/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4865053
If you think Unreal is creative, then you just ain't familiar with the sources it's ripping off. Plenty of old pulpy scifi literature with the tone they went towards with Unreal, while Halo is taking cues from slightly fresher military scifi. Halo's environment however feels a lot more natural and immersive due to having some sort of visual cohesion. Unreal reeks of having some newage weed-smoker director's initial "vision" and then bunch of juvenile directors cramming it full of random shit they thought looks cool.

While it's true that Halo's aesthetic finesse and level design got worse as the series progressed, the first game is indubitably a masterpiece, one of the few truly good singleplayer fps games between Quake 1 and FEAR.