Unreal Tournament 22 Years Later: An LGR Retrospective

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Review of Unreal Tournament 1999 from Epic Games. Facing Worlds, Deck16, Morpheus, assault mode, instagib, ahh good times in PC gaming. Let’s take a nostalgic look back at Unreal Tournament Game of the Year Edition!

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● Music is from the Unreal Tournament soundtrack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MSFW8pZ-_4

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43 thoughts on “Unreal Tournament 22 Years Later: An LGR Retrospective”

  1. Ha! Reading the comments apparently I just suck at using the impact hammer 🤷‍♂️
    Honestly the chainsaw was so fun I never kept it in my weapons rotation long enough to get good.

    Also telefragging. I even recorded footage of that and forgot to add it to the script.

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  6. There is a hungarian dub for this game which made the game ever so memorable for me because the people worked on it added a lot more humor with funny taunts and lines for each voice. The characters basically s**t talk each other every kill, even Xan with a deep, robotic voice. It was hilarious.

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  7. This baby is still one of the best games ever made. Technically and artisrically stunning to the date. This game is the responsible for i love fps games till today. Its a lession to the modern game developers how to get a proper game done, no tons of bugs and dlc bullshit, and on top of that all with limited hardware of its time and running very well on modest hardware of most users. Things are truly made on a way that is no longer made on nowdays. How i love the passion and love of game developers made games back in the 80s/90s. Played this a lot back in the day, probably the only game i play for a lot of time.
    Its one of my favourite games of all time. Definitely one of the best game experiences that i have on a game in my entire life. And for last, this game is a truly gem, ahead of its time in so many ways and not matched even in todays modern shooters, basically its a Mozart among crap pop singers. A classic that have to be introduced to every younger modern gamer generations. Thanks LGR to review this fabolous classic!!!

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  11. Gamers in the 90's – 2000's: Quake III arena, Unreal tournament, Red faction, Counterstrike, Timesplitters, etc.

    Gamers today: Fortnite, Call of Duty

    Me: I'm a 20 year old who plays anything 90's – 2000's (okay, maybe a few call of duty games to an extent); and I absolutely love Quake III arena and Unreal tournament! Two of my favorite games. Only started playing them last year actually and I've grown to love them ever since. I also play Unreal tournament III which I think is really solid.
    😊

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  15. yo LGR, just wanna say I love your review and take on UT99. It's good stuff for sure, but I also want to ask a question that I never got answered since like your review on Faerie Tale Adventures, it's all a haze and I can't remember the name of it, yet I do remember playing it.

    Do you know of an old 90s PC third person shooter that had a dystopian future theme similar to anime like Ghost in the Shell? The polygonal characters were of worse PS1 quality too. Like say Fade to Black on DOS?

    The main character was a black woman dressed in a suggestive spy/agent outfit, and the game played like a more stiff Tomb Raider game as well. I remember the gameplay, but the game is so obscure, I can never find it. I figured a guy like you may have came across it to maybe get a hint of what the name of it was.

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  19. I loved this game so much back in college! They don't make them like this anymore. I do enjoy Team Fortress 2 these days at least, but its not quite the same. So sad to see the modern sequel is cancelled.

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  22. Thank you for covering this, so many good childhood memories with UT99 and to this day I will always tune it to the multiple remixes of the various songs.

    They REALLY don't make games like this anymore …

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  23. Take a look and compare where QUAKE, CS, STARCRAFT are now and ask yourself: did epic become only the producer of the graphics engine for which an icon game is created? As for me, epic did only unreal and unreal tournament 1999 – real games with passion and for fun. The rest, the next, the other parts of the UT are just a show of the next versions of their new engine. Epic has done nothing so far, totally nothing for the UT gaming community to unite or revive them. The UT3 release is more of a gears of war and an engine show. UT4 release – another engine show and project abandonment in alpha stage … for a super cashy fortnite … Epic never did anything for the community … UT2004 – is another community breakdown by introducing a newer engine. And Maybe now, because epic has kindly given access to the game's source code for the old unreal folks doing a great job, but it will take a while to get the new patch and fixes finished. However, in Epic there are no more people with balls, people with real passion, who would be able to make the simplest, still very profitable move, i.e. remastered versions. Just fix the bugs, add new solutions, enrich the gameplay and we have this: remastered UT99. It is a pity that they are so blinded by the creation of new, more engines, other games and that they cannot go back to their real DNA, where it all started.

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  28. The "high-intensity Zen" you describe is pretty much exactly Mushin or "Mushin no shin," meaning "mind of no mind," a Zen mental state of "flow" where one is alert and energized but free to act without thought, as state that is desirable for warriors like swordsmen and artists alike. Miyamoto Musashi himself describes such a state in the Book of Five Rings! Have to wonder what the Zen masters of old would think about people finding that flow in a video game.

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  41. I also remember playing the original battlefield 1942 demo map wake island forever. Got the rest of the game eventually but kept going back to wake island as our groups preferred map.

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  42. Epic games…. these days ONE OF THE BEST GAME DEVELOPERS…. and now, look at them, only casual and cartoon garbage titles or recycled old titles from other developers for free at some weekends…

    I really loved the OG Unreal Tournament, and despite its "poor" graphics, its still a nice game for lan sessions 😀
    Damn, even Singleplayer trying to master all the matches at higher difficulties was interesting.

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