Quake

1996

83Overall (385 ratings)

83User (385 ratings)

Engine: id Tech 2

Quake is a first-person shooter video game, developed by id Software and published by GT Interactive in 1996 and featured music composed by Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails. It is the first game in the popular Quake series. In the game, players must find their way through various maze-like, medieval environments while battling a variety of monsters using a wide array of weapons.

Genres

Shooter

Platforms

LinuxPCDOSMacAmigaSaturnMobileZeebo

Themes

ActionScience fictionHorror

Modes

Single playerMultiplayerCo-operative

Perspectives

First person

Storyline

The player takes the role of a protagonist known as Ranger who was sent into a portal in order to stop an enemy code-named "Quake". The government had been experimenting with teleportation technology and developed a working prototype called a "Slipgate"; the mysterious Quake compromised the Slipgate by connecting it with its own teleportation system, using it to send death squads to the "Human" dimension in order to test the martial capabilities of Humanity.