FPS classics Unreal and Unreal Tournament are now free to play

[Redaktion]

Epic Games, the creators of the Unreal engine, have granted permission for free distribution of the 1998 classic Unreal and 1999 smash hit Unreal Tournament on the Internet Archive.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/FPS-classics-Unreal-and-Unreal-Tournament-are-now-free-to-play.918374.0.html

[Hotz]

A nice gesture, but nevertheless weird in its own way. Why don't Epic make a free download on their own website? Why they only hand it out from a backdoor? Are they ashamed of it? Because it doesn't represent the status of Unreal Engine? Well maybe they could do something against it? Pay a game dev studio to create a remake with state of the art UE5 technology. If not, they should consider renaming their game engine to something else.