Unreal Tournament, with the original one often known along with the year 1999 or with the Game of the Year Edition addition to name (UT99 or UT:GOTY) was one game which changed our gaming concepts, a very long time ago. Coming from Epic Games and Digital Extremes, this was the second release from the franchise, and managed to make all the impact by revolutionizing the gaming idea with its arena first-person shooter mode which involved playing against computer as well as other human players in multiplayer mode. I remember this game as the first one which I played online with friends during the early years of the new century.
The game’s domination mode which involved the capturing of control points and defending them, was my favourite during the time. During the lock-down period, I did spend enough time playing the game through LAN, along with Age of Empires 2: Conquerors and Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. It was a nice refreshing of those good old days for me. I would play Unreal Tournament’s original version any time again, and Unreal Tournament 2003 and Unreal Tournament 2004 which came after this game were not that effective in comparison, which makes this version the one game which I might never forget. Remember that there is also a fine background story to this adventure which involved a lot of shooting. There is nothing that matches a perfect head-shot with a sniper rifle or the heated shrapnel launched by a Flak Cannon.
This pyramid level arena has us fighting for our lives in space.
A Gothic model of an arena will have us fighting hard.
A graveyard level is special for Halloween and the inner horror.
The level set on a galleon had some fine moments with visuals.
Sometimes, a few head-shots which a sniper proves to be the best.
This arena map called DM-Hyperblast has been a crowd favourite.
This is an arena which reminds one of hell & those Doom games.
Nothing suits Unreal Tournament 99 like the blood-red colour.
Another level in space means another chance for defying gravity.
DM-Morpheus map is the arena of suicides by falling into space.
***All images are from my game-play with Unreal Tournament much earlier.
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