Unreal (series)/Shout-Out

Unreal
""Will you die for this? http://www.ocrana.de""
 * The Skaarj are heavily inspired by Predator, including such homages as dreadlocks and wrist-mounted blades.
 * The second single-player level, "Nyleve's Falls" is named after the levelmaker's wife.
 * The Vortex Rikers registration number (NC114-85EKLS) is a reference to him, as well.
 * All the names in the translator logs belong to many of his friends.
 * The ninth level, also made by Eekels, is called Harobed Village.
 * In the level "Bluff Eversmoking", there's a tombstone marked "Myscha"
 * In the first mission of Return To Na Pali, "Edge Of Na Pali", near the end, after you killed the Pack Hunters and opened a locked the door, when you go outside, near the crashed ship, you can find a dead soldier under the name M. Worch. Matthias Worch is one of the Legend Entertainment developers.
 * There's another one, at the beginning. When you exit from the building you start, you'll find a guy drown at the lake. His name is W. Marshall. Warren Marshall is one of Epic Games's employees.
 * The map "Glathriel Village", also from Return To Na Pali, has an Easter Egg which guides to a secret. It has the Unreal Tournament clan Ocrana's logo, and the translator has the following message:


 * The map DmAriza has the Quake shape.

Unreal Tournament

 * The team logos are references to Unreal:

""Its been 5 years since I've used one of these.""
 * The blue team one is the Vortex Rikers logo, a lightning with three bars.
 * The green team one is the Skaarj Razik. It's also the model for the Damage Amplifier.
 * The yellow team one is the Mercenaries logo.
 * Word of God stated that CTF-Face, a.k.a. "Facing Worlds" was inspired by a third-party map from the first Unreal.
 * The Chainsaw Good, as stated above, a Shout Out to Doom.


 * DM-Morpheus is inspired by a scene from The Matrix, and its name was taken from Morpheus, one of the main characters.
 * AS-Overlord ("Operation Overlord") is inspired by D-Day.
 * When you play in the campaign, in the Venom team, two of the characters are named Ada and Lovelace, a Shout Out to the (arguably) first programmer in the world.
 * The Sniper Rifle is a custom scoped M16.
 * One of the female Commando (Dark Phalanx) characters is called Nikita.
 * The map CTF-Orbital has, in the ceilings of both flag bases, the Digital Extremes logo.
 * The name of the map DOM-Sesmar is taken from Ramses's Sdrawkcab Name.
 * The hallways guiding to the flag bases in the Bonus Pack 1 map CTF-Hydro16 form the number 182.

Unreal II the Awakening

 * Terran Colonial Authority, anyone?

Unreal Tournament 2004
"Male: No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering.
 * The Assault level AS-MotherShip is a literal Battleship Raid on the Skaarj Mothership, which is a Shout Out to the first Unreal game.
 * "Flawless Victory!"
 * ONS-Icarus to DM-Morpheus.
 * DM-Inferno explicitly references The Divine Comedy.
 * Invasion mode uses the classic Unreal enemies.
 * AS-Junkyard, from its description to the objectives of the map itself, references Scrapheap Challenge / Junkyard Wars.
 * The Nightmare voicepacks have varying shoutouts to horror films:

Female: I'll swallow your soul!"


 * Two of the Thunder Crash members are called Picard and Riker. Riker even appears in the first game as part of the same team.
 * Gorge's team, their suit, and their name, (Juggernauts) are Shout Outs to The Juggernaut from X-Men.
 * One of the maps is given the name "Grendelkeep".

Unreal Championship 2 The Liandri Conflict

 * One of Devastation's adrenaline combos, "Head Turret", has her activating mounted turret defenses, not unlike those of Fulgore's fatality.
 * Continuing with the Shout Outs to Mortal Kombat, the announcer will yell "Finish Him!" before you do a Coup De Grace.
 * Some of Raiden's taunts are "You fight like Johnny Cage" and "Fatality". And, for the sake of it, his Coup De Grace is one of his Fatalities from Trilogy.
 * One of Sobek's taunts is "It's better to burn out, than to fade away."

Unreal Tournament III

 * The name of Act III is "The Liandri Conflict", which is also the subtitle of Unreal Championship 2.
 * The Titans and Behemoths in the Titan Expansion Pack take their names from the Titans and Behemoths from the first Unreal game.
 * The achievement for beating the Chapter 4 is called "Not In Kansas Anymore".
 * The achievement for defeating in Insane is called "Fear The Reaper".
 * Get the "Combo King" award 15 times, and you get the "Don't taze me bro!" achievement.