Unreal (1998)

Unreal is a first-person shooter video game developed by Epic MegaGames, Digital Extremes, and Legend Entertainment and published by GT Interactive in May 1998. It was powered by an original game engine that bears the game's name, and had been in development for over three years in founder Tim Sweeney's garage before the game was released.

Why It's So UNREAL

 * 1) Beautiful graphics for the time, thanks to the revolutionary Unreal Engine, which is still being used in modern games to this day.
 * 2) An interesting plot that, similar to Half-Life, doesn't use cutscenes to tell the story (Aside from the ending cutscene and the cutscenes in the expansion).
 * 3) Plenty of exploration.
 * 4) The enemies have fantastic AI, and sometimes the enemies keep you on your toes as you try to get away from them as they pursue you.
 * 5) The game spawned a massive modding community.
 * 6) Plenty of awesome weapons to choose from.
 * 7) Fast-paced action and gunplay.
 * 8) Great, atmospheric soundtrack that fits the levels perfectly, mainly comprised of tracker music.
 * 9) The Return To Na Pali expansion features scrapped levels from the main game (Which was a nice touch), and some brand new ones. As a bonus, the Unreal Gold edition has both the base game and this expansion. In addition to that, you could download the Fusion Map Pack, an official expansion featuring new maps.
 * 10) A fun multiplayer with bot support, which would later serve as the basis for Unreal Tournament, a multiplayer-focused game.
 * 11) The game was updated to run on the Unreal Tournament version of the game engine, even using that game's menu as a replacement.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The game can be a bit dated.
 * 2) It may suffer from few bugs and framerate issues. Fortunately, these faults can be fixed by using the Unreal Patch 227i in which can be downloaded here.
 * 3) Laggy multiplayer.
 * 4) The levels can be too big for their own good, leading to lots of backtracking.
 * 5) The enemies are literal bullet sponges, and fighting them can be extremely tedious.
 * 6) Poor final boss fight.

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