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Regrettably, the experience is a forgettable death march through too many familiar-looking levels. They could have effectively created the great solo campaign Unreal lacked. With the engine and the majority of the monsters, weapons, and textures already in place, the developers at Legend should have been able to concentrate on adding memorable set pieces, both as scripted events and surprising architecture, to Na Pali's single-player game. It's as if Legend recruited an especially nerdy junior high schooler to write and perform an oral report on the topic of 'What I Did in the Preceding Level.' If you're not in the unenviable position of having to finish the game for review purposes, you'll find yourself loudly cheering the enemy and waving a homemade pennant on which you've written 'Skaarj,' or simply flinging your character off one of Unreal's beautifully rendered cliffs, as you try to silence that awful voice. In the sordid tradition of casting from the shallow thespian talent pool available around the office, Return to Na Pali's voice acting ranks among the worst ever recorded.

In an attempt to maintain some semblance of a plot, each level ends with your character dictating a log entry.

Unreal return to napali series#

In order to accomplish this switch-finding metatask, you must attend to the business of flipping a series of smaller switches spread across 15 levels. Having been saved, you are immediately dropped back onto the planet so that you can find an object and escape again. The game starts promisingly enough, with a well-done engine-rendered scene depicting your rescue from space.

And now, Legend Entertainment's mission pack, Return to Na Pali, has been released and arrives with a dull thud, letting gamers reexperience the famous Unreal fugue state. Only vague memories remain: The first level was impressive. One year later, it's difficult to remember much about Unreal's single-player experience.