based on the PC game; variety of gameplay modes; large number of avatars; wide range of weapons; first-person shooter

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- very good graphics, though not as good as Quake III

- 60 (!) levels, most of them are awesome with for example hidden buttons to trigger an object (to ... the enemy ;) and snipingplaces and sneaky corners to surprise the enemy but also great battlefields

- cool music and sound

- great AI, much better than Quake III; when the enemy is hurt he'll retreat and they haven't just got a higher hit% like Quake III but they'll really act smarter if you turn up the difficultylevel

- unreal (had to use this once ;) multiplayer mode: up to 4 players on one Dreamcast with a decent framerate

- ... weapons; both firing in two different ways including a sniper rifle, biosludge gun, chainsaw :) and much more

- subtle auto-aim, enough to make it playable with the Dreamcastcontroller but not too much to spoil the game

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8 of 8 found the following review helpful:

Dreamcast Shooter with depth!Mar 21, 2001
By Concerned about the future
When I rented this game, it had a lot of standards to live up to. I am a proud owner of both Quake 3 for Dreamcast, and Unreal Tournament for PC. I can say that this game certainly lives up to the hype, and does its name justice. If you have played the PC version, you may first judge the game by what it does not have. It's graphics arent quite as clean as the PC version's, and it is missing 4 model types (female, Skraaj, Nali, and Nali Warcow). But after playing it for a few minutes, you will forget all of that, and see what it has. The framerate is fairly smooth, and split-screen play doesn't affect it much. The sound is unchanged; all of your favorite taunts are there. The control is a big step up from Quake 3 for Dreamcast. In Quake 3, the controller made it difficult to aim. Unreal Tournament solves that by adding an auto-aim feature. This helps play immensly. But I know you don't care about all of this. You want to know about online play. Well, it is definately very good. Instead of limiting you to for players, up to 8 players can duke it out for dominance. That's right, capture the flag is now playable! It it usually runs very smoothly. I only had one instance of timeout so far, so it is pretty stable. So if your a Dreamcast owner looking for a good FPS, or a Unreal Tournament fan looking for split-screen play or new stages, give Unreal Tournament for Dreamcast a shot.

5 of 5 found the following review helpful:

good on-line game for DCApr 17, 2001
By SL
If you play on-line on your Dreamcast this is a game worth purchasing. On-line gaming is unbelievable. There really is no lag as the game play is quite smooth at all time. I'm not joking. I play NFL2K1 all the time and I experience lag a lot. But, I was very surprised to see there was no lag in UT even with 8 players on line. I have a keyboard and mouse--which I think makes the game much easier to play. My friend uses the controller. He seems to have no problem. It takes a little more time to just get used to it. "Auto aim" makes it easier. I have a lot of fun playing this game.

6 of 7 found the following review helpful:

Unreal Tournament is truly a terror to beholdJan 12, 2001

Quake III is amazing!! 30 kickin' levels, tons of creative and/or disgusting characters, great weapons, AMAZING online play w/ Broadband support (out 1/10/01), beautiful graphics and the sweetest multiplayer mode perhaps ever divined to console gaming (4 at once). So how would one go about trying to top this Godfather of first person shooters?

Hmm, let's see. 60-70 levels, even more bizarre personas from which to select, some bent and twisted weapons (Biorifle! Ripper -- that's a razorgun to you!), 4 player splitscreen, 8 player online chaos (also w/ Broadband and keyboard/mouse support), *beautifully* rendered backgrounds, a locked in 30+ framerate, this beats the pants off the PC and PS2 versions of UT available now. If you don't believe the hype, go check out the official UnrealTournament site.

So...with Unreal Tournament and Half-Life (hailed as the BEST GAME EVER) slated for release at roughly the same time, which one do I buy?? The answer is simple: you can flip a coin or BUY 'EM BOTH. But honestly, if you don't have that kind of $$, both teams working on both projects are crafting ports for the DC with LOTS of grisly murdering care, much as Raster did for Q3 and both promise to be amazing playing/feeling/looking games. Half Life caters to my slightly more intellectual and strategic side of the killing experience, and Half-Life dizzies my eye-candy loving butcher's side. You make the call!

2 of 2 found the following review helpful:

TPittmanJan 25, 2005

This game rocks!!! You can play with bots(computer controlled)and make them hard, or easy. You can tell them what to do too. I think this game is, well, ill just say, the coolest game ever, better then both Halos, better then all of the Quake games, but its true. The levels are great! I like playing capture the flag with the bots, the weapons are cool too! This game was just too good... Buy this game, dont listen to anyone else that talked bad about this game! Just buy it!!!!!!!

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