Quake (series)

Quake
Genres	First-person shooter
Developers	id Software Raven Software Hyperion Entertainment Bullfrog Productions Lobotomy Software Raster Productions Hammerhead
Publishers	GT Interactive (1996–1997) Activision (1997–2009) Electronic Arts (2001) (Quake III Revolution) EA Square (2001) (Quake III Revolution Japanese version) Bethesda Softworks (2010–present) Other Macmillan Digital Publishing USA ClickBOOM Sega Midway Games MacSoft Loki Software Tsukuda Original MediaQuest
Platforms	MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3
Platform of origin	MS-DOS
Year of inception	1996
First release	Quake June 22, 1996
Latest release	Quake Live August 6, 2010

Quake is a series of first-person shooter video games, starting with the game of the same name.

Overview

Setting

The Quake series changes its focus frequently; the story of Quake II is not connected to the original Quake. This is mostly because Quake II was originally intended to be a separate franchise (Quake II was initially only a tentative title), a plan that was thwarted when most of the other names id Software had tried to use were already taken. Quake III Arena has little to do with either of its predecessors but set in the same universe as Quake II and Quake 4, shedding the single-player missions in favor of deathmatch against the A.I. or online. One of the few unifying elements for the first three titles was the Quake logo-shaped rune for "quad damage" that made the player's weapons and attacks several times as powerful for a short duration. The first three titles pioneered id Software's next-generation graphics engine before it was licensed out.

Strogg

The Strogg are an alien race who serve as the primary antagonists in Quake II and Quake 4, with the Makron being their leader. In Quake II, Makron uses the battle-mech style vessel Jorg. They are a playable faction in Quake III: Team Arena and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. The Strogg are a warlike cybernetic race, infamous for the systematic replacement of their ranks with prisoners of war, "stroggified" and assimilated through the modification of their bodies with mechanical weaponry and prosthetics. They maintain a massive global military-industrial complex with mines, ore refineries, light production plants, and heavy industrial manufacturing facilities throughout Stroggos. Their heavy reliance on industry has created a toxic environment that has killed much of the native plant and animal life on Stroggos, and the remaining animals are subject to horrible mutation.

Games

Quake (1996)

Quake Mission Pack No. 1: Scourge of Armagon (1997)

Quake Mission Pack No. 2: Dissolution of Eternity (1997)

Quake II (1997)

Quake II Mission Pack: The Reckoning (1998)

Quake II Mission Pack: Ground Zero (1998)

Quake III Arena (1999)

Quake III: Team Arena (2000)

Quake 4 (2005)

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (2007)

Quake Live (2010)

Quake Live is an updated version of Quake III Arena originally designed as a free-to-play game launched via a web plug-in.

Quake Champions (TBA)

References