Anyway, within this musty tome you shall find all manner of advice on how
to play Classic Quake. I beg your indulgence, as I lack any serious
ability in handling HTML as yet, but I'll try to give you guys who, for
whatever mental health reasons, are checking out my page.
Quake is a creation of ID Software,
those kooky guys who originally broughtus such games as Wolfenstein and the
unforgettable DooM (and all the sequels thereof). All of these games fall
under the collective genre known as first-person shooters. Basically, what
this means is that the player (ie, the guy at the controls) sees, on the
computer screen, a pretty good approximation of what he'd be seeing if he, or she,
would be seeing within the world of the game. That covers the "first-person"
part of the name. The shooter part is fairly self-explanatory. You carry
weapons, mostly guns, and, well, you shoot things! Simple in design, elegant
in form, this game is a great way to vent those competitive urges we all have.
Many have argued that it causes violence, which is horrible logic, but we'll come
to that later.
