Ah, Unreal Tournament: No stores, no cosmetics, no aim assist. Only skill.

So sad that it ended that way. I was super hyped when UT4 was announced and played it for a long time. Back when Quake and Unreal were popular, I was definately a UT guy. The weapons, movement and vivid characters with their countless voice lines were always much more appealing to me. And of course, the legendary announcer, whose iconic quotes are still found in games today! But Quake had one advantage that UT could never make up for: John Carmack.

I still play UT2004 weekly with friends, its by far the best UT. An insane amount of user content, we're talking a game from 2004 easily going over 50gb if you were attempting to download it all. It has the most varied gamemodes and we'll keep playing for years to come!

literally the hardest and most skillful game ever, i still play, but community mods are needed for the game, its really a shame. the game is amazing, good physics, good graphics, but its really a shame to see the game unfinished. for someone in my generation, there arent any games like it for me. and its really sad to see it die :(

Good video ye. It's such a shame that Epic Games abandoned the game. At least the game is still playable today and fun.

Weirdly I just downloaded the game today. Always enjoyed it and although it’s unfinished the movement was so smooth. Wish they would finish it.

Now that Unreal Engine 5 is releasing there's no chance Epic Games will finish UT4 for an older engine. Sad, because it would have been great to see the jump in quality between UT3 and UT4, and the same between UT4 and UT5.

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Oh man, I love the Unreal Tournament series so much. I'm really disappointed that Epic stopped making UT4. UT2004 is the best of the series in my opinion. Great video man!

Arena shooters need to come back. I completely disagree that there's no market for it. It's just not a focus atm because it hasn't been monetized by greedy publishers like the BR scene. Games like this and Quake are still amazing games and ridiculously fun.

I don’t understand how the same company made a masterpiece like Unreal Tournament and an abomination like Fortnite.

Took a nap today and had a dream of playing UT lol. Thats why im here! I played the 1st back in 1998 till UT2004. There were some great game mods. One of my favorites was UT2 XMP. Last time I played was maybe in 2012 playing ut2004. What ever version you play. Best time to play is during the holiday season. Thanksgiving through Christmas. Most older diehard players will come back as they have time away from work and family. Oh and the custom holiday maps are always a treat! See you all soon!

So sad this was never finished. Also a personal message to Tim Sweeney: RELEASE THE SOURCE CODE TO UNREAL 1.

the fact that Epic have decided to completely shut down and remove this game from their store rather than update it to their new online system shows that their motivation has shifted from fairly community driven to corporate profiteering. hopefully UT4UU can revitalise this game's passionate community.

UT2004 is one of my most fave games of all. Everything about it is perfect. The gameplay, the maps, weapons, music, the style.

I personally blame that other game that i don't want to mention for the abandonment of Unreal.

i loved ut3 with the massive vehicles as well as the valkery rocket that you could fly around and nuke the shit out of certain areas. sad they didnt realise those things :(

I still play it regularly, I'm a beaten housewife for UT QQQQ

What I really expected from the new Unreal Tournament was to keep the level design as clean as possible, there is no need for high detail in every edge, corner and walls, but they went overboard and added too much pipes, broken stones. Of course it doesn't need to be as simple as this map at 5:31 :D. Simplicity and nostalgic elements are the keys to bring back the glorious old feel of UT99 back.

Just found your channel and was asking myself if this guy made a UT4 review. Subscribed. Great content, keep it up!

Good vid. Just came from a playsession. Was awesome :)

This game was so popular at one point it was on the Best Buy display TVs for 1-2 years. It was not by any means a "small game" in it's prime.

UT4 is by far the best modern arena shooter out there and for one reason - it is a close to UT99 as it can be as far as weapons and movement. But sadly, this is one of its downfalls as well. Its extremely hard for new players to join the game and get good at it. This game and its movement recreate a game that is 20+ years old. This means that legacy players have a 20 year head-start on new players in a game that you can only get good at with experience. This means new players will have to learn to love loosing to keep playing the game and that is a tough sell.... Anyway, I love the game with a passion and I cannot believe epic has treated it so badly. I have come to resent epic games for this... I still play UT4 but this is only possible because of the fans/community, no credit to epic what so ever ---- Lovely video, thank you for spotlighting this game

Hearing my favorite music track of all the UT games - which is 'Level 6' - feels just godlike & extremely satisfying. UT2003 not getting at least an 'honourable mention' of sorts feels sad tho. Really love the series, but 2k3 will forever be The Best to me. This was an excellent nostalgic trip, thanks for the video!

Good video, I think you have explained your thoughts in a very nice package in a suprisingly short amount of time. Good stuff.

You just got a new subscriber! I loved your review on this game it’s sad that it’s been abandoned it’s such a great game I have been an unreal tournament fan since I was a kid I’m happy that there is a community of people still trying to keep this alive Thank you for the review 😁

I love you showing Dahang's levitation on Rapha in the Quake clip. I think that Quake's LG and Rocket launcher show how the two games differ in terms of how combat is approached.

I learned how to do level design in UE4 from this game. People found out they playing this game could increase reaction times irl by 30%.

This Is not a DEAD GAME! 😥😥 keeping the unreal legacy alive!

ut2004 is my favorite game of all time. to this day its still 5 million times better than any other game ever created. i rly hope the series can live again one day even if they make it free they can make tons of money off cool skins

Thanks for such an informative presentation on my number 1 game of all time.

Hey, you missed unreal tournament 2003 - Yes it does exists, I have a copy of it.

All they need to do is remake Unreal Gold, with the same server browsing all of us Unreal Gold players use, still play online to this day

I’ve been waiting for this video

Long live the Ripper...

I had wondered about this series especially being it was my favourite shooter growing up, and I wasn't even a fan of those games to begin with but the futuristic feel just had me hooked - and it was the first one I remember having women as characters too. A shame this one fell, never really liked Fortnite personally.

Any vehicles? Thats what I remember most about UT3… The darkwalker, scorpion, hellbender, cicada, manta, and that huge RV thing every team member can fit in… Although no one used that last one…

I miss this game so much :(

I cry every day . I'm one of the rare 20 year olds that enjoy this game I've remade maps and all.

another dope video with a very interesting topic

I’m not much of a gamer anymore but I was obsessed with quake 3 and UT3 on ps3 back in the day because these fast paced shooters are basically the only games that can hold my attention. What kinda laptop can I get to play this on full resolution? Pretty much the only game I’m interested in...

Dead games never die!!! ;) As a die-hard UT fan, that's been my motto for years! Regardless of what happens, and which one is our favorite, at least we can enjoy them offline for a quick nostalgia trip, right? And as you covered, some online matches can still be found! But alas, I'm with most people with my disappointment in Epic and how they abandoned their signature and iconic franchise. Though to be honest, I wasn't all that excited with the direction in which they were taking UT4. I thought the movement deteriorated later on. Specifically, it came to feel muddy, floaty, and sluggish. Though the special abilities were great (except the annoying ground slide), the once quick and snappy running movement became dumbed-down because they couldn't figure out how to animate it properly, nor fix issues it caused with the netcode and player replication. And also because they messed with the character model scaling. The first person weapon and hand animations were also pretty insufferable. But I digress. In spite of everything, I played that game for a few years and did enjoy it immensely. I saw its awesome potential at being the best UT to date, with thriving competitive and mod communities. Never lose hope! Valve finally put out a new Half Life game so literally anything is possible lol Nice video, liked and subbed. :)

i grew up with UT and i look forward to play it every time. it's an absolute shame that this cult is not being developed further but i will always remain loyal to this game. it pisses me off that in game development only profit is the focus and UT4 is no longer being developed because no money is being made with it... UT4 is the best game i've ever played - in fast movement, shooting and definitely the shock rifle combo ;-) see you in the pit, keep that game alive! best regards, TERENCE KILL

With Fortnite's declining popularity, and its player base growing older, it would be great to see Epic return to this game - or its sequel!

Nice video bro really liked it :)

I loved that unreal was more about who got to the best weapon first and and who shot first. It took skill to manipulated the physics to your advantage, predicting movement, etc. Now it's all who buys the most powerful weapon and camping making modes boring. I thought I found something with Apex Legends and thought battle royale was similar but no.

Very cool might try this game out sometime

it's the perfect example of a company forgetting where they came from and how they got to where they are now. Epic.......Sell the IP and rename your engine because you don't deserve the Unreal brand anymore.

this video goes so hard in the paint. love it. epic needs to get back on their game and release it.

"Every game in the series is a timeless masterpiece" Eeeh... not so much. Playing UT99 again with friends, and it's really painfully clear - level design flow, audio feedback, gameplay balance... all of these things suffered in the sequels because Epic forgot important lessons with each release (one of the big culprits being - the introduction of more and more prefabs in level design). In fact, if you watch the GDC talk on negative space given by one of the blokes at Epic, discussing the repeated remakes of CTF-Face, you can see that they were well aware that they'd lost a special something along the way; that new technology had not necessarily made for a better game experience. Which is why it's such an utter travesty that they never finished this UT, because it was looking really good. At last, they'd return to a BSP-focused approach to level design; at last, they'd restrained their impulse to visually clutter levels with prefabricated props; at last, they'd taken the time to figure out how the weapons should feel and how the player should move. And then Fortnite came along and spoiled it all. But, on the plus side? UT99 is still alive and kicking. Arguably, it aged the best, and is the easiest to get back into. There are people playing it online, and even with bots it's still fantastic. Grab the DX10 renderer (or DX11 renderer if you're a heretic and want the game to look weirdly shiny and glowy), and download the many, many maps available for it (many of which now push the game's visuals beyond the limitations of PC hardware back in 1999). Personally, my deathmatch list is now about 300 maps long, while I myself have decided to return to the world of map-making, rediscovering how intuitive the old UnrealEd really is.

Been playing this amd Quake Live a lot recently, they're both a whole lot of fun. I just wish there was more

I despise Battle Royale games. Not just because they're vapid and boring, but because they killed two of my favorite franchises: Unreal and Titanfall. The latter was the closest modern gaming got to that old arena shooter feel and was awesome in its own right.

i still play unreal tournament 2004

And now fans need to make Updates and Servers for the game to live

Surprisingly I always see a lot of new players on matchmaking, vast majority of them never stick around though

Would it be possible for modders and the community to finish the game? I mean at least finish what is almost there like the grey box maps, hud elements, player and weapon skins? I am a big fan of the genre and UT was a formative part of my gaming childhood. I want to see this new UT in a polished and finished state so badly it hurts. Someone let me know if there is a community group somewhere looking into getting it done. I am willing to help out in whatever small way I can to see this completed.

Greetings from Russia! It is a pity that the development of the game is stopped, but even in the status of pre-alpha UT 4 looks great.

I play this game everyday, there are a lot of people playing and lots of new people i see everyday. Its a lot of fun and there are many servers to choose from.

why they stopped the development?! this game could be the pinnacle of arena shooting and still people prefear things like fortnite...

Love it bring it back

If I had known this game was free to play, I would have downloaded it without hesitation years sooner and gotten into these games. But I can't even do that anymore, because they delisted the entire Unreal series off stores. It feels like a part of my youth that was always around the corner (but that I never delved) into has been swept away.

nice video. here's like and comment to help with those youtube algorithms.

what's the name of the last song in the end of te video?

I wonder if creating skins of UT characters and introducing them into Fortnite will make Fortnite players interested in UT

Cool. Man, I need to learn some of the editing that you do lol. Also, what editing software that you use lol?

It still takes a few seconds to find a match with real people! Amazing!

could you please talk about Sector's Edge and diabolitical? those games cme on 2020 and are great arena FPS

Why are the characters all shining blue or red? Whats up with all these numbers and other signs flying around, can you turn this off somehow? The weapons are taking away half of the screen, can you make the smaller?

BGM so good , UT2003 Level 3

I really liked Unreal a lot, but because of lack of players I turn into Quake Champions. I hope one day this game is finally complete, but I don´t think so :)

UT is legendary and a must install on my gaming PC ;)

0:00: Ah, yes, that 2004 soundtrack. Level 9 I think.

we need an ut2004 remake

Sad. This has always been my favorite one. But seeing it's future literally "dead" makes me sad.

MY ANGER HAS NO BOUNDS!

Anyone get this UT4 working on VR? I have a 3DVR side by side shader mod plugin but not sure how to use it. Please share link.. Tanx

Played it while it was under development, still play every other UT: UT99, UT2004, UT3. The greatest shame is that, they dont even finished the weapons, the minigun still unfinished. Also, their last patch was just a wrong thing, removeing the fun parts, with ridiclious reasoning. I still believe that a new unreal or UT will come out eventally, but with the current Epic, its troublesome.

I wonder, with the new unreal engine 5,they're going to make an unreal tournament 5?

Would love to see Unreal Tournament 5 running on the new UE5, but doubt that will happen since even this one is abandoned :(

I was never great at UT but still loved it so much. So sad to see it treated like this.

that title hurt me more than it should

Im still having a lot of fun with this game. It's a shame it was abandoned. I like it better than quake champions.

What doesnt appeal to the „masses“ anymore is simply learning. A lot of people are looking for instant gradification. If everyone starts in a game with the same abilities you need to learn how to play and you can not rely on some stone paper scissor like special ability or some weapon you unlocked in some matches that makes it easier to get a kill. I think thats why there are less new people jumping in arena shooters. Try Quake Live for instance - you get stomped a lot in the beginning. But when you win your first game it is damn satisfying. I work with kids and I see this all the time - if something is not learnable in an hour, a lot of kids lose interest immediately.

Guys, the new arena shooter that will heal our UT wounds is Halo Infinite. UT vibes there, finally arena shooters are becoming cool again.

epic games owns the unreal tournament franchise but it was digital extreme that made the game fun to play

what about Unreal Championship and Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict? i really loved those games especially Liandri Conflict because i used to main Lauren, Lilith, Torgr, Brock, Anubis, Selket, and even Devastation! i think those two games were so perfectly amazing and i miss those games so much. of course, the second one is backwards compatibale on Xbox but sadly the first one is not :/ those games were so good tho and i wish they’d come back :( ❤️

We want the Unreal Tournament 3 back !!! And in the Ps4 too. And Unreal Tournament 4.

The unreal engine still ain’t been pushed to its limits today, the scope for a new game would be huge such a shame 😢

UT was always my favorite fps.

The problem with UT4 is that it was never released. it was in pre-alpha for over 7 years. Epic games just dumped one map and two playable characters then asked the community to finish the game the most half assed attempt at making a video game in history of gaming ! Imagine going to a restaurant, ordering a pizza and getting some flour and tomato sauce, and be told by the waitress to finish making it. Fuck fuck sake i remember that "game" didn't even have any menu

So named ut 2015 - will this be? Jewel rtm I mean not closed beta or near about. Also - there is no onslaught huh?

Many ppl think that a lot PC players hate Epic because of the epic game store,in my case my hatred started when they pulled the plug on this game on 2017. me and some of my friends spent so much time designing maps and remaking old ones all for nothing, these mofos had the audacity to involve the community to co-develope the game just to trash all the hard work into the trash just because fortnite. They could have kept a small size team just to guide and advise the community in finishing up the game but no fortnite was it for them.

heart breaking 💔

You didnt even get to the hub browser, with all the custom content and mods and the actual community, you just played quickplay

… but we need it.

Dead in the water like when you fall in

I love this game

"The rules of engagement have changed" Fortnite: Indeed. :-(

Is it worth to try out an unreal tournament game?

Fortnite jamás estará a la altura de esta semejante obra Maestra