The best Multi-Player FPS of all time and possibly the best FPS ever created!
User Rating: 10 | Unreal Tournament (Best of Infogrames) PC
Unreal Tournament came on the scene in 1999 and shocked the whole gaming community. Epic's UT dethroned ID as the champion of the MP FPS genre. Simply put UT is perfect. It is hard to find any flaws with this game. Graphics: At the time in 1999 UT had the best graphics ever for a FPS. Sharp textures, varied textures, the player models at the time were great and there were many different models to chose from. The weapon models are great. The levels and avariety of different levels were breath taking. Quake 3, it's big competition at the time had levels that were very similar in design and graphical style, while UT has insane amounts of variety in all its levels. Lighting was the best ever at the time. Lighting wasnt just for show either, it was necessary to use lighting to time your shock rifle combos. Gameplay: The gameplay is what makes this the best FPS ever made. The controls were super responsive and fast. Weapons are totally balanced and all have there uses for different situtations along with their alternate fire modes. The only weapon Imost UT gamers have a gripe with is the ripper, a weapon that shoots discs sharp as razor blades. While it looks cool and does some awesome headshots, it was used by many spammers and noobs who would just bang the razors throughout the level and get cheap kills and spawn kills (the ripper's discs would bounce off walls. The ripper was taken out of future UT games for this reason. Not only did UT have Deatmatch but it also had the best CTF mode ever created at the time, while Q3A's CTF mode was not too hot. It also had the very popular Assualt mode that was team based and had your team trying to complete certain tasks while theother team tried to stop you. There was also Domination, Last Man Standing and endless modes you could create with mutators. Mutators is something that UT did that innovated the genre. Sound: The sound is great as well. The announcer is good and the weapon sound effects are some of the best you will hear. The music is nothing special but serves its purpose manly techno style music. There are taunts you can use to rub it into your opponents face when you frag him. YEEEHAW! Simply put this is the best MP FPS ever made it has 1000's of great mods and user created maps and the only game that may have topped it since 1999 is Unreal Tournament 2004 which brought back the feel of UT along with some new modes of play. UT has been copied by many games such as Halo which ripped off its mutator concept. Anyone who likes competitive online FPS should have Unreal Tournament in their game library. It is the best you can get as far as MP FPS's are concerned. It may be the best you can get period when it comes to games in general. It is that great. Instant Classic.
