Unreal

Presentation

This play was regarded as the direct competitor of the series of the Quake of Id Software, its technology being slightly higher than the Quake and Quake II reciprocally left 2 and 1 years earlier. It integrated models entirely in three dimensions, and the possibilities of coloured lightings, already present under Quake 2, were finally fully used. Unreal soothsayer very quickly one of the most popular plays among the amateurs of First-person shooter, but suffered then from an erratic support of the network game and on the Net. It is only with Unreal Tournament that Unreal was essential like one of the leaders undeniable of the play Multijoueur.

History

The formerly peaceful Faded Na planet is populated only one only intelligent species: Nalis. The latter are unaware of the use of violence completely. Well before the beginning of the play, the quarrelsome race of the Skaarjs installed a base advanced on this planet and reduced its population in slavery, using the natives like slaves in the mines of tarydium. Nali, very religious, Na were not long in regarding their Masters as “demons of the sky”, sent by the gods to punish Nali of their sins and weaknesses. A third species only known under the name of “Mercenaries” and rival of Skaarjs, also installed a scientific complex, Terraniux, supported by a strong military garrison. Although Nalis and the Mercenaries had very few contacts, one can imagine that the attitude of the latter is rather neutral towards the original Faded Na population.

Right before the beginning of the play, two vessel human, the ship prison Vortex Riker (NC114-85EKLS ) and ISV-Kran, in transit towards a not communicated destination, enter the very powerful gravitational field of an unknown planet. Skaarjs vessels also appear on the screens. The unknown planet is not other than Faded Na, and they vessels are not long in being crushed on its surface.

The play starts when prisoner 849 incarnated by the player, awakes, certainly several days after the crash landing. It St put at the current of the situation by reading various personal files and control screens on board wreck of the Riker Vortex. It also meets there for the first time Skaarjs, which it on several occasions sees during a few moments.

849 is extracted from the vessel and discovers the paradise which would be Na Faded without the presence of Skaarjs and their troops of slaves and henchmen. The hero crosses villages Nali, mines, temples, as well as the monstrous carcass of ISV-Kran, whose lower levels are impracticable T the higher levels infested of Skaarjs on the war footing. He also visits Terraniux, installation of the Mercenaries who, surrounded by Skaarjs, are aggressive.

Worms has fine of its tour in the search of a means of escaping, the hero will cross one of the cities of the sky, built by Nali on one of the many asteroids which float with the top of the surface of planet to a few tens of kilometers, but still profiting from a respirable atmosphere, the Eversmoking Bluff, Monastère transformed into giant prison by Skaarjs and their Kralls subordinates, and the Nali Castle. This last is also with the hands of the invaders, and its basements are used as refuge with drawing War leader Skaarj, monstrous Skaarj winged equipped with a rocket launcher. Finally, about to die, the monster will be téléportera.

849 infiltrates then on board the vessel Skaarj mother, then with ground to the powerful generator providing of energy to all the machines. There it will meet a battalion of Skaarjs desperate led to the combat by the War leader of return.

After having made jump the generator and having massacred any resistance, the player recrosses in opposite direction the vessel mother to the compartments sheltering the auxiliary batteries, of which it uses the power to reach the “source”, which is not other than the Skaarj queen. After having beaten it, it seizes a pod of help and finally manages to be torn off with the Faded Na attraction… At the price of the totality of its fuel. The play finishes on a sight of the drifting pod in space, just out of reach planet, hoping for helps.

Gameplay

The gameplay of Unreal is famous for its speed and its strategic but nonrealistic aspect: a player touched course always at the same speed and does not worry about tiredness or the poid of the weapon which it carries. Play introduced for the first time into a video game, the Top spin-Jump allowing to benefit from the acceleration of the ascenceurs to multiply by ten a jump. The weapons of the play also were rented for their originality, and incorporate both fashions of shooting. It should be noted that the player little to decide placement of the weapon which it carries: centered, arms on the right or arms on the left.

The players have the possibility of carrying out ds dodgings twice while pressing quickly on the key of a direction. Unreal is also, with Quake 2, one of the plays which imposed the mouse like essential peripheral for the plays in 3D. Speed of the play and the strong proportion of engagements on several levels height. Contrary to Quake, the rockets-jumps are not very widespread, the coil-ramming (damage which the player inflicts with itself while drawing on an obstacle too much close to him) being much more important.

The play in solo is linear but famous for its convincing environment.

Weapons

Gun with dispersion : First weapon found in the remainders of the Vortex Riker, it emits a discharge of slow, vague and not very powerful energy. The secondary shooting makes it possible to charge several loads and to slacken a blow powerful and able to cause damage of zones. This weapon is more interesting than it does not appear to with it because the player regularly puts the hand on amplifiers which make it possible to improve the weapon, increasing his damage. The level of the weapon is seen with the numbers of ornaments deployed on the gun of the weapon and with the color of the discharge. The amplifiers are rars and difficult to find, requiring a very thorough exploration of the levels, but improved to the maximum and helped by an amplifier of damage, the gun with dispersion is able to kill the Skaarj Queen of only one projectile.

Automag : Not very powerful gun. It makes it possible to draw at normal rate from the very precise balls, or by inclining the weapon at the time it shooting, to draw more quickly but less precisely. It is about the only weapon of the play which needs to be reloaded after a certain number of drawn blows. The automag uses the same ammunition that Minigun, and the ammunition must thus be used with parsimony.

Stinger : This weapon is a machine-gun drawing from the glares of Taridyum, abundant blue crystal on the surface of NaPali. Its secondary shooting makes it possible to draw a flight from 5 crystals in only once. Fairly powerful and poorly specifies, this weapon is especially interesting for its speed.

Rifle ASMD : Arms with instantaneous shooting, which was called Fusil Shock in the opus according to, it car is a long beam which makes it possible to push back the enemy by causing him average damage, that is to say to draw a slow ball which causes damage of zone by touching an obstacle. Rifle ASMD can be used to cause a " Combo Shock" : while drawing with the primary education shooting on the ball shock, the player starts a violent explosion. It is also used by many players to carry out " shock jumps" , equivalent of the " rocket jump" of Quake, because the secondary shooting makes it possible to strongly amplify a jump without causing too large damage with the player.

Razorjack : Launcher of blades, weapons of most exotic. Razorjack, which will become the eventror in Unreal Tournament, shooting of the circular razor blades and can cause of Headshots. The secondary shooting sending a blade inclined with the not very different, but slower behavior. The blade rebounding rather lengthily on the obstacles, it can be used to draw drrièe the corners or to saturate a zone.

GES Bio Files : This extraterrestrial weapon projects balls of one kilo mud of Taridyum causing of serious damage and clinging to the obstacles before exploding. The secondary shooting makes it possible to project a digest of several balls which divide with the impact, causing an instantaneous death and damage of zone. The player must take guard not to be drawn with full load on an adversary with bearing end, because that will as surely kill it as that will vaporize the enemy.

Minigun : It is about mitralleuse very fast and powerful, but which uses the same balls as the automag. Its speed of tr in fact a true pit in ammunition. Its secondary shooting St even faster but precision in strongly suffered.

Anti-aircraft gun : Emblematic weapon of Unreal, Canon flak is a weapon anti air which projects either a broad grenade with fragmentation, or a flight éxtrèmement powerful of sharp glares of métals. Mortal with the body with body, this weapon is as dangerous for the gunner as for the target, the glares rebounding on the walls. The grenade of the secondary shooting also ejects a handle of glares.

Rocket launcher " EightBall" : Rocket launcher which can charge to six rockets, to draw them simultaneously. The secondary shooting makes it possible to charge with the not-propelled rockets which rebound on the walls (known as " grenade" mode;). There exists also a means of drawing the rockets grouped by charging the rockets with the primary education shooting while pressing on the secondary button of shooting. The lance rocket is one of the favorite weapons of the players, for his power and with dimensions irrational one of the simultaneous shooting.

Rifle : arms with precision to the ammunition rare and very powerful, rifle is the last weapon found in the play. Equip with magnifying glasses, rifle to cause headshots little.

Universe

Although its universe is not as complex and deep as Deus Ex, for example, Unreal has an about coherent history (of which several elements are made confused by errors in the continuation Unreal 2). Thus, the history of the Earth is lengthily progressively detailed of the plays, in particular in the description of certain charts of UT2004, or in the presentations of the maps of attack.

The various extraterrestrial races are also more or less detailed: the Skaarjs, symbols of the Unreal frankness, are present in each episode (except for UT2003), which made it possible to create a history to them.

Other races appear sporadically: Kraals, Nalis, Izarians, Helium nuclei, Necris…

To note

official Last version: Unreal patch v226

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