I was really looking forward to this game. The original Unreal was utterly amazing. I was captivated. The Nali was a race that was well-developed, as they had reasons to help you, their own religion, and intricacies that made them more believable. The enemies were varied enough for me to enjoy the ride of infiltrating a nest of Krall or whatever. The pace was good and the environments varied well. The weapons were interesting. The scenery was incredible. The story was engaging.

Unreal 2 fails at every level. For one thing, it is completely obvious that this is a Halo rip off. The exoskeleton style armor, the marines, the way the machine-gun weapon fires, for starters. I miss the Nali. They drove the story very well. I don’t really care about the crew members, there’s no reason to select any of the response options except to continue the game because the game does not branch out in any way. I don’t feel very motivated to collect items. The enemies seem hard to see at a distance and they are a little too accurate in my opinion. They do move well. The environments & pace of the story don’t do anything for me. The biggest disappointment of all is the scenery doesn’t do much to compare to the leaps in technology of the original.

Unreal made your jaw drop and drool. When you saw sunspire for the first time, and realized how immense it was, you spent time there just amazed. Unreal 2 doesn’t have anything new. Oh sure, you can say, well the sun flares look good, or you can move electric fences around… SO WHAT! Even if I wanted to look around, it isn’t much fun because at the higher settings this game chunks about like a fag’s dick in tim’s butt. It sucks ass and I’m returning this piece of shit.