The original Unreal game

Yeah I reckon Unreal was very very close to being regarded as a classic (by which I mean held in the same breath as Quake, HL etc by the mainstream media), if not for a couple of minor things:

-Performance and compatibility was a bit flaky on initial release (I couldn't play it for about 6 weeks after buying it because unpatched it wouldn't work with a Cyrix CPU!)
-It came out a weird time of year (when I was doing A-level exams so was around May/June time) so had to compete with summer and the World Cup
-Halflife came out a bit later in the year and stole a lot of its thunder
-Weapons were a bit quirky at a time when people had been indoctrinated into the world of Doom/Quake [note I'm not saying the guns are bad far from it, but a lot of reviews seemed to find them a bit lacklustre]
 
My first computer couldn't run it properly, a later upgrade to a 4meg Geforce with 'transform & lighting' technology enabled it to run properly, I still fondly remember the excitement as the game loaded with those birds circling the castle towers:D
 
Agreed on the atmosphere being the best a game has ever created.

But.. the one thing that Still keeps sucking me back into this game is the gameplay on Insane mode it is quite literally insane games just don't seem as challenging anymore.
 
Capn' $qu!ff said:
The reason this game was meh for most of those who loved the first is the atmosphere and gameplay just didn't live up to the original which is damn hard to top imho.
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Yeah, I think I know what you mean. To much of a jump in format, though visually impressive. I remember the day when that game made my Voodoo 5 crawl to around as low as 1 - 2 fps. :D I enjoyed the second (loved the ending - great level of pathos), but it was as if it was a game that belonged in another series.
 
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Revisited this lately on new build, works a charm on the igpu im getting by on at the moment.
Only done a couple of patches from oldunreal site, last of the 226 ones being the last official patch, this then allowed the latest 227 patch to install.

The online multiplayer is great fun, just look on the populated servers page within the game and try out some key coop, some great maps, very playable.
 
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