My dad had a friend's copy of this on the family PC. He wouldn't teach me how to play, since it was so violent and I was so little... but he said he wouldn't stop me from learning how to play myself. It didn't take long before I was a goddamn prodigy at this, my first FPS ever. No multiplayer FPS I've ever played has hit quite as good as this one.
This review contains spoilers
Unreal Tournament was one of my favorite games to play when it first came out, it was the absolute peak of FPS' from the 90's in terms of fluidity, map design, and general game mechanics. The issue with reviewing games of my youth or games that came out long ago is they are susceptible to nostalgia goggles, however I replayed UT earlier this year and it felt just as good if not better than it did before.
UT does absolutely everything right: from the legendary D&B based soundtrack (which was typical for games of this time,) to having tons and tons of interesting levels across various game modes (that were quite large and in depth.) The famed announcements upon killstreaks and multi-kills added to the games flare, hearing "M M M M MONSTER KILL KILL" makes you excessively hype and in the groove of the games fast paced jumping arena combat. There's never a dull moment in UT, whether you're fighting on a smaller 1v1 DM map or one of the larger objectivve based maps.
UT does absolutely everything right: from the legendary D&B based soundtrack (which was typical for games of this time,) to having tons and tons of interesting levels across various game modes (that were quite large and in depth.) The famed announcements upon killstreaks and multi-kills added to the games flare, hearing "M M M M MONSTER KILL KILL" makes you excessively hype and in the groove of the games fast paced jumping arena combat. There's never a dull moment in UT, whether you're fighting on a smaller 1v1 DM map or one of the larger objectivve based maps.
The greatest game of all time, and the game that got me hooked on videogames from an early age. Music is fantastic, map design is fantastic, every gun feels fantastic, and each game mode is fun to play. This game is old but it doesn't feel outdated: a lot of the core mechanics in the game have carried on to later first person shooters. Despite its dwindling online and Epic Games taking this off most online retailers like Steam or GoG, this is still worth picking up and playing if you've never done so.
One of the few games I still play occasionally, I don't play much shooters these days but I'm still one of the very few that still plays this after Epic Games removed the game from every online store, the characters look unique, gameplay is decently fast, it has cool people, iconic soundtrack, death screams and cool weapons, it's a pretty straightforward game and that's why I like it.