Unreal Tournament Zero ftw
Unreal Tournament Zero
Rough Storyline
You awake on the Vortex Rikers, a prison transport (1). A guard approaches your cell, "You're up", he says. For the amusement of the transport staff the captain organizes deathmatches between prisoners on the lower decks (2) of the Vortex Rikers. You have been selected to battle fellow inmates for a simluated deathmatch. You won't get killed, but it hurts like hell.
You are becoming quite good at these deathmatches. To spice things up, the captain decides to create teams of inmates to battle each other in a team deathmatch. Two teams are formed by the captain, and you are named leader of the red team. Both teams are granted some practice time. This was a wrong decision by the captain. You and your team mates plan to take over the ship after the next fight. Because you are gives live weapons you should be able to pull it off. All you need to do is manage to break out of the arenas. [something here about a lock in the map that has to be destroyed to open the doors, maybe domination would fit here]. You are able to break out of the arena.
You now have to battle the guards in order to get to the control deck. But things go horribly wrong, the ship's controls get damanged. The ship crashes into an unknown planet (3). When you wake the ship is heavily damaged and a lot of people are dead, including all but one of your team mates. You decide to get out of the ship before it explodes. But while trying to do so you are abused by some beasts (the Krall).
you and your team mate are being taken to a Skaarj camp site. With a lot of other prisoners already trapped. You are back at the beginning. The Skaarj are also organizing matches for their prisoners and slaves (i.e. you and others from the Vortex Rikers, but also the Krall, and crew from the ISV-Kran). You engage into a new series of team matches, varying from battling other teams to hordes of creatures (4). During these matches you lose and gain some team mates.
Fights continue and you are slowly becoming the strongest team. The Skaarj, being a hunting race, take notice. They decide to match up your team to a team of Skaarj. Your team wins, and again from a team of the best Skaarj hunters. Finally the Skaarj's Clan leader decides to take you on in a 1vs1 deatmatch. The match seems like it takes forever.
When you defeat the clan leader the other Skaarj are furious and start to attack you. When you almost gave up you are saved by marines from the NEG. Your story of a series of death matches reaches the [whatever the name is of these governing people], which gives them an idea to control violence between deep-space marines. You sign up with the Liandri Mining Corporation to set up the Unreal Tournament.
The End!
No, it's not. You form the first team in the Unreal Tournament. The Unreal Tournament starts out with normale death matches, CTF and Domination. Your team remains the most victorios team for years. But during the first match of a newly created form of death matches you get horribly injured (5). Only your brain survives. You signed up with Liandri _for life_, and they're not letting you go that easily. Using the latest technology you build you a new body. With a new body, comes a new name. You become: Xan.
The real End!
(1) Yes, the prison ship from Unreal. No, you're not prisoner 849.
(2) Deck 16 was on Vehicle Gaetan, not Vortex Rikers.
(3) Which later appears to be Na Pali
(4) i.e. Invasion
(5) could be Assault, or something completely new. A completely new gametype could be explained toward UT to be scrapped from the tournaments because it was so dangerous.