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  • Awesome Music: Shares a page with the rest of the franchise.
  • Base-Breaking Character: Raiden. Either he's a welcome Guest Fighter, or he's an unnecessary addition which clashes with the rest of the game.
  • Breather Level: The Hallway Ambush level in the Ascension Rites is placed between a Capture the Flag match where your team starts losing, and the Tournament's quarter finals.
  • Cult Classic: Despite carrying the Unreal name on it, few Unreal players know about it's existence due to the game being a console exclusive game (and a very obscure one, to boot). And those few who do, end up loving the game.
  • Epileptic Trees:
  • Game-Breaker: The Shock Rifle combo and the Sniper Rifle.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: MK- and especially DA-related: one of Raiden's taunts is "My patience for mortals has worn thin". The next game in the MK series, Mortal Kombat: Deception, deals with a dark version of Raiden being disillusioned with Earthrealm. And the line itself would later be used by the Big Bad of the following game. After III there wouldn't be more Unreal games... until the 2014 reboot. And then said reboot got canned in favor of another, more successful Epic Games franchise.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight:
    • Raiden's appearance in the game, considering that every MK iteration, starting with 2008's Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe used a modified Unreal Engine... the same engine series which has been powering the Unreal games since the beginning.
    • One of Raiden's taunts is "You fight like Johnny Cage". The game came out at the same year than Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, where Johnny's backstory tells us that he disliked the plot of a movie called "Mortal Kombat: The Death of Johnny Cage", where he repeatedly died and resurrected, a jab at past MK games having him dying and being resurrected.
    • Raiden being confirmed as a playable character in Mortal Kombat X. In UC2 he has two exclusive adrenaline abilities called "Teleport" and "Stun Trap". In MKX, two of his variations ("Displacer" and "Master of Storms") are focused on these abilities. And there's also the countdown to his MKX reveal including a tweeted video of his UC2 gameplay by Ed Boon himself.
    • Outside of MK, Selket's wishes to rebuild the city in her own image by winning the Rites and being crowned Empress. In 2014, the Unreal community got the chance to collaborate with Epic Games in the free multiplayer reboot of the franchise, doing to the Unreal universe what Selket couldn't do with her hometown.
  • Retroactive Recognition: Anubis was voiced by Dameon Clarke, seven years before his Star-Making Role as Handsome Jack from Borderlands 2.
  • Most Wonderful Sound:
    ADRENALINE FULL!!!
  • Scrappy Mechanic:
    • Unusually for an Unreal game, the first-person mode is seen as an afterthought, at best. The extra peripheral vision being in third-person grants you, combined with the bigger emphasis on mobility this game has just makes it more practical to stay in third-person unless you're scoping with the Sniper Rifle for headshots.
    • Coup de Graces are almost non-existent in online play. Any sort of damage knocks an opponent out of freeze, and it's entirely too easy to have your Coup de Grace attempt interrupted with someone else's fire. If the enemy was frozen by melee attacks, chances are a strong melee hit will finish them off anyway and there are more practical ways of getting more adrenaline.
  • Slow-Paced Beginning: The Ascension Rites begin with a series of cutscenes meant to introduce the characters as well as some training levels with your partner. The first proper combat happens in the fourth rung.
  • That One Level: Shares a page with the rest of the franchise.
  • Vindicated by History: The game is seen as way ahead of its time nowadays, especially because a lot of staples of the Hero Shooter genre in general can be found in this game.

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