Your two weakest weapons, the blaster and machinegun, also may actually come out now because they’re the only weapons with flashlights, a solid solution to the light issue from DOOM 3 by giving you offensive options but limiting them severely. The arsenal this time around is a lot of the greatest hits of the Quake and DOOM franchises, mixing in a single shotgun instead of two variants ala DOOM 3. There are even genuinely memorable challenges scattered throughout, one of the final rooms throwing multiple flying tanks at you, the most dangerous normal enemy in the game, testing your ability to aim, dodge, and make the most of your ammo. Even the tanks are replaced with big bulky boys of a variety of power and movement style.
Iron maidens are turned into weird, ghost-like floaters who can phase in an out. New enemy types keep getting thrown at you the entire campaign, including a send up to the parasite in a weird dog monster with an enemy spawning teleporter on its back. Every enemy is unique and memorable in design and ability, a huge improvement over Quake II. The berserker now has a nasty electric attack and comes at you like a freight train, and the new brawlers are weird looking tech gorillas with rage modes.
You really feel like you’re in the trenches, and the Strogg are made up in more intimidating forms. You can even ask medics and techies to heal and repair your armor. The moody DOOM 3 lighting and comm chatter make for an engaging experience, as do the addition of bot controlled NPC allies. The campaign feels like a proper story and adventure, even managing to outdo DOOM 3 in that respect by throwing out audio logs for live characters for most of the stretch. There’s also a brilliant and downright gnarly scene halfway through the game that flips the narrative a bit, probably the game’s most infamous moment and lasting legacy for very good reason. Strauss sticks out in particular, a seemingly cowardly and egotistical tech who proves to be your closest ally and a survivor who helps create the final master plan to win the day. The marines are characterized about how you expect and all look very similar due to how chunky models in id Tech 4 tend to look, but you get the occasional surprise. The narrative bones of Quake II are fleshed out here, with characters and arcs abound. Your guy, Kane, has to help the Rhino Squad and other marines topside take down the Strogg infrastructure and destroy the nexus core, a sort of hivemind that commands their armies. It takes place just after Bitterman destroyed the “Big Gun,” the invasion of the Strogg home planet starting up in force. Of that era, this is probably the best of the bunch, and the most fitting representation of the Quake II-verse.
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The issue is less that Quake 4 is bad, far from it, but very different from both the classic id Software style and their fleshed out modern style, the awkward teen years where they couldn’t decide between atmosphere and gameplay. It was id Software trying harder to get into the growing console market, though it’s hard to say if the sluggish nature of Quake 4 was due to trying to copy the Halo formula a bit for a game easier to play with joysticks, or because of the DOOM 3 similarities. It was also an Xbox 360 launch title, and that port did indeed suffer from some choppy frames and slow down.
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Raven’s take on the series was co-developed alongside the tad sluggish DOOM 3, which people were mixed on and still are to this day, with a somewhat similar design style. It isn’t really remembered all that well, but that’s not too surprising with the period it released. Quake 4 was the last game with a proper single player campaign in the franchise, and the game that perfectly defined the gory, biopunk obsessed menace of the Strogg.
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