History YMMV / UnrealTournament

* FunnyMoments: The announcer saying "DENIED!" if someone shoots your guided Redeemer missile in midair.

* FollowTheLeader: Maybe ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'' began the multiplayer experience in the FPS genre, but the first Tournament game, along with its rival, ''VideoGame/QuakeIIIArena'', paved the way for multiplayer FPS. 10 years later, it's still one of the biggest feuds.

* SpotlightStealingSquad: Perhaps done intentionally, but the award goes to Thunder Crash. ([[VideoGame/UnrealTournamentIII A.K.A. "Thunder Cash"]]) They are the first squad you're shown while starting a new ladder, if you select another team, they take their place in the ladder, they are the only full team to return intact in ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament2004'', (Iron Guard and Iron Skull came reformed, as well as the Guards and the Necris Black Legion in [=UT3=]) and, well... we all know what happened to their leader, [[EnsembleDarkhorse Mal]][[WolverinePublicity colm]].

* GannonBanned: You'll be bashed to hell and back if you don't call it '''UT'''.

** The final match. The stage is Hyperblast, Xan's ship. Large, semi-confusing, Xan's love of shock rifles knocking you into space, and the low-gravity. You WILL hate this map.

*** The console version of the map lacks the lower floor, so it becomes somewhat easy, averting this trope. Of course, when you pair it with the issues mentioned in PortingDisaster, well... it becomes again a hard match.

** The Sniper Rifle. It has a short rate of fire, deals a lot of damage, and you can't spot your target. There's a reason of why it got nerfed in later installments.

** The Rocket Launcher in the console games. While you must get your target half a minute to make your rockets as homing ones, this delay gets even more shortened, so you have a greater chance to home your missiles to your enemies.

* FollowTheLeader: Maybe ''{{Doom}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'' began the multiplayer experience in the FPS genre, but the first Tournament game, along with its rival, ''VideoGame/QuakeIIIArena'', paved the way for multiplayer FPS. 10 years later, it's still one of the biggest feuds.

* SpotlightStealingSquad: Perhaps done intentionally, but the award goes to Thunder Crash. ([[VideoGame/UnrealTournamentIII A.K.A. "Thunder Cash"]]) They are the first squad you're shown while starting a new ladder, if you select another team, they take their place in the ladder, they are the only full team to return intact in UnrealTournament2004, (Iron Guard and Iron Skull came reformed, as well as the Guards and the Necris Black Legion in [=UT3=]) and, well... we all know what happened to their leader, [[EnsembleDarkhorse Mal]][[WolverinePublicity colm]].

* GannonBanned: ''[=UT99=]'' and ''[=UT1999=]''. It's just '''UT'''. And you'll be bashed to hell and back if you don't call it '''UT'''.

* SpotlightStealingSquad: Perhaps done intentionally, but the award goes to Thunder Crash. ([[UnrealTournamentIII A.K.A. "Thunder Cash"]]) They are the first squad you're shown while starting a new ladder, if you select another team, they take their place in the ladder, they are the only full team to return intact in UnrealTournament2004, (Iron Guard and Iron Skull came reformed, as well as the Guards and the Necris Black Legion in [=UT3=]) and, well... we all know what happened to their leader, [[EnsembleDarkhorse Mal]][[WolverinePublicity colm]].

* FollowTheLeader: Maybe ''{{Doom}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'' began the multiplayer experience in the FPS genre, but the first Tournament game, along with its rival, ''QuakeIIIArena'', paved the way for multiplayer FPS. 10 years later, it's still one of the biggest feuds.

* FollowTheLeader: Maybe ''{{Doom}}'' and ''Game/{{Quake}}'' began the multiplayer experience in the FPS genre, but the first Tournament game, along with its rival, ''QuakeIIIArena'', paved the way for multiplayer FPS. 10 years later, it's still one of the biggest feuds.

* [[Awesome/{{Unreal}} Crowning Moment Of Awesome]]
* [[CrowningMusic/{{Unreal}} Crowning Music Of Awesome]]

* GannonBanned: ''[=UT99=]'' and ''[=UT1999=]''. It's just '''UT'''. And you'll be bashed to hell and back if you don't call it '''UT'''. This varies from forum to forum, though.

* GannonBanned: ''[=UT99=]'' and ''[=UT1999=]''. It's just '''UT'''. And you'll be bashed to hell and back if you don't call it '''UT'''.

* MostAnnoyingSound: You would want to turn off the announcer after hearing it for many matches. The fact that the famous "Headshot!" and "Killing Spree" sounds are so popular, that mods exist to put them in games like CounterStrike or GuildWars makes them as the MostAnnoyingSound. It's basically, a ''lead acetate'' version of TastesLikeDiabetes.

* GannonBanned: ''UT99'' and ''UT1999''. It's just '''UT'''. And you'll be bashed to hell and back if you don't call it '''UT'''.

* SpotlightStealingSquad: Perhaps done intentionally, but the award goes to Thunder Crash. ([[UnrealTournamentIII or "Thunder Cash", like Reaper called them]]) They are the first squad you're shown while starting a new ladder, if you select another team, they take their place in the ladder, they are the only full team to return intact in UnrealTournament2004, (Iron Guard and Iron Skull came reformed, as well as the Necris Black Legion in [=UT3=]) and, well... we all know what happened to their leader, [[EnsembleDarkhorse Mal]][[WolverinePublicity colm]].

* PortingDisaster: Even with the games featuring new arenas, the PlayStation2 and SegaDreamcast versions were... [[{{Understatement}} not well received]].

* GameBreaker: The Shock Rifle combo and the Sniper Rifle.

** [[CoolBoat DM-KGalleon]]. It's extremely intrincate, with lots of obstacles, some weapons are in places which are hard to reach, and some passages are extremely narrow. Couple this in single-player with the fact that the "weapon stay" preferences are off, (this means that once someone pick up a weapon, everyone have to wait X seconds for it to respawn and take it again) and that the bots will be more focused on shooting you than their enemies, and you've got a huge challenge, probably even huger than the final match.

* ThatOneLevel: the final match. The stage is Hyperblast, Xan's ship. Large, semi-confusing, Xan's love of shock rifles knocking you into space, and the low-gravity. You WILL hate that map.

* SpotlightStealingSquad: Perhaps done intentionally, but the award goes to Thunder Crash. ([[UnrealTournamentIII or "Thunder Cash", like Reaper called them]]) They are the first squad you're shown while starting a new ladder, if you select another team, they take their place in the ladder, they are the only full team to return intact in UnrealTournament2004, and, well... we all know what happened to their leader, [[EnsembleDarkhorse Mal]][[WolverinePublicity colm]].

* FollowTheLeader: Maybe ''{{Doom}}'' and ''Game/{{Quake}}'' began the multiplayer experience in the FPS genre, but the first Tournament game (along with its rival, ''QuakeIIIArena'') paved the way for multiplayer FPS. 10 years later, it's still one of the biggest feuds.

* MorePopularSpinoff: This game is the best remembered game of the Unreal franchise.