Unreal Tournament is the follow up to Epic's Unreal, a single player based first person shooter. UT is designed to fix what was broken in Unreal, multiplayer. All of Unreal's weapons return, except the blaster you start with, rebalanced to work better for multiplay. With one new weapon, the Redeemer, a nuclear rocket launcher. Unreal's weapons work great in UT, the bio-rifle acts as cross between a minelayer and a grenade launcher, the six barrel rocket/grenade launcher, and the most useful sniper in a video game. The sniper and ripper are great at getting head shots, one hit kills. The game has several game modes ranging from Deathmatch to Assault, a team based objective based mode that is a nice change of pace from most FPS multiplayer games. Domination, a new twist on capture and hold, and Capture the Flag to finish off the game modes. A great feature of UT is mutators, small mini-mods that do things like create rocket arenas or insta-gib. And Unreal's bots have been overhauled to act and seem even more human than any other game's. The only problem with Unreal Tournament is that it was built for Glide, so those without a 3Dfx card will have some slow down, unless they have a powerful machine, and inferior textures. All in all, Unreal Tournament is the new king of Deathmatch.

Score: 8.7

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