Quarantine
- Quarantine (2017 on Windows)
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In Quarantine, you play the part of a taxi driver, desperate to escape from the violent prison city of Kemo. Deliver passengers to their destinations, so you can earn money to upgrade your cab, and take on undercover missions in the hope that somehow you can find a way out. An impressive array of cab-mounted weaponry will help you to survive.
Spellings
- カランティーン - Japanese 3DO spelling
- デススロットル 隔絶都市からの脱出 - Japanese Saturn spelling
- ハード・ロック・キャブ - Japanese DOS/PlayStation spelling
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Critics
Average score: 64% (based on 30 ratings)
Players
Average score: 3.3 out of 5 (based on 57 ratings with 7 reviews)
Fondest memories of this amazing game
The Good
This game is perfect!
* Action, CONSTANT action.
* Living environment. You aren't the only action, there's just ACTION!
* An environment that is full of detail and character. Each map is HUGE and are just rich with bright building, streets full of pedestrians and cars, their own hoods with their own styles and flow.
* Missions that are exciting and fast paced. If you know the secret to getting through the plot as fast as possible (never miss a fare, and every other fare will be a mission) you end up going on INSANE, funny, deadly, and blood filled missions, no two of them alike. Like running over porta potties until you find the old mayor and run him down.
* HUGE weapon inventory. I don't think I ever came close to using all the weapons in the game. When you outfitted your car, the options were staggering
* So much style. So much style to this game. Nothing was an afterthought. They really put effort in to capturing their world.
* CD Audio! This was, like, a first!
* Great MUSIC. I still listen to the soundtrack.
* So much replay-ability. I was so good at the missions, that I'd blow through the game way to fast. The only way to just casually drive around and pick up fairs was to eject all the plot fares through the roof!
* Silly, unserious, irreverent, and totally fun
The Bad
That it's dead :-(
The Bottom Line
If I could choose only one game in the world, and insist that a gamer with guts play it, it would be this one.
DOS · by Corey McGuire (2) · 2013
One of the best games I've ever played.
The Good
Quarantine is a great, fun game, that's addictive to the
end. It's also got quite a lot more depth to it than you
might think. It features a huge playing environment, spread
over five distinct city areas. It has a great selection of
weapons, enemies, missions and graphics, with a high
attention to detail, and there's a twisted sense of humor
throughout. Picking up passengers in your cab, and driving
them where they want to go is a very satisfying experience,
and is a pretty unusual idea, for a computer game (The
only other example I can think of right now is the old C64
classic, "Space Taxi"). As you progress through a level,
delivering fares and doing missions, you really start to
know the level, notice its landmarks, and know your way
around without looking at the map all the time. Each level
has a unique look and feel, and each introduces new weapons
to buy and lots of new things to see (and kill). One of the
other great things about Quarantine is the CD soundtrack,
which features 11 songs, all by Australian bands. It
provides the perfect driving soundtrack, and is generally
excellent music. If you disagree, you can always play your
own CDs while you're driving along, instead. Another couple
of points: The level of difficulty is pretty much perfect
throughout the game (with just a few nasty missions here and
there). And the ongoing storyline and amusing mission
objectives ensure that you never get bored. Also the CD
version includes a very cool intro movie (which is
unfortunately quite particular about what video/sound
cards it will work with).
The Bad
There's really nothing I disliked about Quarantine. The
3D engine is a little buggy at times, meaning it is possible
to get your cab "stuck" in walls, etc., occasionally. And
the posts and barriers at the sides of roads can be
annoying, when you crash into them. Also, when you first
start playing, the controls seem way too loose. But give it
a chance, and you'll soon get used to them.
The Bottom Line
Quarantine is an extremely fun and addictive game, with lots
of variety and humour. The designers weren't trying to win
any awards or show off with any jaw-dropping graphics; They
were just trying to make the kind of game that they would
enjoy playing, and which, hopefully, other people would
really enjoy, too. For me, they succeeded 100%.
DOS · by xroox (3895) · 2007
A fast-paced, maniacal 3d 'driving' game.
The Good
It is very fast paced, and also very gory.. but instead of the usual rip-the-guts-off-a-civilian it's more like maniacal, since you basically drive over every pedestrian you see and put the flamethrower and the sawblade to good use...
The Bad
The game can be a mess sometimes, not only graphically but sometimes the stupid taxicab gets stuck into things and the driving takes some time to learn.
Also the passenger time limits get very annoying in a bit.. and the game, finally, is quite repetitive.
The Bottom Line
A fun 3d shooter disguised into a driving game where you blast the living xxxx out any and everyone you see.
DOS · by RmM (68) · 1999
Trivia
The CD version of Quarantine includes a great soundtrack, featuring 11 Australian bands. There is no mention of this soundtrack in the manual, and there is only a brief/incomplete credit list at the end of the game. Here, then, is the complete soundtrack listing:
```
- Berlin Chair - You Am I
- The Driver Is You - The Fauves
- The Wahooti Fandango - Custard
- Ingrown - Smudge
- Lie Down Forever - Godstar
- Snail Trail - Screamfeeder
- Uranium Watch - The Daisygrinders
- Weak Will - Underground Lovers
- Whirlwind - Hellmenn
- Yellow Beam - Crow
- Now You Know - Sidewinder
```
You can buy CDs by (nearly all of) these bands at Greg's Music World: http://www.musicworld.com.au/
<hr />GameTek released a sequel in 1995: "Quarantine II: Road Warrior".
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Game added by xroox.
SEGA Saturn added by AkibaTechno. PlayStation added by Kabushi. 3DO added by Jeanne.
Additional contributors: Shoddyan, Ms. Tea, j.raido 【雷堂嬢太朗】, ケヴィン, Victor Vance, Skippy_Chipskunk.
Game added March 13, 1999. Last modified July 28, 2024.