Formerly the "QUAKE 2 Engine", with pioneering innovation in 3D environments, a few of id Tech 2's most notable features were out-of-the-box support for OpenGL hardware-accelerated graphics (in addition to the traditional software renderer), and colored lighting effects. Games created on this engine technology include QUAKE II, Hexen II, Heretic II, Sin, Soldier Of Fortune, Half-Life, Kingpin and Anachronox.
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Great Engine with Great games built from them. Set the par for along time along with spawning of fantastic games. This engine has held its self against many other engines at the time of the release and even now. 7/10
Jul 27 2010 by Kyou.
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Some one make duke nukem 1998 on the quake 2 engine plz I beg I played the build engine one and that was amazing some one plx make a remake.
That'll be a good idea, but if you want something like it then go play Duke Nukem: TIME TO KILL. There should be a PC version out there last I checked.
Half-Life 1 wasn't made with id Tech 2 but it was made with GoldSource. Why is that saying in the description?
"The basis of GoldSrc is the engine used in the video game Quake, albeit with heavy modification by Valve Corporation, at the time called Valve Software."
How the **** do I download this?!
what engine that valve made half life beta?
This engine is supposed to be open source but I have searched everywhere and haven't found a download. If you're going to put something up saying it's open sourced post a download or link will ya?
ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/source/
id Tech 2 is the engine of Quake 2.
(prefix it with ftp : // i can't post URL ATM)
For everyone who thinks Half-Life is based off id tech2:
Thats not really true, vale had license for Quake One and Quake Two Engine, but half-Life just uses the RAD lightning from Quake 2, and this Map feature which lets you go back again to the last map. The rest is from Quake and highly modified.
Apparently the story goes that they initially were hoping to use the Quake 2 engine however eventually decided to license the QuakeWorld engine. They brought over many fixes and changes from the Quake 2 engine however.