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Four content packs were released after the PC retail game shipped. These packs are named, respectively ''Epic Bonus Pack'', ''DE Bonus Pack'', ''Inoxx Pack'' and ''Bonus Pack 4''. The first three packs are integrated into the ''Game of the Year Edition'', with some levels being added to [[Unreal Tournament/Single player|the Single player ladder]] as either additional or replacing rungs.
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Four content packs were released after the PC retail game shipped. These packs are named, respectively ''Epic Bonus Pack'', ''DE Bonus Pack'', ''Inoxx Pack'' and ''Bonus Pack 4''. The first three packs are integrated into the ''Game of the Year Edition'', with some levels being added to [[Unreal Tournament Single player|the Single player ladder]] as either additional or replacing rungs.
   
 
The first of these bonus releases, the '''Epic Bonus Pack''', created entirely by [[Epic Games]], and was released on February 25, 2000.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2000/02/26/free-new-unreal-bonus-pack-available|title=Free New Unreal Bonus Pack Available|last=|first=|date=February 25, 2000|work=|publisher=IGN|access-date=May 22, 2019|archive-url=|archive-date=|quote=}}</ref> It's composed of eleven new maps for the [[Capture the Flag]] and [[Deathmatch]]-based modes, three new character models, and the [[Relics]] mutator. The new maps are [[CTF-CybrosisII|CTF-Cybrosis][]], [[CTF-Darji16]], [[CTF-Hydro16]], [[CTF-Noxion16]], [[DM-Agony]], [[DM-ArcaneTemple]], [[DM-CybrosisII|DM-Cybrosis][]], [[DM-HealPodII|DM-HealPod][]], [[DM-Malevolence]], [[DM-MojoII|DM-Mojo][]] and [[DM-ShrapnelII|DM-Shrapnel][]]. The new models are the [[Skaarj Hybrid]] ("Arena Warriors" Berserker, Dominator and Guardian; "Cyber Warriors" Disconnect and Firewall; and "Pit Fighters" Baetal, Pharoh and Skrilax), [[Nali]] ("Ouboudah" and "Priest") and [[Nali WarCow]] ("Atomic Cow" and "War Cow").
 
The first of these bonus releases, the '''Epic Bonus Pack''', created entirely by [[Epic Games]], and was released on February 25, 2000.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2000/02/26/free-new-unreal-bonus-pack-available|title=Free New Unreal Bonus Pack Available|last=|first=|date=February 25, 2000|work=|publisher=IGN|access-date=May 22, 2019|archive-url=|archive-date=|quote=}}</ref> It's composed of eleven new maps for the [[Capture the Flag]] and [[Deathmatch]]-based modes, three new character models, and the [[Relics]] mutator. The new maps are [[CTF-CybrosisII|CTF-Cybrosis][]], [[CTF-Darji16]], [[CTF-Hydro16]], [[CTF-Noxion16]], [[DM-Agony]], [[DM-ArcaneTemple]], [[DM-CybrosisII|DM-Cybrosis][]], [[DM-HealPodII|DM-HealPod][]], [[DM-Malevolence]], [[DM-MojoII|DM-Mojo][]] and [[DM-ShrapnelII|DM-Shrapnel][]]. The new models are the [[Skaarj Hybrid]] ("Arena Warriors" Berserker, Dominator and Guardian; "Cyber Warriors" Disconnect and Firewall; and "Pit Fighters" Baetal, Pharoh and Skrilax), [[Nali]] ("Ouboudah" and "Priest") and [[Nali WarCow]] ("Atomic Cow" and "War Cow").

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Unreal Tournament is a first-person shooter video game developed by Epic Games and Digital Extremes, and published by GT Interactive. It is the second entry in the Unreal series, released for Microsoft Windows on November 30, 1999. Retrospectively, the game has also been referred to as UT99 or UT Classic to differentiate it from its numbered sequels. The game is based on the same technology that powered Unreal, but the design of UT shifted the series' focus to competitive multiplayer action, a trend at the time: id Software's Quake III Arena was released only ten days later.

Synopsis

"This is a challenge. To anyone who ever took a man down in a 3D shooter, and liked it. This is your last chance to prove that you are the best of the best. This is the gladiatorial arena of the future. This is a single-player trial by fire. A heavyweight deathmatch championship of the universe."
UT Boxart description


Overview

Unreal Tournament was designed as an arena FPS, with head-to-head multiplayer deathmatches being the primary focus of the game. The game's single-player campaign is essentially a series of arena matches played with bots. For team matches, bots are again used to fill the roles of the player's teammates. Even on dedicated multiplayer servers, bots are sometimes used to pad out teams that are short on players.

UT is known and widely praised by critics and players alike—primarily for its bot A.I., the product of programmer Steve Polge who had earlier risen to fame by designing the Reaper bot for Quake II, one of the earliest examples of an effective deathmatch bot. The player can choose a bot skill level (anywhere from "Novice" to "Godlike") or set it to automatically adjust to the player's performance. Bots can be further customized by changing names, appearance, accuracy, weapon preferences, awareness, and so forth.

Development history

The game was officially announced by publisher GT Interactive on November 3, 1998, as part of a two-game deal that also included Unreal II: The Awakening, though development on the game had already started after Unreal was finished.[1][2][3] It was originally planned as just an expansion pack under the name "Bot Pack", when it was realized that the multiplayer aspect of Unreal was popular and something that people sought after, so the first priority was to fix the problems with online play.[4] At some point during its development, it became clear that the number and extent of the changes to the Unreal codebase that Epic was required to make made UT too incompatible with Unreal. In fact, according to Tim Sweeney, the game has between 200 and 300 C++ classes.[5] Thus the expansion pack was broken off from Unreal and made into a standalone game. The game contains nearly all of the content present in Unreal, except for the maps and music. Nick Michon was in charge of the code trigger scripts, Steven Polge and Brandon Reinhart wrote the mutators[5] and the code for the Relics[6], Erik de Neve wrote the LOD character rendering and other optimizations[7], Jack Porter wrote the WebAdmin system[8]. In the artistic side, James Green is credited with creating the models and animations for the Relics, the Skaarj Hybrid models, and the weapon on top of the Nali WarCow which eventually made it as a playable character, as well as a lot of concept art, and making high-poly models to test with the skeletal animation system which made it into the Bonus Pack 4[6].

Early in development, every map from Unreal, including the 10 default maps; the Fusion Map Pack maps; the Return to Na Pali maps; the GW Press Addon maps; the cut maps DmMorbfanza, DmSplash, DmEclipse and DmDespair; and the 3DFX/S3TC Demo maps, were considered for the game. Ultimately, only Curse, Deck16 and Morbias were selected for the retail version as DM-Curse][, DM-Deck16][ and DM-Morbias][; with Cybrosis, HealPod, Mojo and Shrapnel making it through the Epic Bonus Pack as DM-Cybrosis][, DM-HealPod][, DM-Mojo][ and DM-Shrapnel][. 4-team CTF was also planned for the game, but was dropped halfway through development. According to Alan Willard, this was so mod makers could implement the mode.[9] According to Cliff Bleszinski, there were other ideas which never made into UT, except one which eventually made it into the UT200X series:

"Announcer Stuff:
-I wanted the announcer to yell out "Nice Catch" or something like that when you grabbed someone's gun out of the air after you smoke them and their weapon goes flying.
-I would have loved to have had the announcer yell out "Combo Reversal!" if you manage to get your foe to accidentally shoot your Shock Rifle alt fire with his primary fire, thus blowing his own ass up.
Wacky Physics/Movement Stuff
-I would have loved to have seen a "dodge in midair" mutator that allows you to jump off a ledge and double tap and move laterally in midair. Sure, it's not fun, but it would have allowed for some funky, fun shit to mess around with.
-It would have been cool to have a mutator that prevents you from accruing momentum when you toss your translocator up in the air so you can keep translocating up in any given level.
Gametypes
-I would have loved for a "two way Assault" mode. Right now, as cool as Assault is, you're kind of stuck in one role for however many minutes it takes to play. It'd be cool to try to attack or defend. That's the beauty of CTF, at any point in the game you can do several things and you rarely get bored.
-I would have liked to have played with the Domination rules a little bit more. I was messing around with Eavy, a great UT mod programmer, to try a "tug of war" variation of Domination in which the only way to score is to control all 3 points for X seconds."
Cliff Bleszinski


The first publicly available version (version 322) of the demo was released on September 17, 1999. According to Steven Polge, Epic worked on the demo until the last minute and it was going to be uploaded when hurricane Floyd hit Raleigh the day prior and Epic's offices lost power, fortunately, the demo was uploaded at the end of the day.[10] A version 321 was briefly and accidentally made available to the public the night before, but was rapidly withdrawn. The version 322 demo is for use with 3dfx video cards only. This early version of the demo omits DM-Tempest. A patch was provided to update prior version 321 to 322.[11] Two days later, a patch to the 3dfx-only demo was provided to correct a server crash that occurred whilst using the Web-based remote administration facility.

The first full demo (and a patch to the 3dfx-only demo to convert it to the full demo) was released September 28, 1999. This took the demo to version 338. A Version 338a demo intended to test a server map change problem was accidentally released but rapidly disowned by Epic. The Version 338 demo is not compatible with the final version of the full demo. A final demo was released on October 19, 1999[12] and contains 5 maps from the game; one map for each gametype, except Assault. The demo has the maps CTF-Coret, DM-Morpheus, DM-Phobos, DM-Tempest, and DOM-Sesmar. The Linux and Mac versions of the Version 348 demo, as well as an additional crashfix patch for the PC version, were released on October 20, 1999. According to Tim Sweeney, the reason of why UT didn't have good OpenGL support is purely because of market share (at the time, DirectX was the main API used for development).[13][14]. Finally, an additional patch to update version 348 servers was released November 9, 1999. Network compatibility is unaffected by this patch.[15]

The game went officially gold on November 15, 1999.[16] According to Jack Porter, once the game was released, in the beginning, the team caught some flak for bugs, unbalanced mirroring of items in symmetrical CTF maps and poor Direct3D support, but eventually these bugs were sorted out.[17]

Release dates

  • November 23, 1999 - Unreal Tournament (PC) - 2 CDs
  • January 19, 2000 - Unreal Tournament (Mac)
  • October 26, 2000 - Unreal Tournament (PS2) - 1 DVD
  • October 27, 2000 - Unreal Tournament: GOTY Edition (PC) - 2 CDs
  • March 14, 2001 - Unreal Tournament (DC) - 1 RD-Rom
  • March 21, 2001 - Unreal Tournament: GOTY Edition (Mac)
  • August 29, 2001 - Totally Unreal (PC) - 4 CDs
  • November 6, 2006 - Unreal Anthology (PC) - 1 DVD

Post-release content

Main article: Unreal Tournament/Release Notes

Four content packs were released after the PC retail game shipped. These packs are named, respectively Epic Bonus Pack, DE Bonus Pack, Inoxx Pack and Bonus Pack 4. The first three packs are integrated into the Game of the Year Edition, with some levels being added to the Single player ladder as either additional or replacing rungs.

The first of these bonus releases, the Epic Bonus Pack, created entirely by Epic Games, and was released on February 25, 2000.[18] It's composed of eleven new maps for the Capture the Flag and Deathmatch-based modes, three new character models, and the Relics mutator. The new maps are CTF-Cybrosis][, CTF-Darji16, CTF-Hydro16, CTF-Noxion16, DM-Agony, DM-ArcaneTemple, DM-Cybrosis][, DM-HealPod][, DM-Malevolence, DM-Mojo][ and DM-Shrapnel][. The new models are the Skaarj Hybrid ("Arena Warriors" Berserker, Dominator and Guardian; "Cyber Warriors" Disconnect and Firewall; and "Pit Fighters" Baetal, Pharoh and Skrilax), Nali ("Ouboudah" and "Priest") and Nali WarCow ("Atomic Cow" and "War Cow").

The second of these packs is the DE Bonus Pack, created by Digital Extremes. It's composed of two new maps (CTF-HallOfGiants and CTF-Orbital) and three new mutators (Team Beacon, Volatile Ammo and Volatile Weapon).

The third pack is the Inoxx Bonus Pack, created by CTF-Face creator Cedric 'Inoxx' Fiorentino. It was announced on April 26, 2000, and according to Cliff Bleszinski, the pack is composed by either arenas that were not finished in time to ship with the game, and map ideas that Fiorentino was tinkering with after UT was shipped; it was also made smaller due to the team working on "the next big thing"[19]. It's composed of six new maps: CTF-Face][, CTF-High, CTF-Kosov, CTF-Nucleus, DM-Crane and DM-SpaceNoxx.

Finally, the fourth pack is commonly called Bonus Pack 4, but it's also called Christmas (2000) Bonus Pack. It was released on December 22, 2000, and is composed of twelve new maps for the Capture the Flag, Deathmatch and Domination-based gamemodes, skeletal character support, and two new game models. The new maps are CTF-Beatitude, CTF-EpicBoy, CTF-Face-SE, CTF-Ratchet, DM-Bishop, DM-Closer, DM-Grit-TOURNEY, DM-Viridian-TOURNEY, DOM-Bullet, DOM-CiDom, DOM-Lament][ and DOM-WolfsBay. The new characters are the WarBoss and Xan Mark II.[20]

On August 10, 2000, the Game of the Year Edition was announced. This version was advertised with the original game being packed with the latest updates, the first three Bonus Packs and the mods Rocket Arena: UT, Chaos: UT and Tactical Ops.[21] Of all these features, only Tactical Ops didn't made it into the pack, although it would later be released as a standalone game by Infogrames called Tactical Ops: Assault on Terror.

Having moved on after the release of the fourth Bonus Pack and the version 436 patch, Epic Games lended the development onto the UTPG, who released three more patches, version 440 and the infamous versions 451 and 451b, both of which broke the editor.[22]

Console versions

Unreal Tournament has two console versions, each one with its own features. The version for the Playstation 2 console was first hinted by Tim Sweeney on July 16, 1999,[23] and developed in-house by Epic Games themselves. According to Mark Rein, the game was created with the purpose of showing a product running under the Unreal Engine for the console in order to be able to license the engine to interested third parties.[24] While it took some time for them to get used to the Playstation2 development tools, by February 2, 2000, they managed to get a bare-bones engine for the console, and input, file management and scripting were integrated some time later.[25] The first public demonstration of this version took place at the GDC 2000, where it was also confirmed that UT won't have online multiplayer, as the development team hasn't received the Internet documentation from Sony's behalf.[26] Local multiplayer was, however, confirmed the days prior to the E3 2000, supporting up to 4 players in a single machine, with them playing on split screen. Around this time, there was also consideration for updates to be downloaded onto the console's memory cards by connecting the PC to the PS2 via USB port, as well as support for custom user content.[27] During this time, there was also some controversy regarding the PS2 version of the game running on PC rather than PS2 at this event.[28] Another late confirmation, this time by Epic's VP Mark Rein, was that the game could be played with mouse and keyboard, although support for the Dual Shock 2, the console's main controller, was the priority.[29] Eventually support for USB modems and four-player split-screen play were dropped, though Epic still managed to get Ethernet support for the game, though not on launch, and cross-play with the PC version was still under consideration.[30] On October 26, 2000, the game was released as a launch title for the console.

The Sega Dreamcast version was first hinted on June 2, 2000 by IGN, and later revealed to the public on July 24, 2000.[31][32] After its official announcement, it was later revealed that Secret Level would be the main developer, having obtained access to Epic's and DE's own assets, and Epic Games would be testing it. Secret Level were contacted by Infogrames (the publisher of UT) after the refusal on part of both Epic themselves and other developers.[33][24] Both Epic and Secret Level saw as a challenge trying to get the game to run within the Dreamcast's specs.[34] The DC version also had to branch drastically from the PC version, to the point that the PC version couldn't really use the DC maps, aside from the dedicated servers used to run the servers at SegaNet.[33] Memory concerns and framerate issues also prevented many levels from reaching this port, and initially the idea was to release the game without any kind of Internet support. On August 23, 2000 it was reported that the game would ship with nearly 30-50 arenas and that Assault and Domination were cut; on the plus side, online play was up from day 1.[35] Also under consideration were the rest of the arenas from the Rocket Arena: UT maps and the Relics, which were dropped because they didn't added much to the gameplay and were hard to implement.[34] The game's original release date was set to the end of 2000, but it got delayed so the team could work on optimizing the game for 8 players, as well as adding more features; two of which were the return of Domination, and the addition of Team Deathmatch.[36] On March 13, 2001, the game was released.

The main differences between the PC versions and the console versions, thus, are as follows:

Two maps were cut from the console versions: CTF-Fortress by Inoxx and DM-Gutter by Mike Bastien. Fortress would be later remade for Unreal Tournament 3 as CTF-Searchlight, while Gutter was cut because the map had a lot of vertical gameplay, something that didn't suit well with the console version.[38]

Game content

Gamemodes

Main article: Unreal Tournament Single player

The game contains the following gamemodes: Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Domination, Capture The Flag, Assault and Last Man Standing. There's a seventh mode, called Tournament Darkmatch, however, it doesn't have its own maps.

Assault maps for Unreal Tournament
Capture The Flag maps for Unreal Tournament
Epic Bonus Pack maps: 
DE Bonus Pack maps: 
Inoxx Pack maps: 
Bonus Pack 4 maps: 
Chaos UT maps: 
Console maps: 
Deathmatch maps for Unreal Tournament
Epic Bonus Pack maps: 
Inoxx Pack maps: 
Bonus Pack 4 maps: 
Chaos UT maps:
Beta 4 Mappack: 
GOTY Mappack: 
Console exclusives: 
Domination maps for Unreal Tournament
Bonus Pack 4 maps: 
Console maps: 

GOTY gamemodes

The Game of the Year edition of the game includes mods Rocket Arena: UT and Chaos UT. The former is a gametype mod with its own set of maps:

Rocket Arena: UT maps for Unreal Tournament

The latter includes special versions of the default gamemodes, plus King of the Hill, Team King of the Hill, Sword Arena and Team Sword Arena. KOTH and TKOTH have their own set of maps:

King of the Hill maps for Unreal Tournament

Characters

The characters in the game are just selectable skins, sorted by models. Many of the model/skin combinations represent the different teams.

  • Male commando:
    • Commando:
      Blake, Gorn, Nickolai, Whitman
    • Mercenary:
      Boris, Graves, Luthor, Ramirez
    • Necris:
      Grail, Kragoth, Malakai, Necrotic


  • Female commando:
    • Aphex:
      Idina, Portia
    • Commando:
      Anna, Ivana, Nikita, Gromida
    • Mercenary:
      Jayce, Kyla, Mariana, Tanya
    • Necris:
      Cryss, Freylis, Malise, Visse
  • Boss: Xan
  • Skaarj Hybrid:
    • Arena warrior:
      Dominator, Berserker, Guardian
    • Cyborg warrior:
      Disconnect, Firewall
    • Pit fighter:
      Baetal, Pharoh, Skrilax
  • Nali:
    Ouboudah, Priest
  • Nali WarCow:
    AtomicCow, WarCow
  • WarBoss
  • Xan Mark II
  • Console-exclusive characters (bosses):
    Damien, Rampage, Dominator, Xan

Weapons

Various weapons are made available for single player as well as multi-player mode.

Impact Hammer Enforcer Bio Rifle Shock Rifle Pulse Gun Ripper Minigun Flak Cannon Rocket Launcher Sniper Rifle Redeemer Translocator Chainsaw

Items

Health Vial Health Pack Big Keg O'Health Thigh Pads Body Armor Shield Belt Damage Amplifier Invisibility Jump Boots SCUBA Gear

Teams


Mutators

Main article: Mutator
  • Instant Rockets
  • Jump Match
  • Low Gravity
  • No Powerups
  • No Redeemer
  • Relics (BP1)
  • Slomo (DC)
  • Stealth
  • Team Beacon (BP2)
  • Volatile Ammo (BP2)
  • Volatile Weapon (BP2)

(*) "Rocket Launcher Arena" must NOT be confused with the Rocket Arena: UT mod.

Soundtrack

Main article: Music#Unreal Tournament

The music was composed by Straylight Productions with Alexander "Siren" Brandon at its head, and Michiel van den Bos with additional contributions by Dan "Basehead" Gardopée, Peter "Skaven" Hajba, Andrew "Necros" Sega, Tero "Teque" Kostermaa, and Kai-Eerik "Nitro" Komppa.

Like Unreal (and the expansion pack Unreal Mission Pack: Return to Na Pali), the game's music was done in UMX format, based on Tracker music[39], which resulted in good quality music and less size. There was never an official soundtrack, but a lot of people obtained it directly from the game (it was in Impulse Tracker format inside the UMX packages) and converted it to more popular formats.

Title & Author(s) Duration Used in
"Botpack #9(By Michiel)by Michiel van den Bos
(Botmca9.umx)
04:49 DM-Phobos, DM-Viridian-TOURNEY
"BotMCA#10 (By Michiel)by Michiel van den Bos
(Botpck10.umx)
04:12 CTF-High, DM-Tempest
"Cannonadeby Michiel van den Bos
(Cannon.umx)
01:55 DOM-Condemned
"Colossusby Michiel van den Bos
(Colossus.umx)
04:17 AS-Rook
"The Courseby Michiel van den Bos
(Course.umx)
04:28 Tutorial maps, AS-Guardia, CTF-Dreary, CTF-Nucleus, DM-Agony, DM-Bishop, DM-Curse][, DM-Grit-TOURNEY, DOM-CiDom
"Room of Champions" by Alexander Brandon & Michiel van den Bos
(Credits.umx)
02:15 Unused
"Endingby Alexander Brandon
(Ending.umx)
01:09 Trophy Room
"Unreal Add-on (Enigma)by Dan Gardopée
(Enigma.umx)
03:24 DOM-Cryptic
"FireBreathby Tero Kostermaa & Kai-Eerik Komppa
(firebr.umx)
03:15 CTF-Coret, DM-Crane, DM-Grinder, DM-Mojo][, DM-Pressure, DOM-MetalDream
"Foregone Destructionby Michiel van den Bos
(Foregone.umx)
04:14 CTF-Darji16, CTF-EternalCave, CTF-Face, CTF-Face-SE, CTF-Face][, DM-Malevolence, DM-SpaceNoxx
"Go Downby Alexander Brandon
(Godown.umx)
2:59 DM-Deck16][, DM-HyperBlast, DOM-Bullet
"Lockby Alexander Brandon
(Lock.umx)
02:44 CTF-Ratchet, DM-ArcaneTemple, DM-Closer, DM-KGalleon
"Mechanism Eightby Andrew Sega
(Mech8.umx)
06:14 AS-HiSpeed, DM-Fractal, DM-Pyramid, DM-Zeto, DOM-Ghardhen
"Mission Landingby Michiel van den Bos
(Mission.umx)
04:13 AS-Frigate, AS-Overlord, CTF-Gauntlet, CTF-Kosov, DM-Codex
"Nether Animalby Michiel van den Bos
(Nether.umx)
05:00 AS-OceanFloor, CTF-Beatitude, CTF-HallOfGiants, DM-Fetid, DM-Oblivion, DOM-Leadworks, DOM-Olden
"Organicby Alexander Brandon
(Organic.umx)
03:03 Unused
"Phantomby Michiel van den Bos & Alexander Brandon
(Phantom.umx)
05:00 DM-Barricade, DM-Cybrosis][
"Razorback // Unreal Mixby Peter Hajba
(Razor-ub.umx)
04:43 DM-Gothic, DM-Liandri, DM-Peak
"Runby Michiel van den Bos
(Run.umx)
04:29 CTF-Hydro16, CTF-Niven, DM-Conveyor, DM-Morbias][, DM-Shrapnel][, DM-Turbine, DOM-Cinder
"Save Meby Alexander Brandon
(SaveMe.umx)
01:51 CTF-Orbital, DM-Morpheus, DOM-Gearbolt
"Save Me (G-Mix)by Alexander Brandon
(Savemeg.umx)
01:51 Unused
"Unreal Add-on (Seeker)" by Dan Gardopée
(Seeker.umx)
03:26 CTF-Command, CTF-November
"Unreal Add-on (Seeker2)by Dan Gardopée
(Seeker2.umx)
03:25 CTF-Noxion16
"Skyward Fireby Michiel van den Bos
(Skyward.umx)
04:56 AS-Mazon, CTF-LavaGiant
"Into the Darknessby Alexander Brandon
(Strider.umx)
02:43 DM-Stalwart, DM-StalwartXL
"Superfistby Alexander Brandon
(Suprfist.umx)
01:57 DM-HealPod][
"Underworld 2by Alexander Brandon
(UnWorld2.umx)
03:09 CTF-EpicBoy, DOM-Sesmar
"Unreal Tournament Menuby Alexander Brandon
(utmenu23.umx)
02:00 Menu Screen
"Unreal Tournament Titleby Alexander Brandon & Michiel van den Bos
(UTtitle.umx)
01:23 City Intro
"Three Wheels Turningby Alexander Brandon
(Wheels.umx)
02:25 CTF-Cybrosis][

Game of the Year Edition

Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition was released on October 27, 2000. It includes the first three bonus packs released for the original game, consisting of 20 all-new maps and skins, and it includes three mods developed by the Unreal community: Tactical Ops, Rocket Arena, and Chaos UT.

Reception

Unreal Tournament is still, arguably, the most popular Unreal series game ever released. It generated an enormous community and was many people's first multiplayer experience.

Unreal Tournament is capable of using maps created for Unreal. The Unreal content was automatically replaced with Unreal Tournament content when running an Unreal DM map with one of the Unreal Tournament gametypes.[40]

Credits

Credits of Unreal Tournament
Epic Games & Digital Extremes
Programming Erik de Neve, Steven Polge, Jack Porter, Brandon Reinhart, Tim Sweeney, Carlo Vogelsang.
Art & models Dave Carter, Shane Caudle, Pancho Eekels, Steve Garofalo, Mike Leatham, Everton Richards, Dan Sarkar, James Schmalz.
Level design Cliff Bleszinski, Elliot Cannon, Shane Caudle, Pancho Eekels, Dave Ewing, Cedric Fiorentino, Alan Willard.
Music & Sound Alexander Brandon, Sascha Dikicyan, Dave Ewing, Lani Minella, Shannon Newans, Michiel van den Bos.
Biz Makr Rein, Jay Wilbur.
Infogrames
Producer Matt Powers.
Associate Producer Timothy Hess.
Director of Studio Operations Michael Gilmartin.
QA Manager Thomas MacDevitt.
QA Supervisors Donny Clay, Jeff Loney, Ezekiel 'Chuck' Nunez.
QA Test Lead Tomasi Akimeta Jr.
QA Assistant Lead Christopher R. Plep.
Testers Jared Jackson, Ted Tomasko, Mike Tetz, Donny Clay.
Compatibility Supervisor Dave Strang.
Compatibility Lead Chris McQuinn.
Compatibility Analysts Tim Moore.
Director of Marketing Barbara Gleason.
Product Marketing Manager Melissa Farmer.
Manager of Creative Services Sheryl Knowles.
Creative Services Coordinator Chris Curtis.
Graphic Artists Masanori Shimozato, Bill Fitts, Moye Daniel.
Documentation Manager W.D. Robinson.
Documentation Bruce Harlick, Rick Fish.

Essential files

Main article: Essential files#Unreal Tournament
Main article: Bonus content#Unreal Tournament

Here, you will find all the links to the downloads of the essential files for your Unreal Tournament installation.

Trivia

  • An easter egg in the ending sequence reveals that there were five Liandri Grand Tournament winners before Xan Kriegor. They are named (in chronological order): Green Marine, Roan Terg, Magnus, Geos Dryon and Pariah. It seems that the winners' names are actually nicknames of Epic staff. Green Marine comes from Brandon "Green Marine" Reinhart, one of the programmers.
  • According to an interview from FilmAndVideoMagazine, Unreal Tournament played a major part in the creation of AI (Artificial Intelligence).[41]
  • According to Shane Caudle, the intro sequence was inspired by a city he designed for a comicbook of his own creation.[42]
  • Almost everyone at Epic Games, with CliffyB[43] and GreenMarine[44] at the helm, have a strong dislike of the ZeroPing mod, to the point that ngStats, the stats system used by UT, doesn't register stats from servers using the mod.
  • The team icons are all lifted from Unreal: the Red team is the logo that appears on the Tarydium barrels, the Blue team is the logo of the UMS Vortex Rikers, the Green team is the general Skaarj race logo, and the yellow team is the insignia of the Mercenaries.

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See also


Unreal (series)
Unreal series: UnrealReturn to Na PaliUnreal II
Tournament series: Unreal TournamentUT2003UT2004UT3UT4
Championship series: Unreal Championship - Unreal Championship 2
Books: Unreal: Hard Crash - Unreal: Prophet's Power - Escape to Na Pali: A Journey to the Unreal