ATARI SHIPS UNREAL
TOURNAMENT 2004
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[ March 19th 2004 ]
Atari
and Epic Games have shipped Unreal Tournament
2004, the highly anticipated follow-up to last
year's Unreal Tournament 2003 and the third installment
in the mega-selling Unreal Tournament franchise,
to retail stores worldwide this week. The game
has already received a 5 out of 5 stars on GameSpy.com
and a 9.4 out of 10 on IGN.com, two of the premiere
video game news and reviews Web sites. Both sites
gave the game their Editor's Choice Award. "With
Unreal Tournament 2004, Epic, Atari, Digital Extremes
and Co. have done more than return the series
to its former glory - they've unleashed a monster
that could dominate multiplayer gaming for the
rest of 2004," according to GameSpy.com's review.
IGN.com agreed, saying "Unreal Tournament 2004
is set to make a thunderous impact as big as (or
bigger) than the one caused by the original Unreal
Tournament."
Unreal
Tournament 2004 was developed by Epic Games in
conjunction with Digital Extremes. The game builds
on the success of past installments, taking the
franchise to the next level with the introduction
of the hyper-charged Onslaught mode, the return
of the fan-favorite Assault mode, which last appeared
in the original Unreal Tournament, and the introduction
of land-, air- and space-based vehicles. Gamers
worldwide made the free, downloadable demo of
Unreal Tournament 2004 one of the most popular
game demo downloads of all time, with more than
1.5 million downloads in the first week of availability.
The official demo first hit the Internet on Wednesday,
February 11, and was distributed on a worldwide
scale.
In Unreal
Tournament 2004, players suit up as the ultimate
techno-gladiator of the future, taking their fates
into their own hands as they battle up to 32 other
players in action-packed, frag-filled arenas.
Unreal Tournament 2004 contains new maps for all
established game modes, including Capture the
Flag, Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Bombing Run
and Double Domination, as well as all new arenas
for the two additional styles of play - Onslaught
and Assault. In addition, Unreal Tournament 2004
contains all of the maps, mutators and game types
-- such as Mutant, Last Man Standing and Invasion
-- from Unreal Tournament 2003 and the free downloadable
bonus packs for that game.
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