How Unreal Tournament Changed My Life 

Man I still play this game . I just played yesterday

Unreal Tournament 3 was my crack back in 2007-2012. The original taught me everything I needed to know about online fps.

Botmatch is so good in UT games that having real people to play with is just a nice addition, it's not always a necessity.

I’ve introduced this game to my children. They love it. Although ‘Daughter gets headshot from papa’ is a bit weird.

When it was time to leave this video i didn't want to go... UT99 is my favourite shooter of all time. Thank you for this nostalgia nectar. #keepUT99alive

Damn, this video is really on point concerning the overall atmosphere of the game, and why so many of us stayed after so many years! UT99 also changed my life, although in my case it didn't only change only the outlook I had from games from there on, it pretty much also defined exactly what I wanted to do as a living (programming and creating content in general). And my course was very similar to yours: discovered the game (through friends, almost 10 years ago), I thought it was the coolest thing ever, then I found out custom maps and mods, which made it even better, and then I found out single player campaigns (namely Operation Na Pali, my personal favorite that I still play times to times), and then after all that I gave it a go in developing my first maps and mods, and by joining communities and playing in different servers, I discovered further things the community had created such as new game modes, namely Monster Hunt, Bunny Track and Siege, among many others. I played a lot of DM-Morpheus and DM-Deck16][, as CTF-Face, CTF-HallOfGiants and CTF-Kosov, mostly in LAN parties with friends, and when my friends moved on from the game, I really didn't, I stayed and started to create content for it, because it was as fun creating stuff for it, as it was playing it, if not more. From there I proceeded to create some maps and mods, my first stuff being the most horrifying crap you can possibly imagine, and over the years I improved enough to be able to spend 2 or 3 years developing one of the mods featured in your video (Nali Weapons 3), which I am glad (and pleasantly impressed) that people still enjoy up to this day. While it was my last mod, and while I am semi-retired in a sense from modding, I still do intend to come back and develop more things for it once I finish some other ongoing projects, since the game is just that good and left too much of an impression on myself, which with the incoming patch the community is currently working on for the game (approved by Epic Games), it will make the game last and play better than ever in newer systems and possibly give birth to new kinds of mods. This game is really something else, and many popular FPS games still pay tribute to it or borrow from it in one way or another. I mean, everyone instantly knows where those "Headshot!" and "Double Kill!" sounds and messages come from. Thank you for making such a great video on UT99, and thank you for including one of my mods in it. :)

This was one of my favorite games ever, my best friend who lived across the streets dad was an IT guy at chase bank and they had 8-9 computers setup in their basement and we would play unreal tournament for hours and hours he even had a birthday party that we all just played unreal tournament, I wish they would bring it back

Unreal, Unreal Tournament and UT 2004 are pretty much my entire childhood, thus, part of my life. This video is absolutely beautiful. I'm glad to know it exists, you did a perfect job.

This just popped up in my recommended. Honestly a bit of a nostalgia trip for me. I remember waiting with my brother for 3 years watching Nali weapons 3 being developed. If you ever go back, one of our favourite monster hunt maps was Skaarj tower.

Whoa, that's quite some story alright, bro. It almost reminds me of how my adventure with the Unreal universe started (and it's still going to this very day). Back in 1998, when we didn't have a PC in our household, my brother used to go to my uncle living next door to play PC games. At the time we just had a Famicom clone so the idea of playing games with high resolutions, rich color pallettes, keyboard/mouse controls and 3D environment was appealing after beating Contra or Super Mario Bros. for God-knows-which time. One of the games he really enjoyed were Age of Empires 1, GTA1 and 2 and "that one very dark game where you shoot people" which turned out to be the first Unreal. My brother played DM-Tundra over and over and over again because he didn't know how to either switch maps or change the frag limit. On top of that it was the unpatched version 220 with Software and 3Dfx renderers only and those old weapon sounds. Fast forward to late 1999 and parents bought us our very own first PC - 466 MHz Celeron, 64 megabytes of RAM and a S3 Savage 4 GPU onboard, just enough to run the next game in the Unreal series. My brother once again was the first one to play it, and of course on the same map over and over again, this time it was DM-Morpheus with its ludicrously awesome premise and even more awesome track. He loved to smack lower-skill bots with the Rocket Launcher. I was sceptical of the game, mostly because I wasn't used to 3D first-person games (I played GTA2 a lot back then) and with all the moral panic concerning video game violence going on those 20 years ago, my parents wouldn't be satisfied with me playing a game that features explicit graphic violence - complete with detailed gore and decapitations. After finally being convinced by my brother, I stepped onto the Tournament arena for the first time. It was DM-Conveyor for whatever reason, I remember Novice bots kicking my sorry inexperienced ass but that wasn't for too long. Sometime later into the match I picked up the Ripper and scored a Headshot Double Kill right when one of my parents entered the room and witnessed me ripping off a dude's head with a razor blade launcher. As I expected, that was a big no-no and both of us were banned from playing games at all for the rest of the weekend :P Despite that, somehow I started to like the game and unlike my brother, I started to play various maps later on only to discover the sheer variety of venues for this virtual blood sport. Mysterious castles and dungeons (DM-Barricade, DM-Curse][, DM-Codex), abandoned industrial sites (DM-Conveyor, DM-Turbine) or other unique designs made more for the spectacle of it than pure gameplay (DM-KGalleon, DM-Pyramid, DM-Phobos). Unfortunately, the game was in the retail version (400) and without the Internet access we couldn't update the game itself and the GPU drivers which resulted in the system crashing completely at random when playing with the S3 MeTal driver (and the software renderer is fugly as shit). The ViewSonic monitor which we had was also pretty dark with no way to tune up the brightness more. Eventually UT had to be deleted to make space for other games, but that wouldn't be the end. Six years later, we've finally got the impromptu internet acces via our uncle who was still living next door. That was the time when eMule, KaazA and other peer-to-peer file sharing services were in their prime. Yes, we've obtained the game via not-so-legal means. It took us one whole day to download the 300 megabytes of installation disc via 256kB/s ADSL modem. And the Unreal craze returned with double the power. I started to play the game regularly, improving my skill by tackling the higher-skilled bots. I could say I was preparing myself for the real deal - arena combat against real people. I've patched the game to 436 and oh boy was it fun. The skill ceiling wasn't that high back then so I could easily find a server not filled with pr0-n00b-pwn3rs who mastered the Sniper Rifle and popped everyone's heads off with little effort. But wait - wasn't there a Unreal game before the Tournament? Of course there was! I even had a CD-Action bundle disc form a friend of mine, so without hesitation I popped the sucker in and prepared myself to enter the uncharted world of planet Na Pali. Everything that UT captivated me with was also there, but this time around I wasn't a contestant in a futuristic gladiatorial spectacle, but a random guy stranded on an alien yet familiar looking (thanks to UT) world. It was an adventure throughout pretty yet deadly world. For me every FPS game had this gritty feel to it but Unreal stood out even seven years after its release. I have played through this game countless times on various difficulty levels, even completing a hardcore run on the Godlike difficulty prodvided with 227 community patch. A hardcore run - without saving in the middle of a level, making certain areas crushingly difficult and forcing me do ditch my ever-beloved Flak Cannon in favor of other guns because ammo was THAT scarce. On that difficulty you could really tell that the Skaarj were inspired by the Predator with a slight dose of Alien, and even the wildlife of Na Pali is capable of murdering you easily. Just a year later I downloaded a shitton of mods for the game - custom maps (of varying quality, mostly crappy), player skins, gamemodes, weapons and so on. I really had fun time with ChaosUT (the sword!), a Flak Cannon that shoots exploding Nali Rabbits, Volatile Ammo and Relic matches and many, many others. But for the "serious" gameplay I preffered the clean vanilla experience. Oh, and I remember tweaking the default bots, naming them after people whom I knew - classmates, teachers ('cause what 15-year-old kid wouldn't want to frag their teacher for those grades, huh?) and so on. The bot list even featured a Polish politician for whom a custom Male Soldier skin was made :D Really cringey when I think about that now, I've already changed bot names back to standard ones. But wait, there's more! Thanks to OldSkool Amp'd I could play... single-player adventures in UT itself! The first one was Operation: Na Pali - I was astonished by the build quality of the maps, scripted sequences and the inclusion of UT guns in a SP campaign, even though the mod's protagonist is a silly jackass thrown into a dangerous world. After beating this one I've searched for more - Xidia and Seven Bullets were right up my alley (and much more serious in tone, 7B in particular). Years later the awesome Project Xenome made by one man appeared. It's more in the vein of Half-Life but it's still good stuff. I'm still waiting for Turboman's Unreal: Firestorm and my Unreal SP experience will be complete. One could say I've enjoyed Unreal back to back - every game mode, every mod and mutator, all the best maps, played for countless times. Sure, I don't play Unreal and UT that often these days, but something has me returning to these games every once in a while. For me these games have aged like a good wine, unlike more recent titles that are good but not as captivating as Epic's masterpiece. To this day I have that 2005 copy downloaded via eMule, complete with mods and all sorts of shit, and the bundle disc with retail version of U1. I've even reviewed the first game for Hardcore Gaming 101 a few years ago - there wasn't an article for this one for years, seems like I had to write it :) So here it is, my "humble" story of how Unreal Tournament (and later OG Unreal) altered my reality - forever.

The points you made are some of the reasons why I prefer this over 2004 TBH. I love both, but there’s just some sort of untouched magic to the first game that separates it from almost all of the other Arena shooters I’ve played.

Man I loved my time playing through Unreal. Amazing story, music, level design... everything!

Holy shit this video is exactly my childhood. I was born in 1996 and my grandpa would play this when it was new (ut99 first for me as well) when I was 4 and when I turned 5 he let me play. Me entire life long love of gaming is from this game. He downloaded mods. Maps. The one part of this game you never spoke about (which is my ALL time favorite btw) is the bunny track scene. I love the BT obstacle course puzzle maps. And then with ut2004 it brought the actual race obstacle courses too. It’s crazy how much this game changed me and shaped my opinions on how games should be. I’m 24 and 20 years of my life has been filled with unreal tournament. My grandpa even had 3 PCs set up so me him and my younger brother could all play together. It was amazing times. God I miss it.

I'm a long time fan of the Unreal games, but I've never explored the modding scene that much, except for Operation:Na Pali and some maps and weapons mods. You helped me realize that there are more works of art out there that wait to be explored, and i think i will do just that as soon as i can. So thank you for putting this much passion into this video!

Unreal Tournment is and remains to this day my favorite game of all time. It’s nostalgic, makes me pumped everytime I play it and holds a special place in my heart especially since my sister and I used to play it a lot when we were younger. My god when I downloaded the NW3 it was a game changer! My favorite is still the gravity gun, throwing bots into the ground or into a lava pool. I listen to the music when I’m busy, trying to relax or even sleep. Sometimes I just play with 0 bots just to be immersed in the maps for a while. Some of my favorite things were renaming the bots to something stupid for fun which is what I found disapointing in the sequels, that you couldn’t rename them anymore.

Wow, I don't even know where to begin. It's just crazy how relatable this was to me. I have seen a couple of truly great videos related to Unreal and original Unreal Tournament but this one is definitely the best one, at least in my honest opinion. Both these games have changed my life and perspective on all games I played afterwards. I have played both since I was a kid, discovered U98 on my dad's PC when I was only 8 maybe. Then I have managed to find UT99 demo and I knew I had to play the full game. The soundtrack is also my favorite thing about both games. Feels like it was kind of revolutionary, especially considering it was made on a fast tracker. It has a astounding atmosphere which just perfectly completes the equally wonderful visual aspect the both game have. Still listening to it to this day pretty often. I also loved the mods and this was the first game I actually modded but when it comes to those larger overhauls, I've only played Operation Na Pali. I've known about Xidia Gold but never actually played it, which honestly makes me a bit upset but on the other hand, I am just looking forward to play it with its sequel. Thank you for making this. I feel like you have put everything into this video you possibly could and the only thing which makes me unsatisfied is the fact it doesn't have at least a couple hundred thousand views by now. I have seen some videos from you, mainly some "The Worst ____" lists and I liked them a lot but THIS, this video made me subscribe. Thanks again, this was truly great!

A beautiful game, Unreal Tournament. First started playing at like 2006. I was 5 at the time. My first FPS. I loved the weapon designs, the maps, the music. It was amazing to play and still is! Great video. Seriously good job!

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Holy crap DX, I swear I saw the "c4" weapon mod in this video. I worked on that. I also did a ton of work on UT2k4's Fraghouse Invasion. I wouldn't make this up ever. If you ever want to talk about either, let me know. My brain hurts that I got to see what I think was an old c4 weapon I designed in this video.

Yoooooo had never seen this! Thanks for using my song in the intro! Super cool to hear some of my stuff reached wider than I thought haha. Edit: oh my God and clips from my super old streams haha! That's wild xD

I absolutely adore Unreal and Unreal Tournament! Thank you for this fantastic video and mods suggestions. I've never played them, so I'm looking forward to doing that. Keep it up!

This might be the best video on UT99 I have ever seen. Can't recall the last time I found myself genuinely muttering "wow" to myself after watching a review/video essay lol. The amount of passion, love, and appreciation you have for this game is seriously incredible and something i strive to achieve with my own reviews.

Just caught this video yesterday. Opened up the nostalgia valves pretty hard, must say. Very much appreciate your perspective on this game, especially surprised by the high regard you gave my old SP mods (wasn't expecting the switch into SP stuff). It's great to see how these games stuck with people. Even when you discovered them ten years after they came out!

I grew up with UT franchise. I'm counting 20 years with this game and I'm still playing it from time to time. Installing UT2004 right now. UT99 was my first ever game on my first PC back in 2000

Man, this hit me right in the feels'. I played ut99 since 2000 and stick with it till 2005 or so when I switched to ut2004 (I also had the ut2003 but it didn't really got me) and even when I moved to ut2004 as a player I still mapped for ut99 till 2012 or so. I only did maps for ut99 never for other games it was so much fun, I think I made over 20 maps and with every one I learned a new thing. I even made an upside down map in which you could shot the players on the cellings or walk on the cellings too DM-Invertyx. You could do almost everything in that game, I remember I once wanted to make a trap room that you could press a button and rise the water level in the room untill you drawned but the game didn't had the tools for it so I learned to code and created the tool to make the water rise at a tuch of a button, I felt so proud at that time :D I also made skins, textures and custom sounds and music with an external audio editor, and used ut2004 content in ut99 just to bring a fresh look to it. I remember the map competitions on UnrealPlayground and in GamersMafia. That was too much fun, all kind of themes and rules. No one really cared about the prize we just wanted to create stuff and have fun playing the other guys maps. We learned from others experience and got great feedback. I was also an admin of ut99 spanish comunity on a site called GamersMafia where I used to upload all the new contents that the ut comunity was puting out. I remember the FoodFight mod the NW1, 2 and 3, new game types and high quality mappacks like every FoT mappack that were just insane. Frag'n'brag and swanky's (and a few others) maps just looked from out of this world every time, they were pushing the limit of the editor with every single map they made. I was going to make a new map for the last FoT mappack but then the crew just split up and the project felt apart, people just couldn't find the time for it anymore, me included. I never finished the last map but I guess you never get to finish your 'last' map. I still play ut2004 every 2 weeks or so, it's the only game I played for the last 10 years, I like more the energy of ut2004 but ut99 got that vibe that I can describe, you just love to create content for that game.

Oh god ! This brought tears. I was so into this game. Tournament trophies always used to make me so proud, when player does the salute thing, just wow. Beautiful video. The music and maps brought back so many memories. Love it. :')

I got into Unreal Tournament as well. Played forever... played online back when everyone had dial up. I did Unreal II.. I never found Unreal 1. I’ll have to track it down and probably build a decent PC (been on Mac platform for years now). In fact I would love to see Mass Effect in Unreal Tournament style both online and against bots. Takes me back.. thank you for posting.

Thanks for this video. I feel the same way. I created the UT2004 Vehicles Trailer for Epic back then, and of the 1000s of videos I've made since, its still my favorite. The technology they integrated to allow for spectator playback, cameras, etc is still ahead of its time today.

It's lovely to see how passionate you are about Unreal! I still play Unreal Gold online to this very day. And yeah, all those single player campaigns like Operation Na Pali, Xidia Gold, 7 Bullets, etc, I've played them all and I adore them :D. Unreal means so much to me and it's awesome to see someone else as inspired by Unreal as I am!

Loved this game! Played it for approx 11 years (from 1999). My favorite game mode were the sniper maps (pure sniper only death matches), which were often huge and very well designed giving enough space (and places to hide) for lots of players. Also the infiltration mod was very cool, with military combat weapons (including grenades) and strategically designed maps where you played with one team against another (bit counter strike style).

As the Unreal Antologia disk says about Unreal, ,,Unreal moved computer games to the 21st century". Good old days... :')

That was fantastic stroy to listen too. Very well put together!

This definitely brought some tears to my eyes. I don't hear enough about how great this game was/is and sometimes I start to doubt myself and be like "am I alone. Was it really that awesome?" Yeah. Yeah it was. Changed my life as well. I was building levels in it with my dad when I was 13 and now at 30 I realize I loved it so much I genuinely want to do game design and have started learning. The custom maps we downloaded were so memorable.... we would play AcidPipeXmas every Christmas eve.. argh this game is the literal best and thank you for making this.

Man You really made summary of all these things tha keep us back even for a while. Even now, teraz another map contest to this game, and You know what? I would like to join!

Ut99 will always be the love of my life I spent probably thousands of hours on it and no other game has probably got near the 1000 mark maybe Q3 and cs but that's it, 1vs1 tdm and CTF instagib were the competitive modes but Lms was my guilty pleasure

Thank you for sharing your experience with this legendary franchise mate!

Great video. Unfortunately many of us stopped playing unreal tournament I moved on after a few years... Getting more into Counter-Strike and other similar games. I do remember the modding scene for unreal tournament but I did not know it got bigger and better by what it looks. I am sad I missed out on such great stuff. The beginning of modern was such a huge part of the game....definitely going to go back and check some of these out thank you for the information on these mods

I remember at some old Christmas party's my family would go to at my dad's work, and in the back they had some old computers that had Unreal Tortument set up. So me, and a bunch of other people would just go in the back and play. I dont remember much, but I remember having a hell of a time. But they eventually had to get rid of them, that was kinda sad

Love Unreal/UT99/UT2004 since their releases. Great video.

Fantastic video! You really nailed it on this one 😁 I started playing UT99 since 2010 I believe, and to this day I'm still trying out different maps and mods, even made my own voicepacks, like reusing some of the unused voice lines from the Beta version of UT and putting them back in there.

Thank you for capturing and sharing your beautiful journey in to the Unreal universe and games 😍 Bonus, I also learned about mods I never saw. Dark Magic was my favourite mod. Cheers from an old FatZ and BEER player 😀

Wow, this video essay is a treasure trove for a long-time Unreal fan like me!

Unreal Tournament was my childhood and my teenage years. I miss those days so much

Good video, UT was also one of my first FPS's back in 2000, but moved onto Unreal about 2-3(?) years after, the modding scene for these games is still very active. You should really check out a co-op mod for Unreal called Project Gryphon! One thing to point out though is that mods themselves don't change the engine as it's closed source, the engine was only able to be updated when Smirftsch/Marco/Anthrax/others were able to have the source code licensed by Epic so they could continue to maintain both games (Unreals 227 being quite more advanced than the UT patch counterpart called 469 right now). 👍

Unreal Tournament was my first PC game and god damn did it leave an impact...

Just come across this video. Awesome. I use go with my best mate to an Internet cafe playing this from morning to night every other weekend for god knows how many months/years. Just bought UT3 and UC2 on my Xbox. got my lad playing split screen he loves it. Also just told my mate and he coming with beers and steak tomorrow night lol

DX .... you need to make more vids. This vid was awesome. UT was the perfect vid but there is so much more

Unreal is the best first person shooter series without a doubt. No other series has come close except Timesplitters.

UT was my first game also back in 2007 on my first PC, I have play that game for almost 10 years, this days I play UT3

I gotta admit, there have only been two PvP centric games I ever got into any real way. One was Quake 3, the other was Unreal Tournament. I loved that game, I loved the modding potential for it. Was I any good at it? God no, but even when I was getting ganked left and right...it was still stupid amounts of fun.

I wish Unreal Tournament and Quake were still popular.

First thing i have to say about this game: great aesthetic design and damn good music.

its just sad they just abandoned unreal tournament. It still makes me hold on to it forever. I still play this , I have been unreal since 2007 and it still goes on. And this is not just a game its a whole damn feeling!!

bout to finish another playthrough and came here looking for more maps/ game modes. Best straight up shooter ever

about 10 years here SSC elimenator this was the good old times

Had a lan party just for this game, played it a lot back in the day, Thank you for information about all the mods.

Bravo! Such an interesting overview!

Great video. I was older when UT99 came out, but I loved it all the same. I was super thrilled with the more realistic mods and TCs, or Matrix based stuff. Infiltration and Tactical Ops were the shit.

Still probably the best player-vs-bots game ever made. With great weapons, beautiful maps, very good AI and excellent music.

Another great video from the DX, as always. And one of my favorite game series as well. What really hit me the most about Unreal Tournament was how fun and immersive it is. The game modes were creative, the bots had character through their own preferred tactics, the weapons felt impactful, and the music made me believe I was in another world. Probably I'm just too damn lazy, but do you have a zip folder of the aforementioned mods for download? I would really appreciate it.

Love this game SO much... always will

You just described the rabbit hole.Respect!

While I did not grew up with Unreal (1998) and Unreal Tournament (1999) when they first came out, I managed to play them in the 2010s (the same time I also played Doom 1-2 and Quake 1-3), and got a very strong fondness for Arena FPSs of old, so much so that I wanted them to make a very strong comeback and in a way be popular again (or at least be a viable alternative to the casual PvP FPS experiences we already got from Call of Duty, Overwatch, etc.). It sadly never came. And now, with the Unreal games pretty much being completely delisted from all digital storefronts for no good reason (as well as Unreal Tournament 4 being completely killed off for good), this just mega confirms how much Epic Games does not give two sh**s about the games that literally made them what they are, the games that also made the Unreal Engine be what it is today. This would be the equivalent of say if id Software and Bethesda decided to delist all their older Wolfenstein, Doom and Quake games from all digital storefronts and just keep the Wolfenstein, Doom and Quake games of the 2010s/2020s up for sale. It just sucks to see this. I am wondering DX, will you do one last video on the Unreal games as a final send off to them before they become abandonware?

I spent 1000s of hours on UT99 and later Tactical Ops. I really wish they would make an official UT99 HD remake. Just the old content without any extra features but decent compability support with modern machines, windows 10, ... iCTF Coret Facility, leggo! My favorite game of all time.

UT 99 was everything

Most badass game on my childhood to till! Wow, GOD of 3rd person shooter.

Excellent video. UT-99 was the perfect game, but EVEN better with mods. I played the mod Strike Force so much, i tried to get hurt just so i would get ALL the medals at the end of the game. (purple star)

I remember when I purchased Unreal Tournament GOTY Edition when it first came out in 2000. It was my first first shooter style game and in my opinion the best one of all time.

KUDOS, your intro nailed the feeling.

The game of my childhood. Breaks my heart that Epic abandoned the reboot for Fortnite. I get it they are a company and Fortnite is their Cash cow but UT put them on the map and it is still the greatest arena FPS to exist.

Seven Bullets - Draco OST is good track. Man, what a history. 20 years later and soundtrack still kicks ass. It was recently used in Hedon. AI is good replacement for human players My mod to go was Tactical Ops, old not commercial version of TO where you played on UT maps with TO guns. To think it was rival to CS was funny. Thanks to my cousin who got internet connection who dropped by with CDs filled with mods, maps and skins. Wish that Thievery got single player, any...

I downloaded the demo back then not knowing the game. Was superstoned. Then realized I was playing against real people what was unheard of. Mindblown. Its been 20 years and I still recall that moment, asking are you guys real people in chat lol.

Jesus I loved UT.. Wouldn't like to think these days how long I spent in CTF_Osiris setting up turrets from the Chaos UT mod.

That was - heh - epic. I've never played any of the single player Unreal I based content, but feel that I ought to give it a go. Still having a lot of fun playing UT on public servers though.

My big love.... Unreal Tournament. Still playing it and im still in love. Played the shit out of ut2004 :)

This was great! Why does it only have 8k views??!

To hear my name at the end "Santiago Celi" with that accent just got me so happy Keep it up, your videos are inspiring for me to work on something similar!

Ive played UT2004 and still play it every chance is get. UT is the kind of well made gems that never get old.. and even if they do.. u still go back to install them

Unreal was the first single player shooter I played, and it to changed my life. I learned to program just so I could make simple mods for ut, and still to this day I consider ut to be the gold stander, I love Unreal.

Damn I love how this video is so damn close to my experience

"A bunch of aging gamers making hour-long impassioned video essays about old video game shit, so that other aging gamers can feel seen." - Noclip Crew

Great vid! Your speech cadence is also very similar to Danny O'Dwyer 👍

the memories...Unreal Tournament forever!

Alright DX, log onto Teamspeak, fire up the server and... LETS ROCK!

still playing, thx for your video

UT 2k4 VCTF was the best time i had in any multiplayer game i have played in my 25 years of PC gaming. By far ...

long live ut99 i'll never get the same enjoyment out of a game than playing CTF on unrealplayground server

Monster hunt bunny track and that base building mode I can't remember the name of this game was my child hood I love it. - bopb

Definitely the reason I am still addicted to fps.

my favorite fps to this day. thank you for this amazing vid.

It kind of sounds like he played offline single player only, which means that he missed a core component of what made UT99 so amazing - it's fantastic online multiplayer scene! There were server communities and their associated discussion forums, Clans and with organized clan leagues and competitive ladders, and organized 5v5 Capture-the-Flag PUG matches (like an unscheduled, spontaneously organized clan match) that were organized on IRC for years with UT99 5v5 CTF PUG match activity continuing to this day.

i got 3 pc's in my whole life,this game installed on all of my pc's,still playin it

Unreal 2 The Awakening was my first game ever, but despite it being a really flawed Unreal game it was awesome in it's own right.

Same. UT played a big role in my life.

Played on a server that had the boat assault map and played the space elevator tower map on another server. Did not play much of the game back in 2003. Played it pirated copy.

Not that anyone cares, but... My UT99 is RE4. The funny thing is, I don't even really like shooters any more. Mostly I play third person action/fighting games these days, but RE4 laid the groundwork for the things I love in those games too: A wide range of combat options (lots of choices for guns translates to large movesets), an emphasis on player choice and expression (pretty much every gun has viable uses translates to a variety of viable playstyles), and making efficient play exciting, risky, rewarding and fun (use of melee attacks and grenades translates to fast paced, frenetic gameplay where good play is highly rewarded with fast clear times or high damage, but mistakes are harshly punished) without making more conservative styles obsolete (you can turtle and play cautiously if you need/want to.) Add to that The Mercenaries mode incentivizing score attack style play and a drive to constantly improve on techniques, routes and adaptation. Then throw in a dash of incredibly tight level design and a well paced campaign. RE4 has practically everything I could ever want in a game, just with the ratio and emphasis of gunplay to melee switched.

ut99 is the best arena fps ever. period

03:59 The sheer volume of flak astounds and amazes me.

Bro as a 10 year old my uncle let me play this on his computer, played mostly shock rifle only capture the flag.. never found a game I was so obsessed with since

dude... l came from watching your last video and afte this one l think l found a soulmate (NO HOMO) l mean,first of lve never knew anyone which l have agreed more in one subject than you, but then l also found that you apreciate such an underrated game that means so much to me as it does to you. Sadly though l didnt had internet acces back then,so l couldnt experience any mods you mention, but regardless ,l feel the same ammount of nostalgia than your words transmited to me when l was watching you videos. You see,back then even my friends werent in to UT, they just wanted to play CS and nothing else(if anything) so it made me fell always alone even though l fisically wasnt. But funny enough l have the feeling that it had to do also with the fact than when we played UT3,(back then when we skipped school and cyber cafes were a thing) l would kick their asses so bad that they just wanted to play that boring ass game CS lol. Anyways, UT was one of my first PC games l can remeber(or l couldnt forget to this day) so it feels so good to find today someone somewhere has all this feels for it just like me.So thank you for this and thanks for being so awesome dude.l will be following your carrer with great interest... Bye for now lol