20 years ago - I heard this track deep in Rrajigar Mine, and froze in my tracks. Silent, I stood still, goosebumps running up my spine. I was awake - I was high. I had experienced the epitome of art, skill, and emotion in this track, unlike any other piece of music I had ever listened to before. It was beautiful beyond description. It was... Unreal! The moment, etched in my memory forever. 20 years later, it is still the same. I bet if you're reading this, then you know what I mean, because you felt it too!
@@silentassassin47Indeed. I've played this track countless times since the comment 5 years ago! What's heartening is reading other comments from 10-15 years ago, all echoing the same sentiment. We may not know each other, but this track and the feeling kinda made us one!
The difference with Unreal to every other shooter is this: It's gonna make you cry. Not Duke, Freeman, Turok or Serious Sam can emotionally touch you as does Unreal
It's weird that it does, though... I mean, if we compare it to other games. It doesn't have any cutscenes, narration or anything... it doesn't need any of that. The game is an experience and that in itself is enough. That's how I like to interpret it.
yes yes yes. Please keep praising long gone times of videogaming and movies. For they are something special that needs praising. Those things will never be repeated. You can't just continue making things forever. Special things will remain special. I really love Unreal for what it is and never will this be repeated. Sad but also needs respect
+rgerber I also highly estimate Freeman Gordon (Halflife series) als equal with Unreal. But no other FPS coms atmospherically close. Some Role games, played almost like FPS do so (Witcher, Amalur...), but no FPS.
i think the closest i've ever come to being as immersed in a game as i was in this one was quake 2. but even then. it didn't have the funky soundtrack and the beautiful and wide open landscapes this game had.
Fuck, it's from a time when devs made games they cared about and composers worked on music that expanded the experience...now games all care about looking "cool" and sounding "cool", they forget about things like atmosphere, tone, etc. and it becomes a dull, repetitive shooting gallery. Fuck, WHY WASN'T I OLDER IN 1998!!?!
This part of the game: "You hear a strange growl. "What the fuck is that?" you ask yourself, having just pressed a button. You decide to investigate with your trusty auto-pistol at your side, ready to pump hot lead into some brute's ass. You enter a thin corridor, *click*... *click*.... *click*. The lights are out. Suddenly, the emergency lights are out, and suddenly, a low growl erupts from behind you, and... OH SHIT!!! You find a bizarre monster, you end up killing it, but almost dead yourself! And there's more..." - CmdrJSKFox
Back when I was a small kid and played this game for the first few times, there was that area at the end of Depths of Rrajigar where you had to trigger those two gas tank levers, so yeah when you press both you hear a continuous loud noise and instead of it being the gas leak sound I thought it was some crowd cheering me and with (the first part) Shared Dig being all cool and happy I had always a good smile on my face during that moment. My god the good old past is too much for me to remember ;(
i was watching my dad play this game when i was 4, and started playing this at 12.. and still, i get to find the original cd of this on my dad's CD racks, install and play!!!
@Dustie1984 it's tracker music, JJR2 also was useing it, it's format like MIDI by it uses own simples and is more advanced, scene reused same simples over again in many music this is why it sound quite similar
Respect...CICO...Respect It's a best soundtrack from Unreal!!! The original...Shared Dig... is very good...but the remix of this music is the last shit...original is the best...Respect Tuthor :D
I know what you mean, not many games can do that to you, and i think this is one of them. Coop in this game was great, and when i was a kid, this game used to scare me.
I listened to this music with subsongs in this order many times before I got to play Unreal with sound. The rip was probably created in Winamp with "Play After Loop". I imagined that someone calmly walks to a site above ground during the first song, "digs" during the action sequence, and emerges into some underground cavity eventually during the last section... Actually in the game we get to hear the songs in reverse order: entrance to the mine, battle with the skaarj in darkness, depths of rrajigar. The dynamic music is a bit broken. If we save and reload, which I find doing a lot, the game doesn't remember which song played last or is playing right now, and might switch from action to the calm shared dig for no reason. That happens in other levels too, the game might switch from music to silence, like outside the dark arena where music is started via event. Or outside the graveyard at the harobed village where subsong 0 is restarted when I exit the graveyard while retreating from the skaarj inside it. A status field of the currently playing song would help a lot, nothing particularly creative, then the game would start that song if it is not playing now or do nothing. Maybe all playtesters were so badass they didn't use the save function.
@JoakimfromAnka If you have the game, download the excellent Jet Audio (its a free and know-a-lot audio-video-player) for converting the music files in your Unreal/Music map into wav or ogg, and then a free mp3 converter (e.g. Illustrate dBPowerAmp is the simplest, or similar) to convert wavs into mp3 or wma.
I've been looking for this for ages!!! This is the one song that I remember from Unreal! My brother recorded an electric guitar version of this, but lost the file itself. I wish someone else would do a guitar rendition! It's awesome on an electric guitar!!
@kacpi26 one of the most scariest part of any game ever, i remember i was bout 10 yrs old nd i almost shit in mah pants!!! Unreal is a game tht true lives upto its name!!!
i was about 4 years old when this game came out and my dad bought it i remember that my dad decided to let me play at that age this was my first first person game i ever played and the first game i played at the age of 4 im 14 now and i still remember it all damn..... the song were just effin amazing i remember just stopping to hear the song and dark hallway part was the scariest shit i ever played to this day no joke i tried installing it on my new computer i dint work.
@JoakimfromAnka there is also Dusk Horizon, from the NyLeve's Falls. The experience of that area, the sky, nature, space, all that has etched the Dusk Horizon music onto my (and probably not only mine) brain.
Where can I download the full song? The ones I find just includes the first 3 min, before the fast part starts. I would like if I didn't have to install the game and convert formats etc. :P
@JoakimfromAnka Yeah i totally agree. It combines the atmospheric ambient tunes with the pulsing techno rythms that made the Unreal soundtrack so excellent.
@jackoneill45 Valve still know how to use music and create atmosphere. Even EA can do it - look at the "Afterlife" club in Mass Effect 2 for an example.
Deus Ex---favorite game of all time, by a healthy margin. Favorite track from that game: Chateux Duclaire. Favorite Unreal track, Hub 3, followed by this one... Thanks for posting!
This is a tracker module. It doesn't use any synthesis chip but sample playback. Most likely composed on PC with Impulse Tracker. But again, doesn't matter, tracker songs sound the same on all systems.
20 years ago - I heard this track deep in Rrajigar Mine, and froze in my tracks. Silent, I stood still, goosebumps running up my spine. I was awake - I was high. I had experienced the epitome of art, skill, and emotion in this track, unlike any other piece of music I had ever listened to before. It was beautiful beyond description. It was... Unreal! The moment, etched in my memory forever. 20 years later, it is still the same. I bet if you're reading this, then you know what I mean, because you felt it too!
truly a masterpiece
@@silentassassin47Indeed. I've played this track countless times since the comment 5 years ago! What's heartening is reading other comments from 10-15 years ago, all echoing the same sentiment. We may not know each other, but this track and the feeling kinda made us one!
The difference with Unreal to every other shooter is this: It's gonna make you cry. Not Duke, Freeman, Turok or Serious Sam can emotionally touch you as does Unreal
It's weird that it does, though... I mean, if we compare it to other games. It doesn't have any cutscenes, narration or anything... it doesn't need any of that. The game is an experience and that in itself is enough. That's how I like to interpret it.
yes yes yes. Please keep praising long gone times of videogaming and movies. For they are something special that needs praising. Those things will never be repeated. You can't just continue making things forever. Special things will remain special. I really love Unreal for what it is and never will this be repeated. Sad but also needs respect
+rgerber I also highly estimate Freeman Gordon (Halflife series) als equal with Unreal. But no other FPS coms atmospherically close. Some Role games, played almost like FPS do so (Witcher, Amalur...), but no FPS.
+rgerber "You can't just continue making things forever." - definitely a profound quote
i think the closest i've ever come to being as immersed in a game as i was in this one was quake 2. but even then. it didn't have the funky soundtrack and the beautiful and wide open landscapes this game had.
2:34 shit just got real
*got unreal ;)
"Right, now what... HOLY CLAP"
Fuck, it's from a time when devs made games they cared about and composers worked on music that expanded the experience...now games all care about looking "cool" and sounding "cool", they forget about things like atmosphere, tone, etc. and it becomes a dull, repetitive shooting gallery. Fuck, WHY WASN'T I OLDER IN 1998!!?!
you can still play old games, just immerse yourself like we used to. Get lost in it!
Buy Unreal on GoG and play it. That's what we do, even if we were old enough back then.
all games now sound the same, music and effects.. check this melody man, its FUCKING UNIQUE.
at 2:34 is when the lights go off and the skaarj jumps out of nowhere in the Rrajigar mine...epic moment!
This part of the game: "You hear a strange growl. "What the fuck is that?" you ask yourself, having just pressed a button. You decide to investigate with your trusty auto-pistol at your side, ready to pump hot lead into some brute's ass. You enter a thin corridor, *click*... *click*.... *click*. The lights are out. Suddenly, the emergency lights are out, and suddenly, a low growl erupts from behind you, and... OH SHIT!!! You find a bizarre monster, you end up killing it, but almost dead yourself! And there's more..." - CmdrJSKFox
Bisonfan95
2:34
Very Unreal song. It's hard to describe the feeling you get from hearing this amazing music.
A memorable soundtrack, this was the first ingame music that stayed with you forever and ever and ever and...
Great soundtrack.
I gotta say my first memorable ingame music was of Commando on C64, which still rocks, but yes, Unreal has some fantastic music.
wait.....WAIT....
I REMEMBER this one. Just barely. But it's there.
Man...how could I have forgotten a soundtrack so damn well made.
Heretic!
Back when I was a small kid and played this game for the first few times, there was that area at the end of Depths of Rrajigar where you had to trigger those two gas tank levers, so yeah when you press both you hear a continuous loud noise and instead of it being the gas leak sound I thought it was some crowd cheering me and with (the first part) Shared Dig being all cool and happy I had always a good smile on my face during that moment.
My god the good old past is too much for me to remember ;(
That gas leak almost blew my eardrums the first time I played through Depths.
TARYDIUM POOOOOWWWWAAAAAAAAAAA
i was watching my dad play this game when i was 4, and started playing this at 12.. and still, i get to find the original cd of this on my dad's CD racks, install and play!!!
Nice eheh !! Me too same situation ! And for my brothers :D !!
I played it in september 2000 by a poor Intel celeron 300 in 640x480 and voodoo 1! Am I so old? LoL
Same here bro, i was very scared at that age when playing Unreal hahahah.
this is one whole song - but in game, in that dark corridor (where you meet Skaarjwarrior first) , the song jumps to 2:35 :)
nothing strikes me with nostalgia as much as Unreal game and its soundtracks!...Shared Dig, Star Seeker and Dusk Horizon just to name the few! ...
We really need Unreal 3
brb reinstalling
i was obsessed with this game during my bachelors....unreplaceable experience
I gotta stop listening to unreal music
every time I end up drunk as fuck
Gotta admit, I can relate to that
I think you have the right idea about life.
Yes, the music that begins at 4:35 was in my head for years! Couldn't find it until recently!...
Who composed this? It sounds like it has the same approach as the music in Jazz Jackrabbit 2 (also by Epic), which I loved as well.
Alexander 'Siren' Brandon
Michiel van Den Bos I think.
Yeah
It was a game beyond its past.
I'm still playing the game, legend.
I ripped the S3M's from this game and made a CD years ago. Easily one of my favorite game soundtracks.
3:28 Magical. Beyond magical.
@4:51 Life becomes myterious
te ścieżka jest obłędna.mój ulubiony fragment do 2:34
The beginning of this soundtrack is so much epic! :)
haha i was only 5 in 1998 and still played this game, SUCH A GOOD GAME!!
now a days they dont even make new music they take the older stuff...
The fast part of this song is great to use when playing UT99/UT3.
I especially like using it on a remake of an Unreal 1 map in UT3.
4:35 is the best part!
@LoonyChris96
Try Unreal Gold. Works fine on all Windows systems (dunno about Mac, but it should work).
This song is awesome.
@Dustie1984 it's tracker music, JJR2 also was useing it, it's format like MIDI by it uses own simples and is more advanced, scene reused same simples over again in many music this is why it sound quite similar
UNREAL:scary,beutiful and wild.
Respect...CICO...Respect
It's a best soundtrack from Unreal!!!
The original...Shared Dig... is very good...but the remix of this music is the last shit...original is the best...Respect Tuthor :D
I know what you mean, not many games can do that to you, and i think this is one of them. Coop in this game was great, and when i was a kid, this game used to scare me.
I listened to this music with subsongs in this order many times before I got to play Unreal with sound. The rip was probably created in Winamp with "Play After Loop". I imagined that someone calmly walks to a site above ground during the first song, "digs" during the action sequence, and emerges into some underground cavity eventually during the last section...
Actually in the game we get to hear the songs in reverse order: entrance to the mine, battle with the skaarj in darkness, depths of rrajigar. The dynamic music is a bit broken. If we save and reload, which I find doing a lot, the game doesn't remember which song played last or is playing right now, and might switch from action to the calm shared dig for no reason. That happens in other levels too, the game might switch from music to silence, like outside the dark arena where music is started via event. Or outside the graveyard at the harobed village where subsong 0 is restarted when I exit the graveyard while retreating from the skaarj inside it. A status field of the currently playing song would help a lot, nothing particularly creative, then the game would start that song if it is not playing now or do nothing. Maybe all playtesters were so badass they didn't use the save function.
If you play it in UT99 with Oldskool Amp'd, it remembers what track was playing at the time of the save.
@JoakimfromAnka
If you have the game, download the excellent Jet Audio (its a free and know-a-lot audio-video-player) for converting the music files in your Unreal/Music map into wav or ogg, and then a free mp3 converter (e.g. Illustrate dBPowerAmp is the simplest, or similar) to convert wavs into mp3 or wma.
I've been looking for this for ages!!! This is the one song that I remember from Unreal! My brother recorded an electric guitar version of this, but lost the file itself. I wish someone else would do a guitar rendition! It's awesome on an electric guitar!!
@RadioactiveG in reality umx is just a container to tracker songs not a real tracker format ;]
@kacpi26
one of the most scariest part of any game ever, i remember i was bout 10 yrs old nd i almost shit in mah pants!!! Unreal is a game tht true lives upto its name!!!
my childhood!! now its pure shit!!
Awesome this was uploaded on my b-day and this is one of my favorite Unreal songs. This game is the best game I ever played and ever will play.
Love the beginning of the track! Makes me pushing the repeat button :P
u should search in the unreal dir game
u may find all musics..
if not, try to install unreal editor! :P
@Panzerkommander1 Just download the program that takes the videos from TH-cam. They also convert.
Agreeeddd, I fell callm when that part comes.......and reliefed as well, to know that i killed the SKAARJ LOL
Yeah, Song Section 1 is the fast part. That's the best part of any song I've ever seen in any game.
@NisiCaloponis
Sorry for multiplicating answers. Something wrong happened :-)
Those songs are all in the same file. Can be opened via tracker programs.
@Racoon42a
I also not. But skaarj troopers seem to like it and use it.
So emotional
they're moving onto GOW now. sad. hope another company makes a new one.
This game, Same audio/gameplay, Updated GFX would = EPIC!
i want epic to remake the game so bad
Do you remember the falling bridge in Rrajigar mines ? :D
απο τις παλιες καλες εποχες!!!!! unreal και ξερο ψωμι!!!!
One of the greatest moments in gaming. Chills...
@DeathPenguin1000 Happy yesterday's birthday :)
WELL))))
my too ;]
one of my favourites too XD
Nali village map if i`m not mistake! When was reading Nali story i hated all skaarj. This track stimulated me to this)
+killahertz1981 It's the music in Rrajigar
+Morlunapp actually i think he's on to something, i think this replays later when you're in the village near the abbey.
ianciti
Actually no, this doesn't play in any of the villages.
It's in the mine, the legendary part where the lights go out and your first fight against a Skaarj starts is the mid part.
Tarydium you say? lol
@Tuthor Alex Brandon is the same person who composed the music for jazz rabit?
vichonostalgico alexander brandon composed the music of tyrian
Yes 10 year....
'98 :)
KEWLEST SONG!
2:52
LOL ty
I didn't really enjoy the game that much... but this is one of my favourite video game tracks ever.
i was about 4 years old when this game came out and my dad bought it i remember that my dad decided to let me play at that age this was my first first person game i ever played and the first game i played at the age of 4 im 14 now and i still remember it all damn..... the song were just effin amazing i remember just stopping to hear the song and dark hallway part was the scariest shit i ever played to this day no joke i tried installing it on my new computer i dint work.
@JoakimfromAnka there is also Dusk Horizon, from the NyLeve's Falls. The experience of that area, the sky, nature, space, all that has etched the Dusk Horizon music onto my (and probably not only mine) brain.
Where can I download the full song? The ones I find just includes the first 3 min, before the fast part starts. I would like if I didn't have to install the game and convert formats etc. :P
@JoakimfromAnka Yeah i totally agree. It combines the atmospheric ambient tunes with the pulsing techno rythms that made the Unreal soundtrack so excellent.
@JoakimfromAnka
One of them. All parts of this one are very nice, but Dusk Horizon definitely comes first in terms of atmospheric parts.
@Dustie1984 DUDE! that game was awesome, i remember playing it as a little kid and could never remember the name of the game
@jackoneill45 Valve still know how to use music and create atmosphere. Even EA can do it - look at the "Afterlife" club in Mass Effect 2 for an example.
Dude.....i remember these songs like if i was right now playing it in 1999 !!!! at 9 years of AGE!!!
Dude, these songs are classics!
One of the greatest electronic atmosphere songs ever made.... Too bad they don't make anymore like this
Deus Ex---favorite game of all time, by a healthy margin. Favorite track from that game: Chateux Duclaire. Favorite Unreal track, Hub 3, followed by this one... Thanks for posting!
I always felt like this is THE Unreal track. It's the one you think of when thinking of Unreal's music.
the game makes this song so special
and the songs makes the game so special...
@EdRoy01: Yes, definitely. Still has very important place for me. :)
I really liked this song, especially the final third of the song!
This song really is the song which represents Unreal. Awesome.
Very cool, especially the fast part during fight!
Under what soundchip was composed this, Unreal, UT99 and Deus Ex music?
This is a tracker module. It doesn't use any synthesis chip but sample playback. Most likely composed on PC with Impulse Tracker. But again, doesn't matter, tracker songs sound the same on all systems.
awesome trance-meditation-relax-action all1one
It's even better than I thought!
I like the first part much more.
fucking nostalgia
Increible.
I use the 2/3 of the song to run :D
+TheIronMaidenFan1 me too jajajajaja !!
the best music in game ever