History VideoGame / UnrealTournament

As for the gameplay-side of things, the game evolves upon the multiplayer model set by ''Unreal'' by mostly polishing it. Players fight in enclosed arenas for supremacy with two starting weapons and a plethora of more powerful weapons scattered across the fighting area. The weapon roster was reorganized and polished accordingly, with annoying features of some weapons[[note]]The Automag's reloading, the Bio Rifle's alternate fire firing prematurely an underwhelming multiplying glob, the Stinger and Dispersion Pistol's whole existence...[[/note]] being gone while also introducing more interesting modes for existing weapons[[note]]The Enforcer doesn't need reloading anymore, the Bio Rifle now allows the players to hold the charge and release on command, the Pulse Gun replaces the Stinger, and the DP is nowhere to be seen...[[/note]] and more punch-packing effects for the weapons making them feel more powerful than their counterparts. In addition, some new weapons were added to the player's arsenal: the Impact Hammer[[note]]a melee, repurposed mining piston as an EmergencyWeapon with a ChargedAttack for a primary mode and an AttackReflector as a SecondaryFire[[/note]], the {{Chainsaw|Good}}[[note]]a melee weapon only available via the "Chainsaw Melee" mutator, whose primary fire shreds upon the closest enemy to the weapon, while alternate fire is an instant OneHitKill via headshot[[/note]], the [[TeleportSpam Translocator]][[note]]a teleportation device used to reach otherwise unreachable places[[/note]], the [[LightningGun Pulse]] [[EnergyWeapon Gun]][[note]]a pistol which unleashes hot plasma shots and also has a straight plasma beam with quite the range as an AlternateFire[[/note]] and the [[{{BFG}} Redeemer]][[note]]A portable missile launcher whose projectile has [[NukeEm a huge explosion radius upon impact]][[/note]]. On the movement side of things, dodging was polished and the reworked physics allow certain tricks in maps that weren't exploited back in ''Unreal''. The GUI eschewed the console-like interface which ''Unreal'' had on release and adopted a Windows-like scheme with menus and dialogues which was so well received, it got ported back to ''Unreal'' for both ''[[ExpansionPack Return to Na Pali]]'' and its [[UpdatedRerelease Gold re-release]].

* AnnouncerChatter: Iconic enough to have carried over to other games such as ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' and server-side ''VideoGame/CounterStrike'' mods.

''Unreal Tournament'' is a multiplayer-oriented FirstPersonShooter developed by Creator/EpicGames and Creator/DigitalExtremes and published by GT Interactive set in the ''VideoGame/{{Unreal}}'' universe and released for PC in 1999, and for UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 and UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast in 2001. It is considered a {{spinoff}} of ''VideoGame/UnrealI'', beginning development as an ExpansionPack before the plethora of changes made to the game's code forcing the development team to go the standalone route.

On December 14th, 2022, Epic Games pulled off from both Steam and Website/GoodOldGames the digital distribution of the ''GameOfTheYearEdition'', thus the game, outside of auction sites, [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes can't be bought legally any longer]].

Near the end of 2019, Epic Games granted an NDA to the folks at [[http://www.oldunreal.com OldUnreal]] (the same people behind the community patches for the original ''Unreal'') and the permission to develop community patches for the game. The latest community patch, version 469c, was [[https://github.com/OldUnreal/UnrealTournamentPatches/releases/tag/v469c released]] on October 30th, 2022, for Windows, Linux and Mac OS.

* ObviousBeta:
** The map [=AS-Rook=] has a glitching wall (in an area which couldn't be reached, anyway).
** There's an invisible collision box in [=DM-Pyramid=] which wasn't fixed.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: "Go Down", the theme of DM-Hyperblast, is very similar to [[Film/TheMatrix Spybreak]].

** There's a small room in [=DM-Codex=], opened by hitting a wall-lamp, which shows a picture of its creator, Cliff "[=CliffyB=]" Bleszinski.

Near the end of 2019, Epic Games granted an NDA to the folks at [[http://www.oldunreal.com OldUnreal]] (the same people behind the community patches for the original ''Unreal'') and the permission to develop community patches for the game. The latest community patch, version 469b, was [[https://github.com/OldUnreal/UnrealTournamentPatches/releases/tag/v469b released]] on March 10, 2021, for Windows, Linux and Mac OS.

* ArbitraryWeaponRange: The Redeemer is a mini nuke, which means it requires a certain distance between player and target in order for said nuke NOT to become [[HoistedByHisOwnPetard a self-kill]].

* ArbitraryWeaponRange: Averted with the Redeemer in the games, which is a mini nuke, but it can blow up in your face given the right circumstances.

* ArbitraryMinimumRange: Averted with the Redeemer in the games, which is a mini nuke, but it can blow up in your face given the right circumstances.

On December 14th, Epic Games pulled off from both Steam and Website/GoodOldGames the digital distribution of the GameOfTheYearEdition, thus the game, outside of auction sites, [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes can't be bought legally any longer]].

* AtomicFBomb: If any player gets an eight-kill streak, the LargeHamAnnouncer will cut loose with a very loud "holy shit!"

* AnotherSideAnotherStory: The single player campaign in the PC version has most of the regular teams (sans Thunder Crash, the default team) placed in different rungs of the team modes. If another team that isn't Thunder Crash is chosen, Thunder Crash will fill in that team's rungs.