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In article <i4_Oa.2743$fG4.875@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com>, 
rsquires@flash.net says...
> > And ya know - Unreal is still one of the finest games conceived and
> > executed
> 
>     Agree.  The ambience/music (this must be singled out as magnificent);
> the astounding level design (not all of course, but the initial exit from
> the prison ship to the planet surface is the most amazing sequence in the
> history of gaming -- one review likened it to entering a new era, bringing
> gaming into the light -- along with levels such as the first skaarj
> encounter, or the darkened mothership level;  the funky and unique weapons,
> which were ruined in UT (imho).
> 

I loved the first couple of levels of Unreal. I played it on my 3dfx 
voodoo 1 card and I thought that the quality of the graphics were 
amazing. The spaceship interior is very atmospheric and introduces some 
of the amazing graphical effects such as fogging and reflection. The 
textures looked so detailed that one began to wonder if the bilinear 
filtering of the voodoo was even needed.

The bit where you emerge from the ship was very impressive. The ambient 
music starts playing and you look out over the edge of the cliff. Unreal 
was the first game of that generation that used scaling so that you 
could have large outdoor areas (perversely, earlier generations of game 
had already accomplished this). You could see birds flying about in the 
distance. The scale of that area was quite breathtaking.

IMO, it all went to hell after that. A few nice weapons, the odd good 
bit and some nice graphical effects. After a couple of levels I realised 
that I had been duped yet again and that I was playing another suped-up 
DooM clone with better graphics :-)

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