“...For the uninitiated (all three of you), Quake is a first-person action game in the vein of Doom. You maneuver your gun-totin' alter ego about a monster-infested dungeon, blasting the crap out of anything you see... The story line, for those who need motivation, involves an evil organization code-named Quake that is sending hordes of gruesome monsters to Earth from an unidentified location... I didn't think there was any way Quake could quantum-leap the rest of the first-person-perspective crowd. The graphics on games like Duke Nukem, I argued, had gotten to the point where they were virtually 3D anyway, right? Wrong. Wrong, wrong. In my first 15 minutes with Quake, I was absolutely astounded at what a huge psychological, visual, and even emotional difference true, honest-to-goodness 3D can make...”

-- George Jones, C|NET