Hi all.
Well, I just got in the May 1998 Edition of PC Gamer magazine.
A 6-page review of Unreal plus a very strange advertisement and also came with a preview movie and some screenshots all zipped up at 216MB.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/n8ezg ... May_98.zip
The movie file is dated March 27th 1998, the 24 screenshots from March 16th 1998. Interesting stuff.
The movie is a .smk file which needs to be played in the included “smackplayer”. Just drag “Unreal.smk” into the player.
Sorry for the low quality of the scans. My scanner has an issue with some discoloration in sections of the scans…it can’t be fixed so these will have to do for now. 600dpi, so quite large. Too large? I haven’t done this before, so forgive any novice moves. I thought that the bigger scans would be useful for our historians who might want to have a good look at the photos in the article.
Some teasers of the screenshots:
Enjoy.
New Unreal magazine scans and small movie
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- Carbon
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Subject: New Unreal magazine scans and small movie
Post Posted: 25 Apr 2014, 15:20
- AlCapowned
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Subject: Re: New Unreal magazine scans and small movie
Post Posted: 25 Apr 2014, 15:36
I'm a sucker for early Unreal stuff, so thanks for sharing.
Edit: The part in the video when the player gives up on trying to kill the fly is great. I wouldn't normally be able to tell if someone was frustrated just by looking at how they play a game, but that person had to have been exasperated.
It was interesting to see the Skaarj warriors and troopers in QueenEnd, too.
Edit: The part in the video when the player gives up on trying to kill the fly is great. I wouldn't normally be able to tell if someone was frustrated just by looking at how they play a game, but that person had to have been exasperated.
It was interesting to see the Skaarj warriors and troopers in QueenEnd, too.
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Subject: Re: New Unreal magazine scans and small movie
Post Posted: 26 Apr 2014, 23:46
Always interesting to see how Unreal was percieved at the time. Pretty good but not quite perfect. Quake II did some things better.
Of course both games were largely blown away by a certain other game a few months later...
Of course both games were largely blown away by a certain other game a few months later...
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Subject: Re: New Unreal magazine scans and small movie
Post Posted: 27 Apr 2014, 00:23
Wish Quake stopped at the first one.
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Subject: Re: New Unreal magazine scans and small movie
Post Posted: 27 Apr 2014, 04:17
Interestingly, the screenshots show some RTNP maps that were apparently still in the original game and the sounds in the video haven't been finalized either. The Nali's death cry is odd.
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Subject: Re: New Unreal magazine scans and small movie
Post Posted: 27 Apr 2014, 12:49
Looks like the Unreal Beta to me Though they've got the old automag working there.
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