Unreal Anthology

by Midway

Product Features

• Unreal Anthology contains the original Unreal with the Return to Na Pali expansion pack , Unreal Tournament GOTY edition, Unreal II, and UT2004 Editors Choice.
• From the ruthless artificial intelligence of the original UNREAL, the death gladiator chaos of UNREAL TOURNAMENT and beyond, the Unreal franchise is the king-of-the-hill in multiplayer carnage.
• Using the most advanced 3D engines ever created, mind bending worlds of mayhem and destruction await.
• Defining the first person shooter genre for the last decade, UNREAL has set the standard for the worlds ultimate multi-player experience.
• The entire smorgasbord of frag-dealing weaponry from Unreal Tournament returns for the experienced player to wield masterfully against new contestants.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000GPVUUS
• Item Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Media: DVD-ROM
• Release Date: October 31, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,026 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #70 in Video Games > PC Games > Action > Shooter
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

The Most Unreal Anthology on the PlanetProduct InformationUnreal's array of fierce new fully polygonal enemies stalking your every move it'll be a struggle just to survive. You will race across vast outdoor and indoor environments enter enchanting cities mysterious temples glittering mines shattered ships and crystal clear waters. The game that will alter your reality...forever. Heart stopping first-person action at its best. Take the "Game of the Year" award-winning Unreal Tournament. Welcome to the gladiator bloodsport of the future! There are more than 60 new adrenaline pumping maps all rendered in stunning realistic 3D detail!  You are John Dalton an ex-Marine assigned topatrol the edge of human space as a Marshal for the Terran Colonia Authority inUnreal II The Awakening. Unexpectedly your monotonous life is shattered by a chilling distress signal plunging you into an adventure beyond belief. Unreal Tournament 2004 combines the kill-or-be-killed experience of gladiatorial combat with cutting-edge technology. Features 10 game modes both team-based and "every man for himself." Players will take their fates into their hands battling against up to 32 other players online in action-packed frag-filled arenas. Product Titles Included Unreal Unreal Tournament - Game of the Year Unreal 2 - The Awakening Unreal Tournament 2004Product OverviewUnreal You awaken in a small enclosed room with metal walls. You have no recollectionof where you are. Perhaps a prison cell? An angled metal door lies ahead. Witheffort you push the creaky slab open.  This is not at all what you expected. The "prison" you just exited isnow revealed to be a small badly damaged spacecraft. Walking along a trail inforeign terrain gun in hand you journey onward to find out where you are andwhat your purpose is here.Observing your surroundings beyond the carnage reveals a beautiful andserene yet somehow

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth It Even if You Own Some/All already, March 9, 2007

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M. Broda "ScuzzBuster" (Indianapolis) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Unreal Anthology (DVD-ROM)

I took this because it was cheaper than buying a second CD-Key for UT2004 by itself to play on multiple PCs on my home network online. Ultimately though, this is pretty much the final word in the best first person shooter collection you can get.

Unreal was one of the best Single Player FPS ever made, UT definitely the best online FPS yet (debatably up there is Q3 as well). Unreal 2 is fair but pretty, and UT2004, while not the awesome Deathmatch/CTF game as UT1, is still at this point the best and most fun vehicle combat FPS created yet.

Also, for long term Unreal Fans, having ALL the games together on one DVD is almost worth the $20.00 alone. Even though it's been 7 years since UT came out, I still play it along with 2k4 fairly regularly. You can't go wrong for all these games at this price.

UT1 and UT2k4 still have pretty decent size communities out there playing on public servers, so you should never have to to be concerned about finding an online game with either.

Comes with a CD of all the great music from UT and UT2004. I turned the music off in game years ago to make following sound queues in games easier, but hearing the awesome music again really brought back memories...particularly the great tracks from the original UT.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Depends on What You're Looking For, January 14, 2009

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Mitch Johnson - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Unreal Anthology (DVD-ROM)

This review will only deal with the Unreal Tournament and Unreal Tournament 2004 games in this anthology, as I haven't played the other ones enough.

First off, let's get some facts straight: In spite of the advertising, this does not include "Unreal Tournament GOTY". It also doesn't include Unreal Tournament 2004 Editor's Choice Edition" (even though sometimes this impression is given.). Unreal Tournament GOTY includes the standard game, bonus packs 1-3 (not 4, but all of them are freely available), some bonus hi-res textures, ChaosUT, and Rocket Arena (both mods). This anthology contains bonus packs 1-3, but does not include the hi-res textures, ChaosUT or Rocket Arena. You will have to download those separately, and installing them is kind of a pain. Second, Unreal Tournament 2004 Editor's Choice edition contains the standard game, plus the Mega Bonus Pack, plus the XP-bonus pack (containing maps ONS-Aridoom, and ONS-Ascendancy), plus eleven high-quality modified games. Anthology only includes the standard game and the mega-bonus pack. It lacks the modified games and the XP-bonus pack. I should add that it's ok that this doesn't include the mods from the Editor's Choice Edition, because some of those mods were improved later on and should be downloaded in their updated versions anyway. But the point is that some have been given the impression that this contains the enhanced versions of these games, which is not true.

Now I haven't examined every detail of this deal, but I'll tell you my experience so far. I'll say whether you buy this game has a lot to do with what you're looking for. If you're a pretty casual player and you just want to see what the hubub is about for this series, this is probably a great way to get caught up on everything.

If you want to complete your collection or if you intend on playing mods and user-created maps, you might want to buy another edition.

Unreal tournament (in this anthology) was really annoying for me. I was excited to play ChaosUT. The game says it comes with ChaosUT but after searching for hours, I realized that it doesn't contain it. So I downloaded the mod separately and tried to install it. I couldn't because the Unreal Anthology version of Unreal Tournament doesn't support the umod files (like other versions of Unreal Tournament). I also wanted to install Bonus Pack 4 but couldn't install it because it's also a umod file. You have to download a third party program to be able to run umod files. I had previously inserted a link to this program, but Amazon deleted it. I can't remember what it's called now, but you can probably find it if you google "umod anthology mod patch". So yeah, it's possible to run umod files, but it's kind of a pain, and some people won't understand how to do it.

After realizing that this wasn't a real version of Unreal Tournament GOTY, and that the installation folder was different from normal UT, and that it didn't support umod files, even though I got them to work, I decided to just buy Unreal Tournament GOTY separately, and I've been a lot happier with it.

So as for UT2004, I haven't had any problems with installation, but I didn't use it very much. It bugged me that it had a folder different from what was normally used, and I was worried that this might cause problems with mod and map installations, so I just decided to stop using the game. I extracted the key, and then I just use the key on a traditional copy of Unreal Tournament 2004 that I bought separately (so I have two copies now).

So I'll probably discover more stuff, and I regret that I won't be able to write it here, but so far my impression of this is that it is a great offering, but appears a bit rushed. Linux users have been having problems with running it, and setting up mods and other maps seems like a much bigger hassle than in separate games. I'm glad I bought it for Unreal 1, and Unreal II, but I ended up just buying UT and UT2004 separately so I wouldn't have any problems with maps and mods (I repeat, though, that I did not encounter any problems with maps or mods for the Anthology version of Unreal Tournament 2004.).

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice., November 27, 2006

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J. Monsma "techman" (Minneapolis, MN, USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Unreal Anthology (DVD-ROM)

Sadly, I was in a brick and mortar store and saw this for the first time and bought it there. Amazon is cheaper.

But, this is a great gaming value! And a great timesaver for installing. All 4 games are on 1 DVD and all install at once (if you want them all). There's also the additional disc that is a CD with all the music from the games on it (kinda lame, but consider it free).

I've been playing these games about as long as they've been out and have found them to be a lot of fun. While I do get bored with the single player Unreal games (Unreal and Unreal II), I have spent countless hours playing UT2K4 and original UT. Onslaught mode online rulez. For $30, this is a fantastic value. The value gets even better if the price is less. Enjoy!