Unreal

by Atari

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• ASIN: B00002S6EQ
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #54,555 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #42 in Video Games > Mac Games > Action > Shooter
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

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You awaken in a small, enclosed room with metal walls. You have no knowledge of where you are. Perhaps a prison cell? An angled metal door lies ahead. With effort, you push the creaky slab open. This is not at all what you expected. The "prison" you just exited is a small, badly damaged spacecraft. Walking along a trail in foreign terrain, gun in hand, you journey onward to find out where you are and what your purpose is.

Observing your surroundings beyond the carnage reveals a beautiful and serene, yet somehow spooky, landscape. Two moons are in the sky. Ruins are in the distance. And a big, bad alien is eating one of your buddies. Unreal places you in a stunningly lifelike 3-D world that is as dangerous as it is beautiful. Whether you're playing alone or on the Internet, Unreal will change your perception of what computer games should be.

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A little bit too flowery., December 9, 1999

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James R. Hoadley "Nagano Jim" (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Unreal (CD-ROM)

First, I need to say that the stated minimum hardware requirements are a little misleading. In order to run Unreal properly, you really should have a G3, or perhaps a high clock speed 604 with an installed graphics accelerator. If you try to run it on the minimum config,the game speed and frame drop make the game nearly unplayable. Unreal has been marketed as a first-person shooter in the Doom/Quake/Duke Nukem vein. While there is that type of gameplay, there seems to be more of an emphasis on problem solving. In the first level, there is nothing to shoot, but you do have a lot of running around and figuring out how to get out of the level. There is a running theme to the game that is played out on a console that beeps from time to time. Part of the game seems to be reconstructing the story of those who came before. If you are looking for carnage and destruction, you should probably look elsewhere. If you are looking for a long and involved story that slowly unravels itself while you try to avoid being killed, this is the game for you. The graphics are incredibly detailed, and if you hook headphones to your Mac, you'll notice that the sound is 3D. The technical achievements are remarkable, but the gameplay seems a little weak.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This old dog can show the new one's a thing or two......, September 4, 2002

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Paul Gibbon (Leeds, W. Yorkshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Unreal (CD-ROM)

It's getting old, but Unreal is still a worthy contender in the FPS genre.

The plot, such as it is, starts you off, badly injured, in a crashlanded prison ship, apparently alone. As you look for a way offworld, you penetrate deeper into the domain of alien invaders who have enslaved the benovolent native population.

Gameplay is smooth and the levels are innovative and cleverly designed. One niggle is that it's easy to get stuck, unsure where the way out of the current level is meant to be, but it usually becomes plain sooner or later.

The weapons....pretty good, and quite innovative. Pleasingly, the 'start gun' can be upgarded, so you actually can use it later on in the game. Other weapons include the brutal Flak Cannon (best used at close range) and the Biorifle, a powerful but frustrating short-range weapon that fires globs of corrosive sludge.

The AI is credible. Enemies dodge out of the way of your attacks, use cover, attempt to sneak up behind you and attack in order to neutralise the strengths of the weapon you're using.

The scenery is excellent, and better for the low specs it needs. Too many games become enraptured with providing the latest kewl FX, resulting in a one-frame-per-second speed. The scenery is absolutely incredible, with misty canyons, polluted rivers and islands in the sky being just some of the things on offer.

The multiplayer is good, as well. The AI bots are truly deadly--at skill level 3, you just can't lay a finger on them.

Problems with the game are few, but niggling. First of all, there just aren't enough enemies at once, apart from one or two set-pieces. Ever since Doom, too many FPS games throw the enemies at you in groups of one or two. I miss the "one man vs an army" feel. Secondly, too many of the weapons are ineffective or almost impossible to use right. With the Biorifle and Razorjack, for example, it's possible to kill yourself just as easily as the enemy if mishandled. Also, once you've completed it once, the higher difficulty levels don't really add anything.

Despite that, a good game overall and well worth a look as one of the games that moved the genre forward.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An amazing game., January 16, 2000

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A. Thorpe "Mac Gamer" (Olivette, Missouri United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Unreal (CD-ROM)

An alien world, gorgeous graphics, tricky monsters, good weapons assortment; there's a lot to like. On the other hand, I owned it for a year and a half before I owned a system that could truly run it well. Well, I'm certainly getting my money's worth now!