Unreal Tournament is the sequal to the game 'Unreal' released by Epic Games. Unreal was a futuristic fantasy game where a jail ship crashes, leaving a lone Prisoner to sruvive the forbidding world.

Unreal featured the best graphics of its day, including revolutionary texture techniques and amazing gameplay. The game was amazingly long, and enemies¹ were spread far and wide, making the game unnapealing to to those who had only recently played games like Quake².

Improved Engine

Unreal Tournament was released just before the turn of the century, featuring an improved graphic engine, more intelligent bots³ and a completely different game.

Unlike the original Unreal, Unreal Tournament is based around multiplayer⁴ games, meaning several people could play the same game at once.

People at first bauked at this prospect, since playing against bots is generally quite boring (although often challenging). Assault missions were added, these are levels which require one team to perform a task (usually take over an enemy base, or destroy a particular target) while the other team defends.

Improved AI

In order to give the game a wider strategic scope, the bots would now take orders, and would taunt each other using digitised speech.

The game includes several different styles of play including CTF⁵, Assault, Death Match⁶, Domination⁷ and Last Man Standing⁸.

Unreal Tournament won several awards and was considered far superior to its rival Quake 3. Quake 3 had better graphics but failed to have any outstanding playability or lasting fun.

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