Your prison ship has crash-landed on the fastest, sleekest, most dangerous 3D world ever created. Look around, crystal clear water shimmers, shadows dance and shift, alien architecture fades into the horizon. Discover the secret of this mysterious planet and find out what caused a peaceful race to be enslaved by vicious merciless aggressors.
ShooterPlatformActionScience fictionaliensbloodyportalsswimmingexplosiongeometryhumanwasd movementreal-time combatinstant killdifficulty levelmayanPC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, 64DD
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Character
Earnest, plot-driven, grave and unpretentious.
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
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About the game
- Platforms
- PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, 64DD
- Developer
- Digital Extremes, Epic Games
- Publisher
- GT Interactive Software
- Released
- May 22, 1998
- Modes
- Single player, Multiplayer
- Perspective
- First person
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 1
- Time to beat
- 17 h main story
IGDB rating 8.0/10 from 132 ratings.
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