Description
Unreal Tournament is completely different to
Unreal - it's 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 3 or 4 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 3rd 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 4th game mode is probably the most innovative one, it's called assault. These are real missions, like you have to attack an enemy base and destroy something in it. Again, there are two teams, the defenders and the attackers. You have to complete the mission in a certain time, like 5 or 10 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.
Alternate Titles
- "虚幻竞技场" -- Chinese title (simplified)
- "浴血戰場" -- Chinese title (traditional)
- "UT" -- Common abbreviation
- "Tournament" -- French title
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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
Information also contributed by
Ace of Sevens,
Monkeyhead and
Xoleras
