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Compares quite well to the Quake Series.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: April 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I picked up Unreal Gold recently for $10 dollars at a local computer store. Upon loading the game and firing it up I was totally devastated by its graphics and gameplay. In short this game is phat!!

Unreal Gold is the retail package that contains the full version of Unreal and its mission pack. For a mere $10 dollars you get one of the best gaming experiences to ever grace the PC. The latest version is patched to 226b, so stability is not an issue. The game is coded to run accelerated on Glide or Direct3D. I'm running the game on a Pentium III 850MHz processor with 256MB of RAM and a 64MB GeForce2 Ultra video card with anti-aliasing enabled. Naturally the game runs smoothly, even with 32-bit color selected and a screen resolution of 1024x768.

Which brings me to the system requirements: you'll want to have at least a Pentium II class processor and 64MB of RAM available. The game will run lesser machines but I recommend a 3D graphics card in those cases to handle the video chores.

Basically, Unreal puts you in the roll of a prisoner whose crash landed on a world run by reptilian creatures called the Skaarj. Your goal is survival: you run around in one of the most beautiful game engines on the planet and take out the enemy.

Unreal has to be seen to be believed. The graphics and gameplay are excellent and anyone whose interested in first-person shooters needs to have this in their collection. Believe me your collection is not complete without it.

Best fps every.No doubt about that.It kickss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: May 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I love unreal.I'll say it again I love it.Everything about it.The gorgeous graphics that I think are better than half-life's.The realistic enviorments.The digital incredible music fitted for the game it'self.The Very, Very intelligent AI.THe incredible gameplay.THe story line.Multiplayer.Singleplayer.All of it is incredible.The weapons actually have rust on it and are dirty, now that's what I call realstic.Unlike in unreal tournament.The weapons in that game are clean and polished.I just love this game.Have the expansion to it and unreal tournament.The entire series.I can't wait till unreal2 come's out.I've looked at some screen shots.Look just as incredible as unreal did 4 years ago.I've been playing unreal for 2 years now!Decided to pick up gold I love it sooo much.Can't wait till unreal championship comes out either.I even got my self and xbox for it(WHat it's for).I reccomend this game for fps gamers.I reccomend at least a shiny new pentium 2 300 mhrz, 8mb 3d video card, directx6, directx7 compatible sound card, at least 8mb free of harddrive space.128mb of pcisdram 100mhrz at least.Anything below that unreal won't run at all or will run like garbage.I reccomend unreal gold, or even totally unreal.Just buy it and enjoy it.Your welcome.

Good Old School Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

By all standards, this is now a very old single player game. However it is not to be set aside lightly. The graphics are very good (They were the cutting edge back in the day)considering the game design is over 10 years old. It says a lot about the quality of the program that this game got to be over 10 years old and it still gets great reviews. This is the GOLD version which is an update and advance on the original game. It just got better ...more chapters, more bad guys to shoot. The game plot and action is fun! (Way fun, really!) I have been through this game multiple times over the years and I still enjoy pulling this game out from time to time and "Shooting some bad guys". This is a good game to pull out on a rainy day and let the kids play. Old school or not it has enough in it to amuse even the hardest core game player. If there is a down side to this game it has to be that it is so totally adictive. Beware and Enjoy!

Thundering Destruction

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

A game with fast pace FPS play. The graphics are excellentas is the audio.
Play this on a full blown comp system and let your senses run wild! The weaponry is superb. From the Shield Gun to the Redeemer I was impressed with all the capability that each weapon has. But the most awesome part of this game is the beautiful graphics. The beauty of the Takara Rainforest is just one of the amazing worlds to see and experience. So grab a hand full of mayhem generating weaponry and slaughter all in your path.

The most influential game of all time!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game has awesome graphics for its time, and runs flawlessly on almost any system. If your going to run this game on a dated system, make sure you have a good graphics card (like an ATI rage Pro, Nvidia TNT 2, or Voodoo 2) and a decent sound card. Again, the graphics are absolutely incredible on high detail, 1024x768 or higher, and the sound will blow your mind, especially on 5.1 surround sound. On the highest settings, the graphics are almost compareable to UT2004. The story line is great and the gameplay is very good. The intense multiplayer is sweet, and is where the idea for the original Unreal Tournament came from. Also, Unreal is the first game to have such enviormental features as waterfalls, and birds that you can shoot. This is my all time favorite game because of its shear fun. The weapons are unique and awesome, and both the multiplayer and singleplayer maps are beautiful and well designed. The story mode takes a bit to get into, but once you get ten minutes into it, you can't put it down. The only negative is the skill of the bots in botmatch. You can't really practice if you cant even go near a bot without literally being blown to pieces, let alone kill them. Aside from that minor setback, this is the best game ever made!

Unreal? What real anyways?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This Game is very old, but the Game it self still stands as an inovation in the 3D FPS world. It's Level's and Total MODability stand next to none at the time and it's ability to handle out door areas with viers height where amazing.

I really was fond of this game and when I saw I could get another copy to replace the one that i lost i had to jump on it. But it's an old Game with dated graphics.

The Best PC Game Ever!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome.Unreal will almost make you believe that it is Unreal.The story starts when your prsoner ship, Vortex Rikers, crashes on an undiscovered planet called Na Pali.At first your goal is to escape.But then,you must help save the Nali from enslavement and there aggressors,the Skaarj.You progress the planet looking for a craft.When the adventure concludes,you must defeat the Nali's missile launching Demonlord,Daimon,at Nali Castle.Then you progress to the Mothership to assassinate the Skaarj Queen and use her private escape pod to flee the planet.

Return to Na Pali was pathetic.Your escape pod is recruited by the crew of Bogeda Bay, another spaceship.You are forced to find a crashed ship and recover the elusive weapon logs from the wreckage.When you call for backup, they send in Marines to kill you because you are a security risk to the weapon project.You elude your killers and must progress the planet once more to find a nearby Marine post,and their space shuttle because it is your only escape.In the end,you get awaywith the logs,and Bogeda Bay is destroyed by one of their own missiles.

Altogether a great game...

Too GOOD!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: August 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I bought Unreal Gold a couple of months ago. The graphics were the first thing that I noticed. Beautiful scenery which changes from indoors to outdoors continually. The music changes in light of the scenery and what you would be feeling like if you were actually there, a newly 'released' prisoner on a new planet, surrounded by beauty and the unknown.. The story line kept me hooked. The plot sped up as my skills did and the challenges were rewarded. Each level was better and better. I love the rusted look to the guns. The feeling of age and mystery to the scenes this creates is compelling. The translator messages you get from the people are enough to create the plot and get you hooked into the feelings of the people as they must have been dying, out on a cold planet killed by an unstoppable, unknown alien. It feels like you really are there. It's wonderful.

Buy it!

I had to go out and buy Unreal Tournament Game of the Year after this. It is also amazing although completely different. I cannot wait until the new ones come out. I am upgrading my PC, getting DSL and getting a new joystick so that I can play UNREAL online, where it is even heavier. ENJOY!

One of the greatest adventure\ action games

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: September 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The sound\grapics and the big seenary whit a skin crawling music\sound, makes this game very entertainment to play.

It ain't no "Unreal Tournament"--it is an "almost"

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 21
Date: December 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The main difficulty I have with Unreal Gold is certainly not the low price, but the low graphics. See, I have to run it in Software Mode. Sure I "only" have a two year old Pentium II DELL R350, with 128 SDRAM and an S3 Graphics card with 32 meg, but this game should have a patch for this game to run in something other than software mode. My suggestion: Stick with Unreal Tournament--an awesome single or multiplayer game and avoid this Unreal Gold--which ain't real gold, only fool's gold.

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