Until the end of this month, Amazon Prime Gaming members can grab the classic FPS Quake for their Epic Games Store libraries, and FPS fans may want to check it out. The entire game is included with every expansion pack and is fully enhanced with a couple new additions. Players will be able to spend hours shooting through hordes of monsters as they make their way through a very gothic environment. It is classic video game fun, and Prime Gaming subscribers should be careful not to miss out on it.
Quake may have released in 1996, but the game has aged really well. Shooting through gothic creatures across Lovecraftian inspired levels has never been more fun, and this version brings with it some major updates that only make it better. New expansion packs, new modes, mod support, and a revamped multiplayer have made this old game feel young again.
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id Software released Quake a couple of years after Doom 2, and it helped further cement the studio as a force to be reckoned with. It was built on the brand-new Quake engine, and its gameplay was heavily inspired by the Doom games. Instead of bringing players to hell, Quake brought them to a world inspired by gothic fiction and H.P. Lovecraft. This new world proved very successful for the studio, and it would go on to spawn an entire franchise that would help change the FPS genre forever.
The story of Quake is pretty simple, but that is part of the charm. Players take control of an unmanned protagonist who is sent into a portal to stop codenamed Quake. They must traverse multiple dimensions to track down magical runes that are the key to stopping the enemy and saving Earth. They will shoot through many different grotesque monsters and across 30 different Lovecraftian levels as they try to reach their goal. These levels are split up into four different episodes. Each episode represents a dimension that the player can travel to, and each episode consists of around seven to eight different levels. There is also one secret level per episode that throws Quake's gameplay on its head with wild challenges.
After an episode is completed, players are returned to the hub level where they can select a new episode. Players start fresh at the beginning of each episode, and none of the previously collected items come with them. The goal of each episode is to fight through monsters until players are able to reach a magic rune, and the final puzzle is revealed once players are able to acquire all four runes. Once players complete that puzzle, their time in Quake singleplayer is over.
The singleplayer is a lot of fun, and it can get very challenging at time. It has also been visually enhanced, and players are able to access even more gothic mayhem through four different expansion packs chock-full of content. The game also includes a brand-new horde mode so that players can test themselves against endless waves of enemies, and Quake has mod support so that anyone can change up their game if they choose.
Singleplayer is not the only thing that Quake offers, as it also features online and local multiplayer. Up to four players can fight through the campaign together online or locally, and up to eight can compete against each other in retro-style combat online, while only four can do so locally. This version also features full crossplay so that players can experience the fun of Quake together no matter what console they bought it on. Everything good about Quake's exciting singleplayer and revolutionary multiplayer has only been made better here, and genre fans should definitely give it a whirl.
Amazon Prime Gaming subscribers can grab Quake on the Epic Games Store until January 2, 2023.