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Best online shooter for 360 to date.
posted by Droppo (HOUSTON, TX) Jul 10, 2008
Member since Dec 2006
74 out of 90 gamers (82%) found this review helpful
I guess I won't be getting much sleep for a while. This is one addictive shooter. Graphics are amazing and the single player vs. bots is great for training up until you are ready for some online carnage. But that shouldn't take long because the controls are smooth and easy to remember. You really just need to master the rules of each of the different play modes. The story for the single player mode is ok, but it's really just there to get you ready for what this game is all about: dominating the online shooter genre.
All the necessary game modes for great online action are here. Capture the flag has always been my favorite, but the matches where you have to protect your nodes while destroying your enemy's nodes are quite nice. Of course, simple deathmatch is probably the foundation of any online shooter and in Unreal, it is fast paced with great level designs. The available weapons are great as always with Unreal. There's nothing like leaping off a perch to land in front of an enemy and splattering them into giblets all over the wall.
I have enjoyed playing some of the other shooters on the 360 like Halo 3, Gears of War, and The Orange Box. Unreal seems to have the best parts of each of these. It plays faster than Gears and Halo 3, but it's got better firepower and graphics than Orange Box. Graphics are better than Halo 3 for sure (not that H3 wasn't cool looking too). Only Gears of War has graphics that come very close to Unreal and that's because it's the same game engine and production company. But the art is cleaner here since the world isn't totally demolished like Gears.
I haven't played the PC or PS3 versions of this game (and probably never will) so I can't compare this version to those. I am only reviewing what I see here on the 360, and what I see, I like a lot. It's going to take something very special to come along and beat the total package that this game provides for an online fragfest.
Right now, I think it's the best one out there.
All the necessary game modes for great online action are here. Capture the flag has always been my favorite, but the matches where you have to protect your nodes while destroying your enemy's nodes are quite nice. Of course, simple deathmatch is probably the foundation of any online shooter and in Unreal, it is fast paced with great level designs. The available weapons are great as always with Unreal. There's nothing like leaping off a perch to land in front of an enemy and splattering them into giblets all over the wall.
I have enjoyed playing some of the other shooters on the 360 like Halo 3, Gears of War, and The Orange Box. Unreal seems to have the best parts of each of these. It plays faster than Gears and Halo 3, but it's got better firepower and graphics than Orange Box. Graphics are better than Halo 3 for sure (not that H3 wasn't cool looking too). Only Gears of War has graphics that come very close to Unreal and that's because it's the same game engine and production company. But the art is cleaner here since the world isn't totally demolished like Gears.
I haven't played the PC or PS3 versions of this game (and probably never will) so I can't compare this version to those. I am only reviewing what I see here on the 360, and what I see, I like a lot. It's going to take something very special to come along and beat the total package that this game provides for an online fragfest.
Right now, I think it's the best one out there.
This game is unreal
posted by dfloss721 (GRAYSLAKE, IL) Apr 24, 2010
Member since Jun 2007
6 out of 7 gamers (86%) found this review helpful
Played in 2010, and I thought this game was still awesome. I had a ton of fun playing the campaign in co-op online. I was surprised to see other people still play co-op and multiplayer. Not a lot..but still.
The game is setup unlike a lot of others. The campaign is actually just a bunch of multiplayer maps that you play with your team, and have to win a variety of warfare, capture the flag, and deathmatch matches. You don't play through actual long level environments like a Halo, or Gears of War.
This game IS Gears of War, except with much faster and quicker gameplay, jumping, better guns, and more levels. It's very fast paced, as your guy moves really fast. You can also double jump, and hit a variety of air boosters to fly you in the air throughout the levels.
You can also drive tons of vehicles like Halo, both alien and human types that fly and others like tanks. Also, anytime you play a large map on Warfare, you have this Hoverboard thing you can use, like your Michael J Fox in Back to the Future. It's wicked!! You can fly on this thing, carry flags, orbs, and even do sick tricks like tail grabs and flips. It might sound dumb, but it's not. So if you don't like operating vehicles, you can hoverboard it and also grapple to vehicles to keep up.
This game is sick straight up. A ton of the good shooters today like Gears of War, all use the Unreal System. This game is setup for another sequel, so we'll see. Rent for sure, if not even buy if you can get it for under $10. Put 50 hours into it no problem.
Milt Drucker - xbox gamertag
The game is setup unlike a lot of others. The campaign is actually just a bunch of multiplayer maps that you play with your team, and have to win a variety of warfare, capture the flag, and deathmatch matches. You don't play through actual long level environments like a Halo, or Gears of War.
This game IS Gears of War, except with much faster and quicker gameplay, jumping, better guns, and more levels. It's very fast paced, as your guy moves really fast. You can also double jump, and hit a variety of air boosters to fly you in the air throughout the levels.
You can also drive tons of vehicles like Halo, both alien and human types that fly and others like tanks. Also, anytime you play a large map on Warfare, you have this Hoverboard thing you can use, like your Michael J Fox in Back to the Future. It's wicked!! You can fly on this thing, carry flags, orbs, and even do sick tricks like tail grabs and flips. It might sound dumb, but it's not. So if you don't like operating vehicles, you can hoverboard it and also grapple to vehicles to keep up.
This game is sick straight up. A ton of the good shooters today like Gears of War, all use the Unreal System. This game is setup for another sequel, so we'll see. Rent for sure, if not even buy if you can get it for under $10. Put 50 hours into it no problem.
Milt Drucker - xbox gamertag