In Quake you explore and navigate to the exit of each Gothic and dark level, facing monsters and finding secret areas along the way.
It is a first person shooter video game.
In this game usually there are switches to activate or keys to collect in order to open doors before the exit can be reached.
Reaching the exit takes the player to the next level. Before accessing an episode, there is a set of three pathways with easy, medium, and hard skill levels.
The fourth skill level, Nightmare, was so bad that it was hidden, so people won't wander in by accident, the player must drop through water before the episode four entrance and go into a secret passage to access it.
Quake's single-player campaign is organized into four individual episodes with seven to eight levels in each.
As items are collected, they are carried to the next level. If the player's character dies, he must restart at the beginning of the level.
The game may be saved at any time in the PC versions and between levels in the console versions.
Upon completing an episode, the player is returned to the hub START level, where another episode can be chosen.
Each episode starts the player from scratch, without any previously collected items.
Episode one has the most traditional ideology of a boss in the last level.
The ultimate objective at the end of each episode is to recover a magic rune.
After all of the runes are collected, the floor of the hub level opens up to reveal an entrance to the "END" level which contains a final puzzle.
Multiplayer
In multiplayer mode, players on several computers connect to a server, where they can either play the single-player campaign together in cooperative mode, or play against each other in multiplayer.
When players die in multiplayer mode, they can immediately respawn, but will lose any items that were collected.
Similarly, items that have been picked up previously respawn after some time, and may be picked up again. The most popular multiplayer modes are all forms of deathmatch.
Deathmatch modes typically consist of either free-for-all, one-on-one duels, or organized teamplay with two or more players per team.
Teamplay is also frequently played with one or another mod.
Monsters are not normally present in teamplay, as they serve no purpose other than to get in the way and reveal the positions of the players.
The gameplay in Quake was considered unique for its time because of the different ways the player can maneuver through the game.
