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Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition

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Make no mistake - this is it. The best overall FPS experience to be had, bar none.

What's so good about it?

1) Doesn't require much by way of system requirements. If you still have a Voodoo3 with a PII 400 or an K6-2 450, you can play this game, and do it well.

2) More online mods than you shake a modestly sized stick at. Go to Fileplanet, download to your hearts content, and you'll be busy for a very long time.

3) Many modes of game play. Capture the Flag, Assault, Team Deathmatch, Tournament Deathmatch, Last Man Standing, and Domination. I'm partial to CTF myself - Unreal excels in this area. For CTF, no other game comes close to matching Unreal's evenness and tempered play.

4) You can OWN with almost any weapon. Sniper rifles can take off heads even while you're on the run. Rockets, while powerful, are not the end-all weapon like they all in other games. Flak cannons blast flak aroun corners. There's a weapon for almost every situation, and a weapon to thwart THAT weapon as well.

5) A multitude of online servers for every game type. I'm never bored.

6) Completely unexpected modes of gameplay yields the best results. IE - there's a weapon called the "Redeemer". Comparable to a small nuclear device. Kills everything in a 200foot radius. Hard to dodge when one's thrown at you. Imagine playing Capture the Flag with nothing but Redeemers and low gravity? It's a trip, an absolute blast, more fun than a barrel of monkeys. Praise the lord and pass the redeemer.

However, players with dial-up need not apply. Your ping will simply be TOO high.

I buy a about one game a year to track the state of game technology. I bought Unreal Tournament last month. I had to return it because the CD would not load, Amazon was super fast and helpful. The game is just amazing!! I'm using it on a Dell 733 PIII with GE Force 32meg graphics card and cable modem. The single player mode is great for learning the game. You can take defaults or program the computer bots yourself. The real fun starts when you hit the net. Tons of game servers available ... all free. Just be prepared to get your a$$ kicked something wicked till you master the game. Actually, there are many different games including several team versions. Online, you can observe as a spectator to learn other players strategies and learn the maps. The quality of the maps is just awesome, very rich details and textures, totally 3D gaming. The speed of play is blazing, takes a while to get used to. Lots of extras available on servers to customize your player and customize maps. You can design your own maps. It never ends. Way beyond the Laura Croft, Quake etc games of the past generation.

I'm a 40something IT Exec and this thing keeps me up at night to blow away the kids. Have fun, happy hunting.

When I was younger, I played Wolfenstein and Doom, beat them, thought they were ok. Got a little older, played demos of the Quake games, thought they weren't worth buying. Then I saw a copy of UT, the Game of the Year edition, for a lil bit in a store. I figured since it was a fairly popular game and was being sold inexpesively, I might as well buy it.
I was completely blown away (by the redeemer ;) ). While Deathmatch is pretty boring to me (the main reason I didn't like other shooters), game types like Capture the Flag, Assault, Domination, etc. that add some strategy to the game really made this game worth the money I spent on it and the many, many hours I spent playing it. The AI was actually challenging (most of the time), which I'm not used to seeing in very many games. Plus, playing against human players online is a hell of a lot of fun. Whether you're a fan of FPS games or not, this game is definitely worth it.

It's been 4 or 5 years since the release of the orginal Unreal Tournament and no one has yet to top this amazing game. I play a lot of these kinds of games and consider myself to be qualified to speak on most of them. I've been playing UT about 3 years and I have yet to be bored by this fast moving, skill based, arena shooting game. There is a thriving network of internet players despite a subsequent release of Unreal Tournament 2003. UT 2003 makes a rather bad attempt to resemble Quake Arena, it's closest competitor, but the hardcore players have stuck with the original. Why??? The online subculture of UT is almost fanatical. Long time UT players and programmers have created new maps and weapons modifications that have outshined anything that Infrogames (the UT developer) can offer in a newer edtion of UT. The rise of the Zark Assault Rifle, which is a cleverly modified sniper rifle have made online play so dazzling that few veteran players will even try UT 2003. The map scenarios are infinite and mods are wickedly deadly. There is vibrant network of clan based online players who regularly do team competition in deathmatch, capture the flag, assault and domination. The online players are far more skilled than any of the higher game levels, so there is always a challenging match. The online environment is friendly and welcomes newbies to competition. Because of UT, I am pretty much finished with paying 50 bucks for a game that doesn't have an online compenent. I recently bought Hitman 2, a single player shooter and became so bored with slow moving action, that I was back on the internet playing UT within an hour. So for me, the best fun I can have with my pants on or off, is a good old frag match of UT...still the champion of first person shooters.

I thought that Unreal Tournament couldn't be better. Epic has proved me wrong with UT GOTYE. The game not only includes everything from UT, but has new maps and new modes. ChaosUT offers new weapons like the chaos sniper (Rocket powered bullets), the crossbow, a miniature black hole, and proximity mines that chase you around! Tactical Ops is a more slow-paced terrorist versus anti-terrorist mission with new weapons like grenades. Rocket Arena is a best-of-three battle of pure skill: You have all the armor, you have all the weapons, you have all the ammo, you have all the health, you have no excuses. I personally guarantee you will love this game. Single player mode is good, but online mode rocks! Buy it now!

Today, with the arrival of Unreal Tournament 2004, the original seems almost obsolete. However, there is one advantage the original has over its bigger brethren. The system requirements.

A PC required to run UT today would probably run you less than $300. Even at this price range, the system requirements would probably still be over the needed limits. How times change, huh? I know some people who remembers that UT was actually kind of difficult to run at the time of its release (I was only a console gamer at the time, so I didn't know). Imagine years from now when Doom 3's requirements would be considered nothing...

Anyway, as I've said before, the biggest advantage to this is the low requirements. If you have a weak PC, then you could simply opened up UT and get a quick fragging game on. You could play at maximum settings and still get 60fps (for those who don't know, that is EXCELLENT speed). As UT is meant to be a fast pace game, this is extremely important.

Speaking of which, that is probably the main appeal of this game. The ultra fast pace of the game adds tremendously to its gamelength. Supposedly, UT was released as a competitor to Quake II, but I had a chance to play Quake II later and I thought it was horrible compared to UT. Hell, I played Quake III later and thought it was horrible compred to UT. If you've played Quake before, then just take that and give it a few bottles of steroids.

While the pace is comparable to Quake, it is how you play it that makes it so much better. Whereas many of Quake's stages are often confining, UT gives you large stages that lets you roam around with a shaky trigger finger. The stages add tremendously, especially when you play Deathmatch. That reminds me, the game modes are GREAT! While there are many game modes, the two which are the best is probably Deathmatch and Capture the Flag.

Now, the speed and modes are great, but there is more. Online play and maps. There are ALWAYS people fragging online, so you never have to worry about lack of people to play with. This is great for when you have insomnia and want to stay up killing strangers online. Secondly, the downloadable maps are GREAT! Have a map from another game that you want to play? Search for it online and you might find it!

In conclusion, all of the aforementioned parts of UT gives it an extremely high replay value. Highly recommended for people who likes fast pace games and like to have a quick fragging round every once in a while. Not recommended for anyone who is disturb by mass bloodshed, but for those who don't mind it, go ahead and enjoy!

It's already some time ago when this game appeared for the first time. The graphics were cool, game play was outstanding, great sound and you had a hell of alot fun with it. Now 5 years later (?) nothing changed to that, although it's a bit less fun nowadays wich is normal after 5 years...
Yeah, nowadays you got UT 2004, but it can't compete with this one, the first remains to be the best first-person shooter ever made. You also don't need alot of space or an amazing videocard to run this game. Online-mode is hard, 'cause all the die-hard-fans stayed in UT 1 and they are difficult to beat. I'm not going to say more, but if you're into first person shooter, this is the mother of all first persoon shooters!

I bought this game on a trip to my local Fry's. I didn't really expect much from it. But when I played Capure the Flag, I nearly caked my pants. This is an excellent game worthy for praise by any hardened gamer (exept those who like Quake 3- See my review of Quake 3 for Dramcast). This is the game that truely made me love the FPS genre (exept the utterly poor Quake series). By all means shell out your $... - $... and BUY THIS GAME!

I was bored on my PC for quite some time until I purchased Black and White, I must say I was extremely dissapointed with the title so I looked in another department: Action. UT is an excellent game with many elements other titles such as Quake dont have. UT's Gameplay utilizes more elements than just hardcore action, strategy can be used as well for gamers who have that edge. Many things can be adjusted for the players stlye (such as the gravity for strategic purposes) and jumping around in slo-mo mode on 10% gravity is probably half the fun of the game. Excellent graphics also make it a beauty, but there are pretty high system specs, unfortunately. Besides that, Its a solid first-person arena style shooter and strongly reccomend it to anyone who enjoyed Halflife or other titles with similar gameplay, such as Serious Sam or the original Unreal.

Forget the reviews... If your even considering this game, don't!! You'll spend all your time playing it, honing your skills against bots and other humans. You'll dream about Unreal, you'll talk about Unreal. Your friends and family won't be able to pull you away from the computer!!!!! Approximately 20 of us bought this where I work and it's become an epidemic, we no longer work...we show up each day just to play Unreal. Get the picture...It's awesome!!