Welcome to
A LINE THROUGH T⌛ME, where I take the time to look through your favourite franchises and work out how it all lines up.
Twenty years ago today, Unreal released on the PC. ...What do you mean you've never heard of it? Everyone's heard of Unreal. ...No, not the game engine! Unreal Tournament? Yeah,
now you know what I'm talking about. Okay, I guess the Tournament stuff did vastly overshadow the original series, but come on now, the Unreal Engine (on which many games run today) was originally created to run the first Unreal game. Learn your history, guys!
Anyway, Epic MegaGames, Digital Extremes, and Legend Entertainment's
Unreal (yes, there were that many developers) takes place around the year 2215, following Prisoner 849, who escapes her prison transport ship when it's attacked by the alien race, the Scarj (Scar? Scar). 849 flees to the nearby Na Pali, a planet under Skaarj rule. S