It was a technical marvel, but the gameplay definitely wasn’t the best of its time and the art direction was sort of bland too. With other options, it just didn’t really click.
I didn’t play that one much multiplayer though. I will say that action quake 2 was awesome.
In my household playing multiplayer, we enjoyed Doom, the original quake (especially with mods like drastic reaper) and duke 3d, then the next really big multiplayer experience was unreal tournament which was and still is amazing.