Quake 2 On The Xbox 360

Quake 2 on Xbox 360: the first console HD remaster • Eurogamer.net

Of course, by the time the Xbox 360 launched, Quake 2 was already eight years old and not exactly an impressive technical showcase, so the undoubted quality of the console port may not seem like a huge achievement. However, as we’ve seen time and again, reproducing an original game on a different architecture can reveal unforeseen challenges, resulting in a poor conversion. In the case of Quake 2, id was able to achieve things that few other games on the system would ever manage, including support for 1080p output – a hardware feature that would elude the console until September 2006, when support was added via a firmware update