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After the success of the first ''[[Unreal Tournament]]'' game, [[Epic Games]] and [[Digital Extremes]] decided to milk their franchise with another entry, while Legend Entertainment was busy with ''[[Unreal II: The Awakening|Unreal II the Awakening]]''.
After the success of the first ''[[Unreal Tournament]]'' game, [[Epic Games]] and [[Digital Extremes]] decided to milk their franchise with another entry, while Legend Entertainment was busy with ''[[Unreal II: The Awakening|Unreal II the Awakening]]''.


Said entry was ''Unreal Championship'', the first ''Unreal'' game specifically made for a console, specifically the [[X Box]]; a [[Gaiden Game]] in an [[Alternate Universe]] [[After the End]] setting. It was an attempt to update the ''UT'' formula, with modified game mechanics, a new graphics engine and new game modes. It was also notable for being the first console game which used patches to fix issues. It's storyline is placed in a [[Alternate Continuity|different setting]] from the canonical Unreal universe, where the Overseers, an alien race, [[After the End|took over the Earth before the Humans could fight back]]. The Tournament still exists, but rather than "consensual murder", it is to make those who opposed the Empire fight each other as punishment.
Said entry was ''Unreal Championship'', the first ''Unreal'' game specifically made for a console, specifically the [[Xbox]]; a [[Gaiden Game]] in an [[Alternate Universe]] [[After the End]] setting. It was an attempt to update the ''UT'' formula, with modified game mechanics, a new graphics engine and new game modes. It was also notable for being the first console game which used patches to fix issues. It's storyline is placed in a [[Alternate Continuity|different setting]] from the canonical Unreal universe, where the Overseers, an alien race, [[After the End|took over the Earth before the Humans could fight back]]. The Tournament still exists, but rather than "consensual murder", it is to make those who opposed the Empire fight each other as punishment.


This game was later ported to the PC as ''Unreal Tournament 2003'', which continued the main canon and added even more new features.
This game was later ported to the PC as ''Unreal Tournament 2003'', which continued the main canon and added even more new features.
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** This is also the reason of why some Onslaught maps are being fought, and why some arenas are mining caves or spots.
** This is also the reason of why some Onslaught maps are being fought, and why some arenas are mining caves or spots.
* [[The Mothership]]: AS-MotherShip.
* [[The Mothership]]: AS-MotherShip.
* [[Nostalgia Level|Nostalgia Levels]]: Some of the game's levels are remakes of older maps from the first Tournament game, such as DM-Deck17, (<nowiki>Deck16][</nowiki>) DM-Gael, (<nowiki>Morbias][</nowiki>) CTF-FaceClassic, (CTF-Face) CTF-LavaGiant2, (CTF-LavaGiant) and Epic also ported many other obscure levels like those made for the console versions (Osiris and Flux, both from the [[Play Station 2]]/DC versions of the first Tournament game, though in different shapes) or those who had appeared on Bonus Packs, along with some non-so-remembered old levels. (Phobos, Morpheus and November) In ''2004'', there's also a level based on the Rrajigar mines of the first Unreal game.
* [[Nostalgia Level|Nostalgia Levels]]: Some of the game's levels are remakes of older maps from the first Tournament game, such as DM-Deck17, (<nowiki>Deck16][</nowiki>) DM-Gael, (<nowiki>Morbias][</nowiki>) CTF-FaceClassic, (CTF-Face) CTF-LavaGiant2, (CTF-LavaGiant) and Epic also ported many other obscure levels like those made for the console versions (Osiris and Flux, both from the [[PlayStation 2]]/DC versions of the first Tournament game, though in different shapes) or those who had appeared on Bonus Packs, along with some non-so-remembered old levels. (Phobos, Morpheus and November) In ''2004'', there's also a level based on the Rrajigar mines of the first Unreal game.
* [[No OSHA Compliance]]: Lampshaded in all of the stages: it's stated Liandri confiscated or shut down the factories involved due to unsafe working conditions, and then turned the facilities into Arenas.
* [[No OSHA Compliance]]: Lampshaded in all of the stages: it's stated Liandri confiscated or shut down the factories involved due to unsafe working conditions, and then turned the facilities into Arenas.
* [[Scenery Porn]]: The games have many gorgeously looking maps.
* [[Scenery Porn]]: The games have many gorgeously looking maps.