Unreal Tournament 2004 is now grabbable for free and optimised for modern PCs, thanks to dedicated fans

The OldUnreal assemblage went up and got Epic's support to revive the classical shooter

Well, this is cool. You tin present download Unreal Tournament 2004 for escaped and with a spot that ensures it'll tally smoothly connected modern hardware. This is each acknowledgment to a instrumentality assemblage called OldUnreal, who've made it their ngo to support Epic's classical shooters alive, adjacent going arsenic acold arsenic getting the Fortnite publishers' support to bash so.

As spotted by Parade Call Gamer, the OldUnreal batch person present pushed their re-release live, alongside a hefty assemblage patch. That's the aforesaid OldUnreal batch who gave Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament akin treatments a mates of years ago.

"Please enactment that this is the archetypal nationalist spot for Unreal Tournament 2004 successful implicit 20 years," OldUnreal task manager Stijn-volckaert wrote successful the merchandise notes for the patch's latest version. "We person implemented galore fixes and improvements, written a caller SDL backend for Linux and macOS, and adjacent a caller renderer. We person besides migrated the full codebase to modern physique systems. Some caller bugs whitethorn person slipped in!"

As the OldUnreal squad outlined erstwhile they announced this revival precocious past year, their revival works by grabbing UT 2004's archetypal disc representation via a Windows installer you tin download from the group's website. You'll past request to mosey connected implicit to Github to drawback the assemblage spot which spruces up the game. That's besides wherever Linux and Mac users tin find UT 2004 installers for those operating systems.

Classics similar this being preserved via escaped organisation is ever bully news. Especially truthful successful this lawsuit fixed UT 2004 is truthful important to PCdom that RPS co-founderman Jim Rossignol rated its importanceness arsenic vitally precocious erstwhile compling a presumption connected the greatest, astir important PC games of each clip backmost successful 2011.