I played the game first in software mode on a Pentium MMX laptop and, even that was impressive. So much in the game was interactive that I was disappointed that the Aliens-style mech suits in the ship cargo bay were not usable. When you came across the other crashed human ship, it was at the end of a mile-long furrow that its landing had carved out. The sheer scale and ambition of the graphics was beyond what other games dared try.
If you used your sniper rifle to put the Nali out of his misery, a MegaHealth dropped out of the sky. When you were close to Bluff Eversmoking, you could see a crucified Nali on a mountain top in the distance.
I was heavy into UT99 in college and it's still one of the best multiplayer FPSes ever made but it's Unreal that pulls my heart strings the most.Īs a single player experience, Unreal was way ahead of Quake 2 in level design, graphics and sound. Replayed it a couple of years ago and it does show (and feel) its age at times but it's still as incredible and fun a game as the first day I fired it up and saw that flyby of the Nali castle. Unreal will forever have a strong place in my gaming heart and it holds up incredibly well.
I had played FPSes before but it was Wolfenstein 3D several years earlier on a friend's PC and Doom 32X as well as a couple of games on the N64. The huge vistas? The colored lighting? The dynamic appearing lighting? The Skaarj entrance? The huge boss enemies that protect the pistol upgrades? The fucking 8-Ball gun? Unreal was just so far beyond Tomb Raider or the Final Fantasy series or anything that had ever been in consoleland as a graphical powerhouse that I almost didn't know where to begin. After figuring out how to plug the Voodoo 2 in I proceeded to have my mind blown. Figuring it's Wal-Mart so it's probably crap like 99% of the other software/games they sell, but it had a cool box (unlike most of the other software/games there) so I picked it up anyway. The same time I saw this game "Unreal" sitting in the PC section. A few days later I stumbled upon the Voodoo 2 in the electronics section at Wal-Mart, had no idea what I was looking at but saw it touting awesome 3D graphics and picked it up. In spring 1998 I conned my grandmother into getting me my first ever computer "because it would be great for school".
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