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Commentators: Markus 'djWHEAT' Graham & Paul 'ReDeYe' ChalonerLaurens 'lauke' Pluijmaekers (Netherlands) vs. Markus 'Falcon' Holzer (Austria)Electronic Sport. Unreal Tournament is the original King of the Hill in the frag-or-be-fragged multiplayer gaming world. As the undisputed 1999 Game of the Year, Unreal Tournament grabbed the first person shooter genre by the soiled seat of its pants and knocked it around the room with its never-before-seen graphics, brutal edge-of-your-seat gameplay and a massive and varied feature list that gave gamers more. This is an early version of the Unreal Tournament experience, featuring new content and returning classics. There's still a lot of work to be done, but you're able to participate, today, and earn in-game rewards available only to Pre-Alpha participants.


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Unreal Tournament - Weaponer Alex 11-05-2006 Changes all normal weapons to Mega destructive weapons!NULL
Unreal Tournament - Paint fighting Alex 11-07-2006 'There are two Mutators for Unreal Tournament. Both for
'color fighting'. In Paint Ball all weapon..
Unreal Tournament - Armourine skin MastaBlast.. 10-25-2006 '- For all the UT fans who wanted to don the UT armour
pickup! - I used the Unreal Tournament 'Ches..
Unreal Tournament - FrenchSoldier skin MastaBlast.. 10-22-2006 '- I used the chest armour from 'Male Soldier > Soldier >
None' skin, so its always nice and silve..
Unreal Tournament - MercTrainee skin MastaBlast.. 10-22-2006 '- Made by Epic, its an early prototype of the 'Male
Commando > Mercenary' Skin. - I found this in..
Unreal Tournament - NecrisTrainee skin MastaBlast.. 10-22-2006 '- Made by Epic, its an early prototype of the 'Male
Commando > Necris' Skin. - I found this in th..
Unreal Tournament - NecrisDress MastaBlast.. 10-22-2006 '- The 'Female Commando > Necris' wearing a mini skirt and
small top, so you can enjoy the view of..
Unreal Tournament - NecrisNaked skin MastaBlast.. 10-22-2006 '- THE ABSOLUTE BEST FEMALE NECRIS NAKED SKIN, DL NOW!! i
have seen all the others. - The 'Female C..
Unreal Tournament - NecrisTrainee skin MastaBlast.. 10-22-2006 '- Made by Epic, its an early prototype of the 'Female
Commando > Necris' Skin. - I found this in ..
Unreal Tournament - NecrisDress skin MastaBlast.. 10-22-2006 '- The 'Female Commando > Necris' wearing a mini skirt and
small top, so you can enjoy the view of..
Unreal Tournament - Superman mutator Alex Pavel 10-23-2006 If you somebody kill,you can fly for a short time.NULL
Unreal Tournament - Mid Sized CTF Map Michael KW.. 10-13-2006 Mid Sized CTF Map With Full Bot And Weapons Support, Plus
New Player Location, And Bot Traps For Han..
Unreal Tournament - DM-Fringe [Judgment-.. 09-04-2006 Making use of warp zone effect. This is a UT Deathmatch map.
This map had no new sound or new textur..
Uskaarj [UMOD] Uskaarj Te.. 07-15-2003 Uskaarj is a total conversion of UT that Changes it from a
First person Shooter into a Real Time Str..
UT2004 - USKaarj Installer Uskaarj te.. 07-25-2006 Uskaarj is a total conversion of UT that Changes it from a
First person Shooter into a Real Time Str..
Unreal Tournament - GOTY CTF map Paul Schol.. 05-01-2006 This is a small/medium size CTF map for UT GOTY. It has an
emphasis on kickers and an arena feel. N..
Unreal Tournament - CTF Cannae Map Ben Burkar.. 04-21-2006 An old forgotten outpost built upon an island. May need a
decent pc to play, over 5600 polygons.NULL
Unreal Tournament - DM-Chemicalfactory144 - Deathmatch Darkblood 04-04-2006 A large chemical processing facility with a few traps set in
place. Guaranteed to please or your mo..
Unreal Tournament - Burning Face Mutator Hamster_St.. 03-10-2006 Updated version! Two mutators in one! A new improved Burning
Players and Anti-Camper with lots of ea..
Unreal Tournament - Thievery 1.5 Thievery T.. 06-28-2002 This is 1.5 of the original multiplayer stealth FPS.
Thievery changes UT into a whole new game, pit..
Unreal Tournament - Vehicles Unknown 01-12-2006 A alsome mod that contains vehicles for UT1Vehicles.NULL
Unreal Tournament - Lexmark Castle Andrew 11-03-2005 This is a Deathmatch map made for Unreal Tournament. It is a
large sized map with a medieval castle ..
Unreal Tournament - DM-Aztec.unr Ben 11-03-2005 An ancient temple belonging to a civilization destroyed by
years of war now rebuilt by the Liandri ..
Unreal Tournament - DM Aztec Ruins Ben Burkar.. 11-02-2005 An ancient temple belonging to a civilization destroyed by
years of war now rebuilt by the Liandri M..
Unreal Tournament - Deatmatch Maps: Gladiator Arena Sin Hungar.. 10-27-2005 Gladiator Arena, with rockets and chainsaw :) V.1.0, My
first map, test it :)NULL
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Unreal
Genre(s)First-person shooter
Developer(s)Epic Games
Digital Extremes
Legend Entertainment
Publisher(s)GT Interactive Software
Infogrames
Atari
Midway Games
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, Xbox, OS X, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
First releaseUnreal
May 22, 1998
Latest releaseUnreal Tournament 3
November 19, 2007

Unreal is a series of first-person shootervideo games developed by Epic Games. The series is known for its exhibition of the Unreal Engine that powers the games and is available for other developers to license. As a result of Epic's focus on the engine technology, much of the creative workload such as map design has traditionally been outsourced to other studios, namely Digital Extremes. Legend Entertainment was brought in for the first game's expansion pack and its sequel, Unreal II: The Awakening. For the latest installment, however, Epic completed all design work in-house.

Publishing rights for the series have changed hands several times. GT Interactive was the original publisher, and a series of acquisitions and corporate restructurings eventually led to Infogrames and then Atari inheriting the relationship. However, during the production of Unreal Tournament 2004 there was a financial dispute between Epic and Atari, culminating in the gold master being held hostage in exchange for milestone and royalty payments. After dealing with that episode, Epic elected to take the publishing rights elsewhere for future titles and eventually settled on a deal with Midway Games.

Games[edit]

Titles in the Unreal series
YearEngineTitlePlatform(s)
WinMacLinuxDCPS2XboxPS3X360
1998Unreal Engine 1UnrealYesYesNoNoNoNoNoNo
1999Unreal TournamentYesYesYes[1]YesYesNoNoNo
2002Unreal Engine 2Unreal Tournament 2003YesYesYes[2]NoNoNoNoNo
Unreal ChampionshipNoNoNoNoNoYesNoNo
2003Unreal II: The AwakeningYesNoNoNoNoYesNoNo
2004Unreal Tournament 2004YesYesYesNoNoNoNoNo
2005Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri ConflictNoNoNoNoNoYesNoNo
2007Unreal Engine 3Unreal Tournament 3YesNoNoNoNoNoYesYes
CancelledUnreal Engine 4Unreal TournamentYesYesYesNoNoNoNoNo

Anthologies[edit]

  • Totally Unreal (2001) contains Unreal, Return to Na Pali, and Unreal Tournament, along with content patches and community mods that were previously released for free download.
  • Unreal Anthology (2006) contains Unreal Gold, Unreal Tournament, Unreal II, Unreal Tournament 2004, and a bonus soundtrack CD.[3] However, missing from Unreal Tournament are the improved S3TC textures which came with the original release of the game. Also, the internet connectivity of Unreal in this collection is isolated by having a master server different from that of the original game.

Spin-offs[edit]

Tournament

Unreal Tournament was launched in direct competition to Quake III Arena, and was similarly focused on multiplayer action. UT improved upon the mod-friendly nature of its predecessor with the inclusion of support for 'mutators', which allowed users to selectively insert game code modifications without the need for a total conversion. Small mods, such as ones adding weapons or power-ups, could be seamlessly combined according to the player's desires. Players could then use a simple dialog box to enable or disable the mutator.

Unreal Tournament 2003 had a name change from the expected Unreal Tournament II in order to imitate traditional sports-based video games, where annual releases are typical. As part of Epic Games' strategy of porting the Unreal engine to other platforms, UT 2003 was ported to the Xbox as Unreal Championship, with several gameplay changes intended to make the game more appealing to console audiences. Taking that idea further, Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict was created exclusively for the Xbox, and includes gameplay elements not seen in any other Unreal games, for example an emphasis on melee weapons and the encouraged use of third-person perspective.

Gameplay[edit]

Movement[edit]

The Unreal series's movement and jump mechanics are one of the many things that set the series far apart from the other FPS games. While most games have the simple 'jump' and 'duck' commands, Unreal is one of the very few games that has a 'dodge' mechanic. The dodge is performed by pressing any direction key twice in rapid succession. After inputting the command, the player will do a fast jump in that direction; while the idea is simple, it has added a whole level of playing style, making it much more fast-paced and requiring one to have excellent aiming (at higher levels of play at least). Wall-dodging and double jumping were added to the series in UT2003, adding yet another twist to the entire gameplay style. The dodging mechanics were tweaked in UT3, making for more ground-based combat instead of Superman-like aerial acrobatics.

Setting[edit]

Following the Human/Skaarj Wars (the fictional battle between humans and the Skaarj in the Unreal universe), Earth's cities lay in ruins. When the New Earth Government tried to take control of these cities, they discovered many rebel groups, covertly funded by corporations such as Liandri, Izanagi, and Axon. Later, war had emerged to regain control of the ruined cities, causing conflict within the corporations.

The constant battles caused many casualties, reducing the already diminishing human population. One battle in particular caused the creation of the tournament, when Axon Research Corporation raided Izanagi's facility and retrieved the advanced Plasma Ion Tank being developed. This subterfuge started a huge chain of events which would make 'consensual murder' legal.

LBX-7683[edit]

In the Unreal universe, LBX-7683 is a metallic asteroid in the Erican Cluster. It is mostly known for the artificial intelligence (AI) uprising that took place in the year 2283. The uprising was one of the few events in the history of the Unreal universe that resulted in a massive loss of human life.

The robotic miners on LBX-7683, equipped with the most advanced AI of their time and tired of their human creators, revolted. Led by the first official champion of the Liandri Tournament, Xan Kriegor, they took control of the asteroid with minimal robot losses. They then began to replicate themselves and claimed the colony as their own sovereign world. Shortly thereafter, the former owners of the asteroid sent a squad of Liandri commandos to recapture LBX-7683. The commandos managed to destroy the main AI generators, rendering the robots unable to replicate. Following their defeat, most of the robots were put into a stasis matrix. The most powerful machine, Xan Kriegor, put up a spirited resistance to all attempts at memory wipes, but was eventually rewritten by Liandri for the purpose of fighting in the Tournament.

The other sentient machines held in stasis were reprogrammed for Liandri's personal corporate purposes around 2291. As soon as the New Earth Government legalized 'consensual murder' to help minimize violence in the aftermath of the uprising, the underground Tournament became a professional sport with support and lobbying from Liandri; it would also create a more lucrative enterprise. Eventually, Liandri created a team with the newly reprogrammed machines, 'The Corrupt', led by Xan Kriegor, to represent the robots.

Development[edit]

Unreal Engine[edit]

The Unreal game engine, simply called Unreal Engine, was seen as a major rival to id Software's Id Tech. My excel 2013. Unreal came packaged with its own scripting language called UnrealScript, which allowed new mods (short for 'modifications') to change or enhance gameplay. Like many other game engines, this added to the overall longevity of the product and provided an incentive for new and more development.

Unreal Tournament games allow for a wide range of gameplay modifications that the games refer to as 'mutators' or 'mods' (the latter usually implying a total conversion). Mutators tend to make only small changes to gameplay, including, but not limited to, new weapons and power-ups. Mods are larger changes that may include new game types and possibly specially designed maps for the new game types. Servers can be configured to automatically distribute mod files to clients who don't have them.

Unreal Editor, also called UnrealEd, is the level editor used to create levels for the series. It was also used for other games based on the Unreal Engine, such as Deus Ex and Lineage II, although it has changed along with the engine for later games. All Unreal games on the PC had the level editor included for free, and some third party Unreal engine games did the same with an edited and specialized version.

Well-known mods for UT include Tactical Ops, Killing Floor, Red Orchestra: Combined Arms, Alien Swarm, The Ball, Angels Fall First: Planetstorm and ChaosUT. Difference between powerdirector and actiondirector.

Reception[edit]

Unreal Tournament 2004 Demo

Based on the success of the Unreal series, Guinness World Records awarded the series with 3 world records. These records include, 'First Console Game to Receive a Downloadable Patch',[4] 'First Console Game to Support Player Modifications'[5] and 'First Game to be Created Using the Unreal Engine'.[6]

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References[edit]

  1. ^'Unreal Tournament - Loki'. Help.ubuntu.com. Archived from the original on 16 June 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  2. ^'Unreal Tournament 2003'. Liflg.org. Archived from the original on 5 June 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  3. ^'UAMUSICMG06 | A history of Unreal MUSIC'. VGMdb.net. Retrieved 2016-11-03.
  4. ^'First console game to receive a downloadable patch'. Guinness World Records. Archived from the original on 2016-09-18. Retrieved 2016-11-03.
  5. ^'First console game to support player modifications'. Guinness World Records. Retrieved July 28, 2017.
  6. ^'First videogame created with the Unreal Engine'. Guinness World Records. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 8 February 2015.

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External links[edit]

Unreal Tournament 2004 Gog

  • Liandri Archives containing a comprehensive history of the Unreal series

Unreal Tournament 2004 Ini

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