What better way to show the Xbox community the true meaning of "It's Good To Play Together" than with Unreal Tournament 2004's massive maps, vehicular mayhem and extraordinary gameplay? But instead, Michael Capps (President of Epic Games and Lead Designer for Unreal Championship 2) and the folks at Epic decide to start over from scratch and build the new game from the ground up for the Xbox.
And although both those games felt rushed and lackluster on console, Unreal Tournament 2004 is one of the greatest multiplayer games of all times on the PC.
Unreal Championship, the original, had been a port and so had Unreal II: The Awakening. It would have been easy, and completely expected, for Epic Games and Midway to simply port Unreal Tournament 2004 to the Xbox.