Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition, two boomer shooters that helped propel Epic Games into the spotlight back in the late 1990s, are now available to download for no cost on Archive.org. News of these classic Unreal games being offered for free on the Internet Archive comes by way of the OldUnreal Discord server, with a message from UnrealGGecko explaining how this was made possible with Epic’s permission (“Thanks Tim!”). Unreal Gold and and Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition were previously available from digital storefronts that include Steam and GOG, but delisted for reasons that some critics have claimed to be laziness, greed, and/or licensing issues.
Link to the installers:
Direct link to the .ISOs from Archive.org:
- https://archive.org/download/ut-goty/UT_GOTY_CD1.iso
- https://archive.org/download/gt-unreal-1998/Unreal.iso
Unreal Tournament is the original King of the Hill in the frag-or-be-fragged multiplayer gaming world. As the undisputed 1999 Game of the Year, Unreal Tournament grabbed the first person shooter genre by the soiled seat of its pants and knocked it around the room with its never-before-seen graphics, brutal edge-of-your-seat gameplay and a massive and varied feature list that gave gamers more than they ever expected.
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