Unreal (1998) - Part 01

[@unfa00]

I remember this game mostly for it's overwhelming atmosphere of loneliness and the fantastic music. There's not a single living human in this game, and everyone we find has already died. Reading the journals and log entries added so much depth to something as simple as a human corpse on the floor somewhere. The music has perfectly captured the awe and wonder of exploring a beautiful alien planet. I'm glad the Unreal Engine is forever carrying on the name of this beautiful game and keeps it on memory of the game industry workers and gamers alike. I need to replay Unreal once again...

[@huitzilopochtli_tenochtitl496]

❤️

[@DraganAlves]

Well put!

[@unfa00]

@Psilo Cybin Wasn't it the other was around? The engine was made for the game so it bears it's name? Do you have any sources I could check out?

[@unfa00]

@Psilo Cybin I couldn't find anything about this on Wikipedia.

[@pemudabergairah]

I remember when my dad just sit me on his lap while playing this game. This game just amazing. Me and my brother always refer the four hands monk with “bonjik” because he sounds like he’s saying that line lol

[@Mr99cool99]

Only 90's and early 20's kids knows how much of an imprtant game this was. This is was one of the game that most of us never forgot because of its unique style.

[@marksimmons7906]

I was lucky enough to have a Voodoo THREE when I got this. Couldn't afford the Matrox Millennium / Voodoo 2 combo but I got the card that did the 2D and 3D. Gooooood times!

[@Mr99cool99]

@@marksimmons7906 the good old days.

[@MrWinotu]

i just watched video on KZbin about the most important and influencial FPS games and they said only about Unreal Arena! Shame.

[@Atlessa]

@@marksimmons7906 I ran this on an AMD Duron in software (no GPU) and that little beast pushed 75FPS at 1600x1200

[@rafaelzimmerman7273]

Sometimes it comes to me like a fever dream

[@chrisdiaz1830]

The memories!! Crazy how the graphics/lighting can still look this impressive 20plus years later

[@leoreleases]

I think exactly the same thing. :D

[@sym667]

From the lighting point of view it was revolutionary! I remember looking in awe at the volumetric effect for the first time!

[@manchow743]

Also reflections. Some would think this is ray traced. Look at the floor.

[@arisgreek8697]

Can we please for a moment stop and appreciate the outstanding graphics of "unreal engine"? An engine far ahead from anything else in its era. A few guys back then could experience its full potential by owing a voodoo card. For the rest of us we had to stick with software mode 🙂

[@manel.prod.a]

Actually I've got at the time a S3 Virge , much cheaper than the voodoo , and the game was stunning ( but I was below 600x800 .... )

[@sassymenses]

Well the software mode was also pretty and VERY optimized. But I had TNT2 Pro back then anyway.

[@DraganAlves]

I bought my first 3D video card just to play this game the way it was meant to be played. I still remember how amazing it was to have large outdoor areas in a game, where previously they'd all taken place in confined indoor settings. The music was nice too.

[@wackydk]

This brings back memories for sure. Remember playing it on a Intel 2D something gfx card, amazing. Then a little later, I bought the Voodoo 2 3DFX 12 mb addon card.... MINDBLOWN. Not a singel game ever since, have given me this experience, those were the days to discover new games.

[@namesashhousewares8337]

well, half life 1 kinda blew my mind the same way. and the last of us. but 1998 was crazy, half life 1, unreal, starcraft, zelda ocarina of time all in one year. the next year quake 3 arena, unreal tournament and counter strike. great time to discover games indeed.

[@JacquesMesrine94]

I hear you Brother !!!

[@sealslayer]

Exactly the same for me, when I installed the voodoo 2 card I couldn’t believe the difference in graphics quality, it was amazing

[@luciusesox1luckysox570]

Watching this I realise how much this game had an effect on my psyche. When you first get out of the prison ship and the music kicks in utterly blew me away in 1998 and watching it again it kind of did the same. Also weird is how much I remember of the actual game. I think I was playing it on the original Voodoo card although it might have been my Righteous Orchid 3D, can't remember now. Unbelievably atmospheric and not just for the time. Great game. Just looked it up and apparently those two video cards are one and the same. Don't remember it that way but hey its nearly a quarter of a century ago :)

[@DraganAlves]

I think I had the same card! First 3D video card I ever bought. I too remember the feeling of leaving the ship when the music kicks in. Blown away by outdoor environments when most games didn't have them back then

[@dk5439]

I remember how I was blown away of the water in this game 😲.

[@bhavanip3220]

Aah..... ☺️☺️☺️ The good old games. We can never forget this game though, love unreal. 😎

[@realhaidinh]

0:04 that reflection

[@andyknowles666]

Mirror-flipped geometry trick. but exceptionally effective.

[@leoreleases]

I develop and code renders :D

[@canceRnya]

RTX

[@Devilot91]

Is just the 3d copy mirrored and flipped upside down to give the illusion of a reflected surface, but yeah was cool :D

[@winni2701]

No need to use RTX if that mirror-trick saves 95% of the performance for 95% of the RTX effects.

[@YoutubeUser2013lol]

Pretty impressive 20 years later, god.. thats crazy i imagine how people we're looking when they saw this in 1998.

[@cuttheloop]

This was the first game I played after getting my new Gateway PC with Dual SLI Voodoo II It was very memorable watching the opening scene.

[@Diarake]

I played at the time, ngl that was insane

[@MOF43]

@@Diarake better than half life lol

[@oliverb.8995]

@@MOF43 cap

[@OVERKILL_PINBALL]

We used to just watch the opening screen with ours jaws hanging out

[@otets_ambroziy]

Nostalgia!

[@freddaod3011]

Sim kkk

[@narcyzamalfoy6061]

When this game went out, I had a jawdrop. Looks so unbelievable insane on my VooDoo 3. Music, feel, story, all is perfect.

[@sassymenses]

Story???? XD

[@mathammer7810]

Same...when you finally get outside the first time and you look up at the mystical sky with these insanely gorgeous textures back then.... literally fell off my chair. 3DFX Voodoo 2 for me

[@Kynos1]

I have been playing this game once a year since it was released. I will never grow tired of it.

[@newbro]

To this date I still remember the "light off" sequence at 13:38.

[@klosnj11]

Absolutely. That moment is why I looked this video up.

[@TheFly212]

kids and "PC gamers" of today will never grasp the immense greatness of that intro. They simply missed out on the absolute prime of PC gaming (late 90s to like mid 2000s)

[@scrublord5886]

Thanks so much for this PT, I really enjoyed it. For those of you too young to remember the release of this game, there are some fun facts you should know. Some of the graphics seem ahead of their time, particularly the reflective floors. This is because Unreal WAS ahead of its time. So much so that it ended up in the discount bin upon release. Very few people had a computer that could play this game and virtually no one had a computer that could play it as it was meant to look. That's because Unreal wasn't meant to be played, at least not in 1998. The game you're seeing was more or less an advertisement to OTHER game developers to sell the Unreal engine. And this game revolutionized gaming, even if no one really played it in 1998. I know, I was in grad school at the time, bought the game and didn't actually play it for another two years. That's when my computer caught up with its requirements.

[@Methos_101]

I had the privilege of playing this late 1998 because I had a brand new Riva TNT graphics card and... Unreal was included with it. Because of it I was then expecting Unreal Tournament the following year and it became one of my favorite games of all time, I even played it competitively on a clan.

[@scrublord5886]

@@Methos_101 I had a Riva TNT as well and this game didn't play for shit on my rig. I don't remember for sure, but I think I had a Pentium II 300 and I could watch the intro, which was mesmerizing, but killing a Skaarj seemed almost impossible because they were flying around the screen and my computer would start stuttering. Idk, it's over 20 years ago, so my memory might be fuzzy, but it seems like the Pentium IV in 2000 was when this game really started to shine.

[@szamanisticrealistic2659]

Id play it right now over any other modern game. Remember playing it for the first time as a 12 year old. Remember that to this day. One of the most epic memories of my life.

[@mehdimokhtari3746]

I stayed up all night playing this game and I didn't study for finals because I wasted my life concentrating on this game until my mom caught me and I got grounded for one day for not listening to my parents 😂

[@master1986a]

Amazing game, so many memories, both this and unreal tournament.

[@Smola666]

I was 10 when this came out. Nostalgic to watch

[@Frankabyte]

I may be a zoomer who's grown accustomed to appreciating the cutting-edge graphics of RTX shaders and modern AAA games, but my jaw dropped at this gameplay demo. Honestly, even if a game is older than I am, that doesn't mean it's less visually stunning than something like BF2042 or Halo Infinite; it's the artstyle and how well presented a game looks that really sells the unreality of it all. The fact that 90's hardware could manage reflections, refraction, dynamic lighting, fog, bloom, high-res textures, and shadows is just nuts to me, but maybe I underestimate what one can do with less than a gigabyte of RAM and processors measured in Mhz.

[@gbraadnl]

3:45 one of the best parts of the game; the soundscape and environment amazed me a lot, and clearly remember the waterfall. Who else tried to shoot the hoppers?

[@localpoliceman]

This game and UT1999, I miss those days.

[@DraganAlves]

I played so much Unreal Tournament in LAN games in college...

[@freddiehouthuyzen]

this brings back memories.. damn..

[@snake21321]

only good memories

[@oriecameron]

This is one of the first games that made me always want the best gaming hardware. This looked very impressive for its time and I loved it.

[@odimaraguiar8524]

this game deserved a remake.

[@loonytitan9142]

huge wave of nostalgia

[@urmo345]

Unreal, Quake, Half-Life all landmark games. Now, evolution is stopped...

[@rootpotato]

Such a stylish and good looking game . . . Really wanted to get into this back in the day, but just had no idea what was going on or what to do!!

[@trisv1974]

I was 23 when it came out, it blew up mi mind, the incredible music, the amazing landscapes, this game was never ending. i bought a machine just to be able to play this game, and the amazing voodo fusion card. Riva TNT (nvidia) cards were new cards that nobody knew. You could feel like being lost in the planet, the feeling of loneliness, dispair, and injustice. And the inveitble fatal ending was somehow expected. There is no gold at the end of the rainbow

[@xboxed720]

Good graphics for a game from 1998.

[@sassymenses]

Good yeah... the best graphics at the time. That was kinda Crysis of '98

[@ap0ll06]

Thanks god... This is my first game i played... I got years to know what is the name of this game... And now i got back my memorise... Right now i am very happy to recover this happy mamorise thank god i will get cry right now🥺🥺😭🙂

[@gamerzlog6963]

this looks like a next gen game :D

[@bashy241]

Cmon let’s not cap here

[@mohamedabdelazim7838]

@@bashy241 This was even before Half-Life

[@MOF43]

@@mohamedabdelazim7838 and its better

[@thecoomchalice5441]

KZbin comments really is the place where brain cells go to die...

[@ミスターD-v1r]

昔pcショップで見たunrealのデモの衝撃が忘れられない。

[@mongoosevsgt]

this game had the best damn music

[@vivi67290]

I was 8 when I try to play this game, it was so scary

[@egbah428]

This was the game that did it for me. After playing this I was in love. Would love to see a console remake on the unreal 5 engine. I'd even love to see a retro release on console just the way it is. When you first leave your ship and the ambience kicks in.

[@lukaspodany5210]

I played this game so long ago that I only remember a few moments, the game was scary for me as a little boy but now I would play it calmly

[@JonathanVachon777]

the music in this game was awesome

[@whitedude877]

What texture pack/graphics mod are you using?

[@digitalebemme4314]

Das ist jetzt schon 23 Jahre alt? Als es neu erschien, hatte ich den neuen Rechner (AMD K6-2/333@350MHz, 128MB RAM, Nvidia GeForce...). Es war trotzdem ein ruckeliges Spiel.

[@Ryankie]

I'll be damned. I was wondering if you'd ever run this game! So excited!

[@captainkeyboard7273]

10:21 "Oh my god, that's the cutest thing I have ever seen..." **thing get's obliterated** "Uhuu" **Me start's crying**

[@winni2701]

HAHAHA

[@suryashashi9074]

This was most scary game. Still so fresh

[@unfa00]

Unreal had ceiling-attached enemies before Half-Life!

[@KingEckberts]

Duke Nukem 3d even before Half-Life!

[@itxpen]

cool graphics even now ! :D I can't understand at first - with RTX On this or original .. :D

[@YurkaPotam]

VERY VERY GOLD Unreal

[@hazley13]

This is where it all started kids

[@mattijsleerink6740]

What a game 😎👏

[@skylark1111]

the soundtrack of this game was fascinating and haunts me until nowadays

[@ИванПетров-х1р7х]

помню эту игру, ностальгия

[@fluzziii9942]

i love this game great job mate

[@mathiasbeyer3978]

awesome!!! Why the heck didn't put the difficulty in the title??? and is it complete walkthrough??? anyways good play :)

[@wimalsurendrakathriarachch799]

Wow my first game.. Still remeber..

[@unfa00]

I'll need to replay Unlreal again with the HD texture pack! Is there anyone playing deathmatch still?

[@DriesduPreez]

I'd like to see a Doom remake equivalent of this.

[@360ambiencevideos]

its 2012, The Unreal engine has taken off since this game. into new levels of photorealism, megascans assets, metahumans and volumetrics, so when will we see UNREAL remade with Unreal today ? Should the original engine, in its source code, not be made available to all of us willing to recreate the original, today ? perhaps as a VR template even....

[@sarpsarp8987]

How did graphics of video games change this much from 1993 to 1998?

[@fearthereaper5663]

Incredible

[@MaximusPanin]

My first CD

[@Sele81]

This still looks better than some VR games lol

[@robertsjoers3744]

Most impressive game ever🙏❤

[@mmms76]

Is unreal engine start from this game for all games creators?

[@KD-xj6yj]

Does this have a graphics enhancing mod ?

[@DraganAlves]

Looks like original graphics to me

[@binnieb20]

8:26 I remember that sound effect in "Dinner Blaster".

[@PaceyPimp]

This is how my shit ran back in the day others show videos on YT make this game look bad but i ran my game in 4k back in the day on a 21" NEC monitor and a fully spec'ed out machine.

[@Kenny_Mars]

I played this game a ton online. My nic was SuperUnknown, Asmo was my weapon of choice.

[@oamatorzenamotorze5847]

Dear Santa UNREAL Remastered plz

[@Mushroom.Madness.]

8-10 year old me was so scared playing this game

[@LaroLee]

How do I get this

[@JReed7560]

I've seen it on eBay for pretty cheap. Thinking about picking it up myself.

[@winni2701]

Maybe check out GOG?

[@WTFBOOMDOOM]

How dare you not play as Gina :( Haha, just kidding, though that's how most people experienced it. 2:32 Classic (though everything in this game is.) I dream of Unreal-like environments once in a while and it's so magical...

[@dylannt1225]

Nostalgic

[@sonemalisnimac8894]

Old Memoris

[@abrasive2243]

That poor non violet animal @ 10:24 hit by a rocket 😢

[@MattIsTheCat]

Portal before portal?

[@JAYJay-qd7ov]

This is the origin of online fps games. I used to play this when I was a kid.

[@mkfort]

Nah, Quake/Quakeworld when it got serious.

[@Nessal83]

I remember my Voodoo 1 graphics card could barely handle this game.

[@iindiar]

wish I could download this

[@winni2701]

0:04 Control with RTX off: *Am I a joke to you?*

[@bradp.3192]

stop trying to be funny

[@winni2701]

no u

[@humahanzadeninannesi8466]

Hâlâ dün gibi aklımda.. kuzenime oynattirirdim ben oynayamazdım korkardım😄 o da oynamak istemezdi zorla oynattirirdim korkardim heyecanlanirdim o oynarken😄 şimdi anılarıma gittim izlerken bile bir tuhaf oldum hey gidi..🧡

[@susuvaleri]

Ben küçükken babam ve abim oynardı. O zamanlar çok korkardım bu oyundan aynı zaman da çok heyecanlanırdım. Hala buraya gelip ara sıra izlerim anılarımı tazelerim. Türk görünce duygulandım yazayım dedim

[@lb3d257]

Anyone else here to witness the roots of the Unreal Engine?

[@MikeAdelic1207]

AWESOME game but one thing I NEVER understood was why you were the only one the Tentacles targeted. Those things are everywhere and not even the Nali were targeted. Nor were the Skaarj, Brutes or any other being.

[@PLA69]

Oh boy! I will regret that I never played the original before Unreal Tournament. I can see similarities in graphics with Deus Ex and music composers are also the same. I missed out on a real classic. Well unreal classic.

[@MaestroStefanoPetrini]

01:42 Goofy's scream

[@Qysc3nt]

Thanks!

[@mariiazatorska]

omg, my first game)

[@romanzieba2889]

Same

[@MrWinotu]

OMG! Unreal - my PC was not good enough to play it. I had so low fps with Celeron 300 Mhz and 16 MB RAM, later I bought Voodoo 3, and my 3d Trio 4 MB had sudden kick xD That was a time...

[@oliverb.8995]

this game is good but i still prefer half life, most 90s fps games were just about shooting everything

[@monicalavoie9414]

1:38 seconds in a get a fkin ad are you kidding me youtube

[@AaronGwynaireGameDev]

fantastic game :)

[@Therealguymins]

Sounds like Unreal Gold to me.

[@atlante4368]

Looks stunning for a 20+ year old game. Too bad I didn't play it when it was released.

[@urmo345]

I wasn't able to play, video card wasn't powerful enough. But my bro ran it and this intro at beginning was jaw dropping...However i played it years later and even made some levels with editor. Unreal level editor was/is unusual as you didn't build the world but carved it out.

[@genkijin]

yo this looks extra creamy whats up? mod?

[@crunchysuperman]

You running that in GLide? Kinda looks like it.

[@Methos_101]

+crunchysuperman DX9 actually.

[@おはいむ]

うますぎ

[@Brian-93]

Que loco, que juegazo

[@daisysylvonna568]

good fuckin lord you're masterful

[@FelixLantiguaCamacho]

I used to play it a lot, well, DEMO version from CD games demos of pc magazine and pc gamer

[@martinrizzo4074]

Good memories this was actually the first game I got and still remember I was scared of skaárj because of their obnoxious intelligence even in easier difficulties. But I hate the shitty weapon sounds they used in unreal gold that feel so artificial (I hope I'm not the only one that realized for this version they used the weapon sounds of unreal tournament).

[@pepita5179]

Que recuerdos!!!