Unreal Tournament
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Unreal Tournament (2014 on Macintosh, Windows)
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Unreal Tournament is completely different from Unreal: it is now mainly based on multiplayer, like Quake 3.
At the beginning, you have to play classic deathmatch rounds. After you have successfully won some of them, a new game mode becomes available, domination. In domination there are about three or four different areas scattered around the map to be controlled by your team. For a certain amount of seconds you control one area, a point is added to your score. The more areas you control, the faster your team's score rises. When you or the other team reaches a certain score, the game is over. The third mode is called capture the flag, every team has a flag to defend and tries to capture the other team's flag to score a point.
The fourth game mode is called assault. This mode requires completion of real missions, such as attacking an enemy base and destroying a specific object in it. Again, there are two teams, the defenders and the attackers. You have to complete the mission in a certain time, for example five or ten minutes. If you were successful, your team has to defend this time and the other team attacks. But the attacking team now only has as much time as you needed to attack.
All these modes are either playable in single or multiplayer mode. If playing alone, you have a large menu with orders you can give your bots. Also, all weapons were redesigned, and some new ones are added.
Spellings
- アンリアル トーナメント - Japanese spelling
- æµ´è¡€æˆ°å ´ - Traditional Chinese spelling
- 虚幻竞技场 - Simplified Chinese spelling
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- 3D Engine: Unreal Engine 1
- Best of Infogrames / Atari releases
- BPjS / BPjM indexed games
- Covermount: Fullgames
- Game feature: In-game screenshot capture
- Gameplay feature: Recordable replays
- Games that include map/level editor
- Games with officially released source code
- Genre: Arena shooter
- Launch title: PlayStation 2 (North America)
- Middleware: SDL
- Replay (GT / Infogrames / Atari) releases
- Setting: Ship / Boat
- Setting: Space station / Spaceship
- Technology: amBX
- Theme: Future sports / Brutal sports
- Unreal series
- Unreal Tournament series
- Weapon: Chainsaw
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Average score: 89% (based on 76 ratings)
Players
Average score: 3.8 out of 5 (based on 323 ratings with 11 reviews)
Trying to be the next Quake 3, but stops way before......
The Good
Probably one of the best aspects of this game is the many types of gameplay and the many stages for each, although some levels are very poorly made (eg' Lava Giant. (WHO WANTS TO CTF IN THAT CRAPPY LEVEL??)
On the other hand, some levels are great to play in, like the Frigate, which I found to be very fun. Some game types were also very good, like domination.
The Bad
Here we are :
Very slow, hard DMers will hate the slow choppy gameplay
Graphics suck. Not colorful, instead just a few slabs of models put together<
Single player tournaments hard and annoying
Game finding process slow and unproductive, most servers fail to connect
The Bottom Line
Look, UT is decent, but it is not a solid DM game! If it was a single player, okay fine, but this game is just lousy. You want something good, go to Quake 3, Arena & Team Arena.
I give Unreal Tournament a slow and poorly deserved (4.5/10)
Windows · by ThE oNe (180) · 2002
The Good
Good gameplay and variety.
The Bad
I was never able to play it online with a 56k modem.
The Bottom Line
UT, if you think about Q3 comparing is graphically inferior. It do has awesome graphics, but can't compete with Q3. It's slower, like many Q3 lovers complain, exclusively because Q3 runs on Open GL. UT in Direct 3d. If you look around the web, you'll find good Open GL drivers for UT and it'll be as fast as Q3.
The stages are way better designed and varied. Q3's are good, but lack theme variety. UT also has a lot more of game types and if you say: What about mods? Comm'on! We're reviewing a game, not it's community!
Weapons? UT's got a lot more, and even if you say only a few are useful, Q3 runs around only 3! Rocket launcher, Railgun, BFG! Sometimes the Shotgun. And UT's are, at least, more creative...
So... you'll probably have lot's of fun with both games, but with UT It'll probably last longer.
Windows · by Geraldo Falci (12) · 2004
The Good
Unreal Tournament offers endless playability with 6 different game modes, or variations of each other. If you just want to blow people up, you can go for a Tournament Deathmatch, a Team Deathmatch, or a Last Man Standing, in which you have a set amount of lives. Capture the Flag is another awesome mode, no matter how unoriginal, and is probably my personal favorite. In Domination, you need to take and keep control points which are spread around the map to gain points, and in Assault, the first team must try to complete their objectives while the other team tries to stop them. Each game mode has plenty of excellent maps to go with them, and more maps have been put up for free download.
One of the best things about Unreal Tournament is its A.I., which acts and plays just like human beings (although maybe not quite as smart). People who have slow internet connections don't have to tolerate laggy game play to have a good fight.
And of course the game uses the beautiful Unreal Engine, and has a great soundtrack as well.
The Bad
The Unreal Engine was unfortunately made for Glide users. Running the game under Direct3D or OpenGL will often give you low frame rates.
The Bottom Line
An incredibly fun, endlessly playable first-person shooter.
Windows · by Brian Jordan (19) · 2001
Trivia
German index
Unreal Tournament is on the Index of the BPjS in Germany. This occurred on 28.02.2002, over 2 years past release. More information about the topic can be found in the game group.
References
If you manage to collect a chainsaw (can only be found in custom made maps or via cheat code), you get instead of the expected "You got the Chainsaw". message actually the following message: "Its been five years since I've seen one of these." The sentence clearly refers to DOOM II, which was indeed released just a bit over 5 years earlier then Unreal Tournament was.
Version differences
The Dreamcast version does not have assault mode as all the maps save one were too large to fit in Dreamcast's memory. It is replaced in single-player by a new challenge mode, which is a series of one-on-one battles.
Awards
- Computer Gaming World
- March 2000 (Issue #188) – Action Game of the Year
- March 2000 (Issue #188) – Best Level Design of the Year
- October 2004 (Issue #243) – Introduced into the Hall of Fame
- GameSpy
- 1999 – Game of the Year
- 1999 - Special Achievement in Artificial Intelligence
- GameStar (Germany)
- Issue 03/2000 - Best Multiplayer Game in 1999
- PC Player (Germany)
- Issue 01/2000 - Best First Person Shooter in 1999
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Loki Games -- Unreal Tournament
Official Home Page for Linux version of Unreal Tournament. Support, downloads, etc. -
Unreal Tournament: Cliff Bleszinski Interview
by Games Domain, November 22, 1999 (archived)
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Game added by robotriot.
Macintosh added by Kabushi. PlayStation 2, Dreamcast added by Adam Baratz.
Additional contributors: Brian Hirt, Trixter, Eric Barbara, Unicorn Lynx, Jeanne, Wizo, Paulus18950, Patrick Bregger, Plok, Rik Hideto.
Game added December 17th, 1999. Last modified August 14th, 2023.