Unreal Tournament (1999)

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9.0

Universal acclaim- based on 690 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 620 out of 690
  2. Mixed: 47 out of 690
  3. Negative: 23 out of 690

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  1. mjsunkiter
    Apr 23, 2011
    10
    Why Epic cannot come close to this masterpiece again is beyond me. Solid. Clean. Fun. Maybe I am biased; this is the first PC game I ever played. I will admit I spent more time playing 2k4, but only because I enjoyed the single player campaign a little more, bots seemed slightly more intelligent. 2k4 was simply the next best thing. 2k3 and UT3 do not touch this.
  2. johns
    Feb 22, 2009
    10
    Best fps I have ever played. Its so much fun I'm still playing it. Its still alive and this is 2009. That's how good this game is. While its way more alive in Europe and South America than North America its still a flourishing game, depending on the mod. Team deathmatch, ctf, 125 speed ctf, and ig. This game is definitely still going.
  3. MarekM
    Nov 18, 2009
    10
    When I played this game first time it was on Celeron 300A+ VGA4MB and it worked! Very dynamic gameplay with variety of interesting and balanced weapons, very good maps for DM, good AI, good graphics. What is more it's very moddable - you can use mutators to change game rules diametrically, or use mods (there are tens of them) to play something totally different.
  4. Militaizi
    Jun 9, 2012
    10
    Old school game, that deserves straight 10. The domination, CTF, Assault, deathmatch, later mutators and arenas, are so well made that this game is a classic, that can be played even now, over ten years after the game has been released. Most of the game making studios have forgotten that games are meant to be fun, not to play for achievements and unlockable features, that's the only thingOld school game, that deserves straight 10. The domination, CTF, Assault, deathmatch, later mutators and arenas, are so well made that this game is a classic, that can be played even now, over ten years after the game has been released. Most of the game making studios have forgotten that games are meant to be fun, not to play for achievements and unlockable features, that's the only thing I can say when I'm comparing UT99 to other 'modern' games.

    Plus this game gives me chills always when I play it, it allows me to remember the best times in my childhood with this game and a bunch of other really good games.    … Expand
  5. IG44
    Aug 21, 2012
    10
    Unreal Tournament is the bast FPS of all time! Great graphics,perfect gameplay and good balance make this the best FPS of all time... Too bad that when someone mentions first person shooter first game that comes to mind is call of duty,but they are all the same! I don't know why people like them so much...I just home that when Unreal Engine 4 comes out Epic Games will release UnrealUnreal Tournament is the bast FPS of all time! Great graphics,perfect gameplay and good balance make this the best FPS of all time... Too bad that when someone mentions first person shooter first game that comes to mind is call of duty,but they are all the same! I don't know why people like them so much...I just home that when Unreal Engine 4 comes out Epic Games will release Unreal Tournament 4 rather then Gears of War 4....… Expand
  6. Hidekel21
    Jan 29, 2013
    10
    I am not surprised to see that so many gamers gave this title a 10/10. Unreal Tournament is a pioneer in the FPS arena genre, introducing original map modes that offered enthralling multiplayer matches. Excellent graphics for its time.
  7. murut87
    Feb 9, 2012
    10
    Yes i suppose to say about this game,it was fun to play and still addicting as ever.I spend playing this game from 2001 and still now i still like this game.The fast-paced gameplay,the graphics,the voice actor,the maps are great and i call this game as the Best 1999 game i ever played.Bravo Epic Games!
  8. Mr_M
    May 26, 2011
    10
    If you don't like this game you're a f****** p****. Whoever rated it less than 10 doesn't know **** Actually it should be rated 11. In fact it's the only game ever, with Half-Life, that should be rated 11/10.
  9. Anderen2
    Nov 27, 2011
    10
    First game I ever played, and still playing it today, despite its age. I can't count how many hours this have kept me awake. This is just an awesome game that needs to be tried out! The graphics are old, but they are actually
  10. n1k
    Jan 25, 2012
    10
    One of my all time favorite games and surely the best FPS one. I'm not active yet, but i'll always remember the time spending on that game, so addictive and joyful!
  11. Zepo
    May 28, 2014
    10
    For Real best FPS. Dudes i played this game like for 10 years ! I like graphics, movement, guns, oeh Deck16)) Unreal will never die. It is old school but still it is worth playing !
  12. jwt7000
    Oct 24, 2011
    10
    One of the best action FPS games of all time. This is one classic game like no other where the best game modes cannot be beat by other games. Although this game does not have a story, the graphics and the music are terrific.
  13. Dalek
    May 21, 2011
    10
    One of my all time favourite FPS of all time, the graphics are very good for 1999, weapons are awesome, music is amazing, maps are designed good, I mean everything about this game is awesome. Multiplayer isn't as enjoyable for me because I get killed 95% of the time. But singleplayer with bots is so much fun. When they're easy, they're easy. When they're hard, its hard. So definitely buyOne of my all time favourite FPS of all time, the graphics are very good for 1999, weapons are awesome, music is amazing, maps are designed good, I mean everything about this game is awesome. Multiplayer isn't as enjoyable for me because I get killed 95% of the time. But singleplayer with bots is so much fun. When they're easy, they're easy. When they're hard, its hard. So definitely buy this game.… Expand
  14. Pablo92jedi
    Jul 14, 2012
    10
    This is the best shot game ever created! It is fantastic and now (2012) nobody can compare with this game.
  15. NyreX
    Sep 17, 2013
    10
    Even if Unreal Tournament is not that popular and covered by the recent FPS these days.
    If you are looking for real challenge on aiming and A LOT of game mods
    - Siege Probably the most popular one, unique game play that everyone should try - CTF Rocket-X The community is still going strong, fast-paced flying type, VERY ADDICTING - Instagib Where your true skills of aiming is showed    Even if Unreal Tournament is not that popular and covered by the recent FPS these days.
    If you are looking for real challenge on aiming and A LOT of game mods
    - Siege Probably the most popular one, unique game play that everyone should try
    - CTF Rocket-X The community is still going strong, fast-paced flying type, VERY ADDICTING
    - Instagib Where your true skills of aiming is showed and where the competition is harder
    - Combo Instagib Same as above but with the Alternate Fire
    - Sniper I'm not sure if the community of Sniper are still alive, but camping there with custom maps is big win.
    - Bunny Track If you want to challenge yourself or beat a time record by *Jumping-Dodging* and beating all the obstacles, it's all about Jumping skills but it can be very frustrating

    I'm probably missing some but If you want to give UT99 a try, do it before it's too late.
    A MUST TRY AND PLAY     … Expand
  16. ProNada
    Jan 4, 2012
    10
    The best FPS I've played... EVER. This game had me hooked for a solid 2 years, and I still fire it up every once in a while. Team concept is perfect, especially ctf and tdm. My favorite was getting in and mixing it up with some of the best Deathmatch players at the time (the overtoads, nomortals, xspains, destrukts, microbursts, escas, and sooo many more worthy players). This game hasThe best FPS I've played... EVER. This game had me hooked for a solid 2 years, and I still fire it up every once in a while. Team concept is perfect, especially ctf and tdm. My favorite was getting in and mixing it up with some of the best Deathmatch players at the time (the overtoads, nomortals, xspains, destrukts, microbursts, escas, and sooo many more worthy players). This game has the most solid gameplay mechanics and balanced weapons I've ever used. If you were good enough, ANY weapon (yes, including the goo..) could be deadly and turn the fight. Map control was so important, and the best players were able to gain a large advantage by controlling armor, belt, and any other important powerups. I miss the late nights and have fond memories of getting "locked in" and getting accused many times of aimbotting. It's an amazing game and still, to this day, is the best first person shooter. Only game, besides Mount and Blade (Crpg), this is the ONLY game I've felt was precise enough with aim and movement to be completely "skill" based without ever feeling cheated by a shot that looked like it should have hit. If you aimed right in Unreal Tournament, you hit the target (taking ping into account of course). Anyway, long enough. 10 out of 10!… Expand
  17. patorishio
    Jul 17, 2013
    10
    This was the drug that hooked me up on FPS. I can pretty much divide my relationship with computers in before and after UT. Unreal had already blown my mind, but nothing could have prepared me for this. I have it installed in all computers I have had, without it Pc gaming is just not worth it. Get it, play it, worship it!
  18. Mescalamba
    Dec 1, 2015
    10
    There is good reason why there are no negative reviews. This game pretty much had no flaws. Imagine that, flawless multiplayer FPS? With rather decent solo play vs bots (even slightly challenging on Godlike).

    If game had problems, it was players, to be precise cheaters, which caused creation of UTPure and other anti-cheat "add-ons", only problem was that it caused a bit of lag/delay    There is good reason why there are no negative reviews. This game pretty much had no flaws. Imagine that, flawless multiplayer FPS? With rather decent solo play vs bots (even slightly challenging on Godlike).

    If game had problems, it was players, to be precise cheaters, which caused creation of UTPure and other anti-cheat "add-ons", only problem was that it caused a bit of lag/delay when playing. But that was one and only problem.

    Frankly I never cared about how good this game looks (it did look good, well Unreal engine, kinda guaranteed good look). What was more important was movement in game. Along with Quake 3, this game had probably best and most natural movement I ever experienced in FPS. Plus ability to dodge (well most of us used it to move around via dodge pretty much constantly) was rather unusual that day. Since then, no game had such perfect in game movement (also it was something to master).

    Game itself never tried to hamper you with artificial problems. Today, most games have artificial difficulty created by need to fight game mechanics and opponents in same time. Its stupid and mostly it has negative impact on any competitive gaming. UT99 had nothing like this. You had only one limit, which was YOU. I think apart Q3 Arena, very few games are same category. Today probably none.

    Back in day, it was bit hard on computer hardware (as UT engine wasnt exactly undemanding). Few years later, everything could go over 100 FPS. Which was good.

    Netcode wasnt perfect (well not from today perspective), but it wasnt that hard to learn to compensate for your ping (there were mods like zero ping, which worked quite fine). Still if you take for example today BF4, it had amazing netcode. :D

    It had rather nice sound (still has), supported EAX, surround if Im correct. As far as graphics goes, it was possible to play via D3D or OpenGL (what can do that today?).

    Game itself was reasonably customizable, bindings, HUD colors/size, crosshairs (actually most today games CANT do that, tragic really). Via console you could enable even some more advanced settings.

    Gameplay wise, it was balanced around player skill. Every gun was usable, and if we dont count Redemeer, nothing was overpowered. Sure some weapons (Bio rifle for example) were far from easy to use, and Flak cannon was "noob" gun of sorts, but if you achieved decent skill in game (and your opponents too) it was rather clear that there is no such thing as "noob" gun and everything is usable.

    Another thing that was nice (apart headshots and ASMD combo) is for example basic gun, Enforcer. Which is simple pistol. You could pick another one and shoot both, you could use either primary attack (accurate, slower) or secondary attack (faster, less accurate). Thing is, even basic enforcer did 25 dmg (you had 100 when you spawned, boostable to 199). Which means you could kill most ppl with 4 shots. Show me today FPS, where you can kill someone with 4 shots from basic gun (obviously with dual Enforcers it was much easier).

    Then there was ability to combo. Mostly known was ASMD rifle, secondary attack sent big blob of blue energy towards target, if you hit that blob with primary attack it went caboom and mostly killed everything in radius. Advanced players were able to do this while moving.

    Rocket launcher despite being rather slow compared to Quake counterpart (you could still rocket jump tho, it just hurt much more) could do primary attack, secondary attack and then loaded primary (hold and load up to 6 rockets) or loaded secondary and on top of that if you loaded primary and then hit secondary as you released, you could alter attack to send rockets in tight cluster (was pretty much instakill if you hit with it). If you count it, you have 6 different ways to attack with single weapon.. impressive, huh?

    Beauty of multiplayer was that you could literally kill with everything as long as you were good. Game was pretty unforgiving for beginners, today mainstream pub would run back to mama crying after one Deck 17 game. Cause this game wasnt made for ppl which are unwilling to improve themselves, there were no easy ways to kill. You didnt get award for participation in game, you didnt get actually any award apart good feeling when you saw your nickname at top of end game stats. Thats exactly why I loved and still love that game.

    This game is pure essence of what is (or should be) competitive multiplayer game. Clean, fast, easy to play and hard to master. Everyone is equal and you play to beat others, not game mechanics.

    Since then, there wasnt any FPS game I would love so much. Also probably none so good. Sure I spent years on CoD4, later on BFBC2 (which would be probably second on my list), but nothing is close to UT99. And unfortunately I doubt there ever will be something at least as good as UT99, cause gaming industry as whole is degenerating and pretty fast..    … Expand
  19. purdobol
    Mar 15, 2015
    10
    Amazing game. Still playing it today from time to time. Variety in maps, weapons, game modes, mutators was unmatched at that time. Awesome bot AI. Low gravity matches, instagib. There was so many stuff you could do just to have fun or you could jump in multiplayer for more serious play. True classic....
  20. alexaltair
    Mar 28, 2018
    10
    Best music, unstoppable game play, true beauty at a time. Remember playing it with hibernate feature of Windows 2000 :-)
  21. RagingPoet
    Nov 3, 2017
    10
    Unreal Tournament is so good that playing campaign with bots is actually exciting. It looked amazing when it came out (it's not so bad even now). Gameplay is very addictive, weapons are inventive and fun and playing Onslaught game mode was one of the best multiplayer experiences i ever had.
  22. bancandrei
    May 15, 2020
    10
    One of the 2 shooters I like, the other being Doom. Both are still being remade, so there will be ways to re-experience them.
  23. ShawnC.
    Oct 14, 2002
    10
    Good game, I like the guns and the maps. The graphic of the game looks good. The blood and the guts looks really relistic. Anyone who hasn't got this game yet, go and get it.
  24. DanielR.
    Nov 15, 2006
    10
    I still remember playing this on my Voodoo 3 3000 from 3Dfx. It was the moment I knew that I loved computers, and that I was going to keep having a ton of fun for years to come. This was the second game that gave me "feelings" of joy, pride, anger, and love. The first was Unreal.
  25. Norman
    Oct 6, 2006
    10
    Unreal Tournament is one of the best games ever made. It's been seven years since this game was unleashed upon an unprepared PC gaming community and it's soundtrack still holds as the most memorable videogame soundtrack ever made, it's community is still massive and growing & it's online popularity has never faltered. No matter how old it is or how much you've Unreal Tournament is one of the best games ever made. It's been seven years since this game was unleashed upon an unprepared PC gaming community and it's soundtrack still holds as the most memorable videogame soundtrack ever made, it's community is still massive and growing & it's online popularity has never faltered. No matter how old it is or how much you've played it, this game just keeps making you come back for more.… Expand
  26. Meir0nL.
    Aug 19, 2007
    10
    Best fps online shooter ever made. just amazing game in every aspect. i love this game, and before i played UT i was a quaker, i had the 2 demos running, but the UT got me back then. i love it.
  27. gbarulesThompson
    Aug 8, 2007
    10
    This game is one of the few games I have nothing bad to say about. From the GOTY edition, the game has so much in it, and the shooting is perfect to a tee. One of the most fun I've had in an FPS game in years; they honestly should package it with Windows from now on. It's that good.
  28. J.B.
    Dec 9, 2004
    10
    Should be labelled as greatest stress releiver ever!!!
  29. XanM.
    Nov 10, 2005
    10
    Simply fantastic, one of the best FPS's out there, and its cheap, if you have a tenner, run, get it now!!, RUN!!
  30. Rap1st
    Jun 25, 2013
    10
    Best FPS ever. Best game I've ever played. I fell so in love with this game and with PC gaming in general...my life revolved around it for at least a year and a half. It really probably changed my life.
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Awards & Rankings

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#4 Best PC Game of 1999
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#4 Most Discussed PC Game of 1999
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#7 Most Shared PC Game of 1999

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Metascore
92

Universal acclaim - based on 21 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 21
  3. Negative: 0 out of 21
  1. Electric Playground
    100
    Every weapon that was in "Unreal" has been given a total facelift for Unreal Tournament. Everything has been totally redrawn and textured - the overall look of the weapons is quite impressive.
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  2. FiringSquad
    80
    Without better DM map design, more polished graphics and artwork and maybe more panache in the weapons design department, we don't feel that Unreal Tournament is quite ready to earn our seal of approval as the uber-shooter to carry gaming into the next millennium.
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  3. Game Revolution
    91
    Not really a revolutionary game, but it is almost perfect at what it does. This is the definitive straight multi-player first person shooter. It is an amazing game that never fails to impress or entertain.
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