Quake 2 has received its rumoured 2023 remaster, and what's here is stunning - new features, content and visual upgrade…
, which allows smoother shading of low-poly structures without altering the map data, and baked ambient occlusion, creating subtle contact shadows throughout the environment.Liquid materials, such as water or lava, are also properly lit now. In the original, even in a darkened area of the map, water surfaces appeared at full brightness - but that has been changed and they now behave more as expected within the world.
Then there are the dynamic lights. Quake 2 was known for its dynamic, colourful lighting - fire the blaster and you're treated to a light show that was absolutely dazzling at the time. However, the original game's approach showed obvious artefacts, due to its low resolution dynamic light map, but here we have a per-pixel lighting solution that produces a smooth falloff around each burst of light - with proper shadows thanks to the new shadow map system, which is a nice bonus.
While these features are all fantastic, the most significant visual improvement in my opinion comes from the reworked assets. Specifically, the game now supports the skeleton-based MD5 model format. In the original game, which uses the much older MD2 model format, vertex information is stored as individual bytes, which reduces file size, but also reduces precision. With low vertex precision, models such as weapons and enemies exhibit noticeable warbling when in motion.
The elephant in the room here is Quake 2 RTX, a special PC version of Quake 2 with full path-traced lighting and entirely new assets. It looks amazing and you might be disappointed that it's not featured in the 2023 release. The thing to remember is that this re-release is designed to represent the original artistic vision of Quake 2, while Quake 2 RTX is clearly its own thing.
There's also co-op and deathmatch, which in my testing worked well, with fast and responsive netcode even when playing against foes in different regions. Split-screen multiplayer with up to eight players is also included on Xbox and PC - which I wanted to test but didn't due to time constraints and a lack of controllers.
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