Unreal Tournament 2003

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Unreal Tournament 2003
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Developer(s) Epic Games
Digital Extremes
Publisher(s) Infogrames [lower-alpha 1] (Windows/Linux)
MacSoft (OS X)
Designer(s) Cliff Bleszinski
James Schmaltz
Shane Caudle
Programmer(s) Steve Polge
Composer(s) Kevin Riepl
Starsky Partridge
Series Unreal
Engine Unreal Engine 2
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux [1]
ReleaseMicrosoft Windows
  • NA: September 30, 2002
  • JP: October 25, 2002
  • EU: October 31, 2002
OS X
  • NA: June 20, 2003
Linux
  • EU: October 31, 2002
Genre(s) First-person shooter
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Unreal Tournament 2003 is a first-person arena shooter video game developed by Epic Games and Digital Extremes, and published by Infogrames under the Atari brand name. The game is part of the Unreal franchise, and is a sequel to 1999's Unreal Tournament . Like its predecessor, the game is designed mainly for multiplayer gaming.

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The game saw a record 1.2 million downloads when the demo was released. [2] In addition, the Unreal Engine has been widely licensed for games such as the Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six series, Splinter Cell , and America's Army .

An Xbox port, Unreal Championship was released on November 12, 2002. Unreal Tournament 2003 would be succeeded by Unreal Tournament 2004 , which was released on March 16 of that year.

Gameplay

The available combat modes are:

Reception

GameSpot named Unreal Tournament 2003 the best computer game of October 2002. [7]

Unreal Tournament 2003 won GameSpot's annual "Best Graphics (Technical) on PC" award, and was nominated in the "Best Multiplayer Action Game on PC" category. [8] During the 6th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards, the game received a nomination for "Outstanding Achievement in Visual Engineering" by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. [9]

Sales

In the United States, Unreal Tournament 2003 sold 360,000 copies and earned $13.6 million by August 2006. At the time, this led Edge to declare it the country's 45th-best-selling computer game, and best-selling Unreal title, released since January 2000. Combined sales of all Unreal computer games released between January 2000 and August 2006 had reached 1.8 million units in the United States by the latter date. [10] In December 2002, the game received a "Gold" sales award from the Verband der Unterhaltungssoftware Deutschland (VUD), [11] indicating sales of at least 100,000 units across Germany, Austria and Switzerland. [12]

In its first month, Unreal Tournament 2003 sold more than 800,000 copies worldwide. [13]

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  1. Released under the Atari brand name