Here you’ll find a step by step guide to install Unreal Tournament 2004 in Linux !
I recently came back to spend some time with my old hobby of making Total Conversion mods and creating game maps, based on my favorite engines, such as Half-Life 2 Source engine and other Quake cousins. This brought me to look for new stuff that I haven’t done before, specially because I have had a hard time trying to run tools such as Hammer Editor in linux, under Wine. This is a tool that’s required for map development and compiling in HL2, if you don’t want to spend ages trying to do it with other tools such as Blender.
That was when Unreal Tournament catched my eye; it did have “that” older release that ran in linux, huh? And it had an installer for it, And, huh, it had modding and mapping and all that, lots of forums and resources. Also, there was the Unreal Engine and all. More important, I owned two legal copies of it: UT2003 and UT2004!!!
First off, I really never have played Unreal. I am more of a HL2 fan, or Quake, because of all the modding and mapping I so much like to do, for Single Player action or RPG. So, I prefer Single Player, with a storyline and some puzzles. A FPS which only objective seems to be that of running around a series of rooms, caves or streets, shooting everyone you can find with the only purpose of killing rather than be killed, doesn’t really tickle my fancy. Unreal is a Tournament, though, so it’s more like a sport, the game objective is the killing and survival, right? Like a real life paintball tournament, huh?
I appreciate the entertainment benefits of it, though. Or, even, the terapeutical effects of shooting people or entities in a virtual setting, instead of climbing up to a real building, or tower, carrying a deadly sniper rifle aimed at anyone that walks down the street below, mentally scoring points while stealthily gunning down ladies, children and other passers by. Those have real families, real blood and real hearts that stop pumping. No “back to beginning” there, huh? No “spawning” of the same old characters that you already shot, after the whole thing is over. No story, too, in both scenarios, virtual or real. Only, one scenario could be seen as a “sport”, almost like paintball, and the other… well, real blood sports aren’t that welcome anymore, are they? 
But games are, and games have a place, albeit its violence and gore.