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Unreal's visuals were unmatched at the time. The music was insanely, umbelievably amazing and stunning visuals combined with the music, good sounds and well designed levels made for an amazing and highly atmospheric experience that is still unmatched today. The only thing is that the game was more of a tour through a very beautiful place rather than a tense, fluid and fast paced action game that it was supposed to be. It is thus nothing like Half-life, the Quake series or anything else if you want a real shoot em up. Unreal was comparatively primitive on the weapons and enemies front but it was a unique experience that could'nt be missed.

Enough good can't be said about Kill Bill. Although I've never agreed in the past with Quentin Tarantino's style of film-making, this movie proves that he knows what he's doing. However, I do hope that anything he does in the future resembles the first Kill Bill rather than any other of his movies. Kill Bill is by far, the most stylish movie ever made. Even though it is so extremely violent, first class film-making has portrayed it in a very acceptable way. Don't doubt it. Just watch it. The final chapter in the House of Blue Leaves is itself worth watching the entire movie for, over and over again. Kill Bill Vol 2 was'nt anything like this but was still good. Yet, I prefer the first volume any day.

If it were'nt for the existence of Duke-3D during that time, Quake simply might have been the best single player game at the time, despite its somewhat mediocre single player campaign when compared to the former. The revolutionary new engine certainly was'nt utilised to the max and like Doom-3, id preferred dark and dimly lit levels to maximise visual appeal without really having a huge visual impact. Gameplay was very good, but once again, not as fun as Duke. However, even though the main SP part of the game itself may not be great, hundreds of addons and total conversions are available online which make the single player experience much much better. Deathmatch is the area where Quake could'nt be touched by any other game, by far.