HomeLAN previews Unreal 2 based on their experiences playing the upcoming Legend Entertainment first person shooter while at yesterday's press event for the Infogrames published game. Here is a snip: Because Unreal 2 is a single player only experience, Legend chose to develop the story and its characters far more than most first person shooters. While playing the game, I came away impressed at how Legend has made the main player character, John Dalton, into a slightly flawed hero. A member of a kind of space marshal service as the game opens, Dalton wants desperately to be brought back into his old profession as a space marine and as the game progresses we see that he will do and believe nearly anything to have that happen and that obsession affects his character during the game. Other characters include his friend and first officer Aida aboard his ship, the Atlantis, as well as the master engineer aboard the ship and the alien pilot, a somewhat mysterious creature encased in a suit that's friendly but who also has an interesting secret.

Unreal 2: The Awakening Preview