Unreal Tournament to return as a free (with pay mod store) game for PC

[A Black Falcon]

I've never been particularly interested in online shooters, or, for some years now, online games much at all, but for a few years in the late '90s and early '00s, I did like a few online FPS games. I never loved them, as the games get old quickly -- they're so repetitive, and just didn't hold my interest anywhere near like what online RTS games did -- but still, I did enjoy some Jedi Knight 1, Unreal Tournament, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, and Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force online once in a while. And I've always thought of UT as probably the best arena shooter series; I didn't play all that much of UT3, but what I have played of it I like (story aside, that was stupid). And the original UT is of course a classic.

So yeah, this interests me for sure! Game development only just started, so there's nothing to look at for it yet of course, but I hope it turns out well. I like that it's going to be free, I don't love FPSes enough to actually buy them often, but free UT? Yeah, I'll play at least a little of this for sure. Apparently Teamfortress 2 has been successful with a similar free-but-with-pay-mod store system, so they're basing it on that I guess. I never really played TF2 though, so I wouldn't know myself. They're also looking for a lot of feedback for fans about the direction the game should go in.

More on the official site:
https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/the-fu...gins-today