Quake Mission Pack #1: Scourge of Armagon is the first official mission pack for id Software's first person shooter, Quake. Developed by Hipnotic Interactive, later renamed Ritual Entertainment, Scourge featured 15 new single player missions, a new multiplayer arena, as well as three new enemies, weapons and power-ups.

New features were also added to the engine technology, including rotating brushes and destructible walls.

Scourge of Armagon went on to win several Add-On of the Year awards.

Interesting Facts about Scourge of Armagon

• Scourge was the first id Software title published by Activision. Since then Activision has published nearly a dozen more id titles and several more using id’s various game engines.

• The financial success of Scourge directly led to developer Ritual Entertainment being able to secure funding for their next game, Sin, from Activision.

• The original title of this add-on was Quake: The Rift. This subtitle was abandoned to avoid confusion with the pre-existing Rifts line of games.

• The subtitle “Scourge of Armagon” was conceived of by id’s then-bizguy, Mike Wilson. Many of the characters found in id’s games from that era are named after characters from their internal Dungeons & Dragons sessions.

• Several concepts from Scourge found their way into future games in the Quake series. The bio-mechanical design of the Strogg (the enemies in Quake II and Quake 4) are very similar to that of the character Armagon. The rapid-fire laser cannon appears in Quake II as the hyper-blaster. And the “islands in space” design of the multiplayer map “hipdm1” became a staple in Quake III Arena (and many other deathmatch games).

• Scourge was also the first of many mission packs to open the door for a new game development studio working in the first-person shooter genre. 2015 developed the mission pack for Sin, and then went on to develop Allied Assault. Gearbox Software developed the first mission pack for Half-Life, and later created Road to Hill 30. Splash Damage developed Enemy Territory, and is now developing Quake Wars.

External links

• Scourge of Armagon on Moby Games

1997 computer and video games | DOS games | Expansion packs | Quake

Quake: Scourge of Armagon