Not to say that combat is mediocre - far from it. Probably the fastest in id Software's history up until the one-man Armageddon of DOOM Eternal, the speed offered here sort of comes at odds with how bullet-spongy the enemies are - probably a way to increase the challenge, without raising the hardware requirements, something that in essence kind of slows down the pace. The good news is that a gem is a gem, even if it has a crack or two on its surface… Yours truly gave this game the bronze medal in a previous review, in one of those painful occasions where objective criticism won over his passion and nostalgia for a video game.

It was ultra-fast-paced, controlled like a dream, made Deathmatch even more popular than before, had a kickass OST courtesy of Trent Reznor, an awesome, dark, and almost Lovecraftian aura… and it was far from perfect. In many ways a Doom minus the architectural limitations of it, Quake offered the same first-person shooting frenzy, in a new setting that had a different look, and which would occasionally prove to be more treacherous than what the developer has crafted before.

For those wretched heretics who don't know what Quake is, it's basically one more occasion where id Software created an industry revolution.

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