The game itself sold well enough, with Unreal reaching one million sales in about 16 months since the game’s launch in 1998, but it’s the engine’s legacy that proved to be the golden goose for Epic. In Unreal (the game), you control a prisoner who crashes on an alien planet, forced to kill their way through hordes known as the Skaarj, who have subjugated the locals. Unreal Engine has since gone on to reach its fifth iteration, UE5, which has been used, while versions of Unreal Engine have been used to power the visual production behind shows like The Mandalorian. Known then as EpicMega Games before dropping the Mega a year later, Epic were looking to create a game of their own that would counter the rising popularity of FPS titles like Id’s Quake 2, along with earlier first person shooters like DOOM, Wolfenstein, Duke Nukem and others.Įpic’s Tim Sweeney was the one responsible for creating the Unreal Engine, which powered the first Unreal game.
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Long before it became synonymous with the words “Tournament” or “Engine”, Unreal was a PC FPS that launched in 1998. Today, we’re asking the question: will Unreal Tournament ever make a comeback? With a legacy spanning close to 25 years, perhaps the time is right for Unreal to make a return.
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While Unreal Tournament was brought back more recently than other games we’ve covered in this little retrospective series of ours, its death and subsequent absence from the gaming landscape is still incredibly noticeable.
Forget your Halos, your Call of Dutys or your whatever else, Unreal Tournament was the place to go for fast-paced, hardcore, non-stop fragging. For gamers of a certain vintage, it’s hard to argue with the idea that multiplayer gaming peaked with the advent of games like the Unreal series, the arena shooter to end all arena shooters.
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