Quake for PC CD-ROMs Game fans have been waiting for Quake with baited breath and it certainly lives up to their expectations.
Its designer, John Romero, has come up with a plausible plot for his masterpiece and there's some great shoot-'em-up action.
You get an emergency call early one morning from your commander. There is a fault in the scientific project you are working on, causing a 'slipgate' crack in space and time.
Unfortunately, someone else - codenamed Quake - has also discovered this and has been sending creatures through the crack to infiltrate the military and start a full-scale invasion. Your job is to stop him.
Quake was the most hyped game since Doom. It has the smoothest scrolling engine I have seen. Movements are so fluid that you can swoop down on enemies or sweep through rooms.
The polygon figures are like those in Alone in the Dark but the scrolling engine makes the monsters and beasties even larger-than-life and more threatening.