Everything that we have now on Unreal Engine today all traces back to this overhyped and late to release first person shooter. The engine was not forgotten and it was a reason of pride and marketing when a different game was using it. How could a game where the only action was shooting monsters and switching levers compete with that ? Not to mention other revolutions in the fps genre like Rainbow Six, Thief, Tribes, Delta Force, all in 1998.Д«ut the engine remained and that game gave birth to the engine and their licensing business. Nobody could come out on the market with a run n gun after Half Life had soldiers rappeling down the helicopter, talking to each other with walkie-talkies and throwing grenades behing the cover where you were cowering in wait. What i think happened, like many others, is that Half Life came out a few months later and was such a cataclysmic event, an industry wide life altering aparition that changed and affected absolutely everything in the whole industry, that the type of classic FPS like Unreal was, seemed primitive and rudimentary overnight. They both thought its the best FPS up until that point. The game got raving reviews, in two local magazines that were around at the time, one gave it 93/100 and the other 96. Epic was chasing id and adjusting as the years went by. Unreal was extremely anticipated before it came out and it had an extremely long production cicle. There are very few games in history that can stand next to Quake as equals.

Estimated copies in the wild at over 6 million. Quake changed the entire world, gamedesign wise, pushed 3rd accelerators hard, the engine market, pushed for e-sports to be a thing with its own convention right at launch. It was more than likely that you were in console circles at the time.

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