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Unreal

• The Skaarj are heavily inspired by Predator, including such homages as dreadlocks and wrist-mounted blades.
• The second single-player level, "Nyleve's Falls" is named after the levelmaker's*
  Juan Pancho "Xceptone" Eekels
  wife.
  • The Vortex Rikers registration number (NC114-85EKLS) is a reference to him, as well.
  • All the names in the translator logs belong to many of his friends.
• The ninth level, also made by Eekels, is called Harobed Village.
• In the level "Bluff Eversmoking", there's a tombstone marked "Myscha"*
  which is the name of its levelmaker, Elliott "Myscha" Cannon
• In the first mission of Return To Na Pali, "Edge Of Na Pali", near the end, after you killed the Pack Hunters and opened a locked the door, when you go outside, near the crashed ship, you can find a dead soldier under the name M. Worch. Matthias Worch is one of the Legend Entertainment developers.
  • There's another one, at the beginning. When you exit from the building you start, you'll find a guy drown at the lake. His name is W. Marshall. Warren Marshall is one of Epic Games's employees.
• The map "Glathriel Village", also from Return To Na Pali, has an Easter Egg which guides to a secret. It has the Unreal Tournament clan Ocrana's logo, and the translator has the following message:
  "Will you die for this? http://www.ocrana.de"
• The map DmAriza has the Quake shape.

Unreal Tournament

• The team logos are references to Unreal:

• The blue team one is the Vortex Rikers logo, a lightning with three bars.
• The green team one is the Skaarj Razik. It's also the model for the Damage Amplifier.
• The yellow team one is the Mercenaries logo.

• Word Of God stated that CTF-Face, a.k.a. "Facing Worlds" was inspired by a third-party map from the first Unreal.
• The Chainsaw, as stated above, a Shout Out to Doom.

  "Its been 5 years since I've used one of these."

• DM-Morpheus is inspired by a scene from The Matrix, and its name was taken from Morpheus, one of the main characters.
• AS-Overlord ("Operation Overlord") is inspired by D-Day.
• When you play in the campaign, in the Venom team, two of the characters are named Ada and Lovelace, a Shout Out to the (arguably) first programmer in the world.
• The Sniper Rifle is a custom scoped M16.
• One of the female Commando (Dark Phalanx) characters is called Nikita.
• The map CTF-Orbital has, in the ceilings of both flag bases, the Digital Extremes logo.
• The name of the map DOM-Sesmar is taken from Ramses's Sdrawkcab Name.
• The hallways guiding to the flag bases in the Bonus Pack 1 map CTF-Hydro16 form the number 182.

Unreal II The Awakening

• Terran Colonial Authority, anyone?

Unreal Tournament 2004

• The Assault level AS-MotherShip is a literal Battleship Raid on the Skaarj Mothership, which is a Shout Out to the first Unreal game.
• "Flawless Victory!"
• ONS-Icarus to DM-Morpheus.
• DM-Inferno explicitly references The Divine Comedy.
• Invasion mode uses the classic Unreal enemies.
• AS-Junkyard, from its description to the objectives of the map itself, references Scrapheap Challenge / Junkyard Wars.
• The Nightmare voicepacks have varying shoutouts to horror films:
  Male: No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering.
  Female: I'll swallow your soul!
• Two of the Thunder Crash members are called Picard and Riker. Riker even appears in the first game as part of the same team.
• Gorge's team, their suit, and their name, (Juggernauts) are Shout Outs to The Juggernaut from X-Men.
• One of the maps is given the name "Grendelkeep".

Unreal Championship 2 The Liandri Conflict

• One of Devastation's adrenaline combos, "Head Turret", has her activating mounted turret defenses, not unlike those of Fulgore's fatality.
• Continuing with the Shout Outs to Mortal Kombat, the announcer will yell "Finish Him!" before you do a Coup De Grace.
  • Some of Raiden's taunts are "You fight like Johnny Cage" and "Fatality". And, for the sake of it, his Coup De Grace is one of his Fatalities from Trilogy.
• One of Sobek's taunts is "It's better to burn out, than to fade away."

Unreal Tournament III

• The name of Act III is "The Liandri Conflict", which is also the subtitle of Unreal Championship 2.
• The Titans and Behemoths in the Titan Expansion Pack take their names from the Titans and Behemoths from the first Unreal game.
• The achievement for beating the Chapter 4 is called "Not In Kansas Anymore".
• The achievement for defeating Akasha in Insane is called "Fear The Reaper".
• Get the "Combo King" award 15 times, and you get the "Don't taze me bro!" achievement.