Earth Moving Prices for Quake Games on Steam

Steam have just announced their latest mid-week sale and for this week only you can pick up the Quake Collection for a measly £8.49. Thats the same price as the newest Lady Gaga album but only half as crazy. The collection doesn’t include ID Software’s Quake 4 or Quake Wars but for does contain all the classic games and add-ons. If you don’t already own all these games you really should pick them up on this cracking deal, no really, do it now.

The Collection consists of:

Quake I
Quake II
Quake II Mission Pack: Ground Zero
Quake II Mission Pack: The Reckoning
Quake III Arena
Quake III: Team Arena
Quake Mission Pack 1: Scourge Of Armagon
Quake Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity

“boom, chik chik” “boom chik chik”

There are many reasons why ID Software’s Doom and Doom 2 were amazing back in their day.  The level design, graphics, playability and originality were all streets ahead of anything else around at the time.   The two main reasons I loved the game however were firstly – “book, chik chik”  - the shotgun.

I don’t think  a video game has ever perfected the sound and feel of the shotgun as well as ID Software did in the early nineties.  It was the one reason you’d always be envious of a mate who had a Soundblaster 16 and/or Adlib card (and enough ‘conventional memory’ whatever that was) to be playing it. Playing doom through your PC Speaker was just. . . terrible.

The second reason was this (skip to 2:08):

The music was class.

I was chatting with buddy of mine about Doom 2 and I claimed I used to be able to get through the game to quite a high level with being hit. I thought it might be fun to try again 10 years on.   I’m pretty sure when I was playing as a youth I used to save it all the time so as soon as I was hit I’d re-load a save and try again.  This time I thought I’d try and do each level in full without using a save game..  It ain’t as easy as I remember.

I’ll keep going as long as I can do before I have to concede to taking a bullet or two. Or a ball of fire. Or a heat-seeking flying skull thing. Or a bite from those angry pig men.

Anyways, here are levels 1 to 3 for now: