Unreal Tournament

by Macsoft

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00001XDKF
• Item Weight: 5 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: January 17, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #34,742 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #24 in Video Games > Mac Games > Action > Shooter
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: Mac | Edition: Standard

Amazon.com Review

The original Unreal was a hit, setting new standards for acceptable eye candy in first-person shoot-'em-ups. With improved networking, better weapons, and fantastic maps, Unreal Tournament now unleashes unmatched multiplayer mayhem, proving it's more than just the legacy of a pretty face. Focusing on creating a highly competitive online environment, Unreal Tournament has a solid death-match mode, but also delivers three extremely satisfying variants. Capture the Flag (steal your opponents' flag, defend your own), Domination (capture and control defined areas for points), and Assault (storm a base, then defend it) breathe new life into online multiplayer battles and create gripping team-play situations. Over 50 arenas are provided, from ancient alien temples to high-speed trains. If a new map becomes popular, Unreal Tournament is smart enough to download it (or any new-player "skins") automatically. The hassle-free multiplayer is further enhanced by the in-game browser that allows you to find online matchups quickly and painlessly. The single-player game acts as a highly effective training environment, allowing you to master the wicked weaponry while surviving the frighteningly smart "bots." On top of it all, Unreal Tournament is still one great-looking game, delivering a big bang for your buck. --Jack Gardiner

Pros:

• Built-in network game browser allows you to sort by game type, map, and ping
• Multiple game types (Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, Domination, and Assault) keep the game fresh and bring team-play focus
• Over 50 well-designed maps in exotic locations play as great as they look
• Clever "bot" Artificial Intelligence can accommodate various skill levels

Cons:

• Not a tremendous amount of variety in the player and bot character models
• High level of violence and mature nature of taunts may make game unsuitable for younger players

Amazon.com Product Description

From the creators of the bestselling Unreal comes Unreal Tournament. This stand-alone game showcases completely new team-based game play, groundbreaking multifaceted single-player action, and dynamic multiplayer mayhem. It's a fight to the finish for the title of Unreal Grand Master in the gladiatorial arena.

This game offers a single-player experience like no other. Guide your team of 'bots' (virtual teammates) against the hardest criminals in the galaxy and become the Unreal Grand Master. It offers more than thirty-five unique arenas torqued by the Unreal engine--a Nali galleon ship, Egyptian tombs, submarines, speeding trains, floating castles, and more.

The game also features a comprehensive and challenging online multiplayer experience. Take on "bots" and humans in new games like Capture the Flag, Assault, Domination, and new Deathmatch variations. Take control of the game. Train for combat in Novice mode. Go Hardcore for more speed, more danger, and way more intensity. Even use all-new and enhanced bog-body count weaponry, designed to send giblets flying.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible AI, incredible game, December 3, 1999

By 

24fan957 (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Unreal Tournament (CD-ROM)

Although it might not be as "fun" as Quake 3: Arena in a strict Deathmatch sense, Unreal Tournament is the best game I have ever played. It has stunning graphics and amazing bots, especially in the teamplay "Domination" game. In team play you can order your bots to cover you, hold a position, search and destroy, or freelance with their own tactics. The weapons are well-designed and vary greatly, although they are probably not as well balanced as in Quake 3: Arena. Unreal Tournament is definitely more of a technofreak concept that Q3, which is more organic, if that makes sense. On my Mac G4 400 with ATI 128, UT performs extremely well- over 30fps all the time at 640x480 at maximum detail. I like how UT dynamically reduces graphic detail to meet my minimum desired framerate of 30fps. Q3 does not have as advanced an interface as Unreal Tournament either. If the final game is as good as the demo version, Mac gamers are in for a world-class game that will finally be the Quake 2 killer. Whether it kills Quake 3 is still a topic of intense debate. Currently, my vote goes to UT for requiring some form of strategy and for being more fun than Quake 3, which too often can turn into a mindless frag fest.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The FPS networked game to play, July 14, 2000

By 

C. J. Silverio (Menlo Park, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Unreal Tournament (CD-ROM)

If you're into first-person shooters, use Macintosh, and want networked play, there are two big choices for you. Do you go with Quake 3 Arena or with Unreal Tournament?

Which one is most fun to play on the network? Both games will have hundreds of people in open Internet games at any time. (If you want to play with thousands of other people, you have to go with a PC and one of the Half-Life mods like TFC.) Network performance for both is great: low ping times, gracefully degrading performance. UT behaves better when the net connection goes away entirely. UT's interface for finding networked games is just light-years beyond Q3's. Q3's is terrible. UT's is a window with tabs for picking game types and panes that show info about who's playing the game now and other game status. The nod goes to UT here.

How about people without big network pipes? I pick UT as the better game for single-player play, hands down. UT has four different game modes: standard deathmatch, capture the flag, domination, and assault. Q3 has deathmatch and more deathmatch, and has nothing as interesting as assault. UT's bots are also way more interesting than Q3's. UT's bots will follow orders and genuinely help you in teamplay. I pick UT.

How about the graphics? This is a matter of taste. Both games have great graphics. Q3 has more eye-candy, more of the cool-looking GL effects. UT has better modeled levels and more interesting organic textures. Q3 is more science fictiony, UT more gritty-urban.

How good is the UT Macintosh version? Excellent. Westlake Interactive did the Mac port and did a bang-up job. And what's more, they continue to support the game with fast turnaround time applying patches. All the mods, mutators, and models available work on the Macintosh version. Download, run the included mod installer, and you're there. UT also has excellent support for third-party 3D accelerators like the Voodoo3. (Quake3 is an OpenGL game, and until recently OpenGL drivers for the Voodoo were questionable.)

I've played both, and I recommend UT to you.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Life is a box of eye candy ... and high explosives!, July 10, 2000

By 

HLB (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Unreal Tournament (CD-ROM)

Have you heard enough about which one is better, Quake III or UT? I know I have. So what do you get, out of the box, when you invest in UT? ItŐs a winner, I tell you that right away. LetŐs see ... 10 cool weapons, each with two attack modes to keep it all a tad more interesting than just point and shoot. You may actually end up developing something resembling a personal style with these. Especially interesting is the Translocator, which in addition to being a nice transportation device allows you to beam yourself right into your opponents carcassesÑeffectively ripping them asunder, of course. Clean me up Scotty!

If you arenŐt all that crazy about online games, UT does live up to its claim of being a killer single-player experience: the bots, boring as they look (except for the very goth Necris, I think), will keep you entertained and on your toes. The AI is purty adroit: true, bots donŐt play like human players, but these digital playpals get close. They use all weapons and gadgets very efficiently, go everywhere you go (no cozy endless sniping here), and I SWEAR that during one Capture-the-Flag game I was ambushed by one waiting right outside my home base as I rushed after the enemy flag bearer, who had cleverly activated his personal shield specifically for this maneuver. DŐoh!

If you do get bored, you can still tweak just about every aspect of the game from individual bot intelligence, behavior and weapons preferences to special ÔmutatorsŐ for the matches (Want sniper rifles only? No problem). UT boasts 50 maps, a lot of which are simply breathtakingÑIŐll never forget the first time I was standing on the dizzying height of a space station tower with Jupiter filling the sky and its moons wheeling around above my head. You may even catch the occasional shooting star (no, reallyÑjust before that nasty sniper feels that youŐve been standing in one place long enough). Imagine fighting on board a spaceship zipping through hyperspace ... or a galleon on moonlit seas ... or in an Egyptian tomb .... whoa dude!

UT adds two new game concepts to the traditional menu: in ÔDominationŐ you and your team (the bots, by the way, are very responsive during team play, too) need to hold a number of designated control points as long as possible in order to win, and in ÔAssaultŐ you actually have a number ofÑnaturally destructiveÑmission objectives to fulfil (e.g. storm the facility, take out gizmo A to get to gizmo B and blow that up too), after which the tables turn and your team takes the defending side.

Oh, and one thing (and my only Quake III - UT comparison): the bots in UT talk their acknowledgements, comments, and taunts, and theyŐre pretty nastyÑquite unlike the witty and urbane remarks of the Quake bots you see printed on the screen. You might get provoked into anger and violence, burning to shove their smart quips back down their throats. You donŐt mind that, do you?

But you may want to put on the headphones while your kids are around ... or your parents.

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