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Unreal Championship

Unreal Championship is a first-person shooter video game co-developed by Epic Games and Digital Extremes. It was published by Infogrames and released for the Xbox. Unreal Championship is essentially a console…

80 12 November 2002

Unreal Championship is a shooter developed by Digital Extremes, released 12 November 2002 on Xbox.

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What Unreal Championship is

Unreal Championship is a shooter game developed by Digital Extremes and released in 2002. It was published by Atari, Inc.. It is available on Xbox only. It runs on Unreal Engine 2.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Unreal Championship is a first-person arena shooter video game developed by Digital Extremes and Epic Games, published by Infogrames, and released for the Xbox. Part of the Unreal franchise, Unreal Championship is the console version of Unreal Tournament 2003, and was developed to take advantage of Xbox Live. The game is notable for being the first ever console game to receive a downloadable patch. In 2003 Unreal Championship was added to the Xbox "Platinum Hits" line.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the Unreal series

Unreal Championship is the fifth of 13 entries we hold in the Unreal series. The next entry was Unreal II: The Awakening in 2003. Its critic score of 80 is almost exactly the series average of 79. The highest-rated entry is Unreal Tournament at 100.

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How it was received

Unreal Championship holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 68% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 12 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Unreal Championship launched on 12 November 2002, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Metroid Prime, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell and Metroid Fusion. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Metroid Prime, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, Metroid Fusion.

Cheats and codes

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When did Unreal Championship come out?
Unreal Championship was released on 12 November 2002 for Xbox.

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