053636/http://www.fruitz-of-dojo.de/...?
Just ignore the pixelated breasts and go straight for the download. And it's universal binary!
Also the Quake2 mission packs/official addons can be found here: http://dk.toastednet.org/FPS_Legends/quake2.html
They're in Clone CD format however, so you'll need ccd2iso to convert them into iso images.
Instruction on how to build ccd2iso with MacPorts can be found here: https://foliovision.com/2008/04/clone-cd-to-iso
man i wish i could download this
I made a new archive of Quake II using what was uploaded here originally and adding other stuff I was able to find on the web, and zipped it all into a smaller file for download. The site wouldn't let me upload the archive, but I've made the mirror available.
UPDATE: new archive is now uploaded to the site
It doesn't require a key ; )
Is there a key included?
does thie version have the ability to do online play like quake 3?
Milestones your always there to save the day. Thanks again for the upload.
I haven't experimented as much as I want with this, but I do know that Toast 5 Titanium can save the two disc partitions separately. Drag the Audio CD onto Toast and click on "Save as image", likewise with the data partition. I've run into weirdness when I tried to do them together before, but then I didn't spend enough time with it. Toast 5.2.3 might be more capable in this regard than 5.0.2. The problem is I haven't found a way to mount an audio CD for gameplay, though it can be burned to a recordable CD.
Hey j_damage•69, do you still have the original Quake II CD?
Don't run it from the disk image.
It runs, but I am unable to save my game, as it crashes when I attempt to do so.
It uses the same data files, but I bet...
It's better to upload a virgin copy of the original CD image as a Disk Copy image, because this way both owners of old Macs and Mac OS X users can play the game. The only problem is that Mac OS X users must download the binary for their system separately, but that's peanuts.
Edit: Replaced 'xxx 7' by 'Mac OS 7' - IIGS User
Wouldent the original Quake 2 app work with the data files already in there? Or has it been modified in some way but the OS X update?
Then be my guest and upload it!
I have the original Mac Quake 2 CD.
Can somebody upload the original Quake II for Mac? It's for Mac OS 7.5 and up.
And please don't upload bundles! If there's a Mac OS X binary of a classic game, a link to the developer's page is better.
Edit: Replaced 'xxx 7' by 'Mac OS 7' - IIGS User