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== ''[[Unreal (Video Game)|Unreal]]'' ==
* The Skaarj are heavily inspired by [[Predator (Franchise)|Predator]], including such homages as dreadlocks and wrist-mounted blades.
* The second single-player level, [[Sdrawkcab Name|"Nyleve's Falls"]] is named after the levelmaker's<ref>Juan Pancho "Xceptone" Eekels</ref> wife.
** The Vortex [[Star Trek|Rikers]] registration number (NC114-85EKLS) is a reference to him, as well.
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* 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 (Video Game)|Unreal Tournament]]'' [[Tournament Play|clan]] Ocrana's logo, and the translator has the following message:
{{quote| ''"Will you die for this? http://www.ocrana.de"''}}
* The map DmAriza has the ''[[Quake (Video Gameseries)|Quake]]'' shape.
 
== ''[[Unreal Tournament (Video Game)|Unreal Tournament]]'' ==
* The team logos are references to [[Unreal]]:
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** The yellow team one is the Mercenaries logo.
* [[Word of God]] [http://www.beyondunreal.com/view_story.php?id=590 stated] that [[Floating Continent|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.
{{quote| "Its been 5 years since I've used one of these."}}
* 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 [[World War II|D-Day]].
* When you play in the campaign, in the [[Amazon Brigade|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 [[Golgo 13|custom scoped M16]].
* One of the female Commando (Dark Phalanx) characters is called [[La Femme Nikita|Nikita]].
* The map [[Cool Starship|CTF-Orbital]] has, in the ceilings of both flag bases, the Digital Extremes logo.
* The name of the map [[Ancient Egypt|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 [[Blink- 182|182]].
 
== ''[[Unreal II: theThe Awakening (Video Game)|Unreal II the Awakening]]'' ==
* [[Starcraft|Terran]] Colonial Authority, anyone?
 
== ''[[Unreal Tournament 2004 (Video Game)|Unreal Tournament 2004]]'' ==
* The Assault level AS-MotherShip is a ''literal'' [[Battleship Raid]] on the Skaarj Mothership, which is a Shout Out to the first Unreal game.
* "[[Mortal Kombat|Flawless Victory!]]"
* ONS-Icarus to DM-Morpheus.
* DM-Inferno explicitly references ''[[The Divine Comedy (Literature)|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:
{{quote| '''Male:''' [[Hellraiser (Film)|No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering.]]<br />
'''Female:''' [[Evil Dead|I'll swallow your soul!]] }}
* Two of the Thunder Crash members are called [[Star Trek|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 -Out|Shout Outs]] to [[The Juggernaut]] from [[X-Men]].
* One of the maps is given the name "[[Beowulf (Literature)|Grendel]]keep".
 
== ''[[Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict (Video Game)|Unreal Championship 2 The Liandri Conflict]]'' ==
* One of Devastation's adrenaline combos, "Head Turret", has her activating mounted turret defenses, not unlike those of [[Killer Instinct (Video Game)|Fulgore]]'s fatality.
* Continuing with the [[Shout -Out|Shout Outs]] to [[Mortal Kombat]], the announcer will yell "[[Finish Him!]]!" before you do a [[Finishing Move|Coup De Grace]].
** Some of Raiden's taunts are ''"You fight like [[Mortal Kombat (Franchise)/Characters|Johnny Cage]]"'' and ''"[[Finishing Move|Fatality]]"''. And, for the sake of it, his [[Finishing Move|Coup De Grace]] is one of his Fatalities from ''[[Mortal Kombat 3 (Video Game)|Trilogy]]''.
* One of Sobek's taunts is "[[Neil Young|It's better to burn out, than to fade away.]]"
 
== ''[[Unreal Tournament III (Video Game)3|Unreal Tournament III]]'' ==
* The name of Act III is "The Liandri Conflict", which is also the [[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo|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 "[[The Wizard of Oz (Filmfilm)|Not In Kansas Anymore]]".
* The achievement for defeating {{spoiler|Akasha}} in Insane is called "[[Blue OysterÖyster Cult (Music)|Fear The Reaper]]".
* Get the "Combo King" award 15 times, and you get the "[[Memetic Mutation|Don't taze me bro!]]" achievement.
 
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