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And how is unreal 2 unreal?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: September 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Personally, i loved the original unreal. It had it ALL, 5 star in every category you could think of...technology, story, gameplay. Unreal 2 does not deliver. Coasting away from the original unreal's thrilling storyline, unreal 2 has a somewhat cookie cutter storyline that is simply unoriginal and used that i shall not comment on. Gameplay is linear and pretty straight foward, a odd meager 12 hours certainly prooves worst of show! Technology is the highlight.

Unreal 2 has stunning graphics? Not really. It's based on rudimentary poor-boy dated direct-x 8 technology, "Oh, this game includes some extorindary particle effects with reflective surfaces and 3020 polygon counts......oooh environment maps and dynamic light maps with blur shadows!".

Yeah, it's kind-of like that! Not soooo satisfying. So sound is another EAX 3/DirectSound/Surround sound average powered game. Nothin' special. When you enable it even with the latest drivers on an Audigy or Audigy 2 Sound Blaster card, you can notice an unacceptable frame rate drop at the cost of performance. Oh well, EAX is as buggy as hell anyway.

Let me comment on the physics engine, a very nice addition. Bodies move very realistically powered by millions of intense math code calculations only possible by the Karma Cat program. Physics is cool but i'd recommend at least a 2GHZ CPU from INTEL or AMD to gain reasonable performance when sending physics to the max detail!

Oh, and that reminds me of system requirements. Very crushing! A 733mhz CPU with 256MB of RAM and a 32MB GeForce 2 MX is quite high, and does not perform reasonably on those system specifications EVEN on low settings or the recommended(even at medium settings, recommend: 1.2ghz CPU, 384 MB of RAM, 64MB GeForce 3) or even the high system specifications(1.8ghz CPU, 512MB of RAM, 128MB GeForce 4 Ti at high settings), and takes up a modernly high huge chunck of hard drive space, 3 GIGS. So how is UNREAL 2 UNREAL, is the question?

It's satisfying graphically and impressive, just doesn't have the shock of the water fall like the original threw in your face. Instead of calling it "unreal 2: the awakening", legend entertainment should have called it: "Unreal 2: the falling", and legend entertainment's wheel of time masterpeice was more interesting in one whole level than the entire unreal 2 game itself...! Now UNREAL 2 has to have some replayablility, right? Nope, no mutliplayer.

This makes the game die really fast and hard. The unreal editor included with unreal 2 is claimed to be flexible and easy to use but i found it to be flexible, but very hard to use, and might put off some amature modders.

So let me get this straight and evaluate what unreal 2 has delivered on gamer's doorsteps: Good technology, oldskool outdated run-n-gun straightfoward gameplay and super thin storyline with hard editor to use, lots of bugs, and no multiplayer, plus steep system requirements.

And this was what 50$ was worth back in february and what we waited for about a few years?(4-5 years).....THIS is what we waited for? Well, i'll never set my sight on legend entertainment again, All i have to say is unreal 2 BETTER BE GOOD for XBOX when it hits the shelves during holidays 2003. Actually, the title is right. Unreal isn't lifelike, it's UNREAL. LOL! *_*

What ever happened to Unreal?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I cannot say i have ever felt so dissapointed with a game before. This game does not resemble the original unreal at all. It is appaling. The only reason it got 2 stars is cos against other games its OK. See for urself but i warn anyone who has played any other unreal game - JUST BECAUSE IT CONTAINS THE WORD "UNREAL" DOES NOT MEAN THAT IT IS GOOD. You have been warned.

An ok title

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Unreal 2 is definitely a downgrade from the original Unreal.
Besides the great scenery, great graphics and game engine there isn't much to this game. The storyline lacks depth and it fails to immerse the player. If you see this title in the bargain bin then maybe you should pick it up. Otherwise I wouldn't pay the money for it. There's a lot of other great single player fps titles out there. Unreal 2 I feel that is not worth to be the successor of the Unreal franchise.

A decent FPS...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is no Doom 3 or Half-Life, but the graphics are great, and the weapons and gameplay are decent. Buy used and have fun.

Unreal 2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 27
Date: October 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Hi,

First of all i would like to say that i have played the game, i was a beta tester so i can comment on it without just going off the pictures. It is really good, and i belive that a lot of you will really enjoy the new story line.

Horrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: May 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Let's make something clear.... I think everyone needs to know this, especially the people who make games like this: Games are not movies, and games are meant to be played moreso than they are watched. In this game, the emphasis is taken away from gameplay and put towards graphics, cinematics (which you HAVE to watch and you can't leave, and they're very long), and plot. I just bought this today..... I watched about an hour's worth of cinematics, I had to "search" for something (what is this, "Myst"?), and I never even got to play the game because it crashed, despite the fact that I have a brand new Dell. All I can say is, I was already fuming by the time. When it crashed I just took the CD out, bent it in half until it broke and then threw it in the trash along with the other crap that came with it. That's the problem with these new games, it's all about graphics and not the game itself.

Moral of the story: GAMES ARE NOT MOVIES! AND STOP WITH THE COMPLEX PLOTS! PEOPLE LIKE SIMPLICITY!

UT was Unreal

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 29
Date: June 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

First off, Unreal and Unreal Tournament are really two separate series. Unreal is a single player game, with a story based play. UT was multiplayer and nothing more. Personally, I prefer Unreal better.

TO SHORT

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: February 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I could have seen 8 movies for the price of this game, and I would have gotten twice the entertainment time. Graphics are "nice" game play is "ok" BOSSES are worthless. NO ONLINE PLAY. ADDS UP TO LOWEST PLAY/$ VALUE GAME I'VE EVER OWNED.

Disappointed for Sure

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: February 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I was waiting for this game to come out for some time and bought it the same day it was in the stores. The problem comes in that I finished it in the same day. With no multiplayer this game was a poor value and I feel cheated that they would use that Unreal name for such a terrible game. The weapons are alright but the story line was marginal at best. From ready other gaming sites these comments are the norm I am glad that some many people here were so happy with the game but all of the high ratings are misleading to most gamers and I think that most will be disappointed as well.

Mediocrity at its best

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: March 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

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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