Quake II Remastered just received a rating from the Game Rating and Administration Committee in South Korea, suggesting that Bethesda and id Software plan to announce a re-release soon (via Gematsu). Trusting Google Translate, it describes the game as “an FPS game that wages war against the hostile alien race, Strogg, who plans to invade the earth.” If Quake II Remastered is real, the rating says that players can expect “excessive expression of violence” along with “blood and body damage.” The rating specifies a PC release but makes no mention of console versions.
Bethesda and id have obviously not officially revealed a remaster of 1997’s Quake II, but if it is real, it will be anything but a surprise. A remastered version of the original Quake was revealed and released during QuakeCon 2021, bringing visual enhancements and new DLC to PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One for $9.99. QuakeCon 2023 is scheduled to take place August 10 – 13, so if a Quake II Remastered reveal is on the way, it will almost certainly happen there.
Although today’s rating only mentions a PC version of Quake II Remastered, it seems likely that it will come to consoles just as Quake Remastered did in 2021. Either way, there will be plenty more Quake news to talk about when QuakeCon 2023 rolls around in August, so stay tuned for updates.
