It just dawned on me that I built a massive city in Minecraft years ago around a crashed spaceship. I didn't even know where I had that idea from until just now. The ship even looked like the one from Unreal. Man this game is really built into my brain it seems.
There is a Remaster on the way. The creator is called Krull0r and also has a channel here on TH-cam. He tries to stream every Monday to show his progress. It'll be a while before it's finished but it looks great so far.
@ Olga Jaworska, You are absolutely right! In fact, if Alexander Brandon, along with Michiel van De Boss and Cliff Blesinsky made a new Unreal game (and others as well), they would be so superb and exceptional, to a point of returning gaming in it's former glory golden ages!😎
@@AlexCBrandon It’s so cool to see you around! I listen to these pieces so often, they made a great deal of Unreal atmosphere. Do you have a favorite track of that score yourself?
I remember when I got this game for birthday from my sister a few years ago. I've played UT before, but Unreal totally blew me away. The unforgettable moment when the light go off, music stops and silence engulfs the area. And then a Skaarj warrior bursts through a newly opened door, the action music kicking in.... It's just unreal. My absolutely favourite game of all time. It's a shame the series basically died and there has never been a worthy successor.
What an unforgettable moment in gaming history !! The lights slowly turning off in that corridor one by one. You're trapped. The lights turn Red. The Skaarj warrior pounces on you !
I would say an emotion, too. When the music played at the start of this video kicks in... it's like realization hits your protagonist like a brick. You're isolated, alone, fighting for your survival. And suddenly you have a moment to let your mortality and lack of hope sink in; you may well die on this planet, in this mine even. But there's still a twinge of survivor's instinct and determination coursing through that song.
Couldn't have said it better. There were many good games. Then there was Unreal. You didn't put it on any top 10, 20, n lists. It was above all that. Still is. Will forever be. It's Unreal.
@@despeinadormisterioso5741 Absolutely! One word! Said it all! It wasn't a game. It was an experience you lived. All those that keep coming back to this music 23 years on know it.
Same here!. Yesterday I just finished the game for the 1st time (I should have done it before! T_T! It was too speedy, deep and frenzy as f**k) and started to play "Return to na pali" in unreal difficulty... Hard as hell!! (* -*) This song really pumped me and put me close to the click everytime.
damn, the nostalgia hit hard with this one. i wish epic games would do a new UNREAL game with the same level of level design, monster AI and music quality...
I think it may be in part due to the song being deliberately made to sound "alien". You can't quite make out the instruments or pin down the genre. Nevertheless some things carry over in style when same people work on songs. Things to maybe look up: unreal soundtrack, unreal tournament soundtrack, deus ex soundtrack, alexander brandon (siren), straylight productions
That fan really, I guess you could say, sucked. My problem was that I didn't know how to get past the force field. I never looked above the door because I was too busy looking at the evil fan.
That moment when lights go off it’s pitched black for couple seconds than all of a sudden red lights come on you hear skaarj coming at you you blast him with your pistol than your fighting for survival the music amps you up and your just a person that escaped a crashed prison ship not knowing where you are but know you gotta fight these creature and survive the world of unreal... Sucks this song was only played for a very small portion of the game but still great
i like the later half part of this sound track..it the best..giving you a sence of emergency as you getting chased by sckarj gourd weilding rocketlauncher
We need so much games like this one, nowadays, not only atmospheric but deep, like a travel you do while you play your fps...deep! I started to play Unreal Gold and it's easy in my top 10 fps with games like blood, heretic, hexen & co ;)
5 years after, a random dude stumble onto your comment... If you still look for that kind of game journey there is 2 I can suggest. Both are standalone doom mods and free. Blade of agony And Ashes 2063 & afterglow.
all I still get in my head from reading the back and seeing a screen shot with thr ASMD of the level dig. then reading. Live it. Breathe it. Survive it. Unreal. Alter your reality forever. thise words will stick with ne till the end of time haha.
It's crazy how similar it is to Deus Ex. You could easily put this track and others in Deus Ex and it'd fit (yeah I know, same engine, same composer, same style).
The buildup to the first Skaarj encounter is legitimately one of the coolest moments in any game, and this is coming from someone who didn’t play it until 22 years after it was out. It’s perfect, the fact the enemy in question is also one of the best in the game only further enhances it.
Best tune ever!!! This was one of my fav games I played on my first game PC ever Pentium!!! coupled with a Voodoo3 videocard back in 1999... awesome times gone now :(
A very poignant, beautiful and touching theme for what is essentially a simple mineral mine / enemy base level. The music alone transforms the main experience from hostile infiltration to exciting discovery and occasional but not really dangerous combat.
That mineral mine aesthetic looked like what you see in UK council estate flats and some 60s/70s era commercial buildings - even the lights are very much like the square shaped fluorescent lights
Unreal was my first serious game and it has since altered my reality. They couldn't have chosen a better composer for this masterpiece. Somehow Alexander Brandon has this incredible talent of creating beautiful melodies that always fit the environment. I wish I knew how he does it. If I made music, he'd definitely be my huge inspiration. Shared Dig is easily my all-time Unreal favorite and always brings a lot of memories. I'm so thankful this track exists.
This started playing automatically in a TH-cam created playlist and I was in another tab, as soon as I hear the music straightaway I think Jazz Jackrabbit. Click over to this and find out it's Unreal music, both by Epic Games...
Stranded at an enormous and hostile planet where danger and death lurk at every corner, you fight for your life and freedom, battling countless hordes of cruel, blood-thirsty and power-hungry alien tyrants from every side of the galaxy.
So much power in this tune, it's almost... unreal.
unreal beats man!!
it is Unreal
nice
Much true in few words, love it
@@razielunleashed irrealmente indescriptible.
It just dawned on me that I built a massive city in Minecraft years ago around a crashed spaceship. I didn't even know where I had that idea from until just now. The ship even looked like the one from Unreal. Man this game is really built into my brain it seems.
please give me the seed!!!
Can you please show us the world if you still have it? :)
2:34 Skaarj Comes when it's dark and all lights out
Skaarj scout!!! :P😍😍😍😍😍
ALWAYS. DOUBLE TAP. THE SKAARJ!
@@term-827 *ALWAYS. DOUBLE TAP. THE SKARRJ!*
*clu-clunk*
*clu-clunk*
*clu-clunk*
*clu-clunk*
*clu-clunk*
...
*clu-clunk*
...
*growls*
Me playing now: ... Come and get me... >)
Only certain games deserve remasters. This is one of them
There is a Remaster on the way. The creator is called Krull0r and also has a channel here on TH-cam. He tries to stream every Monday to show his progress. It'll be a while before it's finished but it looks great so far.
@EpicStuffForYou better not be lieing!!!
@@inncar19961Today (September 19th 2023) He's remaking the level "Bluff Eversmoking"...It's gonna be a long way but it will be worth it
One of my favorite works of Alexander Brandon. Everything he touches turns into pure awesomeness
I really wish he made more soundtrack for videogames. His works on Unreal and Deus Ex are amazing and inspired me to make many synth futuristic music.
You mean the guy with the techno voice box that does those 500% Expression resident evil videos?
Thanks so much Olga!
@ Olga Jaworska, You are absolutely right! In fact, if Alexander Brandon, along with Michiel van De Boss and Cliff Blesinsky made a new Unreal game (and others as well), they would be so superb and exceptional, to a point of returning gaming in it's former glory golden ages!😎
@@AlexCBrandon It’s so cool to see you around! I listen to these pieces so often, they made a great deal of Unreal atmosphere. Do you have a favorite track of that score yourself?
Gives me goosebumps still. This game is a big part of my life from growing up. I'll remember this game forever.
It does
There will be those few games that truly Changes u, unreal and UT was that, same for quake 1 and 3 not so much for Q2 and ofc half-life :)
Me too
I know exactly where you're coming from.
Best soundtrack ever made.
02:33 "Suddenly lights go off....*roarrr*.... A Skaarj appears behind you D:
still not old, especially with this song.
And ive seen a loot of games replaying this scene...
Which door??? You'll never know
@JohnKredrevreich Absolutly, where everything was so simple. The hardest thing during that part of life was just beat the end level boss
This track is filled with the spirit of those times. Damn, that's nostalgia in a big way.
That was so beautifully said, I couldn't agree more.
The vibe is both very futuristic but at the same time it's so 90's, it was a special decade to be sure.
1990s sounded more like a future!
2:34 I can hear alt fire auto-mag
2:35 was the point of no return for me. That fight in the blackout had me hooked on this game when the Skarrj tried to ambush me.
I remember when I got this game for birthday from my sister a few years ago. I've played UT before, but Unreal totally blew me away. The unforgettable moment when the light go off, music stops and silence engulfs the area. And then a Skaarj warrior bursts through a newly opened door, the action music kicking in.... It's just unreal. My absolutely favourite game of all time. It's a shame the series basically died and there has never been a worthy successor.
It's all because Fortnite. Epic games abandoned there most beautiful game ever.
What an unforgettable moment in gaming history !! The lights slowly turning off in that corridor one by one. You're trapped. The lights turn Red. The Skaarj warrior pounces on you !
@@ishaisher its been dead since long before.. ive been waiting a proper unreal game since unreal 2
best track in the history of game soundtracks
Correct
this game is something that will never be repeated and this track is an excellent example. It's not just music, it's a place
I would say Metroid Prime did something similar in terms of atmosphere and ost
I would say an emotion, too. When the music played at the start of this video kicks in... it's like realization hits your protagonist like a brick. You're isolated, alone, fighting for your survival. And suddenly you have a moment to let your mortality and lack of hope sink in; you may well die on this planet, in this mine even. But there's still a twinge of survivor's instinct and determination coursing through that song.
ProTip : To kill the enemies fire crystals at them until they die.
Eat tarydium!
nyahahaha stinger was always out of ammo, until I found the ASMD
That's just about the worst advice right next to 'use the eightball on skaarj'.
@@ThisBirdHasFlown in a corridor, flak or eightball was the easiest way to get rid od the buggers
@@ThisBirdHasFlown dude, cluster of eightball grenades was the easiest way to deal with strong skaarj
If you listen carefully, you can see how one is transported to that universe. A mind journey.
Take me back, that alien world sucks so badly with Brutes and Skaarj!
98 was a great year for gaming: Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Metal Gear Solid, Half-Life.
But the original Unreal? In a class all of its own. :)
Couldn't have said it better. There were many good games. Then there was Unreal. You didn't put it on any top 10, 20, n lists. It was above all that. Still is. Will forever be. It's Unreal.
@@wentworthmiller1890 the only game's name: Unreal, was passionating and exciting.
@@despeinadormisterioso5741 Absolutely! One word! Said it all! It wasn't a game. It was an experience you lived. All those that keep coming back to this music 23 years on know it.
and also Spyro the Dragon, Banjo-Kazooie and Crash 3
i have unreal gold cd without even scratches thats how i love this game
You too huh? Same jewel case? :D
i got the 1998 european case
The first half of this track, before the action bit is so fucking sweet.
Dr Ivo Robotnik Didn't knew you liked good old classic FPS, Best villain ever!
Action bit is amazing. Can't see how you don't like it
@@DominikSobolewski cause its more rare, the other while good is very techno
It is honestly I think the greatest bit of video game music in known space.
Unreal was my childhood…. I was very young when I watched my older bro play the first game along with the tournament editions!
Snap! My cousin was the one to introduce me this and UT99
Unforgetable!
Same here!. Yesterday I just finished the game for the 1st time (I should have done it before! T_T! It was too speedy, deep and frenzy as f**k) and started to play "Return to na pali" in unreal difficulty... Hard as hell!! (* -*)
This song really pumped me and put me close to the click everytime.
0:25 and 0:50 are pure art
The most powerful game experience i have ever had. It was unreal.
2:33 And this is why epic games was "Epic megaGames"
Epic Megagames. Solar Winds, Epic Pinball, Zone 66...then this. They were on top of the PC gaming world!
@@BigMeowOfAZ Then they decided to cater to the console crowd
One Must Fall
Keyword: was
these where the days...
Now FPS use stuff who are cliché for the most....need the come back of the real fps art of the 90's, anyway...
@@EmmanuelEXEf06 one day...
Nothing last, good and bad, all will pass.
@@M.W.H. True... True
From 4:30 and untill the end, makes me Think of the more soothing tunes from the game Crusader :)
I will forever spit on Fortnite for killing this series
God, the techno at 1:43 is amazing. SO. MUCH. YES!
It just keeps you going!
damn, the nostalgia hit hard with this one. i wish epic games would do a new UNREAL game with the same level of level design, monster AI and music quality...
imagine that... its all gone nowdays, even that.
You are not a Gamer if you did not play Unreal!
damn im trying to find something similar to this song and its impossible
Deus Ex's area 51 combat theme perhaps?
found something? i also tried and now im stuck with synthwave and vaporwave
I think it may be in part due to the song being deliberately made to sound "alien". You can't quite make out the instruments or pin down the genre. Nevertheless some things carry over in style when same people work on songs. Things to maybe look up: unreal soundtrack, unreal tournament soundtrack, deus ex soundtrack, alexander brandon (siren), straylight productions
1:43 you know whoever was on the keyboards were feeling it at this point.
Flicking through these today, I can always tell which ones are Alexander's.
Oh geez so many memories!! That goddamm suction fan you had to be careful with
That fan really, I guess you could say, sucked. My problem was that I didn't know how to get past the force field. I never looked above the door because I was too busy looking at the evil fan.
That moment when lights go off it’s pitched black for couple seconds than all of a sudden red lights come on you hear skaarj coming at you you blast him with your pistol than your fighting for survival the music amps you up and your just a person that escaped a crashed prison ship not knowing where you are but know you gotta fight these creature and survive the world of unreal...
Sucks this song was only played for a very small portion of the game but still great
Give me like if you agree that IN THE 1990s - THERE WAS A FUTURE!
the theme song for humanity
Chris L totally agreed!
Best ost for an fps ever.
i like the later half part of this sound track..it the best..giving you a sence of emergency as you getting chased by sckarj gourd weilding rocketlauncher
I fucking love this game and its legendary soundtrack.
We need so much games like this one, nowadays, not only atmospheric but deep, like a travel you do while you play your fps...deep!
I started to play Unreal Gold and it's easy in my top 10 fps with games like blood, heretic, hexen & co ;)
5 years after, a random dude stumble onto your comment...
If you still look for that kind of game journey there is 2 I can suggest. Both are standalone doom mods and free.
Blade of agony
And
Ashes 2063 & afterglow.
its like time travelling to my childhood
Pure nostalgia!!! xd
all I still get in my head from reading the back and seeing a screen shot with thr ASMD of the level dig. then reading. Live it. Breathe it. Survive it. Unreal. Alter your reality forever. thise words will stick with ne till the end of time haha.
it was a super original game, and the best graphics until the date...i wish more games like this nowdays
ASMD is in Dug
4:30 Never was quite long enough.
It's crazy how similar it is to Deus Ex. You could easily put this track and others in Deus Ex and it'd fit (yeah I know, same engine, same composer, same style).
Deus Ex is much more ambient though
@@jess648 true, but not the combat themes. 3:07 could easily pass as deus ex fight theme
@@JN-hs5xl that’s true and it kinda is ingame because it plays during the Skaarj ambush
Deus Ex has the same composer, that's why :D
0:51 That segment has this grandiose, but emotional feel to it. As if you can feel the expanse of the world around you.
2019 Anybody here November-December???
i am baby XD
I am always here. At least 3 times the month :)
Michael Ing still here buddy.....
Reporting in late, October 2020 but still playin the classics
I was here yesterday :(
i like the part at 2:34-4:28 so much i would hang around the area after beating all the enemies so the game would keep playing it!
Yeah, that's my favorite part
Fucking love this game.
Unreal.
2:35 and my heart races :D
i loved playing unreal...its been so long...that game was perfect
its an "unreal" track
You're an "unreal" idiot!
I love this Theme... nothing left to say. *While tears stream down my face*
Good dub mon. (Yes, I had to pull a Neuromancer reference)
The buildup to the first Skaarj encounter is legitimately one of the coolest moments in any game, and this is coming from someone who didn’t play it until 22 years after it was out. It’s perfect, the fact the enemy in question is also one of the best in the game only further enhances it.
The last minute of this song is what I always think of when I think of Unreal for some reason
I'm exactly the same...
3:40 OP OP HYPE
Best tune ever!!! This was one of my fav games I played on my first game PC ever Pentium!!! coupled with a Voodoo3 videocard back in 1999... awesome times gone now :(
yeah man, you remember when games where original and not clones? you install today any fps and you played them all...
You remember the waterfall? Damn that was a moment...
This one really reminds me of Deus Ex too...
*angry skaarj noises*
A very poignant, beautiful and touching theme for what is essentially a simple mineral mine / enemy base level. The music alone transforms the main experience from hostile infiltration to exciting discovery and occasional but not really dangerous combat.
That mineral mine aesthetic looked like what you see in UK council estate flats and some 60s/70s era commercial buildings - even the lights are very much like the square shaped fluorescent lights
So this is the original Rrajigar Mine, I have never realized it til now.
Unreal was my first serious game and it has since altered my reality. They couldn't have chosen a better composer for this masterpiece. Somehow Alexander Brandon has this incredible talent of creating beautiful melodies that always fit the environment. I wish I knew how he does it. If I made music, he'd definitely be my huge inspiration. Shared Dig is easily my all-time Unreal favorite and always brings a lot of memories. I'm so thankful this track exists.
A song about solidarity and hope in the face of suffering and overwhelming oppression.
My favorite
This part 4:29 ... pure 90s!
This just doesnt feel right without sounds of rapid firing stinger or automag in the background :D awesome theme
irréel etrange et mystique ambiance , une pure merveille ce track
Man. This song is so meditative.
Oh yes the beginning of this tune in the game is an epic moment!
Then 2:34 comes... and brings out your inner warrior.
2:35
The magic 90's and pc golden era
так не бывает я тебя найду
цель поставлена
движение
The rush music.
Unreal music.
This game is like killer instinxt
3:21 the standout section for me.
reminds me of geometry dash
Hilionliat Yeah it deff would fit!
perfect for shuffle dance
Much better than Fortnite
Cool as ever
This started playing automatically in a TH-cam created playlist and I was in another tab, as soon as I hear the music straightaway I think Jazz Jackrabbit. Click over to this and find out it's Unreal music, both by Epic Games...
at 4:35 i imagine a field of flowers with shrek heads rising from the ground
+Ben Hager May I have some of the stuff you're smoking?
good shit
папа я что совсем одна
Stranded at an enormous and hostile planet where danger and death lurk at every corner, you fight for your life and freedom, battling countless hordes of cruel, blood-thirsty and power-hungry alien tyrants from every side of the galaxy.
hello Terren
Perfect!
ФИНТ ФОР))&?
begi
lola )) begi
3 song like Indian Music
great workout mix
Tier 2
2:34
3:23 The heat of the action, guns blazing and mowing down the skaarj as a one-man army.
2:35
I can get lost in this track alone... I love this song.