Maybe it was the timing or perhaps it was just because I was just getting back into video games that I was so obsessed with this game. Whatever the reason is I couldn't play enough of UT. This was the first game where I experience quality AI in the single player version for the first time. I spent sleepless nights with my headphones on so as not to wake the girlfriend trying to get to the next level of the single player. I couldn’t get over the graphics and the sound and the challenge of getting to the next lev. and the final lev seemed to take me forever to finish. After I finished that final AI I was sitting in front of my computer. Finished! No more levels to continue on with. I considered starting again and loaded the game up but paused when I saw the multiplayer option. I had never played multiplayer games before except Hoyle board game's with my girlfriend (and that was us both using the same computer) so the multiplayer thing sounded like some exotic experience that I wasn’t quite sure I would be able to do without doing something stupid...but the concept of playing games with total strangers on the internet wasn’t anonymous to me because the internet was a new thing to me, I was still thinking that if I did something dumb or got wooped really bad I would somehow be known for that and branded as a bad multiplayer. In any case I connected to my first multiplayer game and realized that just because I had finished the single player it didn’t mean the game had run its course BUT rather the single player was really just your training for the "real: game of multiplayer. Yea, if your still reading this you know by now that this review sucks as a review because my nostalgia has taken away any objectivity I might have had. But I had to justify why I would give anything a 10 score. UT gets a 10 because it was innovative and creative and it stood on its own apart from the rest for its creativity and imagination and its ability to allow the player to lend his own imagination to the game. UT was successful in creating a new universe that didn't have to barrow from already existing brands (i.e.: Star Wars) and that in itself is a nice accomplishment. All this being said I know that I would probably be tougher on the sequels to this game because after you play an original the sequel never quite takes you back to your original experience :)
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