Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever

Unreal Tournament multiplayer with mutators[1] was awesome fun, like the one that made the player avatar grow bigger when the player scored a kill, and vice versa.

It's a shame later multiplayer games didn't pick up on the mutator concept. Being able to easily tweak the gameplay mixed it up and added extra challenge or fun.

[1]: https://unreal.fandom.com/wiki/Mutator

> It's a shame later multiplayer games didn't pick up on the mutator concept.

The terminology didn't catch on, but the idea is out there. Compare "game modes" in Overwatch, for example:

https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/22938941/introduci...