Some screenshots? Just two. Also they opened the maps with the "Intro" gametype that is used in the flyby apparently. The second screenshot is nice but i'm not sure if a choice about the first one was good enough, don't think the NaliC water cave is that nice, and the crystals don't emit any light compared to other maps (a bit of omission I guess, originally the cave didn't have the crystals afaik).
Also what old poster are they offering exactly? Was there a pic of it?
Sorry to start with nitpicking though, lol.
Yea 15 years, but everyone seems to forget about the game and they still talk about the tournaments mostly, "time to celebrate with ut2004" is what you mostly hear or they have incorrect perception of how things were.
I don't know what's to celebrate if most only see it as a way that opened the path to UT and not really celebrate about the main game. I kinda wish Unreal was harder and less focused solely on the visual side at many maps(while not having much purpose aside that), but it was a great game and a first FPS game I ever got contact into because I avoided Doom etc at the time. But this pulled me in much more, maybe too much, lol.
The game might have been made linear in the end, but there were still secrets and room for exploration. The translator messages gave a story instead of having a predetermined plot or backstory and the choice to keep the player anonymous was imo much better than the original plan where the prisoner had a backstory. It just made you feel like the player more. Then RTNP came along and changed that and even added not-so-good voice lines, while still being anonymous, somehow...because one time you could be female and hear the female voice(which was better than the male one) and other time male. How can that be explained in the continuity I don't know, means the prisoner can be anyone but then again, they've given him/her a number at RtNP. Feels weird to have a character designated yet remain anonymous and possibility of gender/look choice made that even more strange. In that kind of case I think a designated character would be better choice, than what RtNP has done, just like the story in Unreal PSX would have
been. It's just that rtnp tried to mix both character driven/anonymous character into one big pile. Both character driven and anonymous/choice of play can be done well and both do fit Unreal or expansion pack, but not a mix between the two imo. Still for the main game it makes more sense to have a choice. But the prisoner was unnamed in the end, didn't even have a number until RtNP, so player could just choose who he can be and not bother about the backstory of his character. I never realized it that way but rtnp really screwed over this intention in the end because it could fit well into the continutity if you were any prisoner, but suddenly if you have a number and yet can be both female/male and can hear your voice depending on that, suddenly it feels strange, imo.
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