Quake II Intro - Watch In HD 

Almost 20 years later and it STILL gives me chills.

This scene has to be the most thrilling and terrifying start to a video game ever. The idea of aliens that are essentially humanoids that have turned themselves into cyborg-zombie freaks coming to earth and wrecking us to the point that entire continents are rendered uninhabitable and unrecognizable is terrifying in it of itself, but this scene that we get to see just shows how horrific these guys are. The visuals of the planet being a barren wasteland with a ominously dark sky and a blood red horizon coupled with some of the most intensely eerie music I’ve heard in a while, not even to mention the hectic dialogue between command and Bitterman and the frantic screeching from most of the drop marines plummeting to their death or being slaughtered upon landing by these mangled-steel-ridden rotting bags of formerly humanoid flesh adds to the aesthetic of this game. An alien race that’s so different from what you’d expect from alien threats, and one that’s unlikely to be matched in brutality and overall uniqueness. Quake II might not have too many ties to the original Quake, switching over to the gothic space-Viking-fantasy design to the future-military style, the dark visuals and monstrous Strogg make sure that Quake II has kept this series’ dark aesthetic for around 2 decades.

23 years later and we still don't have the isolated music track.

Imagine being the Marine/Soldier alone hearing entire platoon get shwacked on the way in and knowing your alone, DEEP in the enemy lines.

This.....this game intro....wow. The radio chatter and everything....amazing. Best intro for a game ever. Never have I felt a rush before playing a game just thanks to the intro.

The intro to Doom Eternal feels like a bit of an homage to this.

Bringing this back from the dead because it still is one of the BEST intros....ever.

This intro is bar far one of the best introductions for any game from the 90s. I love it.

Can't even explain the things this intro makes me feel. The atmopshere, mood and lighting, it reminds me of Blade Runner, Aliens, Starship Troopers... The soundtrack is absoute brilliance.

This sooooo needs a talented 3d artist or 3 to remake/remaster in proper 1080p or above.

So dark, so foreboding. Truly a masterpiece of an intro.

Nostalgia level 900000

As a little kid I was blown away when I saw this... :) ... good times...

The fact that the strogg doesn’t have a face but wears distorted human ones makes them a unique threat, they are more likely the be the computers that run the place rather than the enemies in game

Who knew that the Big Gun sent out EMP blasts?

Platoon gets killed, crash lands, kills an entire hive mind, refuses to elaborate further.

Can you imagine finding a giant Quake 2 symbol just floating in space? That's gonna be fucking scary

Still get chills when the camera pans from the space fighter to the view of the planet.

Such memories. I still think this is one of the greatest intro. videos for a game.

I remember sitting with my dad when I was probably 5-6-7? Playing this game with him on our old PC. He would navigate and I would shoot the guns. Finding this intro brought so much nostalgia. I’m 23.5 now lol

One of my most favorite games ever!!!

"ALL PODS LAUNCHED."

Still the best intro OF ALL TIME! I still get chills when I hear it

The fact that we cant see any fire coming from the ground makes this a lot scarier ...nothing is scarier indeed...

Doom Eternal definitely took from this....God bless ID

"Mother Goose, Mother Goose... This is Red Leader Alpha-Charlie 417..."

I love Quake 2

This intro is so fucking amazing! Wish more game intros were this cool!

This may very well be the best video game intro. EVER.

The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world

Still one of my favorite game intros after all these years. Especially the first 40 sec.

The Big Gun (the structure that Bitterman was circling), and those seven towers (the ones that he refers to as the 'southern structure', and that he flew past before crash landing) looks so doggone HUGE compared to most of the structures in the city!

I just now noticed that first ship in the intro (the smaller one with the nose-art) is called "The Adrianator, I presume after Adrian Carmack, Id Software's lead artist. Actually, based on its design, I think that's one of the same human fighter craft that you see like in that one mission where they bomb a fuel pod.

this game really needs remake

damn those intros had me hyped way more than the ads about any new game coming out now

goosebumbs.

Great job on this intro. Few have ever gotten me so pumped for a game.

I got my Voodoo 2 12b 3Dfx card the same day I got Quake 2. I was obsessed with Quake and even introduced me to my face artist Trent Reznor. (recently the Quake soundtrack was released on quality vinyl. Absolutely amazing.)anyway I got this and downloaded GLQuake too... I spent months enjoying this, playing CTF with CR Not when my latency was too high, loving Quake and the mission packs all over again because of the graphical upgrade the Voodoo card gave me. This intro really set you up for the game and I was initially disappointed that Quake 2 was essentially a different IP but soon I got over that! Memories of the joy you felt when you gibbed an enemy with that awesome rail gun with its unique sound... Flying around with the grapple hook in CTF, a feckin UNREAL Transformers Total Conversion, the ubiquitous download manager needed to safely get MASSIVE files of 30mb! 😂 Years later I would spend weeks recovering from a broken leg with the Quake Army Knife, (Quark) loaded with loads of games assets but I mainly enjoyed making levels with dead marines, flickering lights, lots of gloom, winding corridors all leading to vast open battlegrounds. Each side would have 3,4 even 5 levels of corridors, above aand under the arena, stairs and intersections and hidden passages... Man there are few games that have ever given me that much

BEST GAME INTRO EVER

Intro is still my favorite of all time - so I attempted to rebuild the whole thing from scratch in Blender. Just posted today, and would be stoked if anyone wants to check it out!

Anyone else in here to read comments after the official remaster?

I want to see a HD remaster of this game, with this intro included.

this thing is a BRICK

1997 Xmas... I got this game and a Diamond Monster 3d.

When I first played Quake 2 I didn't know English, it's so strange going back to this intro and understand what they are saying.

Quake 2 Multi player is alive and well, there is still alot of regular and custom maps out there that are still up. On DM 8, one of my signature camps was at the BFG area and 200 rounds of hyper ammo 😊 over the years, people would find out where the BFG is and attempt to grab it , only to be melted by hyper blaster fire, it was so so funny camping there until some smart people started tossing grenades up there!! Memories ❤ -- EDM Dude (Coffee Dude)

Stunner absolute stunner!!!

Always reminded me of Starship troopers/Aliens (Colonial Marines). I guess Im gonna go buy the second and fourth game on steam and replay this after a long time :)

I still get the chills from watching this!!! Over 20 years on and that marine's voice is f*cking awesome! Shame about the washed out gamma half way through this video but I guess it was to avoid copywrong.

"Im south of LZ nearing a ridged structure..prepping for crash landing....you copy?..command come in..I have no flight control..uh oh DAMNIT!

Despite the fact it was made in 97 it is still one of my favorites this game rocks!!

On the the best game intros.

The scariest enemies in any game/movie/story of any kind to me are the ones that are intelligent and nefarious. The mindless zombies have their place, but an enemy than has outsmarted humanity is sooo much more terrifying to me. Hence the enemies of AI and super advanced aliens are worse to me than any grotesque yet dumb monster. The Strogg from Quake are scarier to me than the demons of Doom.

Awesome fucking game! I loved this intro!

Nevermind me, just shockingly learn, 20 years later, that the game actually had an intro and a story behind it.

Up there with Half-Life 2 for game intros

This was pretty intense as a 9 year old lol

My firt quake 2 was on ps1 version and it was great game. Then I played pc version on my cousin's computer and was surprised how much bigger pc version is.

such a great intro. ready to kick some Strogg ass!

Goddamn this intro... stunning stuff. Stunning.

Just image Q2 remaster with Doom Eternal-grade visuals.

Solid Intro

Operation Alien Overlord.

Well in all war against aliens/cyborgs/humans/ Irl and in videos games we sure do have vengeance on our mind.

Greatest game intro, ever, bar nothing IMO.

@nickteezy408 I think so. Most of the platoon died because they were clustered up I think, and the reason he survived was because he got off course.

Command, you and I have a great difference of opinion on what is "nominal".

I come from the future there will be a remaster in 14 years

I loved that intro but then after obsessively playing the game it was bugging me that he crashes in the Jail area and game starts at outer base.

epic

This gave me chills. My guess, they crashed into an alien city of some sort and then they have to fight against them in arenas? FUCKING EPIC.

love this intro, too bad all other marines end up dead or crazy

My family never had the cash to keep up with the consoles. But we did have a new PC, and I knew I could jam a 💿 into a drive click next a bunch of times Looking back, it’s obvious to see why I’ve remained dedicated to PC gaming. Especially now that you can just plug a controller in. Thumbs up if you remember DeerAvenger! It’s been on my to-do list to find a copy of the game, build a vm and then play a runt though of the series. Shits so stupid but the nostalgia!!!!!!

(Nostalgia moment)

Also it's not like excessive plus, the maps were super crowded in that 32 man match so you have everyone firing plasma rifles, grenades, rockets and it comes out looking like a 3D Bullet hell meets Brownian motion.

The ship in 1:00 seems like a Warthog A10

Detailed asteroids in orbit, and the Quake 2 symbol explodes into triangles? It's almost like they wanted to tell us, your mind is STILL SIMPLE!

does anyone know what song this is? im just wondering if there is a version of this without all the voice and everything

Ok so, this song is called "Quake 2 ntro or AKA Quake 2 theme song by Rob Zombie". The first half of the intro song is by Bill Brown and can be listened/downloaded with out an issue but the second half well yeh. Now I was looking around the deep web even on the forums that dated way back to 1998-2006 and found out that one person contacted John Carmack (back then he was part of ID Software) and John referred him to Paul Steed which referred him to Rob Zombie. At this point I do not know if the person contacted the Rob Zombie but they claim he does not have the original master piece anymore. Seems like he just randomly slapped something together and sent it to the ID Software just for funs and it worked too well. (Forum is in German but you can google translate the page www.idgames.de/threads/suche-quake-ii-intro-soundtrack.10079/) Maybe use shazam or something to find similar song and we might pin point it down eventually. Got me interested so much that I tried to open ntro.cin in Quake 2 (that is where the intro is played in game from) and hoped i could open it up and remove audio and sounds effect and clip the Audio track for the song only but I did not have any luck (spent 1 hour to look around and play with the file) Hopefully we find the song one day and wooooho

Che gran gioco !

to think the only reason the main guy survived is cuz he got clipped lol

@Charlieflint I agree Awesome Intro.

I bought a brand new computer because this game,was that blown away by the graphics lol. Was like look the strogs still give one last shot when downed!!! 😆

Turn it up... it's all quite clear.

Yeeeehaw! SHIT WHAT WAS THAT?!

please send me link with Quake II intro with full subtitles, this is best intro best sound/music EVER

yeeeeeehaaaaaaa :D

Ever try Skulltag? That shit gets even quicker and more intense, it gets to be almost ludicrous.

Yeeeee haaaaa!

You want an active community for Descent? UT3 has flying vehicles too and has an active enough community that you can join games at will.

this intro deserves to be remastered

THEY CAN HEAL EACH OTHER REPEAT

Hey guys check it out I uploaded the intro with subtitles at my best of capabilities. Its only the 2nd part of the intro.

bitterman lives

What happened to the color at 1:42

Skulltag fits 2 of those, it's ground-bound because you are a soldier, but when I last played it, I don't think it was too hard to find a DM game. Invasion and Co-op are also easy as hell to find, I think the other modes might be a bit of a bitch though since it's not VERY active.

Quake what do you want from me

home God

All pods launched...

Delirium tremen