#QUAKE 2 FINAL BOSS SOFTWARE#

I'm something of a stranger to the Saturn control pad and maybe my fingers are just too big for it, but I find it much harder to control the Quake character with it than with the N64 controller or a PC mouse, and I know, as I write this piece, it will be at least another day or two before I've made it all the way through to the final level. How long did it take you to get through those levels? If you've never played Quake before, never grabbed the mouse attached to your older brother's PC and tried your hand at making your way through the many varied and deadly mazes, originally designed centuries ago (in Internet time) by id, who you've gotta like, despite it all, then it probably took you days and weeks to get through to the end.

#QUAKE 2 FINAL BOSS SOFTWARE#

Naturally, the next set of levels won't always exist (id software puts four 'episodes' - sets of seven levels - on the CD), so once you've seen them all, you've got some choices to make. Every seven levels will be punctuated with a 'boss' level, and you will receive a textual reward for its completion, which will always congratulate you in some small way for a job done violently well but will goad you on to further action in the next set of levels. The object of single-player Quake, which is the only way you can play it on the Saturn, is, ostensibly, to enter the game through either the 'normal' or the 'easy' shimmering transporter - which takes you to the first level of the game, whose atmosphere (especially if you are somehow still unfamiliar with it at this late date in the evolution of the genre) may impress you - and kill as many monsters as you wish, until you can exit through the shimmering transporter clearly marked 'exit' and proceed to the next level of monsters, and do this over and over until you have played every level there is in the game. Have you ever played single-player Quake before?

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