History VideoGame / UnrealIITheAwakening

* EnergyBall: The Shock Lance's secondary fire, an EMP blast that travels forward in ball form.

* StandardFPSGuns: Defied, with many of the later guns are unorthodox (such as deployable force fields, Spider Gun that shoots colonies of spiders, and Drakk Takkra that can turn into insectoid drone) and even early guns have secondary function.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Compared to Unreal Tournament 2003 and 2004, although still LighterAndSofter than the firstUnreal given you see civilized places often.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading: To levels of absurdity. Even for [=PC's=] powerful by The NewTens' standards, with gigabytes of RAM and GPU processing capabilities ''far'' exceeding the game's requirements, the game has huge loading times that can reach ''minutes''. The same counts for the Xbox version.

* SeeYouInHell: ''Literally.'' Ne'Ban, who doesn't speak English very well, tells you he is on a course for Hell, because your mission officer told him to go there. Then you go and talk to the mission officer, who casually tells you that your next mission is on a moon called "Hell".

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: The last we see is Dalton drifting into space in an escape pod, all alone, watching the final words of his late crew recorded in the burst transmission. It's also left unclear if all the Kais in the universe are turned into the Tosc, not just the one in the Dorian Gray spaceship that was just destroyed. However as the game somewhat still counts as canon, it seems like the Kais didn't appear anymore.]]

* DismantledMacGuffin: Dalton spend most of the game travelling from planet to planet picking up pieces of an ancient artifact. When the artifact is finally assembled and used, [[spoiler:it turns the least powerful creatures on the ship where it's used into the most powerful creatures, complete with guns that shoot black holes. Suffice to say, the artifact doesn't last long]].

* OneWingedAngel: The true form of [[spoiler:the Tosc]], when awakened by the DismantledMacGuffin Dalton was collecting.

* EndingTropes:
** BittersweetEnding: The [[spoiler:Tosc]] menace is finished, and so is the BigBad, but [[spoiler:Dalton's crewmates are all dead]], and he's left [[spoiler:drifting alone in space]] listening to [[spoiler:his crew]]'s final message.

* FacelessGoons: The UMS space marines.

This game was '''Unreal 2: The Awakening''', released for PC and Xbox in 2002.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading: Even for modern [=PC's=] with gigabytes of RAM and GPU processing capabilities, the game has huge loading times that can reach ''minutes''. The same counts for the Xbox version.

* EmergencyWeapon: the t-13 popgun, a weak infinite ammo hand gun

* GeniusLoci: One of the planets is practically a sentient entity.

* PeopleJars: [[spoiler:With a healthy side of {{Squick}} due to... bizarre, nonsensical experimentation.]]

* SwissArmyWeapon: The ''Hydra'' Grenade Launcher, capable of launching '''6''' different types of grenades and capable of employing timed or impact fuses!

* {{BFG}}: The Tosc Singularity Cannon. Anything in it's path is warped into the micro-black hole. In fact, if you use it while the console is up, it claims target has be sent "to a dimension beyond".

* AwesomeButImpractical: The Shock Lance.

* ContinuityNod: The assault rifle and rocket launcher are based off of the same weapons found in ''Return to Na Pali''.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Some levels feature lava.

* EmergencyWeapon[=/=]ChargedAttack: The energy pistol behaves more or less the same as it did in the first ''Unreal''. You always have it as an emergency weapon, it recharges energy infinitely but has a lower-than-average rate of fire and relatively slow projectiles, and you can perform a charged shot with it (which, unfortunately, still isn't powerful enough to kill most enemies).

** BittersweetEnding: The [[spoiler:Tosc]] menace is finished, and so is the BigBad, but the protagonist's crewmates died, and he's left [[spoiler:drifting alone in space]] listening to his crew's final message.
* EnergyBall: The Shock Lance's secondary fire.
* HitScan: The assault rifle, the "widowmaker" rifle and the magnum.

* PainfullySlowProjectile: The Shock Lance's secondary fire. To the point that it's extremely hard to hit it with the primary fire.

* SecondaryFire

* SceneryPorn: In spite of it's many engine problems, the game still features awesome landscapes, now extended due to the fact that Dalton visits many planets.

* HitScan: The Shock Lance.

* AlienBlood:
* AlienSky
* ArtificialBrilliance:

* PoweredArmor: EVERYONE.

* GottaCatchEmAll

* [[spoiler:HurlItIntoTheSun]]
* [[spoiler:ItHasBeenAnHonor]]

* LaserHallway

* ObviousBeta: Even for today's [=PCs=], the game has [[LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading huge loading times]]. The same counts for the Xbox version.

* SnipingMission

* SuperWindowJump

* WombLevel

!This game has examples of:

* AmazonBrigade: The Liandri Angels.
** {{Stripperiffic}}: Some of them appear to be completely naked under armor that includes a transparent bubble canopy.
* ASpaceMarineIsYou: The entire game, with the sole exception of the characterization of the main characters. It's somewhat of a running gag of Dalton complaning about how he should have been one.
--> Marine: Hell Dalton. You should have been a Marine.
--> Dalton: Don't get me started.
* BeeBeeGun: The biomass ejaculator, a gun that ''shoots spiders''. And yes, it's officially called an ejaculator tube.
* {{BFG}}: The Tosc Singularity Cannon. Anything in it's path is warped into the micro-black hole. In fact, if you use it while the console is up, it claims target has be sent "to a dimension beyond".
* BittersweetEnding: The [[spoiler:Tosc]] menace is finished, and so is the BigBad, but the protagonist's crewmates died, and he's left [[spoiler:drifting alone in space]] listening to his crew's final message.
* BladeOnAStick: The Izarians use a variation.

* MegaCorp: The main companies from the Tournament/Championship games (except Phayder) are involved in the game's conflict.

* PoweredArmor: EVERYONE.

* ShoutOut: Check [[ShoutOut/{{Unreal}} the page]].

* BFG: The Tosc Singularity Cannon. Anything in it's path is warped into the micro-black hole. In fact, if you use it while the console is up, it claims target has be sent "to a dimension beyond".
* BittersweetEnding: The Tosc menace is finished, and so is the BigBad, but [[spoiler:Dalton's crewmates died, and he's left drifting alone in space listening to Aida's final message]].

--> "Here you go. Just kidding. The second I give you it you're going to leave me here to die. So you get me safe and I'll give you it."

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Dalton manages to destroy the artifacts, but his crewmates died, and he's left alone in space listening to Aida's final message]].

* BFG: The Tsoc Singularity Cannon. Quite frankly, the most powerful FPS weapon this troper has ever seen. Just point it at anything and fire. ANYTHING in it's path is warped into the micro-black hole. In fact, if you use it while the console is up, it claims target has be sent "to a dimension beyond".

The first {{Unreal}} was well received, but it was ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament'' the game which made the franchise famous all around the world. EpicGames decided that the next step should be taken by another company, and thus, Legend Entertainment made the next game of the franchise.

The first {{Unreal}} was well received, but it was UnrealTournament the game which made the franchise famous all around the world. EpicGames decided that the next step should be taken by another company, and thus, Legend Entertainment made the next game of the franchise.