NAME¶

quake2 - classic first person shooter

SYNOPSIS¶

quake2 [WRAPPER-OPTIONS] [ENGINE-OPTIONS] [ENGINE-COMMANDS]...

DESCRIPTION¶

This manual page documents briefly the quake2 command. Quake II is a popular first-person shooter game, released in 1997 by iD Software. This wrapper script will launch the Quake II engine. The game data needs to be installed independently using the 'game-data-packager' program, and by default it will be looked for at /usr/share/games/quake2 and /usr/share/games/quake2-demo. This wrapper script accepts a few GNU-style options. Any further arguments are passed to the engine unmodified. Consult the engine documentation for full details, but most engines support a syntax where you can give console commands by prefixing with a plus sign.

OPTIONS¶

These options are accepted for WRAPPER-OPTIONS in the synopsis.

-h, --help

Show summary of options.

-v, --version

Show version of program.

--engine=ENGINE

Select a non-default Quake II engine binary

--demo

Use the demo data, even if you have both the demo and the full version installed

EXAMPLES¶

Play the demo in cooperative mode: quake2 --demo +map demo1 +set coop 1

Connect to a server for multiplayer:

quake2 +connect quake2.example.com

Run the client as a temporary dedicated server (see the quake2-server

package for more server infrastructure): quake2 +set dedicated 1 +set deathmatch 1 +map q2dm1

SEE ALSO¶

quake2-server(6), game-data-packager(6).

AUTHOR¶

This manual page, and the quake2 wrapper script, were written by Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others). They are based on the Quake packaging by David Banks and Simon McVittie.