Secondly, and more importantly, monsters are now capable of leaping down from high platforms (sometimes to their deaths - the idiots) to get at you, and can also push buttons to operate lifts and the like. Whereas Xatrix seemed to make do with the same Al routines in The Reckoning as in the original Quake II, Rogue have seen fit to completely overhaul how the monsters in Ground Zero work, and this new spin completely changes how the game is played.įor starters, the Strogg forces now hide when they appear to be outgunned by you, a rudimentary 'line of sight' defence technique sadly missing from the original.

I had ascertained that fact within minutes of installing and launching Rogue Entertainment's enhanced take on iD's world-famous shooter.īeing something of a Quake II fanatic (at the same time openly admitting to being not that good at it), I was surprised to find the previous Quake II mission pack, The Reckoning, far too easy to complete. Quake II Mission Pack: Ground Zero, Activision's latest 'official' add-on to the ubiquitous and fabulous Quake II, is not for wimps.

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