Back in 2021, Bethesda surprised us all with the release of Quake Remastered at QuakeCon, including a few new maps created by the team at Machine Games. At this year's QuakeCon, Bethesda ran it back, launching Quake 2 Remastered for all platforms. 

As of yesterday, Quake 2 Remastered is now available for PC, Xbox, PlayStation and Switch. The game is also available to Xbox Game Pass subscribers, although the buy-in price is reasonable, coming in at under £8. The game includes cross-platform multiplayer too and even split-screen modes for up to eight players.

The new version of Quake 2 includes the base game, as well as its two expansions, which add an extra 33 campaign levels to the game, and 21 additional multiplayer maps. Graphically, it is still very much a classic, old-school shooter, and the incredible path-tracing effects seen in Quake 2 RTX are not present in this version. However, if you own Quake 2 on Steam, you can play all of the content through Quake 2 RTX if you want to crank those lighting effects up.

On the PC side, you can grab Quake 2 from Steam, GOG, the Epic Games Store or the Microsoft Store directly. For Xbox and PlayStation, you can grab the game digitally from each console's respective store. On Switch, you'll have two options – grab the game digitally from the eShop, or you can grab a physical copy of the game – although the physical versions are only being made in a limited run and won't ship out until September.

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