Quake (series)

Quake is a series of first-person shooter video games, starting with the game of the same name. The Quake series changes its focus frequently; the story of Quake II is not connected to the original Quake. This is mostly because Quake II was originally intended to be a separate franchise (Quake II was initially only a tentative title), a plan that was thwarted when most of the other names id Software had tried to use were already taken. Quake III Arena has little to do with either of its predecessors but set in the same universe as Quake II and Quake 4, shedding the single-player missions in favor of deathmatch against the A.I. or online. One of the few unifying elements for the first three titles was the Quake logo-shaped rune for 'quad damage' that made the player's weapons and attacks several times as powerful for a short duration. The first three titles successively pioneered id Software's next-generation graphics engines before they were licensed out. The Strogg are an alien race who serve as the primary antagonists in Quake II and Quake 4, with the Makron being their leader. In Quake II, Makron uses the battle-mech style vessel Jorg. They are a playable faction in Quake III: Team Arena, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and Quake Champions. The Strogg are a warlike cybernetic race, infamous for the systematic replacement of their ranks with prisoners of war, 'stroggified' and assimilated through the modification of their bodies with mechanical weaponry and prosthetics. They maintain a massive global military-industrial complex with mines, ore refineries, light production plants, and heavy industrial manufacturing facilities throughout Stroggos. Their heavy reliance on industry has created a toxic environment that has killed much of the native plant and animal life on Stroggos, and the remaining animals are subject to horrible mutation. Quake Live is an updated version of Quake III Arena originally designed as a free-to-play game launched via a web plug-in.