Why trem 2?? i was thinking...
compare quake 1 to quake 2 the story follows the prevous one
QUAKE1
Quake 1 is about a dimensional creature that can warp space and time and already control some "dimensions". You can see this creature as a God, if you like it. His name is Quake, and his servant is Sub-nighurath.
The war start as humans are experimenting with teleporters (check 4 hours long film "Nehara" ), so open portals to other dimensions and try to send munition, crates, weapons, etc.. trough the doors. Quake gets interested to "adquire" the dimension where humans live. So send a army to conquer that dimension. But a rogue soldier not only survive, but enter the dimensions Quake control, and kill one by one all Quake fortress (on futured themed dimensions, magic themed dimensions, medieval themed dimensions, etc).. the last one is a helllish dimensions where a huge psychic creature hide, the subnighurat. This creature is inmortal, but the rogue humans is smart enough to use the teleportating device to teleport into subnigurtah body. Because with all dimensions laws tho mass can't exist on the same location, the sub-nigurath is "telefragged", banned from this dimmension and his flesh fragged away all around. His control to the creatures (shamblers, fiends, but also human zombified, etc..) is broken,
and the humans prevail. The creatures the ranger fight are "H.P.L." based.
QUAKE2
Quake2 is about a war betwen a "borg" alike raze, the Stroogs, that use human body parts to created a machine-human hibrid army. Anyway a lonelly human soldier is able to break into Stroggs defense structures and kill his planetary chieff, the Makron. The Quake2 history is more conventional, and theres no dimensions, helll alike creatures, zombies, etc.
QUAKE3
Quake3 is a unceremoniosly simple multiplayer game with a fight arena and weapons to fight. Theres even mapping features removed, rendering features removed, but the overall game is much PURE for multiplayer gamming. Its a total refinement of the multiplayer formula with ZERO tradeoff for singleplayer stuff.
QUAKE4
Quake4 continue the Quake2 history where is left with the Doom3 engine, gameplay and gimmicks.
Theres no continue history for Quake1, so no, Quake1 is unique, and all other games where less and less plot based and more simple brainless arcade.
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I have buy Quake4 just yet this day!... hehehee. I will install it soon
