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Install Unreal Tournament 3, open the server browser, and there is a fair chance you will see an empty list. That is not the game failing to find servers.
Two players meet in a courtyard on a duel server. One bows, the other bows back, and nobody interrupts the fight that follows. None of that is in the code.
You launch a fighter out of your capital ship, fly across open space with turret fire going past you, and put the thing down inside the enemy's hangar.
The person beating you 25 to 4 in a Quake duel is probably not out-aiming you. They are standing where the red armour will appear, counting the seconds.
Buy Quake II, install it, run it, and the first thing you will notice is that it is a 1997 game behaving exactly like a 1997 game.
Nobody plays Quake online with the executable id Software shipped in 1996, and the reason is a piece of software history that most games never had.
About a third of the way through Quake 4 you are captured, strapped to a conveyor belt and fed into the machine that turns prisoners into Strogg.
Blood Gulch is two bases at opposite ends of a valley with a Warthog outside each and a set of caves connecting the walls. It is a simple map.
Twenty years on, people still argue about whether anything has beaten F.E.A.R.'s enemy AI, and the argument goes on because the answer is not clearly yes.
The most common way to fail at Call of Duty: United Offensive is to install it and find it will not run, because you do not own the game it expands.
