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Summary: An amazing game.
Review: An alien world, gorgeous graphics, tricky monsters, good weapons assortment; there's a lot to like. On the other hand, I owned it for a year and a half before I owned a system that could truly run it well. Well, I'm certainly getting my money's worth now!
Rating:
Summary: An amazing game.
Review: An alien world, gorgeous graphics, tricky monsters, good weapons assortment; there's a lot to like. On the other hand, I owned it for a year and a half before I owned a system that could truly run it well. Well, I'm certainly getting my money's worth now!
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Summary: A little bit too flowery.
Review: First, I need to say that the stated minimum hardware requirements are a little misleading. In order to run Unreal properly, you really should have a G3, or perhaps a high clock speed 604 with an installed graphics accelerator. If you try to run it on the minimum config,the game speed and frame drop make the game nearly unplayable. Unreal has been marketed as a first-person shooter in the Doom/Quake/Duke Nukem vein. While there is that type of gameplay, there seems to be more of an emphasis on problem solving. In the first level, there is nothing to shoot, but you do have a lot of running around and figuring out how to get out of the level. There is a running theme to the game that is played out on a console that beeps from time to time. Part of the game seems to be reconstructing the story of those who came before. If you are looking for carnage and destruction, you should probably look elsewhere. If you are looking for a long and involved story that slowly unravels itself while you try to avoid being killed, this is the game for you. The graphics are incredibly detailed, and if you hook headphones to your Mac, you'll notice that the sound is 3D. The technical achievements are remarkable, but the gameplay seems a little weak.
Rating:
Summary: A little bit too flowery.
Review: First, I need to say that the stated minimum hardware requirements are a little misleading. In order to run Unreal properly, you really should have a G3, or perhaps a high clock speed 604 with an installed graphics accelerator. If you try to run it on the minimum config,the game speed and frame drop make the game nearly unplayable. Unreal has been marketed as a first-person shooter in the Doom/Quake/Duke Nukem vein. While there is that type of gameplay, there seems to be more of an emphasis on problem solving. In the first level, there is nothing to shoot, but you do have a lot of running around and figuring out how to get out of the level. There is a running theme to the game that is played out on a console that beeps from time to time. Part of the game seems to be reconstructing the story of those who came before. If you are looking for carnage and destruction, you should probably look elsewhere. If you are looking for a long and involved story that slowly unravels itself while you try to avoid being killed, this is the game for you. The graphics are incredibly detailed, and if you hook headphones to your Mac, you'll notice that the sound is 3D. The technical achievements are remarkable, but the gameplay seems a little weak.
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Summary: UNREAL? FUN!!!
Review: I recently purchased Unreal for my 500MHZ Mac with 192 megabytes of RAM and 32mb 3-D acceleartor card of some sort with mac 10 os. With Medium-High Details at a 640x480 resolution with 16-bit color, I gain nearly 30fps avg! Unreal with full 3-D hardware acceleration looks great, especially for it's time. Sound is good, and so is music. Game play is fun, and storyline is and is presented interestingly. Once you beat the game tho and play online a milion times in all difficulties as well in sp the game gets boring unless you go around summoning creatures and making them battle. Or if you know how to use the Unreal editor there's a lot more to do. Unreal rocks overall!
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Summary: This old dog can show the new one's a thing or two......
Review: It's getting old, but Unreal is still a worthy contender in the FPS genre.The plot, such as it is, starts you off, badly injured, in a crashlanded prison ship, apparently alone. As you look for a way offworld, you penetrate deeper into the domain of alien invaders who have enslaved the benovolent native population. Gameplay is smooth and the levels are innovative and cleverly designed. One niggle is that it's easy to get stuck, unsure where the way out of the current level is meant to be, but it usually becomes plain sooner or later. The weapons....pretty good, and quite innovative. Pleasingly, the 'start gun' can be upgarded, so you actually can use it later on in the game. Other weapons include the brutal Flak Cannon (best used at close range) and the Biorifle, a powerful but frustrating short-range weapon that fires globs of corrosive sludge. The AI is credible. Enemies dodge out of the way of your attacks, use cover, attempt to sneak up behind you and attack in order to neutralise the strengths of the weapon you're using. The scenery is excellent, and better for the low specs it needs. Too many games become enraptured with providing the latest kewl FX, resulting in a one-frame-per-second speed. The scenery is absolutely incredible, with misty canyons, polluted rivers and islands in the sky being just some of the things on offer. The multiplayer is good, as well. The AI bots are truly deadly--at skill level 3, you just can't lay a finger on them. Problems with the game are few, but niggling. First of all, there just aren't enough enemies at once, apart from one or two set-pieces. Ever since Doom, too many FPS games throw the enemies at you in groups of one or two. I miss the "one man vs an army" feel. Secondly, too many of the weapons are ineffective or almost impossible to use right. With the Biorifle and Razorjack, for example, it's possible to kill yourself just as easily as the enemy if mishandled. Also, once you've completed it once, the higher difficulty levels don't really add anything. Despite that, a good game overall and well worth a look as one of the games that moved the genre forward.
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Summary: I was supposed to write this review during 1999 but....
Review: That review was postponed to now. Anyway, I guess you can say Unreal is..."UNREAL". It ran fine on my Pentium Pro 200Mhz Compact PC, 104 MB SDRAM, S3 Software-Accelerated 8MB Video card....VIA 3.0 SoundMAX audio...bla bla bla!.....The storyline is lame. This game is sick!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There are blood and gore everywhere!! There are pools of BLOOD!! When creatures blow up it makes me sick!! I'm just saying this game is too realistic and has lame gameplay and storyline. It ran fine on my previous systems I mentioned before but it ran absolutley INCREDIBLE on my AMD ATHLON 1Ghz, 256 MB DDR SDRAM, NVDIA GeForce 2 64MB Pro, CREATIVE LABS Sound Blaster Live! 3-D Digital 1024V Value 5.1, bla bla bla. Still, I could raise the resolution to 1024x768+2X antilaising and 32-bit color and I STILL got an decent frame per second....even though it does lagg alot. Still, it was incredible. But then it was so realistic I coudn't help but vommit. This game is nasty. Don't get it...gamers that are disgusted by realistic 3-D blood and gore out there....trust me on this one...take my advice, please!!
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Summary: Wow! So beautiful...you almost hate to blow it up.
Review: This is a great game! A little lacking on story, but what do you care? You've got aliens to kill, and some exotic weapons to do it with! All that's missing is the ability to kick down the doors, instead of waiting for them to open....
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Summary: Wow! So beautiful...you almost hate to blow it up.
Review: This is a great game! A little lacking on story, but what do you care? You've got aliens to kill, and some exotic weapons to do it with! All that's missing is the ability to kick down the doors, instead of waiting for them to open....
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Summary: Unreal is great
Review: This was one of the first full 3D games that I played on my iMac and I have always loved it.
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