January 21, 1999 - Issue 11

PlayStation Gets Unreal

Top first-person PC shooter to be converted

GT Interactive have announced that Unreal will be ported to the PlayStation and is expected to be released in the autumn. Conversion outfit Aardvark are to be responsible for the port.

"There is yet to be a first-person game on PlayStation that has lived up to expectations," said Paul Fox for GTI. "The release of Unreal on PlayStation will be all the more significant, arriving as it does while the memory of the original benchmark title remains fresh."

What about Doom? That was great on the PlayStation; some have been known to say it's even better than the PC version. Duke Nukem wasn't so bad either. And surely it would make more sense to do a Dreamcast version of Unreal, seeing as it's so easy to port PC titles onto Sega's next generation console? Maybe GTI know something that we don't.

Also, with PC sales approaching half a million, it's no surprise that the folks at Unreal developer, Epic Megagames, are starting to talk about a sequel. More news on this as it happens.

Strap lines for news stories had been introduced by issue 11 and Sex, Lies and Videogames became a regular feature (it ran for several months). We were recommending Rogue Squadron on the N64 for purchase this week and Game Kid was wibbling on about Kevin Keegan.