Started as an idea for a robot action game by James Schmalz, Epic Games™ Unreal® soon grew into a graphically stunning first person action frenzy with an epic storyline. Co-developed with Epic Games, Unreal was released in May 1997 and lived up to the huge anticipation that had built up to its release. Selling over a million units and building a community of over one hundred fan sites, Unreal set the new standard in first person action games for its time.