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Total Immersion

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 04, 1998
Author: Amazon User

Of all the first person shooters inexistance, very few surround you with the level immersion as does Unreal. First the levels are not like indivisual levels. You dont beat a level and boom, your at the beginning of the next. The transitions are much more smooth from one level to another, with nothing but a brief pause indicating your entry. If you can manage the system requirement, there simply is no better game graphic-wise. The textures are rich and intricate and the use of effect are stunning. The intro alone is breathtaking. The most important part of immersion (in my opinion) is ambient sounds, not music, those little sounds you hear as you hack your way through the world. The screeching birds, the eery far off screams of poor souls, and every other little chirp or squeak or grunt. They are simply perfect. Try keeping your mouth closed the first time you play the game when you have to witness a horrendous murder befor you can pass the door. In conclusion, there is only one word to describe this game...Unreal...

Unreal will clearly redefine the future of all pc games.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 19, 1998
Author: Amazon User

Unreal is UNREAL!!

Quake? Huh?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 02, 1998
Author: Amazon User

This 3d shooter is astounding! The graphics grab Quake2 by the hair and drag it in the dirt! Walking up to a wall reveals fine detail, not an out-of-focus blur that makes you want to have your eyes checked. The textures themselves are very detailed and quite colorful, making the gamer wonder why he ever put up with Quake2's 'variety.' The beautiful textures work very well with the ambient sounds and dramatic lighting to create a real sense of atmosphere. The background of chanting in a temple made of exquisite stone draws you out of the seat in front of the computer and into the temple, facing a detailed Nali as he meditates and suddenly vanishes with a flash of light.

Of course, why watch the Nali meditate, when there is probably a Skaarj waiting around the corner to ambush you. Pull out that eight-ball cannon, load it up with 6 rockets, and nuke the bad guy (or just sneak around and shoot him in the head with your high-powered sniper rifle). The enemies are intelligent, dodging your rockets and balls of slime with ease. Of course, you find it almost intuitive to jump out of the way of his fire balls, and the controls are plenty smooth to handle your jumping in fear, which happens often.

Ah, multiplayer. Traditional quakers will find the multiplay in Unreal slow and thoughtful. Gone are the one-shot kills (unless you take the time to aim at the guy's head with the rifle), and the feeling of death all around is absent. After a good game of Quake deathmatch, Unreal deathmatch almost seems like a game of chess. There is no one weapon that covers every situation, and none of the weapons are as powerful as the Quake rocket launcher, so one on one battles last much longer, keeping the gameplay very tense. Whether you prefer Unreal to Quake deathmatch depends on what type of person you are, but I find both enjoyable.

In the beginning, the internet play was dismall, lag was predominant, and the second long pause between pressing the trigger and actually shooting predominated, but that problem has fortunately been eradicated, though you'll have to download the latest patch to enjoy the improvement.

To sum up: if you like any 3d shooters, you'll probably like Unreal, and if you haven't played a 3d shooter, Unreal is a good one to cut your teeth on.

LOOK AT THE PRICE.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is a fantastic classic first person shooter. Good adventure.. By looking at the unreal price on unreal you shouldn't have to consider buying it or not.. Buy it.. thats an amazing price for a great game.

Very fun Multiplayer

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I first saw this game in action at a dusty little apple store, and i was intrigued by the graphics. I decided to buy it for my PC. Now i've never touched any computer game before this, so i can't compare it to quake or any of those other games. I love the multiplayer cooperative mode, and the final patch ... fixes all the network and hardware problems with the initial release, and finally added much needed support for my Nvidia graphics card. (Software-rendering mode is super-ugly). Definatly a classic!

This is the most amazing game I've played, until half-life!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

When the day I got unreal and tried it, I loved it so much I started calling up friends and telling them how incredible that
game was, the gameplay is one of best gameplay ever experienced
in a game, you are a prisoner in a prisoner vessel heading
to a prison moon believed to be called(the prison ship):Vortex
Rikers. But when the skaarj detect you and pull you on to the once peaceful planet of NaPali, then all goes wrong!your best friend gets eaten by a skaarj, you barely manage to escape a now turned to a skaarj slaughter prison vessel, you reach outside grounds and say this can't be real, no it's not, it's UNREAL!Unreal takes you through 39 heart beating, breath taking missions, where you fight for life to survive, collecting items
like defenses and weapons, travel through temples, facilitys, castles, bases, mountians, journey through what napali has to offer, and end up and the skaarj mothers ship, confronting the queen skaarj.......unaided and alone!I would indenefinetley recommend this game to first person sci-fi fan shooters!

One of the best shooter em' up of all time

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is so incredible,the graphics, the sound quality, the digital music, the gameplay, the AI, everything about it....When I first stepped outside of the prison ship using opengl support(Using 3d hardware rendering on your 3d video card), along with 3dhardware support, sound quality at maxium, and using a pentium2 350, tnt 3d video card, 128 sdram, and 16 mb of harddrive space, it ran incredible, it was UNREAL.But I've been hearing about why 3dfx support from voodoo video cards looks so incredible, I've been wondering that it's more incredible that opengl or direct3d support.Still, this game {kicks behind}!!!!!BUy it!!!!!only 7 dollars today, stop by at eletronics boutique and buy this game!!!!!(I reccomend at least a shiny new pentium two, a whole lot of memory, for a example, 128mb of sdram, 6gs of harddrive space, and a powerful 3d sound card, and a 3d video card with lot's of ram on it.)

UNREAL!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is sooooo awesome. I grew up with this game as a little girl, watching my dad play it, because i was too scared i refused to. Then i got a few years older and began playing it myself. I just beat it again a few days ago. But the point is this video game is everything a video game should be. Really scary (I can't play it in the dark)-and without all the unnecessary swearing and other things that can bring a good game down. Epic gaming really improved things by creating this game....without it i would be a different person. I am a non-violent person, but this game changed my life.

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