Originally posted by: VIAN
I chose Unreal. It had everything a game should have: fun epic story, graphics, great indoor levels and outdoor levels, varied environments, beings you care about, and an excellent score. It's the most engrossing game I've ever played. And I did so 5 years after it's release. And that is a great achievement.
I just finished Return to Na Pali a few months ago. I must say among its FPS contemporaries Unreal's visuals have aged most gracefully (even by today's standards it acquits itself fairly well).
Some imageries from Unreal which remain classics of the genre imo:
[*]Stumbling out of the hellish confines of your wrecked ship and seeing the sunlit vistas of the alien planet for the first time
[*]The lava-filled caverns of the tarydium crystal mines
[*]The water-filled chambers with their Aztec-like architecture
[*]The mercury-like blob creatures in the ship ISV-Kran
[*]Getting to the summit of the Sunspire (backed by that inspiring soundtrack) and arriving at the cloud city (this game has the best-looking skies ever)
[*]In the Skaarj mothership after you cut the power and have to retread the previous levels in eerily-lit darkness (backed by yet another superb soundtrack) whilst getting stalked by invisible Skaarj
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