Unreal Tournament 22 Years Later: An LGR Retrospective
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 มิ.ย. 2021
- 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:
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#LGR #Review #UT99 - เกม
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.
Haven't played UT in like 20 years but I just fired up the P3 with a GeForce 2.
Still remember the feeling of defeting Xan in Godlike... I am just disapointed of not seeing a single dodge in the video, that is like mandatory to play UT.
Yeah, i was just about to say - what about telefraging... 😃 Too late!
@@themaun He did show a few dodges though he never talked about them.
I'd love to have a lan party with ya at some point lad! Pretty sure we are the same age too lmfao
I'm looking forward to all the retirement home LAN parties that are coming our way
Hahahaha
Business idea.
Can't wait to get fragged by gamers decades older than me.
Yes
Gen X retirement homes are going to need fiber optic, PCs in every room, and IV dripped energy drinks.
"Double kill! Multi Kill! Ultra kill! Mo-mo-mo MONSTER KILL!" 💖
god like
Holy sh-it-it-it!
Classic~
"KILLING SPREE!" 😎
Kill con carnage...Killamanjaro
Can we just take a moment to respect how superior the Bot AI was in this, compared to many of today's games?
So much so, when I first started playing I thought I was online playing against real people. It took me awhile to realize it was single player AI.
@@realJimMarshall Me too
%100
Logue and Tamerlane 🙂
Well what I will say is that AI hasn't gotten any better since then. However I wouldn't say it was any better than now either.
I've always been a fan of AI, and have been both amazed and extremely disappointed at how modern AI is still terrible despite how graphics and computing power have improved 100-fold. It makes no sense how we have these ultra powerful CPUs yet the AI is the same or worse as 20 years ago.
UT99 was and always will be a masterpiece.
The fact UT99 still has people playing on servers should show how awesome the game is
Not to mention the modules that would allow people make 3rd party graphics and sound drivers that would somehow make the game playable on modern computers.
@@MarcSola7 I play it on Windows 10 without any 3rd party driver.
Sadly, the online server usually are filled with really uber players. Back in the 99's and early 2000's, I could manage to get on the first five best player on nearly all DM online games. But now...
@@luispanaderoguardeno3306 now we are old :)
My personal fav servers are the sniper maps and maps where your real small and the world is huge :)
I still play Unreal Tournament and Quake 3 with Bots. Never grew tired of these......Can't say the same for many other old games.
Bethesda making Quake 3 free on Bethesda store revived the Multiplayer Servers
I play unreal 17 with bots almost daily! I wish they wouldn't have pulled the plug on that game for fortnight
Just wanted to throw in I still play a game called Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis & Resistance JUST to mess around with the map editor and play with the AI/bots, and make the AI fight each other. Stuff like that is still fun to me. So I can totally see why someone still plays with the bots in UT and Quake.
Same only I play Unreal Tournament 2k4. Bots are so great.
You don't need to play with bots, the UT scene is still very much active. You can usually find a server online with people still.
Honestly, I still find older games like UT and Q3A more enjoyable than almost any FPS out today. No DLCs, no 4-layered controls, no needing to worry about optimizing loadouts. Just grab a weapon and go.
Amen, brother. Out of all the games that came out since probably only Counter-Strike has some of the same magic that makes you come back again and again.
You guys should try Xonotic.
and the brainwashed players these days would have you believe that these games are dead lol.
Same
@@OneMeanDragon For real. Quake III is still thriving there are tons of people playing it all these years later.
This demo made it's way around my highschools's shared drives in '05-'06.
Had a substitute teacher for my computer networking class one day. We wired up a LAN, and "validated" it by playing Unreal Tournament... for the entire period. I'll never forget that day.
(Teacher wasn't happy when he came back :))
That's a good sub... Even if they went off script.
Damn, a networking class in high school? Wish I had that.
Lol nice. Had a similar experience the same year but with Quake 3. So much fun
We had such lax teachers in my day that someone even brought their N64 to school and we played GoldenEye. I ended up playing most of the demo discs I got at school and even a couple of games before I had my own computer at home. For some reason, we played a lot of Deer Hunter and Outlaw.
This is alive and well as in 2016 me and the bois booted up Halo CE and had a lan over the a substitute computer lab period. Great times
Still play UT99 on a weekly basis, so many memories i can't stop playing it
Haha they still have servers up on that sucker cause I'd have to get back on lol
Nevermind should I waited getting longer in the video lol
I'd like to play with people.
@@TheFly212 i still like to kill people.... maybe i´am a Murderer, maybe i´am a Gamer :-P
Amen to that
The *_practice mooode_* joke will never stop being funny.
for those who don't get it, it's a sound clip from "Extreme Rock Climbing" episode of LGR
This kind of deep LGR lore callback is always a joy to come across in the newer videos.
@@proCaylak just to further clarify, It’s a sound clip from the “Extreme Rock Climbing” game featured in that LGR episode.
@@Charlesb88 you literally replied to the guy explaining what it was... by explaining what it was. you just repeated him
@@jbfarley it could be some AI stuff being tested on that account. it's getting harder to be surprised nowadays.
My dad played this game ALL THE TIME in his computer room when I was little. The sounds of everything from the guns to the characters dying really brings me back to hearing his game from the other room behind me while I played my games and watched TV. Simple times.
You play this game on Godlike all you hear is screaming lol.
I used to modify each bots, give them unique names and build a background story for them. As I play with them, I would develop their story for why they are fighting in the arena. I younger sister would watch me play and join in the narration. This game was such a great after school de-stressor.
That's actually an amazing idea
god that just fantastic
as a kid my dad was the kind of dude who would just come home randomly with a gift, set it down and walk out of the room with a smile. one fateful day in 2000, he plopped UT99 on the desk in the little office my brother and I would hangout in all the time and life was never the same.
haha, I do the same, but instead of gifts I set down farts
awesome Dad moments though, I wonder if he ever played with the thought 😂
"Facing Worlds" was the most awe-inspiring map, and still is.
I agree
Its nothing short of amazing.
Close tie between Blood Gulch and Facing Worlds for best CTF maps ever.
And the music for the map was.... Bliss!
Ah I remember playing facing worlds moded map Halo custom edition I still have it 🤤 yes now i know im not alone on facing worlds. I never had a big enough friend's list to fill the map EVER.
:(
So today Epic announced that they're shutting down the old Unreal servers
And to believe this was the first computer game I played when I was way younger. It breaks my heart
That is really not such a bad thing since the AI in this game are just as good or better as real players.
What does that mean? Even as recently as 4 years ago I played UT in a variety of servers online every day. Does this mean ALL UT online servers are dead?
@@jeanlundi2141 some community efforts are ongoing to host their own master servers, even got one for ut2k4 now I think, but they require special patches or Ini hacks. Without this nearly all online play (unless you know the server IP) is dead
Also, for the time being there is no legal way to purchase any unreal titles
@@FireCrack Blood hell. That's weird. I mean the second thing. And as for the servers, that's kinda sad...but surely it won't go on forerver? I mean, didn't the same thing happened with say, Halo 1 PC? Microsoft/bungie doesn't support it, but people still play somehow?
This and UT2K4 are bonafide masterpieces; two of the greatest PC-games ever made.
Clint. Dude. You didn't even talk about how UT started the whole kill announcer. UT wouldn't be the same with "mmmmonster kill"
I always put UT & KI in the same group of awesome games due to this when I was a kid.
YESSSSSS and now its a staple of League of Legends! and none of the newbs know where it came from....."XXXX is GODLIKE"
@@crisnmaryfam7344 LoL copied that from Dota, though it copied everything from Dota.
@@hellishinc you might want to go back and check your history, LoL and Dota both started from one group of people who formed the original games FROM custom maps they made on warcraft 3 and starcraft called "DOTA" or "AoS" among other things... Your talking to someone who tested LoL/DOTA alpha version 0.0001 on starcraft and wc3 back in the day lmao.
@@hellishinc "Defense of the Ancients (DotA) is a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) mod for the video game Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (2002) and its expansion, The Frozen Throne. The objective of the game is for each team to destroy their opponents' Ancient, a heavily guarded structure at the opposing corner of the map, which is based on the "Aeon of Strife" map for StarCraft. Players use powerful units known as heroes, and are assisted by allied teammates and AI-controlled fighters. As in role-playing games, players level up their heroes and use gold to buy equipment during the mission.
The scenario was developed with the "World Editor" of Reign of Chaos, and was updated upon the release of its expansion, The Frozen Throne. There have been many variations of the original concept, the most popular being DotA Allstars, eventually simplified to DotA. The mod has been maintained by several authors during development, with the pseudonymous designer, known as IceFrog, maintaining the game since the mid-2000s.
DotA became a feature at several worldwide tournaments, including Blizzard Entertainment's BlizzCon and the Asian World Cyber Games. Critical reception to DotA was positive, with it being called one of the most popular mods of any game.[1] DotA is largely attributed as being the most significant inspiration for the MOBA genre.[2][3] American video game developer Valve acquired the intellectual property rights to DotA in 2009 to develop a franchise, beginning with a standalone sequel, Dota 2, released in July 2013.[4][5]
It's hell getting older but at least we have those LAN party memories.
Music:
[0:00] Unreal Tournament - Mechanism Eight
[3:13] Unreal Tournament - Intro
[4:05] UT - Menu Theme
[5:37] UT - The Course
[9:55] UT - Foregone Destruction
[14:10] UT - Trophy Room
[14:44] UT - Menu Theme
[15:21] UT - Ending
[17:05] UT - Mechanism Eight
[19:26] UT - Go Down
[21:18] UT - Botpack #9
[22:08] UT - Go Down
Unreal Tournament 2003-2004 was incredibly fun online. I miss those days.
meh... and yes and no. It wasn't as widespread for sopme reason, compared to UT99.
Many people didn't bother buying UT2004, so most servers that hosted the game had ONS-TORLAN map everywhere. (which is the map in UT2004 demo. )
Best arena shooter I've ever played. And still holds up more than two decades later. Even the visuals are still fine enough for me. A true classic.
Only Quake 3 was better xD
@@ludwigvanbeethoven61 nope doom spawned fps and ut99 made it
@@vvvvv6574 ....yeah the good old UT vs Quake3 bashing xD. we hated Unreal Tournament 20 years ago. It felt like "wanna be"-Quake... But tbh both Quake3 and Unreal were better games than ANY FPS of today...
Unreal and Unreal Tournament are awesome love those games
With the exception of the mouse resolution. I heavily recommend UT2004 over the 99 original.
If there is one thing that's certain, is that that announcer for Unreal Tournament lived far past Unreal Tournament itself. Boot up a community server for Team Fortress 2 right now, chances are you'll still hear those great voices of "Ultra Kill!" and "Monster Kill!"
Dota 2 as well, in fact it uses this announcer by default. I hope it lives on forever in one way or another, it's become part of multiplayer gaming tradition. :)
My dad was huge in the Unreal scene, he was a part of a pretty big clan (NBK), ran multiple severs, and he made a few maps, including the entire town of southpark, at one point he was top 100 in the instagib game mode
Legendary Dad. I think you should play with him, see if he still got it ;)
@@lunaticberserker5869 he hasn't played unreal in awhile since epic abandoned the newest for fortnite, but he's still a gamer and would easily kick ass still
I remember NBK, what was your dads nick name? I was in MulletMen [m2]
@@richardb9852 he was rattman, but I feel like back then there were lots of clans using the same names, Notorious Band of Killas
Oh ok I thought it was Natrual Born Killers TDM & CTF Clan. 😅 My username was Kush and AsSMaN 😂
can we take a moment ot appreciate that "Practice Mode" is still being a thing after sooo many years? I mean, LGR videos were like VHS quality back then
I'm still convinced they were filmed on a VHS camcorder haha
That's because they _were_ recorded on VHS. I showed the old camera setup in the LGR tenth anniversary special!
The game also owes its huge player base to the fact that it didn't have any anti-piracy protection in place. Just burn the disc and you're good to go.
No CDKey or nothing?
@@override7486 nope. Just install and let’s roll. Same as Diablo 1.
With the official patch you didn't even need that, because it removed the CD check. Just one person needs to install, apply patch, pack it in a ZIP file and make the entire LAN-party happy. Same with Quake 3, you didn't even need to install that, you could just copy it off the CD and run it. It asks for a CD key, but you can cancel that by pressing Escape and play on local network ^^
the fact they still run the master servers and allow pirated copies to play online shows how much they appreciate the original unreal community. epic games may be a generic profit driven company these days but they still let people play ut entirely unrestricted after over two decades. so many developers just pull the plug after a short time
I usually would share my copy with some friends. That alone made that at least 4 to 8 people would connect daily to a paid server service from AOL with top notch servers. I believe AOL had to pay a share to EPIC...
Its Unreal how good shape all your packages and CD sleeves are in!
UT99 is about as close to perfect to me as any game could be. It was so easy to just dissolve nights away with match after match, the game modes were solid, the mods and custom stuff was fantastic. Just lightning in a bottle.
Life will never be the same as it was in this glorious time. Those LAN parties were incredible!
"Whatever, he's dead. Suck my hip thrusts" is my new favorite Clint quote
For real i lul'ed hard at that one
Alexander brandon is to this day unparallelled. UT, Deus Ex, Tyrian, on and on just amazing soundtracks that defined the 1995-2005 era of scifi games.
If anybody is looking for other amazing tracks from unreal check out razorback and organic.
razorback is the artist I assume ?
@@kirillholt2329 No it's the name of the track from unreal tournament.
TY I love the soundtrack
GO MIKEY
Thanks! I will check them out! Love the unreal soundtracks!
In High School, a Legendary AV student named Tom installed UT for everyone in Graphic Arts class. So many of us skipped class or lunch to get some LAN matches in.
Good times, thanks Tom.
Unreal Tournament is such a timeless masterpiece... It is LITERALLY "UNREAL" (how good it is)!
I didn't realize nostalgia could be so painful. Those were damn good days.
Fucking right!!!
@@VideoAmericanStyle
Yes!
Why didn’t anyone tell me to take it in more and really appreciate it?? Ughhhhhh
are big box pc games still alive or dead?
@@joshuagraham2843
They still are a thing, but times were different due to the way the internet worked, or how small the world felt back then.
It’s hard to explain without going into a ton of detail. It’s just an era we all miss.
Fuck i rememeber when i was graduating school and me and my friends from class went on a server for a multitude of deathmatches and CTF's nothing but good memories.
I ran across Alexander Brandon in the comments under a video on YT for the UT soundtrack. I thanked him for all the years of pleasure his, and the others', music has given me. I told him how I listen to it at least once a week, to this day. He seemed shocked that anyone still listened to it. I told him that we are everywhere.
That soundtrack shaped my taste in music
Link the video here so I can do the same.
We ARE everywhere!
ut99 and JSRF have 2 of the best videogame soundtracks ive ever heard
There are dozens of us! DOZENS!
I still remember downloading a bunch of models like the Simpsons characters and having them fight each other. Came with voice packs too, so it made it really work.
Oh man, the best was putting all SOUTH PARK characters in the game, plus voice packs, and crazy weapons mutator! Totally revamped the game!
Hahah, and Dr. Freakenstein, remember him? Old decrepit guy in a wooden wheelchair of hell. 😂
Yes! And Bender from Futurama
Thanks for the nostalgia burst! Spent many many hours on Deck16, trying to recreate that amazing feeling of jumping off the ramps, spinning around and landing a headshot while falling down to the lower level...
I remember buying a GeForce 2 MX and it came with a copy of UT and a disc that had hi-res textures for UT as well. I was already playing UT with my Voodoo 2 at that point.
I used to listen to Foregone Destruction on loop!
This video brings back so many good memories.
Same here - played it on my GeForce 2 MX400 and an Athlon XP 1600+, the latter was of course overclocked to the max... Ah the times. Carrying my BELINEA 19" CRT to LAN parties, I mean, how much did this thing weigh??
Same. :) Also, you can actually just play the original music MOD files from Unreal Tournament straight from the game folder directory. ;)
voodoo 5500 for me
I played this on my Riva TNT on a Pentium 2 400 MHz. Ran really well at 1024x768.
@@salmon85 those were kick ass cards back then! Wish i Kept mine
The nostalgia is overflowing.
so are the lies...1k+ hrs playing this game....ya right
@@johnr4836 Not as far-fetched as you may think. This was our go-to game all four years of college.
Here before his comment blows up
It is so true about the nostalgia
@@tangelogee im jk i played tf outta this on Dreamcast myself
@@johnr4836 The game came out in 1999. How many hours do you think have gone by since then?
I wish every generation of gamer to cherish a game as much as we LOVED UT'99.
This was the pinnacle of shooter games for me. This was the best. And nothing has topped it since then.
The amount of nostalgia here makes me want to fucking cry.
I will never forget the first time I got God Like in UT. Been chasing that feeling for years now.
The closest I’ve come to that feeling is mixing 2 parts crack with 3 parts heroin and a sprinkle of meth, taken while choking a prostitute.
@@ryanhamstra49 still doesn’t quite hit the same
Hey. You may not be a god but you are a King.
MO MO MO MONSTERKILL
@@reinerhoch1357 Still gives me a thrill to this day. Seeing that part of the video I was laughing maniacally.
I was 20 years old and had just opened a LAN center when this came out. That UT demo instantly became the primary game we all played. I also quickly learned that headphones were necessary.. a room full of computer speakers screaming Multi Kill for 12 straight hours was exhausting.
I’ll be at your geriatric LAN parties!
I like online playing, but there's nothing like a LAN party
@@freedonx while playing online vs random people feels like you are playing only for the sake of improving, lan gaming is all about sharing the fun, sadly 99% of modern games don't feature lan anymore.....
@@lmeza1983 Doesn't have to be LAN per see. Could be everyone connected to the internet on the same room, but still 'a party'
The greatest game ever created. Including chess. I'm serious.
Add StarCraft to that
"The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past" would win it for me. Just fantastic. It still holds up today.
Man this is still probably my favourite game of all time. This vid has just convinced me to get it and play it again 😊
man I remember sinking hours into UT. even though I didn't have internet back then, playing round after round with bots. what you sayed about "high intensity zen" at 6:30 is so true. the game had such a soothing effect, and 5 hours felt like 30 minutes
"YOU BE DEAD" entered the lexicon of me and my friends.
"Sucker!"
xD
Dirtbag!
Pwned!
I still remember getting the demo from a magazine CD, installing it, and playing Morpheus for easily 10 hours straight... And then when the game released, first in line to buy it, and proceed to what seems an infinite number of hours playing all the modes, remembering CTF Face and the InstaGib very fondly at LAN parties I'd put together!
Thank you ever so much for doing this retrospective. So many memories! This is easily one of the best videos & quality content I have seen on TH-cam since its inception. Amazing job!
Came here because of your podcast interview with the Video Game History Hour. Really enjoyed this, brought back many memories from high school and college. Looking forward to watching more of your vids
Thank you, I hope you continue to enjoy!
This was one of my favorite games when I was younger. Me and my dad had our PCs networked and we would play botmatches endlessly. He even got into map making and made a Giant map called BubbaBath. It was a replica of our actual IRL bathroom. I still have it!
Archive it online!
I would be interested to see that. :)
That map has to be uploaded to the public.We have to play it. It has to become the main feature of the LGRcon LAN in 2028
_That sound like the kind of childhood most of us wish they had._
Did he make that map public, by chance? I do remember fragging away in someone's custom bathroom map. It was pretty cool...
Literal chills when that menu theme started playing at 4:09 . This game helped define my childhood.
Side note: LGR playing LGI 😊
I'm so pissed that Epic Games removed Unreal Tournament and Unreal Tournament 2004 from all store fronts.
they did?? i feel lucky i bought it a few years ago then
Unreal has been dead since 2007. You can find Gears of War artwork in several UT2004 .utx texture files, CliffyB and friends were already looking for the next big thing even back then. No surprise what Epic became. The Golden Age of gaming has come and gone, I just feel blessed to have experienced it
Pirate hat. It's not like they had any copy protection on the games.
I played this when I was 9 years old and got so addicted it blew my tiny mind. No death match game comes close to this beautiful gorey 90s techno masterpiece. I wish I could still play this. I have a shitty laptop and when I tried to play it again it was running so fast and skipping I couldn't enjoy it
agree i just stopped playing apex today, but i also remember this game playing in school
Wow, your parents let you play such a violent game at age 9? I was 20 when this game was released, and I didn't even play it then.
Thanks for the vicarious trip down memory lane! I always turned music off and had a playlist from iTunes running as a soundtrack to the gameplay. Appreciate your shoutout to the game's music.
This menu music is my childhood
Really relating to the "High Intensity Zen", that's exactly it.
Reinstalled after two minutes. I'll watch the rest of this video later - I've got some fragging to do!
hell yea
:/
This game marked an all era, so much gamers have memories from this game.
probably one of the best FPS ever, I'm still having fun after all these years !
Oh lord, that takes me back! That shot of your shelf, I had almost every game in there. Those game boxes were what my wet dreams consisted of as a kid. Half Life, Alien vs Predator, Turok, Oni, Severence Blade of Darkness, Die by the Sword, Alice in Wonderland, Icewind Dale, Planescape Torment, Baldurs Gate, Black & White Civ 1-3, Settlers, GEX, Dungeon Keeper, Warcraft, Starcraft, Heroes of Might and Magic, AoE, KKND, Shogun, Rune, Operation Flashpoint, Soldier of Fortune, Unreal, UT, Quake, MDK, Thief, Enclave, Legacy of Kain, Nightmare Creatures. Oh man, I can go on forever..those were some insanely good times!
That's a fucking A-tier list there my man.
This is pretty much a perfect review and look back, describing exactly how I felt (and still feel today) when I picked up the game at only 8 years old. Still my favorite game to this day, and probably always will be. The Godlike playthrough I did recently was SO much fun. Though I think I secretly love Assault a bit more than you LGR haha, still one of my favorite game modes ever, even with the silly bot AI on it sometimes. Huge review man, bigups!
Glad to see other people who feel the same way, I still do games with friends at least once a week on UT and UT2004, sometimes 2003 for shits n giggles cause a few things from that game are still unique and nostalgic compared to 2004. It would be cool if some people on this video could get together for a party game!
Unreal Tournament '99 is quite literally one of the absolute best games ever made in history. And don't anyone even try to argue otherwise because I will destroy you with a shit-ton of facts.
Oh by the way, this is tribute art for UT99's 20th anniversary. (Which Epic brilliantly forgot about completely.) intosanctuary . com/index.php?threads/foregone-transcendence-a-tribute-for-unreal-tournament-99s-20th-anniversary.865/
@@arnox4554 There would be no Epic, Fornite, Apex, COD, Halo, Zombies, or any of that gameplay without UT. Its sad that UT is dead like Half Life as far as new games go. But the old games are 100% fully alive! Steam and Epic are the biggest PC gaming platforms, and UT and Half Life are the games those companies created,,, its no shocker that the companies who created the 2 greatest shooting games ever are billion dollar corporations now. Its just sad that they've left those games in the dust, because they dont care! They make so much money elsewhere,,, its the same reason why MGM doesnt give a damn about making a real Goldeneye remake and they keep cancelling/shutting down attempts. Or why Pokemon will never have a true online MMO version. Theyre doing fine without those things. But the world suffers.
@@MoneyHoneyBunny Fun fact. UT99 invented Theater mode long before even Halo: CE was a thing. Also, portals before Portal or even Half-Life.
I was 15 at the time, but yes - UT is also my favourite game of all time. It's the game I've never uninstalled and I also keep a copy of it on the USB drive attached to my keyring, just in case. This game has given me so many wonderful memories - playing in Internet cafes with friends, downloading maps from the Internet and transporting them back home on floppy disks, creating my own maps, saving to upgrade my PC so that the game can run better.
UT has such a perfect weapons set. Every weapon is unique, there's no filler or barely different doubles
This. It's like every weapon is valuable and incredibly balanced. No one is better than other. I love them all!
I think it's fantastic that the shock rifle has a hidden function. Shoot a secondary fire energy ball with the primary fire beam for an exploding energy ball. Difficult to master but lethal in a pros hands. It's a playfully genius way to add a hidden function, I can't think of any other fps weapon like this
Ahh... the heathseaking mode of the Rocket Launcher... Was really funny.
Very cool, passionate and nostalgic review! Thank you!
I loved Unreal Tournament in my younger years. Now I feel like playing it again.
I'm surprised that the Homing Rockets weren't ever mentioned.
One of the best features!❤❤
"The demo kept me satiated long enough that it wasn't actually until over a year later that I grabbed the full version" - Ah, that's a textbook "Suffering from success" on UT's part.
The same thing happened with quake 3 too
Its funny how Epic and "Unreal" turned that whole thing around lmao. Fortnite.. oooh fortnite.... Were you more adult focused and less micro money focused at kids... the awesome game that would have spawned... custom skins and such like UT had... mods... we can dream right?
I remember playing these games single player because I didn't have a regular internet connection at the time and there was just an atmosphere to them that I can't describe.
I hear ya... the bots were so good even if I couldnt get online I would still play the bots for hours.
@@Darkandahalf bots were difficult but playing online was more even difficult due to skill level, that's why I stuck to 2 player mode (lan) vs bots in team death matches and CTF, including vehicles in later games totally changed the pace making it slower still I hate the teleportation gun.
@@lmeza1983 unfortunately my only way to play LAN was through my older brother and his friends and they were all Quake junkies who just didn't get Unreal. I remember one time we tried to LAN Unreal and the network code was so bad in Unreal 1 we couldn't get it to work properly. So I had to resign myself to kicking their asses in Quake 2 instead :D
This video made me remember a very very good childhood memory, thank you sir. When you for the first time experience something truly amazing, as the sheer fun this game is. I was 13 back then, and my god it was glorious, on those 16 inch big heating monitors.
PS : I also check every new mouse with UT xd
Still looking good today imo. Thank you for showing Facing Worlds and playing the excellent music from that map.
Playing it back in 99 felt almost magical at times, a sense of out of this world. And it still holds up.
You could say it felt... Unreal...
yae
The game DOES have something unique and magical to it for sure. It's difficult to put a finger on it, but it makes you bond with that experience of playing with others in a scifi universe in quite a deep way.
its so underrated, Quake 3 kinda stole its thunder but in alot of ways it holds up better than the latter these days
mufugga got a multikill with 360 no scope on facing worlds... you have my respect LGR
I liked UT99 much mire than Q3, although I only had Q3 on my computer, so I had to go to my friend to play UT99. He had an LCD monitor, which was unbelievable at the time. Truly a wonderful time
Beautiful game. I played it in 2001 in my first PC. As LGR said, play this was like being in Zen state.
Haha so you play on Adept too! xD
I played the sequels, and the Quake games too, and they were good, but none ever quite captured the same level of utter fun as UT99 did.
I like Quake 3 better for pure DM/Duel as I love their movement but UT99 on team modes and with mods is much better.
@@kayeplaguedoc9054 Q3 was more polished and more balanced, but UT99 just has a more "fun" feel for me. Don't get me wrong, I loved Q3 and played the shit out of that as well. But it felt more sterile, more serious. UT99 always felt more about having fun. Also I preferred the graphics (especially the lighting) and the UT99 music was infinitely better. Overall UT99 wins it out for me, but I agree that as a competitive DM game, Q3 is a much better game (which is also why it endured for so long).
Fancy seeing Thomas here!
I think UT2004 & it’s mods/mutators make it one of my favorite games of all time, and it was because of that badass UT2003 Demo!
@@nickharmer9722 I'm team UT GOTY but UT 2004 was a truly great game!
I just found your channel. Awesome content! You brought back so many great memories. Keep it up please.
Thank you!
My play experience was on Dreamcast. I actually still have it in the case and complete. 😁 This game was so amazing.
No mention of telefrags? Man, there is nothing more satisfying than a successful telefrag.
Crap! I even recorded telefragging footage but I didn't add it to the script.
It absolutely is!! One of my favorite gaming memories is *winning* the last fight against Malcolm on UT2004 thanks to a telefrag when I was around 12.
I used the teleporter at the front of the ship right as he was entering the other one and I won!!
One of my favorite mods was the "Hanson" sticky bomb, which would attach speakers to an enemy player that would blast "mmmmbop" so they couldn't hide easily.
I can't think of anything more 2000 than that
Absolutely loved this game when it came out, and I too played the hell out of the demo version from PC Gamer before getting the full release. Then UT 2004 came out and I loved that even more.
It's such a shame that Epic has shelved the new UT. It's incredibly playable in it's current form, even in the alpha state, it just needs a bit more work and more maps. I say Epic should do this: Assign like one or 2 people to oversee and approve game assets and let the fans and community develop stuff for it. Maps, UI adjustments, game modes, etc. Let fans set up servers for it too!
Great video. I played an insane amount of UT back in the day, and still fire it up now and again. Nothing else matches that particular adrenaline rush (though UT 2003 instagib DM has its appeal). One UT99 move I always loved -- but never totally mastered -- was Translocating on top of the central rocky mass on Lava Giant, and sniping the enemy base untilI I ran out of ammo. Had to jump from the exact right spot, throw the beacon at the exact peak of the jump, angle it so it cleared the lip, and translocate before falling into the lava. SO satisfying when I pulled it off.
I think humanity peaked 1999, it's been all downhill from there.
hell yes, yes man!
1999 was peak 2000's XD
Nah man
Yes. Instead of Armageddon, we suffer a slow long painful decline. Yeah the world ended, except for misery, pain and boredom. Not Prince's 1999, we got R.E.M.'s "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)"
Isn't that why The Matrix chose that time period to enslave humanity?
This felt more like a love letter to UT than a retro review, and I loved it. With quite possibly 5000+ hours on the game during my teens, it has a truly special place in my heart, and although I've never experienced the multiplayer past like, 8 players, one of my dreams is to play a 4v4v4v4 TDM with capable players someday.
Man this is awesome! Thank you!!
Years spent playing Capture the Flag in my clan or Last Man Standing came flooding back on watching this, great times playing as my old tag Sadarak :) Thanks for the memories and thanks for the vid LGR :)
I have SO many good memories playing this game with my dad. He wasn't exactly the most responsible parent and introduced me to the game when I was 5 (lol). We played for hours together, and when I got older we learned how to make maps together. Now I need to go reinstall it...
I love the music from the unreal games. Still listen to the tunes to this day.
Yes, same here. Check out Necto Ulin and Mothership Loudspeakerz on TH-cam.
Skyward Fire is one of my all time favourites... a damn classic.
@@KingPBJames YES! Necto Ulin remixes ARE A MUST. Nu kicks so much ass.
i had no idea OldUnreal was a thing until today, i've been craving multiplayer since 2005. thanks!!
Oh man…. This video hits the memory space in my brain of those beautiful years spent playing UT. If they just had a UT channel where I could watch people playing live I would be watching that more than TH-cam! Thanks for the memories. Time to boot camp the Mac and play some UT!!
my brother's favorite game aside from quake 3 arena. every time i see either of these games, i remember him. missing him so much! may his soul rest in peace :-(
Ah yes, The LAN parties, where everyone took the sides of their systems off to show off the Vodoo cards and Athlon with dual fans, those were the times. UT and Tribes
Tribes 2, to this day, is still the king of kings.
We took the sides off for extra cooling. But really to show off the overclocking setup.
Not to mention the trade in porn, anime and music. hahaha
To this day, I STILL play this game! This is the best review of UT I have ever seen. It's nostalgic gameplay takes me back to a simpler time when you could call someone at the LAN party a "douchebag" and not make them cry. We used to play this at the shop I worked at during lunch. Before UT, it was Quake 2 and Duke Nukem 3D. Kudos to the Nerf Arena Blast plug as I had that game also. If you find a way to get it running on Windows 10, PLEASE let me know. I am about to go the virtual machine route, as it seems in the last few years that they have made alot of compatibility progress for gaming. I hope I can get it to work. Great review! I am now a subscriber!
I was rocking this game around 17 years after release, I was introduced to it in 2015 and I’ve loved it literally so much and coming back to it makes me so happy.
This baby is still one of the best games ever made. Technically and artistically 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 generations of modern gamers. Thanks LGR to review this fabolous classic!!!
I like how UT's assault mode is basically overwatch's granddad. I loved that mode!
Unreal Tournament was such a nice game to relax to. It felt so 'home' to play it.
Dang this really brings me back. You are a few years older than me lgr, I got this around 99 or 2000 and I was 9 or 10 but I loved this game. Need to play it again. So many hours spent playing this game.
Tribes, UT and Starcraft was the reason my parents could never use the phone lol.
Same! I loved Tribes!
Mom! Get off the phone!
I was trash at Tribes but dammit I tried.
@@kloroformd Tribes is what taught me to snipe without a scope, I got really good with the disk launcher while playing CTF all the time.
@@chrisrolves CTF games were my favorite games ever, especially with the whole reinforce a base idea Tribes had going.
I was trash at the disc launcher and the sniping and picking a useable loadout for the jetpacks.
I didn't get good at sniping until CS:S. GunGame became my addiction until L4D.
I miss all the games I didn't know how to play correctly more than the ones I got good at. I could totally go for some Tribes or UT right now.
Unreal Tournament was the biggest reason I was in computer club in high school. I stayed after school almost every day to play in the computer lab with everyone else. The school’s website never did get updated
Similar situation for me but with quake 1 and 2. My vocational education class had us build computers and after we were done with class work for the day the teacher let us play games over LAN on the schools T1 line. We played a lot of quake on there. The teacher was awesome, he told us if principal ever comes in and asks why we are playing games he told us to say we were testing software lol.
@@shroomie108 now that’s a good teacher
@@Drinkabeerandplayagameofficial he was a good teacher. He also let us download music from napster(all legally obviously) and listen to music with headphones. It was mind blowing to go from a 56k modem to a T1 line. On dial up a song took 5 to 10 minutes to download, on a T1 line it took 5 seconds or less. Also he liked battlebots which was in its first season I believe and 1 of the students would record it on VHS and we would all watch it the next day.
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loved your presentation style and ur discs , thanks! #nostalgia
I spend my childhood playing this game oh god i miss those days
Assault mode was my absolute favourite mode, can’t believe other FPS games haven’t had more location storming modes like that 😞
Same. It was so addicting and satisfying. I guess later you sorta got something similar in TF2 or Overwatch but I get it, it’s just not the same.
I really loved how the map changed based on the progress. Oh you know, Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and the later Quake Enemy Territory (I never played that one) were all about this kind of gameplay.
Cheers
Playing in UT Assault league gave me online gameplay feeling like no other game ever since. The amount of skill, tactics, tricks and everything else never to be matched again by any game.
The "new one" has some people playing that still, but its been abandoned by epic
@@testaccount4191 sadly they dont see dollar signs in UT they way they do fortnite
@@studioarcana7486 Hi from a fellow utassault league player ;)
Demo disks were such a thing back in day. Honestly how many people played all of their games. Almost forgotten by history :(
Oh yeah, loved getting my PC gamer
I rarely got the magazines, I lived in Hong Kong when I was younger and there was a crazy import cost so mags like PC Gamer cost like double the cover price, so I ended up trying to download demos (over many hours) on 56k modem, only a few downloads were ever successful, unlike my dad's wrath when he received the internet bill.
Yeah "almost forgotten by history" as in "anyone over 20 can't shut up about them"
You made me fire up the game after years! And those server still run! Thank you!
What a lovely summary of this absolute heartwarming memory ❤️ ty for this..