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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.

Fun as hell

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The game may be old, but it's still fun as hell. The scenery and graphics are really not that bad at all. Quite a change from "traditional" fps games... which is definitely a good thing.

Awsome game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I played unreal when I was 9 and beat it in a week.
The game is just plain awsome. Unfortenutly that was 7 years ago and I doubt this will work on XP but when Im at his house I always play this amazing game. The begining is friggin scary when youre in the abandon space ship and all you hear are the lives of the sapce crew screaming and beging for there lives.
Later you soon find out that they are being torn apart by these disturbing creatures or aliens I might say. More games should be like this.
The only game to be like this would probably be The suffering cause you here the voices of the CO's getting torn apart by weird disturbing creatures. Maybe not the only game but there a little few games that are like UNreal.
The begining parts were the best for me. The scream the horror. I think this is suppose to be a survival horror game. I donno but Get this game but I think they dont make this game any more? Any ways get this and UNREAL TURNEMENT. AWSOME GAMES!

Unbelievable

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Title says it all. Unreal is UNREAL, and I've been caged playing older generation games such as Quake and Duke Nukem 3D, since I haven't had an upgrade for my computer ina while. I have an N64, and games on that system are ok. But unreal is a true 3-D epic masterpeice mixed with run-n-gun oldskool familiar enjoyable game-play, and I really do enjoy playing it. It mixes a familiar most popular 3-D shooter genre with an amazing sense of adventure, and a awesome gameplay with great 3-D hardware acceleration use. The title says it all, pretty much. With my 3DFX Voodoo 2, 16mb video memory, I can play the game at a 800x600 resolution with all maxed out qual preferences 24-bit color along with MMX support and bilinear filtering and texture mapping plus alpha blending and awesome fogging intentisy techniques with bump-mapping support with SPETACULAR dynamic lightning effects and real-time realistic environments with an endless multiplayer universe and superior A.I, with a use friendly easy to use level editor, and true 3-D textures and smooth animation with transparent glass(breakable and dirty), water, and amazing sky effects and features, combined with non-stop action 39 heart-pounding punishing single player levels. WOW. And it came out in early 1998. With the latest 226f patch combining all the latest technical improvements and features, with full friendly technical support, it is truly unreal. And unreal also has a sequel, a expansion pack, another game based on it but is very popular massive fps named unreal tournament with a sequel and another sequel to it's sequel coming down the line by this fall, and many games that use it's holy to behold unreal engine, and this game for about a very cheap price, anyone will love thie xperience, and is a long and lasting enjoyable one as well.

Unreal was UNREAL...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: May 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Until now. In 1998, Unreal was absolutely a beatiful masterpeice to behold, that made me drool so badly it made my drool like hoemr simpson at an all you can eat BBQ restraunt, and made R.I.P Quake II to Unreal, it was a graphical god, making incredible splendid use of lens flares and colors with true support from MMX and 3Dnow! intructions supporting processors. Making the best use of Voodoo class 3-D grafic accelerator boards with 3DFX, tagged along with impressive and well designed A.I with an innovative storyline and immerse game-play with well animated environments and realistic environmental reverb and spatial and background 16-bit quailty sound effects with support from A3D sound boards with awesome techno audio and 24-bit color support from grafics cards and upport from Windows 95 to Windows NT platform with both great single player and good multiplayer modes, software rendering support, brilliant character developement, and a variety of nicely paired preferences and designed menus, and more, unreal was the ultimate technological game with great game-play, making John Carmack's Quake II look like nothing. Yet by today's standards, unreal is nothing but a cheesey cheap low system requirements oldskool 3-D game. You'll only be able to find it in bargain bins, unfortunately. Back in 1998, it had an incredible new platform engine for amazing technological achievement. Also including a friendly easy to use fully supported unofficial level and mod editor and creator tool, unreal was not game to get bored of easily. Unless you had a top of the line or near 1998 system, you woudn't get the incredible experience out of unreal that the masters at epic and digital extremes designed unreal to originally specifically offer. I just picked up a copy of unreal, and was not impressed. I spent almost 10 minutes on the game with highest settings with my new Alienware with the latest P4 processor with Windows XP. Sure it looked decent and ran great, but then again, it was not a good experience. Too bad there wasn't a time machine, so I can see what unreal was all legendary and about back then. But that isn't possible, so I'll pass on unreal.

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.)

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!

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!

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.

Gorgeous but marred by shallow gameplay

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

It still amazes me how good this game -- now over two and a half years old -- looks. Sure, the top of the line PC stuff is definitely prettier now, mainly due to higher polygon counts. But we have yet to achieve a quantum leap in graphics quality equivalent to what "Unreal" and "Quake 2" accomplished in late '97/early '98 (just compare "Unreal" to the previous year's "Jedi Knight" to see what I mean). To this day the game's textures are flat-out gorgeous, particularly the ones on the "Vortex Rikers," "Terraniux" and "Dark Arena" levels.

That said, the gameplay is pretty weak. I came to "Unreal" after having played "Half-Life" -- still the penultimate single-player first-person-shooter (FPS) experience -- and "Unreal" didn't even come close. I could barely be bothered to play halfway through the game. Only the lure of new graphics ahead kept me playing, but I never finished it. While "Half-Life" keeps you intrigued with lots of in-game scripted moments, a plot containing at least a few twists, and a series of unforgettable sequences that leave you shaking your head saying "That was so cool," "Unreal" just throws endless levels at you. And buttons to push, and levers to throw, and doors to open. Sure, the enemy AI is pretty good (for its time -- "Half Life" put that to shame as well), but the number of different monster-types is pretty low, and there's no context for any of it after the first few levels. The action isn't intense enough to hold interest by itself. To borrow an apt phrase, there's no "there" there.

Still, the atmosphere is amazing, and more than enough to justify buying "Unreal" given its now-low price. Some of the moments are simply breathtaking -- first emerging from the crashed ship into Nyleve's Falls; walking around the outside of the Coliseum in "Dark Arena"; and above all the approach to Terraniux, when the setting suns backlight the huge looming spaceship that dominates the landscape. There is also some fine architecture -- "Dark Arena" and "Sunspire" spring readily to mind -- but remember there is a difference between designing a cool building and creating a really great game level. The music is great too, although sadly not in Redbook format, so you can't just play the tunes off the CD.

Bottom line: if you haven't bought "Unreal," and your system has the appropriate specs, pick it up. It's a piece of gaming history and still pretty darn gorgeous. But don't expect a seminal gaming experience. Expect instead a sublime "it-might-have-been."

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