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...
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Release Date: 25 Oct, 2000

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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 than they ever expected.
  • Novice Mode - This Botmatch competition is where new flak fodder hit boot camp. The Novice setting makes the computer controlled Bots in the game move slower and inflict less damage with their attacks. For those new to first person shooters, this is where teeth are cut, skills are born and addiction begins...
  • Hardcore Mode - Strap on extra armor and have a hand towel next to your mouse pad to wipe away the palm sweat. This mode is only for the pros -- all of the bots move like lightning -- dodging, jumping and inflicting A LOT more damage with their standard attacks than do their Novice counterparts.
  • Enhanced Bot AI - Bots in Unreal Tournament play as if they're jacked up on a big old shot of steroids. Their basic deathmatching skills have been virtually perfected, their understanding of the game rules is professorial, their ability to navigate levels is GPS-like, and their threat to your existence is very real.
  • Radio Chatter - Each of the commands at your disposal in the game is accompanied by both a text message on screen AND an audio message. Pleas for back-up or for cover fire are accompanied by pre-recorded sequences communicating your needs. Making this especially cool is the fact that you can hear your opponents' messages too (even if you're playing against bots 'cause bots are people, too).
  • New Command Line Options - For the hardcore server masters, this is the dream way to access features and manage a game. Virtually any option you want to tweak can be accessed via the UT command line. Nice and easy!
  • Improved User Interface - Unreal Tournament introduced a better way to see what is happening during a game. By using a unique heads up display (HUD) for each game type (Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, Domination, and Assault), the game provides ALL the info needed to play effectively WITHOUT bombarding the player with excessive info.
  • UBrowser - Unreal Tournament's robust Ubrowser system provides the easiest way to find a game on the Internet and jump into battle. The Ubrowser eliminates the need to download third-party server querying applications. It's as simple as one-two-frag. By clicking on the "Play Online" button and then selecting a server from the list, the game is on.
  • Spectator Cams - Watching a game of Unreal Tournament has the potential to be almost as much fun as playing it. Thanks to the Spectator Cams, gamers can enter a game and hop around to designated Spectator Cams to view the action on the level. Even cooler, the camera can be "attached" to one of the players in the level to view the action from their perspective. Either way, it's a cool feature and a great way to learn for people new to the world of online gaming.
  • Jump Mode - Jump twice as high as normal. It's sorta' like having a never-ending pair of jumpboots on. The impact these boots have on gameplay is almost indescribable. It changes the dynamic completely.
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System Requirements

    Minimum: A 100% Windows 2000/XP/Vista-compatible computer system.
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dwoolley428
2.5 hrs on record
Posted: 19 August
Oh my lord the umpteen hours that I have played this game. I've got the original (twice - both base and GOTY), the GOG version and now purely because I can, the Steam version (as well as all the subsequent iterations).

NEVER in my life have I enjoyed a game as much as I enjoyed (still enjoy) this.

VERY few games have ever come close to the gladiatorial, visceral magnificence of this game but this did it properly first.

Weapons are still the very best in any game ever. The twin firing dynamic is used to utter perfection.

Graphics are now of course dated but still more than do the job and everything else still feels as fluid and fresh as the day it was released 16 years ago.

The subsequent UT's are also nothing short of superb but this, this is just gaming PERFECTION and holds a place in my heart that nothing will ever replace.

AI is great (very challenging on latter difficulties) and multiplayer is still the best experience ever created.

I have NEVER played a game that has held my attention for so long (apart from the c64 version of Paradroid and Mike Singletons Lords of Midnight and Doomdarks Revenge).

It is a peerless FPS, it is magnificent, it is perfection.

There was always a dispute between which was better, this or Quake 3. I love both and my gaming life would not have been what it was without either but UT takes it because of the multitude of superb mods and maps created by the amazing gaming community. These add immeasurably to what is already a work of genius.

11 out of 10. Utterly, utterly superb in every way that a game can be.

As I said the later iterations are also brilliant but this gift from the gods is and always will be my favourite PC game of all time.

A game that my life has been enriched by through it's very existence. How many games (things generally) can you say that about ?
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TheLastOttoman
2.0 hrs on record
Posted: 18 August
Cried like a mother seeing her daughter getting married.
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_Cannib4l_
9.8 hrs on record
Posted: 17 August
Does what it says on the box, unreal!
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Rico Dredd
0.2 hrs on record
Posted: 16 August
There only one way to put this... Still Awesome! The gameplay is still so fast and frantic... I thought maybe I was looking at this game with rose tinted spectacles but it really is as fun as ever :-)
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BranimirBL
13.0 hrs on record
Posted: 15 August
clasic 10/10
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WoodenDOOM
3.9 hrs on record
Posted: 15 August
One of the best games of all time.
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nickgames8
2.1 hrs on record
Posted: 11 August
Classic deathmatch at it's best. Made in 1999 and it still has good graphics! Well, I mean the graphics are OK, but the game is amazing!
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Mr. Krabs
12.0 hrs on record
Posted: 5 August
I can't even express how much I love this game.
I used to have a lot of fun during LAN parties with friends, it was so much fan and when I play it today it brings me back to those days :)

If you ask me, this game is much better than UT2k4 and UT3.
Highly recommended.
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bloxman41
9.2 hrs on record
Posted: 4 August
Best game ever made. Play it now. I have windows 10, and it had errors the first few times, all i did was restart the game a few times and it worked perfectly. you need this game. graphics are great, gameplay is fun and addictive, great weapons, crap tons of mods, ect. get it.
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JackLiberty0
5.1 hrs on record
Posted: 4 August
I love this game, I really enjoy playing with the impressive AI bots. This goes to show that every FPS game with deathmatches should have impressive AI bots. What if there's an old game that nobody ever plays anymore and you can't play online anymore? What if the servers are shut down? Unreal Tournament still has online deathmatches, but I prefer playing online. Games like Counter-Strike and Quake needed AI bots like this.

FINAL RATING: 96 out of 100
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4 of 4 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
5.1 hrs on record
Posted: 4 August
I love this game, I really enjoy playing with the impressive AI bots. This goes to show that every FPS game with deathmatches should have impressive AI bots. What if there's an old game that nobody ever plays anymore and you can't play online anymore? What if the servers are shut down? Unreal Tournament still has online deathmatches, but I prefer playing online. Games like Counter-Strike and Quake needed AI bots like this.

FINAL RATING: 96 out of 100
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2 of 2 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
0.6 hrs on record
Posted: 22 July
I can remember when I first bought this game years ago. It was one of the best times of my life (Partially because of this game). This is one of the best Arena Shooters ever. If you ever played a good Halo game (Multiplayer) you can thank games like Unreal Tournament and Quake for that enjoyment. Because Halo is also an Arena shooter but these games brought the genre to the light. This game had gameplay beyond any other shooter in its time. Its a lot of fun, the bots in this game are amazing, and its probably one of the most bug free games I've ever played. The maps are mostly symmetrical (Caters towards fun and even gameplay so the only thing that seperates players is skill) and very easy to learn. If you want to get really good at games like this you're going to want to learn where the weapons spawn and how long it takes them to respawn. The movement mechanics in games like this are essentials to learn. You can learn to use the dodge feature, Rocket jumping and many other mechanics. Overall this game is one of the best shooters I've ever played. I recommend this game to everyone. The devekopers are making another new Unreal Tournament and you should check it out, just look up Unreal Tournament (Its free and in its Alpha state currentely)
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1 of 1 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
12.0 hrs on record
Posted: 5 August
I can't even express how much I love this game.
I used to have a lot of fun during LAN parties with friends, it was so much fan and when I play it today it brings me back to those days :)

If you ask me, this game is much better than UT2k4 and UT3.
Highly recommended.
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1 of 1 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
2.5 hrs on record
Posted: 19 August
Oh my lord the umpteen hours that I have played this game. I've got the original (twice - both base and GOTY), the GOG version and now purely because I can, the Steam version (as well as all the subsequent iterations).

NEVER in my life have I enjoyed a game as much as I enjoyed (still enjoy) this.

VERY few games have ever come close to the gladiatorial, visceral magnificence of this game but this did it properly first.

Weapons are still the very best in any game ever. The twin firing dynamic is used to utter perfection.

Graphics are now of course dated but still more than do the job and everything else still feels as fluid and fresh as the day it was released 16 years ago.

The subsequent UT's are also nothing short of superb but this, this is just gaming PERFECTION and holds a place in my heart that nothing will ever replace.

AI is great (very challenging on latter difficulties) and multiplayer is still the best experience ever created.

I have NEVER played a game that has held my attention for so long (apart from the c64 version of Paradroid and Mike Singletons Lords of Midnight and Doomdarks Revenge).

It is a peerless FPS, it is magnificent, it is perfection.

There was always a dispute between which was better, this or Quake 3. I love both and my gaming life would not have been what it was without either but UT takes it because of the multitude of superb mods and maps created by the amazing gaming community. These add immeasurably to what is already a work of genius.

11 out of 10. Utterly, utterly superb in every way that a game can be.

As I said the later iterations are also brilliant but this gift from the gods is and always will be my favourite PC game of all time.

A game that my life has been enriched by through it's very existence. How many games (things generally) can you say that about ?
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1 of 1 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
0.2 hrs on record
Posted: 16 August
There only one way to put this... Still Awesome! The gameplay is still so fast and frantic... I thought maybe I was looking at this game with rose tinted spectacles but it really is as fun as ever :-)
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2 people found this review funny
Recommended
2.0 hrs on record
Posted: 18 August
Cried like a mother seeing her daughter getting married.
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352 of 373 people (94%) found this review helpful
32 people found this review funny
Recommended
3.7 hrs on record
Posted: 23 August, 2014
"Facing Worlds" is the BEST multiplayer map E V E R.
Period.

Ah, and THIS is the REAL multiplayer FPS.

Throw your COD into the garbage.
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387 of 419 people (92%) found this review helpful
203 people found this review funny
Recommended
7.0 hrs on record
Posted: 27 May, 2015
DOUBLE KILL
MULTI KILL
MEGA KILL
ULTRA KILL
M-M-M-M-MONSTER KILL-KILL-KILL...
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279 of 296 people (94%) found this review helpful
120 people found this review funny
Recommended
4.5 hrs on record
Posted: 25 December, 2015
You can not run, bend down, call supports, camper.
You can not buid equip, upgrade your skill, earn experience, make money.
No DLC, no social content, no connection required, no character customization.
No 360 Quick Scope, no vehicles, no allies.

You will die, torn apart, in the silence of indifference.
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216 of 227 people (95%) found this review helpful
Recommended
24.6 hrs on record
Posted: 25 November, 2013
Still the best FPS ever made, timeless.
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