Unreal offers a complete world for you to roam -- a world of incredible beauty and realism with the most detailed environments ever to grace your PC screen. In one seamless flowing world, race across vast outdoor and indoor environments, enter enchanting cities, mysterious temples, glittering mines, shattered ships, and crystal clear waters. Unreal delivers this cutting-edge realism on computers using a Pentium 166 or higher. And for those of you lucky enough to have a Pentium II, MMX technology or a video accelerator, the Unreal realms will become your reality. Not that it’ll be easy: with Unreal's array of fierce new fully polygonal enemies stalking your every move, it’ll be a struggle just to survive. You’ll have some help, of course: with an arsenal of incredible new weapons at your disposal, you should at least have a fighting chance against the Skaarj and their allies. But with over 300 frames of animation apiece, and monster AI (that's Artificial Intelligence to...
Unreal is a first person shooter for the PC. The shooter really polishes what a 3D first person shooter should be at the time of it's release in 1998. Unlike Quake, the models and animation for those models are fluid and the game has really amazing special effects for the time. Very amazing and rendered really well when compared to a game like Quake.
The theme is generic. It's a game set in space across distant planets with a Viking mixed with a desert temple in some places with a typical space feel in other levels. At times, it is a bit generic but wouldn't expect any settings as amazing. The weapons are as imaginative as they could get. The single player campaigns takes hours to complete so for a first person shooter as distant as 1998, the game really offers a lot to explore into as expected from a game which offers a very virtual like world.