Happy Birthday Unreal

Posted May 23, 2009 by Atomsk in News, PC.

As of May 22nd, Epic Games’ masterpiece, Unreal, turned 11 years old. Congratulations Epic Games, after 11 years, most games never live to see a single sequel.

On the contrary, you have taken Unreal and produced six direct sequels and applied your core engine to even more wonderful games. As a nostalgic moment let’s look over what Epic Games has done with Unreal alone.

Games in the Unreal series
– Unreal (1998)
- Return to Na Pali (1999)
- Unreal Tournament (1999)
- Unreal Tournament 2003 (2002)
- Unreal Championship (2002)
- Unreal II: The Awakening (2003)
- Unreal Tournament 2004 (2004)
- Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict (2005)
- Unreal Tournament 3 (2007)

Games designed with the Unreal engine
- Klingon Honor Guard
- Nerf Arena Blast
- Wheel Of Time
- Unreal
- Unreal Tournament
- Deus Ex
- Rune
- X-Com alliane
- Hired Guns
- Dark Sector
- Werewolf: The Apocalypse
- and more
In modern gaming, you don’t see too many games that influence the undustry the way Unreal has.

To celebrate, let’s all go dig up whatever copy of Unreal we have, hop online, and blast the hell out of each other.