Does Unreal Still Look Unreal? Not Anymore!

Yes, this is an actual PC game screenshot.

With the rapid pace of hardware and software advancement, games keep looking better and better.

There's no question that games from previous decades look like silly puppet shows compared to what we get to see from Crysis, especially in light of this fantasy mod.

It's startling, then, to look back on this cover of Next-Generation magazine and see it declare that, "Yes, this is an actual PC game screenshot."

I still remember picking this issue up from my mailbox and marveling at Unreal's texturing and colored lighting. Oh, to see that game again through eyes from 1997.

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FunSurfer , May 31, 2010 3:31 PM

But the ambience of the game is still unreal and no other game has ever came close to it.
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bv90andy , May 31, 2010 9:31 PM

the
jamesedgeuk20003DFX Voodoo Rush, the Nvidia Riva 128, the ATi rage LT Pro and the Matrox Mystique

the names of the praphics cards were awesome compared to today.
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sanphire , May 31, 2010 6:32 PM

Still to this day - one of the greatest FPS' to grace PC's. If you get the DirectX plug-in, the latest patches, and a few fan-made mods the graphics are still good enough to play through - and well worth it - few games have topped the brilliantly tense atmosphere Unreal created when you first meet the bad-ass Skarjj in a dark tunnel...