UNREAL 2 - Utter and complete crap!

[Bananadude]

Rubbish game. Biggest dispointment in a long time. Zero tension, dull, cxrap storyline, rubbish voice acting, too short...the list goes on. Epic should be ashamed of themselves.

 

[Lint21]

Sounds like you're kind of on the fence about it. Maybe if you think about it some more you can decide if you like it or not.

What specifically didn't you like? Where should there have been more tension? What was wrong with the voices? The storyline? What would you have done differently?

 

[Antisocial Virge]

I took a look at the official forums this morning for it. Pretty mad and pissed people there also.
I agree, its crap.

 

[Smilin]

Great great.

It's been sitting at home unplayed for a week because I've been too busy. I'm looking forward too it more than ever now.

 

[Bananadude]

What would you have done differently?

Errr...EVERYTHING! Ok, it looked nice, but that's about it. Name me ONE thing that U2 does better than any other FPS? Ok, the singularity gun was kind of cool, but it makes dealing with those beasty things just too easy. Every set-up was predictable, level design mediocre at best. Everything felt very small and staged. You just went from location to location shooting up the bad guys, without every coming up against a serious challenge. Storyline was a joke, you felt no real empathy for the chracters. I didn't care less when my entire crew got blown to pieces. Aida was a miserable bitch, going on and on about Isaak and killing those people. Isaak was the a boring f**k, said the same s**t over and over, and showed zero emotion. Ne'ban was just an idiot who despite his amazing piloting ability, somehow never bothered to learn english properly. The original Unreal was only famous for it's looks, and the sequel has clearly followed suit. Damn shame, as with that engine that could have pulled of a kick-ass game. I just hope the modding community can do it justice, cause Epic sure haven't.

 

[tenoc]

Try something besides the super-easy setting for once.

 

[VBboy]

Originally posted by: Bananadude
Rubbish game. Biggest dispointment in a long time. Zero tension, dull, cxrap storyline, rubbish voice acting, too short...the list goes on. Epic should be ashamed of themselves.

Add to that extreme hardware requirements, unbalanced levels (sometimes 30 fps, sometimes 90 fps), pathetic particle weapons, and the chick that you can't undress

 

[Bananadude]

The difficulty setting has NOTHING to do with it. That hardly addresses issues of storyline or character does it! All difficulty does is make the aliens harder to kill! And that's another thing, was the A.I not supposed to be something special in this game? Half-Life did it better than this!

 

[VicodiN]

This, my friends, is why single player games are horrid...

 

[Shagga]

It is poor, your right, pretty, but poor at best. :frown:

 

[Codewiz]

Originally posted by: VicodiN
This, my friends, is why single player games are horrid...

Maybe you didn't have a computer in the early 90's and late 80's. Since graphics were far from good, a company had to come up with a good story line to make the game interesting. There were so many good games "back in the day".

 

[DukeN]

I agree...an insult to the original 'Unreal'..which was a hell of a game

 

[clicknext]

I'll buy it after it goes into the bargain bin...

 

[rpc64]

I can't believe so many people hate this game! I'm playing it right now and I think it's great. There is tension. Some of the situations you end up in are cool and fun to play out. I've played lots of superior fps games and I wouldn't say Unreal 2 is the best game out there, but I sure am having fun with it.

 

[BD231]

Probably best to look at it for what it is, pretty graphics, who knows what we'll get with that new graphics engine.

 

[Toothpick]

I agree...an insult to the original 'Unreal'..which was a hell of a game

I totally agree

but I have not bought this one yet cause of the many complaints that I have read about it and it being to short on gameplay too...

 

[bsr]

Who cares, I never liked any of the unreal's. Bf1942 is the best online game created !!!!

 

[SteelyKen]

Unreal was my favorite fps game; I liked it better than Half-Life. (<----dons flame retardant suit)
Unreal 2, on the other hand, is a beautiful game with average gameplay and hokey dialogue. It's biggest downfall, as with so many games now,
is it is too short. I know there are others who disagree (BFG for one), but games are way too short for the money they charge. I know I read sometime
back that Cliff Bleszinski said the day of the 30 hour game was over, and that just burns me. Unreal was a very long game and had multiplayer too.
I don't know what Legend's excuse is.

 

[bub]

Well... it sure is pretty. I'm only a couple chapters in, but my guy moves like he's in water and the bad boys come on like a bat out of hell.

And saves aren't too bad, but load times are a bummer.

Plus the anti-piracy on this game is absolutely crap. My Toshiba DVD\CD reader could not install it. Had to use my Acer burner.

 

[BoomAM]

Call me stupid, but i found Unreal2 to be quite a good game. IMO its better than HL in some ways, and worse in others.
Its a buggy game, but most games are on release.

Just a guess, but i think that the reason the most of you dont like Unreal2, is because you probably expected too much from the game, so then it could never live up to your expectations, no matter how good it was.

On the other hand, No game is everything to everyone.
And for every person that hates the game, theres another that loves the game.

 

[DefRef]

Call me stupid, but i found Unreal2 to be quite a good game. IMO its better than HL in some ways,

Yep...you're stupid. Better than Half-Life?!?!?!?!? The fact that over FOUR YEARS LATER that no one has matched, much less surpassed, HL is remarkable, esp. in enemy AI - the Marines in HL were fearsome strategic foes that I haven't seen elsewhere since.

As for U2, I just got to the "blow up the dam" level and so far, it's been a gorgeous, but dull trip. Too many fights are too easy, then you get something ridiculously hard, like the Boss Spider. I'm more bored than anything, a feeling I also had with UT2K3. It's too bad, cuz it's clear that a LOT of work went into detailing the levels but it's hardly noticed.

 

[BoomAM]

The AI in MOHAA is far better than HL or OP or BS.
The atmosphere in AVP2 is better than HL.
U2 does get better as the game progresses.
The facts are, HL is a good game, it redefined the FPS genre, but FPS gaming has moved on.
I can name several games that were released after HL that are far superior, in most, if not all ways.
You`re like on of those people who still think Doom2 is the best game ever, very good game at the time, but better, more advanced, and more fun games have been released since.
The Queen Spider, Hard? I managed kill it with little trouble. Took me no more than a minute.

 

[CubicZirconia]

the Marines in HL were fearsome strategic foes

Honestly, did you really find them to be fearsome or strategic? Fearsome- give me a break. Strategic- shooting at you and moving back a little isn't being stategic. It didn't make it any more difficult to kill them. Half Life has been played so much online everyone seems to think the single player is far and away the greatest game ever made. It wasn't that good.

Also, I'm not a huge fan of Unreal 2 either, probably because I got my hopes up too high. That makes the new Unreal games 0 for 2 in my book.

 

[BoomAM]

Originally posted by: BoomAM
....On the other hand, No game is everything to everyone.
And for every person that hates the game, theres another that loves the game.

Need i say more?
Ive gota agree with cubiczerconia though, the marines in HL wer`nt that intelligent.

Shoot, step backwards & crouch, shoot, step backwards, move behind object, move from behind object, shoot, die.

They are very predictable after a while.

 

[MainFramed]

i think its pretty cool myself