Trivia
This is the second time id Software has invented an alien language for use in their games (the first was in Commander Keen). Like Keen's Simplified Galactian Alphabet, the Strogg language in Quake II is a simple letter-by-letter cipher. Although no-one has ever made a Strogg font pack, you can decipher signs and messages in the game using the Strogg translator at id's Quake 4 site.
Contributed by
Maw (827) on Jan 21, 2007.
On December 20, 1997, the PC version of Quake II was put on the infamous German index by the BPjS. The Nintendo 64 version followed August 31, 1999.
For more information about what this means and to see a list of games sharing the same fate, take a look here: BPjS/BPjM indexed games.
Contributed by
Xoleras (66998) on Dec 11, 2005.
The awesome soundtrack, composed by Sonic Mayhem, features a total of 10 tracks in CD-Audio quality. If you listen to the CD be sure to skip the first track, which is the data information.
The rest of the tracks are:
1. Operation Overlord
2. Rage
3. Kill Ratio
4. March of the Stroggs
5. The Underworld
6. Quad Machine
7. Big Gun
8. Descent Into Cerberon
9. Climb
10. Showdown
Contributed by
Apogee IV (2361) on Oct 05, 2004.
The UK Windows Version Quake II CD has the following printed on it:
"This product is intended for sale outside North America only and will not function on North American operating systems."
Upon testing this seems to be a lie, it works on every North American version of Windows I've tried it on.
I assume this was to prevent people importing the CDs from the EU and selling them in the US.
On 22 December 2001, the full source code was released. It can be downloaded from the ID software website.
Contributed by
Sciere 
(119182) on Aug 22, 2003.
Rob Zombie was responsible for the Quake 2 theme song...
Contributed by
Apogee IV (2361) on Nov 23, 2001.
On 1998 Quake 2 action figures were released to stores by ReSaurus.
There was only one series of figures. The series was composed of:
Marine (& Barracuda Shark),
Jungle Marine (& Strogg Parasite),
Iron Maiden (& Strogg Technician),
Tank,
and a limited edition Psycho Marine.
Contributed by
Zovni (9138) on Jun 18, 2001.
Quake II was voted #8 overall in PCGamer Magazine's Readers All-Time Top 50 Games Poll (April 2000 issue).
Contributed by
PCGamer77 (3025) on Jan 21, 2001.
The game was really rushed to be ready for the very lucrative Christmas 1997.
It shipped with a lot of bugs, missing features (no multiplayer maps) and multiplayer was almost unplayable on the net at first, but hopefully id fixed all these issues with numerous patches.
Contributed by
Cochonou (1021) on Nov 20, 2000.
