South Korea's Game Rating Administration Committee (GRAC) has done it again. With less than two months to go until this year's QuakeCon event, the committee has rated Quake 2 Remastered (via Gematsu).

GRAC does this a lot. In recent memory, not only did they leak a new League of Legends game and a new Silent Hill game, but they also leaked a remaster of the original Quake before it was announced and released at QuakeCon 2021. [The event will run from August 10 to August 13 and will be the convention's first in-person event since the Covid-19 pandemic began in 2020.

The ratings on the GRAC website are sparse in detail and mostly just describe Quake 2. A machine translation of the content says that the theme is "war against a hostile alien race, the Strogs, who plan to invade Earth," and that it contains "excessive violence. Still, I'm pretty excited; Quake2 is a formative game for me, and I remember sitting on my father's huge Fujitsu desktop playing it when I was six years old; the GRAC rating says it's not for children, but what do they know?

Quake 2 already has a pseudo-remaster in the form of "Quake 2 RTX," but this is more of a technical showpiece designed to show off the lighting wizardry that Nvidia's ray-tracing capable cards can achieve. There is still much more that could be accomplished with a more formal remastering.

When the "Quake 1" remaster was released, it came with MachineGames' all-new "Dimension of the Machine" expansion; fingers crossed that a similar remaster of the second game will follow.