Unreal – Cane and Rinse No.565

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🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

The game that gave its name to an industry-changing engine (or was it the engine that gave the game its name?): Unreal. Before it spun off into mainly multiplayer arenas, Unreal started life as another echelon-defining PC fps. Leon, Chris O'Regan and Jon - along with community contributions - remember the game's undeniable late 90s 'wow' factor (for those who had a PC capable of running it), as well as seeing how a 2023 replay treats the gameplay.

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0:00.0	The Hello everybody and welcome to the Canaan Rinse podcast. This is volume 12, issue 565.
0:37.2	Today we're going to talk about the computer game Unreal, the original one.
0:42.0	Joining me, Leon Cox, in this issue are Chris O'Regan.
0:46.2	Hello.
0:47.4	And John Salmon.
0:48.7	Hello.
0:49.6	Whose pick for the volume this was?
0:51.6	I would do some gnarly noises, but I think it might be culturally inappropriate.
0:56.3	Yeah, I was tempted, but I thought, no, no, don't do it, Chris.
1:01.7	I don't know if there are any quotes out there for the show that are based on that language,
1:07.1	but I couldn't actually make out, I couldn't make out the particular collection of
1:12.4	vowels and consonants that were being uttered anyway. So we shall see. Anyway, Unreal, if you don't
1:18.9	know, is not only a graphics engine. It started off as a first-person shooter, kind of sci-fi,
1:27.1	bit of fantasy, but mainly sci-fi.
1:29.2	It was released on personal computers.
1:32.0	And, well, first point of order is to find out why John brought this one to us for volume
1:38.5	whatever we're up to of the 12, I just said it.
1:42.0	Volume 12 of the Cana Rince podcast.
1:48.1	Basically, it just goes back to,
1:54.5	like I was a big FPS fan in the 90s. I was quite young. So this came out when I was,
2:04.5	I guess I would have been 12 going on 13 later that year. I didn't get my hands on it immediately, but I was very familiar with like the Dooms and the Jute Newcomb.
2:06.3	And I think Quake was before this, but not massively, like maybe the year or so before.
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