Unreal Tournament

Unreal Tournament is a first-person arena shooter video game developed by Epic Games and Digital Extremes. It was the second installment in the Unreal series. It is an arena first-person shooter, with…

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Unreal Tournament is a shooter developed by Epic Games, released 22 November 1999 on Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, Linux and Mac. This page lists 5 cheat codes for it.

Verified 14 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Unreal Tournament is

Unreal Tournament is a shooter game developed by Epic Games and released in 1999. It was published by GT Interactive Software. It is available on Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 1.

The premise, in the publisher's words

During the Human/Skaarj war, the New Earth Government was formed. Mining was the primary method of financing the war, though was unpopular with the working class, who grew weary of the working conditions and the war. The humans were losing the war, and riots broke out. The Terran system was surrounded by Skaarj forces, but a government team destroyed their mothership, and the Skaarj withdrew. Afterward, mining incidents were on the increase, and efforts to deal with them were unsuccessful. The government then came up with the idea of giving the violence an outlet instead. "Consensual murder" was legalized in the year 2291, enabling people to fight to the death under organized conditions…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action. It supports multiplayer for up to 8 players online. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the Unreal series

Unreal Tournament is the second of 13 entries we hold in the Unreal series. It arrived 2 years after Unreal. The next entry was Unreal Gold in 2000. Its critic score of 100 is 21 points above the series average of 79. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.

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How it was received

Unreal Tournament holds a critic score of 100 out of 100. That places it above 100% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1999 averaged 72, so it scored 28 points above the year average. Players rate it 92, 8 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

How long it takes, and what that costs

A full completion run takes around 10 hrs.

What it launched against

Unreal Tournament launched on 22 November 1999, within three weeks of Pokémon Gold Version, Pokémon Silver Version, Quake III Arena and The Longest Journey. It reviewed better than all of them.

Released around the same time: Pokémon Gold Version, Pokémon Silver Version, Quake III Arena, The Longest Journey.

Cheats and codes

We have tested and published 5 cheat entries for Unreal Tournament — 5 console commands. Each one lists the platform it applies to, the exact input, and whether it disables achievements.

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