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Summary: Just a word
Review: Let me just say something; people complaining that the game has a slow framerate don't understand how computers work, especially when they have a Geforce 2100+ card (no names... lol). That card is not NEARLY good enough to run this game. You need an ATI Radeon 8600 to run this game to its full extent, considering it has bump mapping, an absurd amount of polys, etc. And 128 mb for your graphics card? Pleez. This game needs at least 256 to run smoothly. So please, before you complain that the game is too slow and all that, make sure your computer can handle it. Read the bottom of the friggin box.
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Summary: Mediocrity at its best
Review: Great graphics, but like so many games in the FPS genre, the story is banal, uninspired, and generally unworthy of the programmers who made the engine. This linear game never drew me into it...I felt that I was just running around shooting things. That may be fun enough for some people, but considering the hundreds of titles and _free_ mods that are at least as fun for the occassional frag fest, it just doesn't make sense to drop $ on this one.Half-Life, System Shock 2, and Homeworld are all games that, unlike Unreal2, transport you to their world for a little while, making you a major character in a living plot. Unreal 2, my friends, is no Half-Life. It has better graphics, but it is less fun. If you aren't looking for something just to show off your new graphics card, I suggest you look elsewhere.
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Summary: ...
Review: if you loved unreal tournament,don't buy this game. thay have taken a first class deathmatch game and turned it into a ... duke nukem type game. when will these nurds learn to stop messing up a good thing?
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Summary: Lots of hype, great graphics...and nothing else!
Review: Unreal 2: The Awakening, a game that myself and thousands of other gamers waited anxiously for years to be finally released. The time finally comes that I get my hands on the game and all that I can really say is that...it was NOT worth the wait! The graphics are awesome, there's no question there...BUT! A ponderous, boring storyline that could've been written by a twelve year old cutting and pasting from old comics coupled with gameplay that reminds me of two dimensional titles off of the old Super Nintendo console rather than something cutting edge make this a real let down... Legend..! You've put out some great multiplayer games in the past but I'm starting to think you no longer have a clue how to make a great single-player driven title! Get with it!
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Summary: UNREAListicly Disappointing!
Review: This is NOT a game that has anything to do with the original title. I did not get involved, couldn't care less about the characters or the story, it took me all of two afternoons to finish it off and was a great disappointment since I was a great fun of the first and couldn't wait to get my hands on the "sequel" - which it is not.
Way too heavy yet quite average graphics, majorly annoying mussle-flashes and stacato action. I have seen the same trick again: immediatly after Baldur's Gate Interplay put out Icewind Dale half-baked filled it up with a disproportionate number of foes and with only half the intented lenght - in order to sell the expantion 6 months down the road.
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Summary: I liked it a lot, but it could have had more
Review: This is going to sound like a lot of the other reviews, but it's how I saw the game. Graphics are indeed awesome, but weaker systems will be struggling. The gameplay is good, despite how some other people describe it. Some missions have you trying to defend your positions with force fields and auto-turrets, and sometimes they throw in Marines you can order around. All around neat and fun. Going back to your own ship between (most) levels is a cool feature too, but it could have had more. It helps to flesh out the game background more, but not nearly enough. I was hoping for some kind of timeline-connection to the original Unreal. The ship's crew are entertaining, but only the first time; though sometimes I go back to hear Issak describe my weapons. I wanted more interaction, more options, more you could do with having your own room on the ship. In short: could have had more. What will really disappoint people is the lack of connection to Unreal. The Prisoner character from the last game never makes a return, nor is ever mentioned. His antagonists, the Skaarj, appear a few times in the game, but it's not explained at all. Sad as it is for me to say this, Unreal 2 seems to have less to do with Unreal than Quake 2 and 3 had to do with each other (that's an insult, for you non-gamers). I'm still giving it four stars because I had a blast playing it, but it still lacked the elements we Unreal fans wanted.
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Summary: California Blonde
Review: Unreal II is much like the stereotype of a California Blonde. It is absolutely beautiful, but not much going on upstairs. The game undoubtably contains some of the finest graphics available, and it appears this is where the developers invested most of their time and money. The game is plagued by poor AI, and out-of-place voice acting. All this is tied together with a poorly written script. Still despite these major annoyances, the game is still fun in its own mindless rights. If your looking for a new First Person Shooter that requires minimal thought, and your only interest is running and gunning, then this game is for you.
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Summary: Seriously Flawed, But Still Very Fun
Review: This game has been taking a lot of heat lately, and it's understandable. It has a few major problems that keep it from being a great, even revolutionary game. First the cons, then the pros: Cons: The story is terrible, in my opinion. Very generic, tired character concepts, disapointing ending. Personally, I don't care about the plot of a shooter, I just want to kill things. But some people care. The game is way too short. It'll take you 12 hours tops to beat, tops. And the game is mediocre in certain areas where I expected it to excel. They really hyped the AI, which turned out only slightly better than average, they hyped the "roleplaying" elements and speech system, which are very minimal and leave an extremely linear plot and equally linear levels. Oh well. Pros: Along with UT2003, the best graphics of any FPS out, hands down. It'll stay that way until Doom 3 comes out, judging by the previews I'm seeing for other games. Beautiful weapon effects, cool enemies, diverse scenery across several different planets. Colorful without going overboard. Exceptional graphics. The weapons are good. A couple of them are worthless, like the spidergun (which replaced the leech gun, which never made it into the final game) and the takkra, which are those floating ball attack drones that you get in only two levels and do almost no damage. But most are cool. Everything has a double trigger. At least a dozen different weapons, plus you can set up drone guns in certain levels. Great sniper rifle, very cool grenade launcher that fires 6 different grenade types. Best flamethrower I've ever seen. Good control except that your character runs a bit slowly because of his power armor. Decent sound. While the game lasts, since it is short, I think it's a blast almost the whole way through. Except this one level where you just kill hordes of giant neon spiders over and over and over again. I don't have much free time so I don't care that it's short, and the plot doesn't bother me because I expect video game plots to be bad unless they're RPGs, so I loved this game. Bottom line: I think it's a good buy, but not the revolutionary must-have game that I was expecting.
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Summary: Ok, but could have been more
Review: Just finished the game, and have to say I was dissapointed overall. The graphics on a few of the levels were stunning, but on many of the other levels the graphics weren't that much better then in Unreal. The game did not allow you much chance for exploration; there was generally only one way to solve a problem. At several points through the game, I felt it lacked imagination.
After playing Deux Ex(which uses the Unreal game engine), I though Deux Ex was a much better game overall. I didn't have any problem with frame rate on my computer, and I had all the goodies turned on. I have a 1.4G computer with 1G ram with a GeeForce 3 video card.
Overall, the game had it's moments and I'm not sorry I bought it, but it could have been so much more. Next I'll need to play with their editor...
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Summary: Beauty with no brains
Review: Awesome graphics but no real content. The gameplay and story are just a recycled mishmash of other fps titles. Aside from the eye candy, there is nothing innovative or memorable here at all. It should have been half price at most.
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