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Unreal (1998)

Duration: 1:05:42

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After taking a few tries to defeat a completely optional boss for a pistol upgrade, it's time for a castle that actually happens to feature some of the best environmental storytelling in the game, finally giving us a fairly clear statement on what our true purpose in the story is, as well as why the Nali are so invested in helping us in the first place (beyond just being nice people).

Unreal was released by Epic Games in 1998, after years of development that gave rise to one of the most important games in video game history. The Unreal Engine developed for this game has continued to have successors that are at the core of so many modern video games that the engine has become more famous than its origin. While Unreal has sometimes been lost in the shuffle of 1998's legendary historical game releases, it may well have actually been the most important release of that year.

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