BEST UNREAL???

Indy500 · 25 Mar 2011 at 17:46

Unreal Tournament (one of the few games popular enough for local LANs at the time), followed by UT2004.

jorzeh · 25 Mar 2011 at 17:51

The first UT hands down for me i must have put in more time on that game then anyother game i ever owned, Glide tech was amazing back then, I played it so much i didn't go out of the house for 3 months atleast. EPIC.

Wispy · 25 Mar 2011 at 20:00

UT2004 iTDM, best fun game. It had a great community and met some good blokes

robgmun · 25 Mar 2011 at 20:10

Unreal 2 is one of the most underrated games ever. Each level was amazing and completely different from the previous one, and the last level was just sublime

ShiWarrior · 25 Mar 2011 at 20:29

Unreal Tournament

Megahurtz400 · 25 Mar 2011 at 21:30

UT99.

No mods, lets kill some stuff!

Ozzie Dave · 25 Mar 2011 at 21:54

Unreal Tournament gets my vote. Best fun I had with a shooter online. It had an atmosphere that really got me. I just couldn't get into the later ones. And other shooters either for that matter. Have moved away from the genre now.

Impy77 · 25 Mar 2011 at 22:33

Unreal Tournament follow by UT2k4

HangTime · 25 Mar 2011 at 22:46

claypigeon101 said:
I open up the 12-year-old Unreal Tournament and I just realise that it all stemmed from this, this was the ground breaker that so many games today are built on, from or otherwise have taken inspiration from in some way.

Leave it out, UT was hardly groundbreaking compared to stuff like Quake (the first true 3d FPS, that also gave us stuff like ingame console, tcp/ip multiplayer, clans etc etc)

Certainly more of an evolution than revolution.

Personally I'd say Unreal is the best.

JonnyT · 26 Mar 2011 at 00:06

UT GOTY edition

Excessive mod for extra bonus fun in a LAN deathmatch

badcompany · 26 Mar 2011 at 06:58

Unreal was ground breaking at the time, glide was ace

But overall I guess ut99 was the most popular and I enjoyed ut2003 after that it went down hill with the adding of vehicles it's pretty much what happened to cod series the adding of the extra crap ie kill streaks unlocks and the what not that spoiled that for me

I guess I am a fragging purist and nothing beats quake dm experience

TheBrooder · 26 Mar 2011 at 07:39

Unreal Tournament was by far the best. Great community, loads of leagues/competitions. The golden age of fps for me!

CTF was brilliant, really good maps.

mikeyholt · 26 Mar 2011 at 12:38

UT99 definitely!

Edward78 · 26 Mar 2011 at 14:28

I loved UT2004 plus the Ballistic Weapons mod, it was great fun when I played UT2k4.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2UrQxMm-To&feature=related

Azza · 26 Mar 2011 at 17:50

Can't decided between UT2K3 & 2K4.

Some of the mods for 2K4 were amazing though.

Rroff · 26 Mar 2011 at 21:44

HangTime said:
Leave it out, UT was hardly groundbreaking compared to stuff like Quake (the first true 3d FPS, that also gave us stuff like ingame console, tcp/ip multiplayer, clans etc etc) Certainly more of an evolution than revolution.

Personally I'd say Unreal is the best.

Yeah tho I have a healthy respect for what they did with Unreal and Unreal Tournament (not a fan of the later ones) - it was the id shooters that cut the cloth and everything else followed or improved on that pattern.

The ambience they managed with the Unreal SP and UT MP was sublime tho and IMO not really matched before or since, got fond memories of Bluff Eversmoking and the Sunspire and playing assault on overlord til 4am on release day of UT99.

Rozzy85 · 26 Mar 2011 at 21:50

Only played UT2004 but I really enjoyed it when it was in its prime. Onslaught mode was the best.

Tried to play it again when my computer couldn't play anything else but it's virtually dead with only a handful of servers filled with idiots who play the same maps over.

Indy500 · 26 Mar 2011 at 22:36

Rozzy85 said:
Tried to play it again when my computer couldn't play anything else but it's virtually dead with only a handful of servers filled with idiots who play the same maps over.

A bit exaggerated, even if it is down to two hundred or so servers. Then again, with the sheer number of multiplayer shooters being released each year, it's to be expected. The original's faring somewhat better (more variety in the servers and more players).

TheGedi · 26 Mar 2011 at 22:43

Unreal Tournament 99.

Rozzy85 · 26 Mar 2011 at 23:10

sr4470 said:
A bit exaggerated, even if it is down to two hundred or so servers. Then again, with the sheer number of multiplayer shooters being released each year, it's to be expected. The original's faring somewhat better (more variety in the servers and more players).

There were servers but no good servers. For me there weren't many under <100ms with players in and the ones that had people in where all 'replay the same map over and over' ones. The players were mostly your typical hardcore who've played it for years meaning no fun to get back into. I was hoping to play some of the maps I enjoyed back then but no one plays them anymore.

It's probably been too long for me since I last played. I still remember when the ECE pack got released. Don't think I'll play it again which is a shame but all good things have to come to an end.