Unreal Tournament's Multiplayer

Whilst Unreal Tournament's Single Player game will keep all but the most experienced DeathMatchers busy for quite some time, as is the case with many games released in the past few years it's the Multiplayer options which are going to keep you coming back again and again. Not only does Unreal Tournament provide simple access to online play, it makes playing over a LAN at an office or LAN Party a breeze and always provides endless botmatch options to fall back on if you're not in the mood to bother fellow humans.

When playing a Multiplayer game or Practise Session, all of Unreal Tournament's Game Types, Maps and other options (such as mutators) will be available to you. If you're desperate to play Assault but you're not far enough into the Single Player Tournament yet, then you can come here for a fix if you really want to. Keep in mind though, that it's not possible to play the tutorials other than within the Single Player game and you might have absolutely no idea what's going on if it's the first time you've played a particular Game Type. For some general information and advanced strategies, you can check out the Game Type sections of this Guide, but you're truly new to something we strongly recommend that you play the relevant tutorial at your earliest convenience.

Before you venture into the big online world, or even if you're just going to be playing across a network with some friends, first ensure that all your Preferences are correctly set, including the speed of your Internet Connection. Next, it's in your best interests to double check your Player Setup in the Options menu. It's in this dialog that you choose the name, appearance and voice of your online persona - especially before you play Multiplayer for the first time you're going to want to make sure your name is not still set to Player.