Monday, 23 February 2015

Lost the plot part 2

Quake 2

The original quake was a tour de force in H P Lovecraft style gothic meets dark science and magic.

The plot saw a creature called quake (later revealed to be the old god Shub-Niggurath) open portals to earth via our own teleportation system and sends its troops to attack humanity.

Quakes troops are genetically created psychopaths, wired up to enjoy killing and violence. Along with an assortment or monsters, zombies and devils, quake prepares to destroy humanity.

You are the Ranger- last survivor of the human strike force sent to take out Quake. Just like doom, it is your job to travel through each of 4 worlds to collect 4 magic glyphs to us to kill quake and end the invasion.

Quake 2 however strayed from this plot line completely.

Gone are the gothic horror themes, the zombies and devils- in their place are the Strog.

The Strog are an alien race that attack other species and use their biological matter to make more Strog to carry on their race- think the Borg but with anger issues.

The only things that the two have in common are the title, the lone solider against the world and the invasion of earth theme.

Don’t get me wrong, I love Quake 2, the sound track, the weapons, the way the grunts reflex fire into wall as they go down- It’s just I would have liked to have seen a true sequel to Quake.   

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