A quick heads up for all Linux gamers. Especially the old-heads who may have enjoyed this game in the past.
A community of fans have ressurected Unreal Tournament and Unreal Tournament 2004. And more crucially Epic Games have officially green-lit the project and given them permission to release it for free.
And it's available to install natively on Windows, Linux and Mac.
Back in the day, the Unreal installation discs had shellscripts on them which would allow you to install natively on Linux, but the runtime dependencies the executables used to link to are now far too old to work on modern Linux machines. You'd have a nightmare trying to find them. The oldunreal project has addressed that problem, so now we can all play UrT again.
The oldunreal project website is here:
Linux and mac users are redirected to their github repository, to download the appropriate installers for the game:
github.com
I've installed and tested it myself. And the game runs brilliantly. So far, I've only played a couple of rounds on the single player campaign, to test whether it was going to work.
Now I'm going to have to trawl my old backup drives to see if I can find all of the old mods I used to have for UrT2004.
I had a ton of custom character skins and a few additional weapons and gameplay mods that I created myself. At my first programming job, our 3D artists created an unreal map of our office building and grounds. We spent many a lunchbreak running around the virtual office fragging each other.
Our artists later created a version of the office map for Counterstrike source. Those were fun times.
Anyway, yeah - Unreal is back and it's completely free!
A community of fans have ressurected Unreal Tournament and Unreal Tournament 2004. And more crucially Epic Games have officially green-lit the project and given them permission to release it for free.
And it's available to install natively on Windows, Linux and Mac.
Back in the day, the Unreal installation discs had shellscripts on them which would allow you to install natively on Linux, but the runtime dependencies the executables used to link to are now far too old to work on modern Linux machines. You'd have a nightmare trying to find them. The oldunreal project has addressed that problem, so now we can all play UrT again.
The oldunreal project website is here:
Linux and mac users are redirected to their github repository, to download the appropriate installers for the game:
Releases · OldUnreal/FullGameInstallers
This is the (partial) source code for the Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament GOTY installers we host on OldUnreal.com - OldUnreal/FullGameInstallers
github.com
I've installed and tested it myself. And the game runs brilliantly. So far, I've only played a couple of rounds on the single player campaign, to test whether it was going to work.
Now I'm going to have to trawl my old backup drives to see if I can find all of the old mods I used to have for UrT2004.
I had a ton of custom character skins and a few additional weapons and gameplay mods that I created myself. At my first programming job, our 3D artists created an unreal map of our office building and grounds. We spent many a lunchbreak running around the virtual office fragging each other.
Our artists later created a version of the office map for Counterstrike source. Those were fun times.
Anyway, yeah - Unreal is back and it's completely free!
