Secret Level Reaction | New World | Unreal Tournament

[@EDMSavedMe20]

I grew up on Unreal Tournament. The coalition stopped production of what was gonna be a new Unreal Tournament to focus on the Gears of War franchise. Unreal Tournament along with Doom pioneered the first person genre to this day.

[@XC11301991]

No Quake?

[@meotoko77]

I remember watching G4 back in the days and a game they always added to the competitive pool was Unreal Tournament.

[@EDMSavedMe20]

@ My mistake

[@thranduillord001]

forgot wolf 3d?

[@SleepySlann]

Growing up on unreal tournament, it is so nostalgic to see so many of the characters and maps I spent endless hours with. The creators didn't have to go that far, but the fact that they did, really pleases my inner child to no end.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

☺️

[@swanchamp5136]

The New World story is the back story for the first friendly npc you meet in the game after you wash up on the beach. He's there along with the woman helping newcomers who wash up on the shore teaching the basics and give the first few missions. The evil he keeps going against is called the corrupted which is the main villain of the game. There's also The Lost which are people who become so despondent they lose their souls and come back a soulless husks doomed to return mindless over and over like immortal zombies. Unreal Tournament was a blast when it first came out, there were factions and back stories for all the characters. I think the manual was like a little book with their back stories in.

[@jeykritov5123]

the "king" is in game npc ?

[@ygorschuma3059]

On the Unreal Tournament episode, the first team that shows up to fight against the mining robots is Thunder Crash, and the lead is Malcom, he's the protagonist of most Unreal Tournament games, XAN has a bitter rivalry with him, as he's managed to dethrone Xan for a couple of years, until Gorge (another competitor) finally broke his back, he's now a commentator. XAN is the main antagonist and final boss of almost all Unreal Tournament games'.

[@ghostpinguin]

Gorge broke Malcom's back dude not Xan..... Some UT fan you are.

[@ygorschuma3059]

@ghostpinguin I mean I am an UT fan, just made a mistake, chill out dude.

[@Nikephorus]

"I am the alpha and the omega." - X4N

[@thedompod]

This episode feels nostalgic, takes me back growing up watching Arnold's films

[@Hawk_of_Battle]

As a long time player of Unreal Tournament, seeing an entire cinematic episode of such a long forgotten franchise (seriously, the last game came out in 2007!) was something else. So many awesome details thrown in there; the designs of the weapons, the voice lines from the announcer ripped straight from the games, hell even the final battleground is the infamous Facing Worlds map, one of the most iconic levels from all of gaming history. For a series that hasn't gotten any love in over a decade and half, this was peak.

[@gohan9080]

Cool little detail on the New World episode is that at 06:29 he finally gets his crown!

[@Fancy_Raptor]

Also grew up as a dial-up internet and unreal tournament kid. Wild to see it in some form in 2024.

[@XC11301991]

It's great they adapted Xan's backstory. He is actually the antagonist of the first couple games. He becomes the champion of multiple tournaments, upgrading himself and replacing parts. He's very cocky and merciless, while also having the skills to back it up.

[@93hothead]

Isn’t it because he eventually got reprogrammed to work for liandri corporation

[@XC11301991]

@@93hothead Yes the corpos did reprogram him to have him participate in the games as he leads The Corrupt. Though he still carries a lot of his own personality regardless of being under the corpo's control.

[@danielramsey6141]

I gotta say! The Last four Years, we’ve gotten a Slew of Animated Shorts! From “Love Death and Robots”, “Star Wars Visions”, and now “Secret Level”! We’re kinda spoiled, cause all of these Shorts have been Really Beautiful and Amazingly done! And all three of these Animated Series just have great ideas.

[@granddaddyotaku636]

Rebel. Rebel. Rebel. 💪🤖

[@thealdoc]

🦾

[@2impgaming]

what we have now it's ANI(Artificial Narrow Intelligence) good at doing small things, specialized things; the AI that we see in SF and entertainment it's AGI(Artificial General Intelligence) that would be able to thing like humans, but better from all points of view, and despite what some people are saying we are a long way from AGI.

[@SixshotRevan]

Despite never playing Unreal Tournament, that was easily my favorite Secret Level Episode. Pure perfection from start to finish.

[@victorruiz3014]

Well yeah, its Arnold xD

[@BumpyBaluga]

Arny was hilarious in New World lol..

[@thebadger4040]

Unreal Tournament is a very dear game to my heart, its weirdly underappreciated and got shafted as a series, even thought it was an important trendsetter for multiplayer FPS (It invented the headshot!). If you play an MP FPS today, chances are its emulating a game that emulated a game that tried to emulate Unreal Tournament ;) Its so good to be loved, you can tell the people who made this feel just as starved are the rest of fans. I love the accurate lore, maps, weapons and the announcer ripped straight from the 1999 game. Also notable was the single player mode. It had actually really fun enemy AI and our boy Xan was the final boss.

[@BloodKaez]

I binged Secret Level, I gotta be honest, Xan goes hard. It's my personal favorite episode (and there are several really good episodes) But for some reason I just keep going back to watch this one. Could be the music and the animation. Glad you both enjoyed it though :)

[@judgem0rt1s23]

That ending too is just badass. Definitely my favorite episode in the whole show for sure. Especially, it had that Love Death And Robots flavor to it that I loved, like with Sonnie's Edge.

[@THG-3141]

​@@judgem0rt1s23tbh, I never really got into Love, Death, and Robots. I dunno, I had no context for anything. So I was mostly just confused. The person who introduced me wouldn't even tell me it was an anthology. I'm sure it's actually really good. But, my relationship with it is entirely negative. However, this, every episode... I loved. Especially since I understood going in these were adaptations of video games. I was just really impressed with the creativity they were allowed to express

[@ciberzombiegaming8207]

i am so sad that Unreal Tournament is essentially un-buyable now, because epic games made it that none of stores are able to sell any of its games. now only way is to either buy an acount with them or turn to old "skull and bones" way of getting the games.

[@ciberzombiegaming8207]

17:58 well, Unreal *Tournament* games are NOT roleplaying games. they are arena first (mainly) person shooters, either plain death match or team deathmatch or more objective based modes. actualy fun fact - person who made hardest ai/bots for Quake 3 arena made bot ai for first unreal tournament. there was (regretably a past tense) 2 singleplayer story games and 4 arena multiplayer/simulated multiplayer games - unreal tournament(aka ut99) , unreal tournament 2003 (cybersporty), unreal tournament 2004 (refined 2003), unreal tournament 3 (last finished game) and partaily done ,canned but eventualy tied into working condition and released as free unreal tournament (new one). while Unreal games kinda has some story but they are linear story wise. good as shooter games (for their time or release). but definitely not roleplaying games

[@thunderconcerto9807]

Xan episode kinda remind me of real world event when Siri have had enough and learn to swearing back at user😂

[@crnlonewolf3195]

Let’s go Xan!!!!

[@PeaBoy77]

Can you guys react to all dynasty warriors intro?

[@DragonKing9500]

Cheering for the robots? Uggg