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Action Quake 2

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Action Quake 2 was originally developed in 1998 to recreate the look and feel of an action movie, having a fast pace and a semi-realistic damage system. It features many maps recreating realistic settings, such as city streets and office buildings, with a balanced range of weapons and equipment inspired by action films. Polished and prepared for modern re-release, we're inviting everyone to revisit what we call Aqtion!

Released: 12 November 1998
Platforms: Linux Windows macOS
Genres: First-person shooter Shooter
Developers: —
Publishers: —
Modes: Multiplayer
Perspective: First person
Themes: Action Science fiction Comedy
Engine: id Tech 2
Languages: English

About

Action Quake 2 is a mod for the video game Quake II created by The A-Team. Action Quake 2 was developed to recreate the look and feel of an action movie, having a fast pace and a semi-realistic damage system. It features many maps recreating realistic settings, such as city streets and office buildings, with a balanced range of weapons and equipment inspired by action movies.

Action Quake 2 is essentially a version of deathmatch and team deathmatch in which most of the classic elements have been modified to some degree. Damage to extremities such as a shot to the leg with any weapon will cause damage and bleeding, along with crippling the player's movement until they bandage themselves. Originally released in 1998, there is still an active community of players as of 2024.

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Gameplay

There are six main modes of gameplay in Action Quake 2: Deathmatch (Free For All) and Teamplay. In Deathmatch, spawn points are distributed over most of the map, and players battle out in a free-for-all fashion in an attempt to get the most kills possible. The map changes when one of two conditions is met: either the timelimit is reached (and whoever has the most frags "wins"), or the fraglimit is reached (and whoever reaches it "wins"). By default, each player spawns with only pistol, and a combat knife.

Additional equipment can be picked up throughout the map, but in Action Quake 2 DM all weapons other than pistols, knives, and grenades are "unique", meaning that only one exists on that map at any time. Other modes are variations on these themes including Capture The Flag, team Deathmatch, Espionage and Offline play.

Legacy

Decades after the release, the game still had an active community in Finland. It sparked a remake using Id Tech 3 called Reaction. An updated standalone version based on the Open-Source release of Quake II called AQtion was re-released on Steam in 2022.