Quake 4

This game gets a lot of crap, for a lot of reasons. Many of these are quite frankly understandable at the very least. Graphically, it requires mods to look great, or config file edits to look nice. Most notably, Raven took the movement tech from the previous 3.5 Quake games and just... didn't put most of it here... Part of the reason behind this might be that IdTech4 was designed for Doom 3, and not Quake, but I...

12 found this helpful, 2026-01-16

DISCLAIMER: I initially brushed this game off too fast and refunded it on steam. However, I felt bad afterwards for not giving it an honest try and remembered that I had the game on GoG. I've since played through most of the game on GoG and felt like writing a review here too. With that out of the way... Quake 4 feels very much like ID's answer to Half-Life. The game starts off really slow and the textures did not...

17 found this helpful, 2026-07-21

Quake 4 is a gory, industrial-grade FPS masterpiece that comfortably shares the throne with Doom 3 as a classic of mid-2000s shooter design. Swapping quiet horror for full-scale military chaos, it delivers insanely satisfying, old-school gunplay packed with brutal body horror and heavy-hitting weaponry. If you long for unadulterated, linear sci-fi violence without the modern tactical nonsense, Quake 4 still packs a...

12 found this helpful, 2026-08-04