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How Metascores Are Calculated
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Age of Pirates 2: City of Abandoned Ships
Stars indicate the most critically-acclaimed games. |
As a Terran Colonial Authority Marshall, you're patrolling a sector of the frontier with three crew members when an interstellar war erupts about you! Rumors of powerful and ancient alien artifacts have driven rival factions to war in an attempt to find and control the objects. You must locate these artifacts, determine their purpose and restore order to the sector - before it's too late. [Infogrames]
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more... 100
GamePro
It speaks like no other game in the genre, loud and with feeling, and tells a story worth telling among all the explosions.
 95
Game Informer
Never before have I seen this level of detail in a PC game. Unreal II blows the lid off the graphical standards we as PC gamers have set, and elevates the playing field to an unprecedented level. [Mar 2003, p.90]
88
Cincinnati Enquirer
A 3-D shooter that pays as much attention to a compelling single-player storyline as it does blasting enemies with futuristic weaponry.
87
Armchair Empire
Only the lack of a rich multi-player section and some odd design decisions keep Unreal 2 from being one of the best FPS’s in recent memory.
83
Games Radar UK (Pre-2006)
It's so predictable that a player will find himself quickly out-thinking the designers. [PC Gamer UK]
82
PC Gameworld
Amazingly beautiful, yet totally vacant in practically every other respect. It is certainly something fun to behold, but its lackluster showing in many other ways makes it tedious.
82
IGN
While the title does make some significant breakthroughs these are largely confined to a technical realm and offer little in the way of new gameplay.
82
AtomicGamer
For anyone who is looking for an old-school action FPS experience with solid production values and lots of explosions, this is your game.
80
Maxim Online
The first Unreal made its name on, well, its unreal visuals, but we had no idea how saucy a first-person shooter could look until we tried the sequel.
80
Computer Gaming World
While the game starts off strong, its personality steadily dribbles away, leaving you feeling you've played enough of it and never need to play it again. [Apr 2003, p.102]
80
GMR Magazine
Definitely delivers cool effects and dishes up some really amazing moments, but technical issues, a cornball story, and weak voice acting add up to a slight disappointment overall. [Apr 2003, p.66]
78
Game Over Online
It is impressive. Since the five-year hiatus, however, there have been others that were more so than it.
76
Electric Playground
Long enough to last you a few intense game sessions, and you'll easily polish it off over the weekend.
76
GameSpy
Sorry, it's been an epic wait for the tech upgrade... It's a good game, but too often resorts to recycling a number of first-person shooter clichés instead of breaking new ground.
75
ActionTrip
The stupid and uninspiring storyline, coupled with some EAX related problems never got me hooked on this one. Unreal 2 is still an entertaining game, but it's way too simplistic and "old school" to live up to today's single player FPS standards.
75
Four Fat Chicks
To sum up, Unreal II is disappointing, not so much in terms of what it is as in terms of what we expected, what it hints at, and what it might have been.
73
GameSpot
It has the look and polish of a great shooter, but the gameplay of a merely good one. It's also a fairly short game with no multiplayer support to speak of.
72
PC Gamer
Introduces so many cool new weapons - like the blistering flamethrower, an incendiary alt-fire on the shotgun, and seeker orbs - that you feel cheated not getting to play with them against others online. [Apr 2003, p.112]
72
Gamezilla!
A generic, rest on your laurels title from developer Epic that, while beautiful to look at, is a bloated (3GB mandatory install), largely plotless shooter that is disappointing given the pleasant surprise that the original "Unreal" was.
71
PC Format
Forward-looking tech, backwards-looking gaming.
70
Eurogamer
A flawed masterpiece. There's so much that's done well but so much which counters it to its doom - like the weapons. At about 15 in total there are simply too many, and they claw to convention like a headcrab.
70
Total Video Games
If you’ve got a new graphics card and want something to show it off, Unreal II: The Awakening is the perfect solution, but don’t go expecting a true next-generation experience; our advise would be to rent it as you’ll likely complete it in no time at all.
70
Cheat Code Central
Just about everything is good quality in this game but make sure you're computer is loaded or you're going to be playing a slideshow.
70
My Gamer
It looks good, it sounds good, yet, while it has a few interesting moments, it doesn’t impress or break new ground the way the original did.
67
Entertainment Weekly
Unreal II, for all its technical pizzazz, lacks a similar let's-pile-on-the-scares inventiveness... Awakening, we have to say, is anything but. [28 Feb 2003, p.86]
60
G4 TV
Doesn't fail to impress us with its high-quality, inventive visuals, but the gameplay is no match for its presentation.
60
Computer Games Magazine
The AI in the aging "Half-Life" was better; the sond in "Medal of Honor" blows this away; and the cut scenes and exposition in the "No One Lives Forever" series leave this in the dust. [Apr 2003, p.68]
60
Yahoo! Games
Roughly a third the size of its predecessor, meaning that you'll be able to go from eagerly installing the game to disappointingly removing it from your hard drive for good in just two or three nights.
58
GameNow
A solid shooter with a slick look that offers little new to the genre. [Apr 2003, p.44]
51
FiringSquad
The bottom line is that Unreal 2 is saddled with unmemorable weapons and enemies, disappointing AI, a dull lead character, underdone level design, and a lack of technical polish, all wrapped around the same old stuff you’ve seen in so many first person shooters, most of which are better than this game.
Szilard B. gave it a3: Mike U. gave it a10: J B gave it a3: Osckar gave it a7: Lane T. gave it an8: Leigh W. gave it a9: Tim H. gave it a10: |
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