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Summary: not worth the money
Review: This game does have some great graphics, but there is a HUGE lack of game-play. All the missions are short and linear, there's only one way to do anything. Like a previous reviewer said, you go along a path, kill some people, then run to the objective. There's only one path to take, you cannot get lost or take neat side-trips, you do it the one way or no way.The weapons are kinda neat, but you cannot effectively use but 2-3 of them to get anywhere. The baddies always do the same thing, attack the same way. And you can EASILY finish the game in about 10 hours the first time. Then you can finish in about half that time from then on. Someone got lazy when then designed this game. When the price drops [lower] in the bargain bin, THEN you should think about buying this game.
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Summary: Excellent game, with superior graphics
Review: UNREAL 2 is a definate buy for all FPS lovers!! With an excellent storyline, sound, and visual effects this game decimates all other FPS games on the market at this time! Like I said before, this is a must buy for all FPS fanatics; if you dont belive me, check out the single player demo, you wont be dissapointed!! HAPPY GAMING :D
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Summary: Great Graphics? Not!
Review: I don't understand why everybody puts in the obligatory "stunning graphics"; the fact of the matter is this game is just ugly. I bought this game hoping that it would look as good as Unreal Tournament 2003, but it's not even close. What's worse, it requires you to have twice as powerful a machine (as UT2003) to look at muddy enviroments with no sense of color theory. The graphics are okay, but hardly "beautiful"; its more of a disappointment because of all the hype about the new "engine". The visuals are as good as any other game out there, but they should have been better. (And no, it's not my system: just look at the screenshots at unreal2.com).
The fact is, the Unreal Tournament games looked better, and were more fun to play. Designers need to stop thinking just in terms of detailed textures, and think about visual appeal. Lessons could be learned from art school graduates; games need the same level of graphic professionalism as movies (disney, pixar, lucasfilm).
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Summary: Excellent fun!
Review: Say goodbye to any spare time you have! Visuals are beautiful and the game is a lot of fun.
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Summary: Sure it's pretty, but it's just another space based FPS.
Review: Yeah the graphics are nice, but after the first 15-20 minutes of playing this game I got the feeling that I had done all this before. All the weapons have an alternate fire mode which is a nice touch but these days a pretty graphics engine alone just doesn't cut it. If you are a big fan of first person shooters then go ahead and fork out the dough, but the gameplay is just stale. I guess Infogrames did what it wanted to do with this game, which was basically just to show off their pretty graphics engine.
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Summary: ROCKS
Review: This game rocks! I have never seen such good graphics and the gameplay is wonderful. The plot is nothing we havent seen before but one way or the other for 29.00$ you cant freakin' beat it.
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Summary: Why was Unreal1 more fun than Unreal2?
Review: I regularly buy a new game every two months. I sorely regret this one. This game is very similar to the HalfLife Mod packaged as "GunMan Chronicals". Except that I believe its' authors used quite a bit of imagination so the game did not seem to be a 100% linear path. Not so for Unreal2; quite soon it becomes apparent that there is only one way-out. Only one path exists to advance onward. It wouldn't be so bad if the AI in the game was not such a excellent shot and without any fear of your hero. It looks nice but you can't explore much at all. Vast areas are unclimbable unlike "Jedi Knight2 Jedi Outcast" or "Quake2". Ambiance is so so in Unreal2. Visuals are nice, but there is always something missing I felt in each area. More live bystanders and harmless fauna would have increased the ambiance greatly. Initially empty halls, rooms, and caves left me bored. The slug-outs when the baddies arrived were not unusual compared to other hit games of two years prior. Way too much time and action is spent in human built architecture and not enough in alien built structures. And when your name is UNREAL II it should be unreal unhuman AND unpredictable the second time.
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Summary: All flash and no substance
Review: Nice visuals (although it would be nice to skip the dialogue scenes - didn't see an option for that), but the story was sparse, the action was very linear (didn't seem to matter what you did, so long as you didn't get killed) and the "non-action" scenes (dialogue on the ship) wasn't that interesting - I tried to interact with the characters, always clicked on them to see if they had any additional information, or something to further character development, but nothing beyond basic interaction. If the game was just to be judged on looks, it's a winner, although the cost sometimes is gameplay (the last scene was very choppy for me, unlike the rest of the game).
To give an example of the linear aspect of the game, there is a section where you have to lay sniper cover for a Marine who is trying to activate the power to your elevator (which you are now stuck on the top of). It seems to not matter how bad you are at protecting him, eventually he'll activate the power anyway. You could probably just ignore him (if I'm bored I'll try this).
The graphics are state of the art, the gameplay is circa 1992...
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Summary: not as good as it could be
Review: The current price ...is now about what you should pay for the game. The game was too short. It took me about nine hours to beat (I'm an experienced gamer). My computer is new it had some troulbe handling it, but not much. The graphics and sound kept up, but when there were lots of enemy AIs on the field it had trouble and became choppy. The variety of missions was nice, some all out frag while others made you think about tactics for defending terrain and NPCs. The story line was a little shallow. Gameplay and controls were easy to learn and the variety of weapons was fun...
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Summary: Superb graphics & sound but bland plot
Review: I was really looking forward to the release of Unreal 2, and bought it almost immediately when it came out in the stores. I was blown away by the graphics and sound. However, within a week or so, I was done with it. The plot is hackneyed and linear, and the game seems a bit too short. This wouldn't be so bad if it had good multiplayer, but there is actually NO multiplayer. I played it through a second time and then sold it. I'd recommend Raven Shield, the new Tom Clancy shooter, as it uses the same superb game engine as Unreal 2 but includes great multiplayer.
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