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Halo Clone

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Warning: this game is not for kids!

Unreal 2 for the Xbox is a first person shooter (FPS) game. You play a space marine named John Dalton. You travel with your small crew of bounty hunters to different planets securing alien artifacts. The alien artifacts are believed to be parts of a super weapon. Everyone wants the weapon, including power hungry
aliens. Unreal 2 is very similar to the famous game "Halo", but it lacks the intensity and polish of, Halo. They even included some levels where you fight alongside space marines, but the A.I. is not very impressive. Everything in this game is just average. I felt bored in many of the levels because they required too much walking in an empty world and no action taking place. The voice acting is terrible. The actors sound like amatures reading the script.

Pros:
+good controls
+average graphics
+average sound effects
+lots of weapons
+long game

Cons:
-Halo rip-off
-long loading times
-no co-op gameplay
-too much walking
-severly scripted
-lacks excitement
-retarded voice-acting
-John Dalton sounds like a dork

I wouldn't recommend this game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for the Xbox about a month ago, and have regretted it. Unreal II doesn't have much going for it. The graphics are average.

What it doesn't have going for it: Load time 1/10, Levels 4/10, AI 4/10, Online 2/10, Cutscne/Briefing 3/10, Replay 1/10.
The load times for this game are ridiculously long. The levels are all very simple and plain - I beat the game in under an hour on the hardest difficulty (not including load times). The enemy AI isn't very smart or hard to beat - they run at you and shoot at you with slow moving energy blasts half the time. The online play which was supposed to be good is actually very bad - I played this game online for about 20 minutes before I couldn't handle it anymore. The problem with the cutscenes and briefing is that one person may be talking to you and the game has multiple short segments for that person creating a terrible break between speech and graphics. The replay factor on this game is the worst of any game I have ever played. I can't even bring myself to play it again and I usually beat games at least 5 times before I get bored of it.

What it has going for it: Weapons 6/10
The weapons are the only thing that makes this game worth 2 stars. The weapons are all pretty basic and easy to use with the exception of the 6 type grenade launcher (who needs 6 different grenades on the same weapon?).

The Computer version isn't any better. The requirements are so steep that if you can run it on your computer, you are better off getting Doom 3. The gameplay is exactly the same as the Xbox I have heard.

Give it a try

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Okay so yeah it's not Halo, but it still is a pretty fun first person shooter. I won't go into that, but I will go into the online stuff.

This is one of the first games that uses XBOX live as more of a strategic type of shooter game. You have to choose between 3 different classes of person (ranger, gunner, tech) who all have different strengths and weaknesses. Then, as a team, you have to work to strategically control different points on the map ranging from generators to turrets to deploy points.

I liked this because it put some kind of map based, almost starcrafish strategy into a multiplayer, real time first person shooter game.

If you get some guys of equal skill together who uses their different skills and weapons etc., this online part of Unreal 2 can be a lot of fun.

This May Be the Worst Game of Ever

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I played this game for 3 minutes and it didnt take me long to realize how horrible this game was. The first enemy I incountered I shot down and it had two frames of animation. Doom 3D had better graphics and animation than this steaming pile. There is nothing about this game that merrites a $40 price tag. Stay away from this game! I use the word game only becuase it is only playable by a gaming system. This is just one of the horrible games that came into existince since the first Halo came out.

Disappointment

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I am a big fan of the original Unreal Championship--even though it did not have a single player game. The original had a huge multiplayer selection of characters, levels, and guns--even if you weren't online. The new one doesn't. It does however, have a good single player and co-op game, great levels and enemies, but it still lost a lot of the great weapons and characters from the original. This was not a happy day.

Unreal II: The Awakening

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have just returned the game back to blockbuster. I very much enjoyed the game. If you like fast-paced fps's, you'll be sure to like this one. The detail on the weapons was extradinary. The actual levels were a little dull, I didn't really even notice. The multiplayer is only on Live though. There are tons of weapons too. The audio was amazing with the backgrond music making you just a little scared. I was at points a little scared. The audio on the actual person you are playing and the enemies is very realistic. But there is however quite a bit of cussing, but it was never used offensivly. It was primarily used as stuff like "Holy H*ll that is a big monster." Also there is a little sidekick robot who is very stupid and funny. He is very clueless, he made me laugh a bit. Overall, I think that it was a very good game, for only $39.99 at other stores. I would, for sure, buy the game.

A fun way to kill some time

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I've read a lot of negative reviews on this site for this product, and feel I need to address a few things in fairness. This game was designed for (at the time) high-end PCs. This is very clearly a port, and as such the graphics did indeed take a hit. That being said, this doesn't affect gameplay whatsoever. The dialogue in the cut-scenes was originally meant to be optional depending on who you spoke to in the removed "free-roaming" mode, and what you said to them. It makes the conversations feel very awkward and long. The variety in environments is nice, and the difficulty felt appropriate to the situations. None of the missions were boring, and some showed a real spark of creativity. If you played "Mace Griffin" or any of the "007" titles, you have a good idea what to expect. I would recommend this title for around $10.00. It would get a better score if the fact that it is a port wasn't so glaringly obvious. For 360 owners, this title is NOT backwards compatable.

From an Unreal long-time fan

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have been playing the Unreal series since I was about 6 years old and I remember buying this game with my dad and we had played it for hours. Now I have gotten it on the Xbox and I love it...PLUS IT HAS CO-OP! Co-Op for me is like the greatest thing other than the online multiplayer. If you played the first Unreal on the PC and liked it (you better have...lol) then you will love this one. Sure it isn't exactly from the first one's universe but there are many things that will remind you of it. One of the greatest battles was the Boss that was like a huge spider with tiny spiders everywhere. That one took forever (but in a good way)! Very fun and I hope to see you online!

Its OK

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I loved Unreal. I bought it for the PC about the same time I played Half-Life. Both game's graphics and storyline were unbeatable at the time, only to be beaten by Halo. Halo is now the standard.

So now I have an Xbox. I have played both Halo and Halo2. I have beat the game muliple times and we play huge deathmatches as well. Face it. Halo is the standard and this is now what you have to measure up to.

Enter Unreal II. I find it sluggish and buggy. It takes too long to load and there is a lot of extra cut scene mumbo jumbo that just wastes time. The character build up is pointless, and the voiceover of John, our hereo, sounds more like a pharmacist that a space warrior.

The graphics are pretty good, but they all are these days. i mean, why do you play? To kill, right? Plus, I have found that the weapons (at first) all look alike. The grenade launcher looks like the shotgun looks like the flame thrower (etc.). But soon yo figure out the subtle differences.

But hey, I only paid a few bucks for it at gamespot. I am glad I did not pay full price. Half Life 2 was a great positive step up. Unreal seems like a step backwards.

Awful

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: April 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game when it first came out, hoping for something to tide me over before Halo 2, but unfortunately, I was disapointed. One of the features that I was most looking forward to was the cooperative mode, which ended up being just plain awful. The animation was choppy at best, and once you got into a firefight, things really slowed down. Single player, while more smooth, was still so-so at best. The only really good thing about this game was the background enviroments, which were done well.

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