Rating: 
Summary: Eh..
Review: This isn't "Unreal" as many of us know it.The weapons, at least for the first several missions, are boring and standard FPS fair. They removed / replaced all of the creative Unreal weaponry (more or less). Interesting things like the spider gun (a weak gun for direct fights) don't come along until later in game play. The missions aren't particularly creative. In fact, I'm pretty bored with the game now. Example: One has you put down gun turrets & electric fences to stop waves of baddies from reaching your ship. All of the missions thus far feel repetitive. It's difficult to remember which level I'm on because they all run so similar. The software's performance is very poor. It takes a monolithic machine to run this game with the options on and not have bad frames, frequent hitches, or other nasties. The voice acting isn't the worse I've heard in a game. Can be good or funny at times. Doesn't make up for it, though. Boring. With the announcement that the X-Box version will have multiplayer levels exclusive to the X-Box, it leaves me wondering what left-overs this PC version is going to get. All in all, it simply wasn't worth it. I should've spent the money on UT2k3, or something else. UT 3000? Isn't 2004 in the works? What am I missing here? ~Mysk
Rating:
Summary: Boring and bland
Review: My initial reaction to this game was that of annoyance - I wanted to start playing, but couldn't, because I had to wade through several minutes of unnecessary speech. I assumed this would be temporary, but no - the non-skippable "cinematics" and speeches are a painful part of this game.
That said, to call Unreal 2 a sequel would be an insult to the original - Unreal being a great game, from both visual and entertainment perspective. The new levels are good looking, but, like many have noted, short, linear and non-expansive. Compare this to the first Unreal, in which every level was large and varied. In addition, levels in Unreal connected very well together, and the bits of information pulled from electronic diaries were enough to understand the plot of the game; while Unreal 2 is quite the opposite - after every level you end up on the mother ship and have to take off to another planet (if you can sit through another boring "briefing" by someone who looks more like a Playboy Playmate than a member of military personnel).
Yes, Unreal 2 is very good looking, but that doesn't take away from the fact that it should be a shooting game, and not a sad attempt at a half-arsed RPG. People shouldn't have to sit through 5 minutes of speeches just to start the stupid game - it's a shooting game for god's sake, not Final Fantasy.
This game does have some redeeming qualities - the weapons are very interesting, for one thing. The levels are also different from one another visually. Also, the idea of having extra firepower on hand (Marine assistance) is fun every now and then. And... sorry, I can't think of anything else. The rest are cons - long, winded speeches about nothing in particular, weak plot, extremely long loading times (even for a machine less than a year old), linear gameplay (very little freedom) and restricted level structure. The game is also painfully short - it really can be finished in the matter of hours. I managed to actually finish it on my work computer within a week, playing half to an hour a day.
The original Unreal was very impressive, as it ran circles around Quake, visually. While this one looks nice, it lacks serious innovation. Sure, the poly counts are higher, but what else? Not much, apparently.
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Summary: the awakening
Review: This game is great and the graphics are the best I have ever seen on my ati 9700 pro 128mg video card. Dirk
Rating: 
Summary: Good, and that is about it.
Review: Well I have finished the game for the third time and feel I know enough to write an informative review. This game can be summed up pretty quickly really. Good, but certainly not great by any stretch of the imagination. For starters the game is just too short. On easy I went through in about 5 and a half hours. (And that wasn't done so quickly by me just running through the levels, and you cannot forward through the cutscenes either.) Visually the game looks awesome. I run it at 1600x1200 on a Radeon 9500 Pro. With anitaliasing and all the shadow effects and their "rag doll" physics engine running this is as good looking a game as I have seen. The flamethrower is a particularly fine example. The wash of flames looks GREAT! The plot is fairly typical. A number of artifacts that must combined for some effect are being uncovered and it is, of course up to you to reunite them. An ancient plotline that never dies in gaming. (Even when something perhaps should be decently allowed to rest, ah well we keep paying money for it, we're going to see it again and again.) Worse yet the plot gets a little whacked later in the game and eventually totally collapses itself in an effort to add some twist and be clever. I'd love to explain why but I would have to include spoilers which should never be in a review no matter how much we'd like to prove our point. It would seem that the gaming industry continues to take bad lessons from Hollywood. Just give em some eye candy and everything else will slide by. Well.......no it doesn't. Thankfully a little more went into than that. The weapons are sweet. (Did I mention the flamethrower?) All of em have an alt fire function as well. Then there are the stupid things that seem to always make their way into games now. Like it won't be more than 5 minutes before you are looking at exaggerated portions of a females anatomy. Are sales really so bad that they require the "sex appeal" angle to sell? No they are not. Then why is this in EVERY GAME I BUY? You are a ranking officer on a TCS Marshals ship, and wear tube tops showing as much cleavage as possible? What kind of ... is that? Yeah just the other day I saw a Prince Georges county policewoman who had cast away her UNIFORM and BODY ARMOR to show off her tattooed midriff and make it easier for someone to shoot her in the heart. Guess the programmers must have graduated from the Air Force academy. And people wonder why more women aren't gamers. The long and the short is this is a decent game with more than it's fair share of flaws conspiring with ignorance ensuring that it has no place among elite games. Enjoyable at times but far less than memorable, and so very far short of the "revolution" this game is hyped as.
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Summary: A very good game!
Review: I've always have liked the Unreal games. This is probably one of the best games I've ever played! It has great graphics, and I really enjoyed all the weapons the game had to offer. Before buying this game, I would recommend that you download and play the demo. The demo is just a very small slice of the game, and if you like the idea of the demo, you'll love this game. The game probably could've improved a bit on the dialogue. Also, it was a bit short, but I would prefer a great-short game over a bad-long game. This game ran very smoothly on my system (the settings were all set on the high). I have an AMD XP 2500+, 512 MB of DDR400 mhz (PC3200) RAM (Dual-Channel), and an ATI Radeon 9600 Pro. If you have a an older system, you may not get the smoothest or the best graphics.
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Summary: For god sakes...
Review: Ok here's a comparision for ya: Serious Sam :- Decent graphics (it's the Q3 engine ain't it?). Big guns. Big enemies. No plot. Run forward, kill, continue. every1 loves it. Unreal 2 :- Superb graphics. Big guns. Big enemies. No plot. Run forward, kill, continue. every1 pans it. Am I missing something important here...
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Summary: Next Generation Shooter
Review: Unreal II presents some of the best graphics in the business but at a price. The textures are very detailed and clear. There's a LOT of lighting in this game, and much of the lighting is dynamic. The metal surfaces look like--well, metal! Also, much of the art is very nice as well, and this game includes a level in a forest at night that is I believe the best looking level I've seen in any game. The price of all this splendor is that even a high end system often struggles under the load. I use a Dell Dimension 8300 equipped with a 3.0 GHz Pentium 4, 512 MB RAM, and a Radeon 9800 graphics card, and the game still locked up fairly often! Sheesh, what must you do to run these games smoothly? The sound in the game is good too, although not exceptional. The music is OK, but not as good as the music in the original Unreal. A common complaint I've seen about the game is that it is too short. I must have put more than ten hours into this game until completion. So I cannot complain too much about the length. Believe me, there's plenty of cool stuff in this game, so don't worry too much about the length. Luckily I experienced no problems at all with bugs! How often does that happen with a computer game? To sum it all up, Unreal II is definately a good game. It's not the "Second Coming" that a lot of previews hyped it up to be, but I cannot say I'm disappointed at all. If you like shooters, run a high end PC, and don't mind single player only, then Unreal II is worth a shot (no pun intended).
Rating:
Summary: Decent game...great graphics
Review: I don't know why all of these reviewers are bagging on this game. True, it's nothing original, and it's linear. But you could say the same thing about 95% of the FPS games on PC. The graphics are the best I've seen. A cutting-edge system makes them look all the better. The sci-fi worlds are very immersive and beautiful. Lots of cool structures, scenery and creatures. The game is a great escape from the world of work and/or wife. I paid 40 bucks for the game and got about 15 hours of entertainment out of it. Pretty good - less than three dollars an hour (a movie is two to three times that much). If you like FPS and science fiction type games, by all means, buy Unreal II. It's a good game.
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Summary: Yawn.
Review: Oooh, a three-dimensional, first-person shooter with RPG elements. There's an idea. Twats.
Rating:
Summary: urge to write scathing letter to Epic... rising!
Review: Unreal 2 is a mediocre at best. I never played the first game, so I came to Unreal 2 with virtually nothing except for my expectations from a few small previews. I was shocked and appaled. although the graphics engine is awesome, the game just sucks. the AI is serviceable, but lacks anything close to Half-Life's, which is more like the behavior of a real creature. there is a nice variety of weapons, but though they are admittedly cool, they are USELESS. all you really need is your futuristic magnum and assult rifle to beat the game. this game is about as bland as you can get. the character design is uninspired, going basically like: take normal earth animal. make bigger. add claws and other implements of destruction. and Perfecto! only one enemy actually has any uniqueness, but its also too hard to consider fun fighting
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