History YMMV / UnrealTournament

* MostWonderfulSound:

* HilariousInHindsight: One of the hall of fame champions in the Trophy Room is called Pariah. Several years later, a videogame called ''VideoGame/{{Pariah}}'', made by Digital Extremes, would be released.

** Team boosting, which abuses a bug in the game's physics. It works by using high-pushing weapons such as fully charged RL or the Instagib Rifle to boost a player to the enemy base.

'''Witness my perfection!'''[[note]]usual response is "[[{{Mondegreen}} Witness your erection?]]"[[/note]]

* PortingDisaster: Even with the games featuring new arenas, the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 and UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast versions weren't well received. Some of the maps run slow as hell, using a controller is not recommended, (though both consoles have keyboard and mouse support) and many of the new maps don't have an interesting layout at all. Plus, the health bar in the GUI doesn't show the amount of health the player has if it's over 100 points.

* GoodBadBugs: Suicide in Capture The Flag, originally just a debug command, because it allows you to quickly return to your base in exchange for losing your inventory.

* MostAnnoyingSound: You would want to turn off the announcer after hearing it for many matches. The famous "Headshot!" and "Killing Spree" sounds are so overused, that it's basically, a ''lead acetate'' version of TastesLikeDiabetes.

** '''DOMINATING!'''

** 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 level.

* ToughActToFollow: To such extent that any Unreal game afterwards has been received with a lot of flak. Only ''[=UT2004=]'' has managed to avoid this for the most part. But even that is generally considered to be inferior to the original.

* HeartwarmingInHindsight: Malcolm being called "[=FenTech=]'s finest creation". In later installments he became the nine-time champion of the Tournament, not to mention becoming the SeriesMascot. So yeah, he indeed is their finest creation.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: The practice-session bot Loque is somewhat famous among fans of the first game for [[ImprobableAimingSkills having his Accuracy set as high as possible by default]] - any shot he takes, at least with {{hitscan}} weapons, ''will'' hit his target, making him an absolute terror when he's on the opposing team and has access to the sniper rifle. First he was given his own match in the ladder of the GameOfTheYearEdition (he shared a match with other 5 fighters before). Then, when ''VideoGame/UnrealTournamentIII'' featured the Necris as the primary bad guys, [[AscendedExtra Loque returned]] as one of the toughest opponents in the campaign [[spoiler:and the first Necris you fight against, if you choose the right path]].

* EnsembleDarkhorse: The practice-session bot Loque is somewhat famous among fans of the first game for [[ImprobableAimingSkills having his Accuracy set as high as possible by default]] - any shot he takes, at least with {{hitscan}} weapons, ''will'' hit his target, making him an absolute terror when he's on the opposing team and has access to the sniper rifle. His fame is such that, in addition to some... rather strange voicepacks created in his honor, when ''VideoGame/UnrealTournamentIII'' featured the Necris as the primary bad guys, [[AscendedExtra Loque returned]] as one of the toughest opponents in the campaign.

* FanficFuel: The game started the franchise's custom of having descriptions for everything, be it venues, characters, teams, and [[VideoGame/UnrealTournament2004 in]] [[VideoGame/UnrealChampionship2TheLiandriConflict later]] [[VideoGame/UnrealTournamentIII games]], even weaponry and itemry. All of these mention events which include wars, rebellions, family/friend losses... tons of ministories waiting to be told.

* FanficFuel: The game started the franchise's custom of having descriptions for everything, be it venues, characters, teams, and [[VideoGame/UnrealTournament2004 in]] [[VideoGame/UnrealChampionship2TheLiandriConflict future]] [[VideoGame/UnrealTournamentIII games]], even weaponry and itemry. All of these mention events which include wars, rebellions, family/friend losses... tons of ministories waiting to be told.

* MostWonderfulSound: '''M-M-M-MONSTER KILL!!! Kill!! Kill!'''

* PortingDisaster: Even with the games featuring new arenas, the PlayStation2 and SegaDreamcast versions weren't well received. Some of the maps run slow as hell, using a controller is not recommended, (though both consoles have keyboard and mouse support) and many of the new maps don't have an interesting layout at all. Plus, the health bar in the GUI doesn't show the amount of health the player has if it's over 100 points.

** Due to your teammates being incredibly retarded and the fact you can't be everywhere at once, any CTF level in single player quickly becomes an irritating hassle.

* FirstInstallmentWins: Somewhat zig-zagged, as it surpassed the original ''VideoGame/{{Unreal|I}}'', but also surpassed the success of later games and ports.

* ToughActToFollow: To such extent that any Unreal game afterwards has been received with a lot of flak. Only ''[=UT2004=]'' has managed to avoid this for the most part.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: The practice-session bot Loque is somewhat famous among fans of the first game for [[ImprobableAimingSkills having his Accuracy set as high as possible by default]] - any shot he takes, at least with {{hitscan}} weapons, will hit his target.
* FirstInstallmentWins: It even surpassed the success of later games and ports.

** Team boosting, which seizes a bug in the game's physics. It works by using high-pushing weapons such as fully charged RL or the Instagib Rifle to boost a player to the enemy base.
** The Pulse Gun "saw", which seizes a bug with the aforementioned weapon's alternate fire in order to deal extra damage.

--> '''M-M-M-MONSTER KILL!!! Kill!! Kill!'''
--> '''I am the Alpha and the Omega!'''
--> '''Witness my perfection!'''

** [[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.

* ToughActToFollow: To such extent that any Unreal game afterwards is received with a lot of flak.

** Team boosting, which seizing a bug in the game's physics. Basically works by using high-pushing weapons such as fully charged RL or the Instagib Rifle to boost a player to the enemy base.

* GoodBadBugs:

** Suicide in Capture The Flag, originally just a debug command, especially because it allows you to quickly return to the base in exchange for losing your inventory.

** Team boosting in Instagib CTF and Assault, seizing a bug in the game's physics.
** Suicide in Capture The Flag, especially for the advantages it grants in order to quickly return to the base.

* FandomBerserkButton: You'll be bashed to hell and back if you don't call it just ''UT''. ''[=UT99=]'' is the main offender.

* GoodBadBugs: In the map DOM-Osiris, from the console versions, the bots won't ever reach the Bridge point. So, [[GameBreaker it becomes easy to win a match against them]] by taking this point and focusing on fighting for the others as well.

* FandomBerserkButton: You'll be bashed to hell and back if you don't call it ''UT'' or ''[=UT99=]''.

* FandomBerserkButton: You'll be bashed to hell and back if you don't call it ''UT'' or ''UT99''.

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