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Inside Mac Games has posted a new article in Justin Ancheta's continuing series of guides. The articles offer detailed instructions for running Windows versions of game titles which either never made it to Macs, or have Mac versions incompatible with recent OS releases. This week Justin turned his attention to Epic's Unreal and Unreal Tournament.

Here's an excerpt:

It almost seemed like Epic's Unreal was the scrappy upstart to the reigning champion in id Software's Quake II, but from looking at the screenshots, it was clear who came out on top. Unreal boasted huge, wide open environments that almost seemed like they were bursting with color, compared to Quake II's alien industrial environments, heavily caked with varying degrees of brown and grey. The grotesque and menacing Strogg of Quake II, while better looking than their demonic predecessors in Quake, looked clunky and blocky compared to the blade-wielding Skaarj, and the mysterious non-combatant Nali. Ambient life populated outdoor areas, further adding to the atmospheric quality of Unreal's levels. It was a triumph for Epic MegaGames and codeveloper Digital Extremes, made all the more miraculous by the fact that the bedroom-programmer-turned-project-manager Tim Sweeny and his small team had no prior experience dealing with a project with the size and scope of Unreal, and risked everything on its success.

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[Andrew]

Hmmm, while it might be good to play again through UT, I can't see the point of UT99 given that UT2004 still works so well (at least on Snow Leopard)?

[Thain Esh Kelch]

Some people still prefer UT99.

[Janichsan]

Thain Esh Kelch, on 16 July 2012 - 04:38 AM, said:

Andrew, on 15 July 2012 - 07:46 PM, said:

Hmmm, while it might be good to play again through UT, I can't see the point of UT99 given that UT2004 still works so well (at least on Snow Leopard)?

Some people still prefer UT99.

That's one reason. UT99 and UT2k4 differ pretty much in their gameplay and there not few that prefer UT99's. Plus, there are a couple of still popular mods for UT99 like Infiltration, TacOps or The Third Reich.

[Frost]

Thain Esh Kelch, on 16 July 2012 - 04:38 AM, said:

Some people still prefer UT99.

Like yours truly. I liked the Onslaught mode in UT2004, but for DM, CTF, Assault, and so on I thought UT99 was much more fun. Epic made the following games too Quake-ish in feel. Quake 3 Arena was fun and all and I played a lot of that too, but there was a reason Unreal Tournament ended up being more popular in the long run. UT's gameplay nailed it for me.

[Tesseract]

UT99 just feels better somehow. For example, you really feel like you're doing some serious damage when you fire the flak cannon or the minigun's faster-but-more-inaccurate secondary mode at close range. In UT2004, not so much.