A Blast from the past - Unreal Forgotten Video Playthrough

Things Just got Unreal

I've been meaning to post this for a good while now but as you can imagine it's been pretty low priority in the grand scheme of things. It's only now with me having injured by back that I'm forced to take some time off work and take it easy that I've found myself once again playing games. Oddly to most people, it's not the latest and greatest games that take my fancy, but the older titles for obsolete systems that I once again find myself drawn towards. This potentially isn't a healthy thing for me, given that I once had a massive games collector habit that to this day still fills my attic (and my wife's head with dread), It's a collection that's legacy spawned a community that still stands in the now passed-on website sega8bit.com. 

I've enjoyed PC gaming since I got my first proper PC in 1998, as soon as I got that 3DFX Voodoo 2 I immediately understood how far ahead the PC was in the graphics department compared to the gaming consoles of the time (PlayStation and Nintendo 64). Unreal was one of the first titles I purchased that I felt properly harnessed the potential of that 3DFX hardware. It was also the first time I ever witnessed a fully 3D world with outdoor scenes featuring distant mountainous terrain, running water and a sense of being on an adventure in an alien landscape. 

After spending months playing Unreal in single player mode I finally delved into the world of online gaming where again my mind was blown by what seemed like an infinitely expandable universe as it was possible to download thousands of player-made levels easily and quickly for the first time. It was only a matter of time before I too would create my own levels and contribute something back to this community. 

My initial attempts were poor to say the least, a couple of box rooms joined up to each-other, but over the next few years as Unreal Tournament came out I continued to tinker with the editor and released with quite a few multiplayer levels (see Sinistral's Unreal). I don't know when it quite happened, but some time in 1999 I decided I wanted to make a single player pack, Work was progressing well up until at least December 2002 and then college and work and life in general got my attention. I would be years later (2009) before I resumed work on the pack and finally released it to the (by then severely diminished) Unreal community. The map pack was quite literally forgotten about, hence the title for my pack was found. Unreal: Forgotten is a result.

Here's the low-down on Unreal: Forgotten

"Forgotten is a Map pack created by Andrew "Sinistral" Allison for the original Unreal. It uses some of the features of the unofficial Unreal 227 patch which can be found at Oldunreal.com. Forgotten consists of six new levels, plus two new cut-scenes."

 Titles and order are as follows:

• Intromap - And So It Begins
• The Abandoned Village
• The Old Mining Colony
• The Krall Castle
• The Massacre of Outpost One
• Earth Under Attack
• The Skaarj Supreme Command Cruiser
• Extromap - The End

Intromap: And So it Begins

A brief mini-movie to set the scene, the engine was very limiting from in this respect.

The Abandoned Village

The first playable level sets the scene on the snowy northern hemisphere of NaPali, a part that isn't seen in the original game. 

The Old Mining Colony

This will be pretty familiar to anyone that's played the original Unreal, the level oozes classic Unreal mining level atmosphere, but there's a few surprises in there.

The Krall Castle

A very long level that started out as an experiment of clobbering together a few different pieces I was working on, the result is (what I think) is a pretty epic scale Unreal map.

The Massacre of Outpost One

Explore a human base on NaPali, there's more than a little bit of Stargate SG1 influence in there.

Earth Under Attack

Another Human level set on Earth during a Skaarj invasion. 

The Skaarj Supreme Command Cruiser (includes Extromap- The end)

The final battle takes place on the Skaarj command cruiser where you must face the Skaarj Queen.

Unreal Forgotten can be downloaded at the Unreal Forgotten homepage.

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