Epic Games now offers downloads of a playable pre-alpha build of their
Unreal
Tournament revival for registered users of their forums (thanks
BeyondUnreal).
They go to great lengths to stress this is a preliminary release fraught with
bugs and placeholders, and that it is intended to inspired feedback from those
interested in helping shape the multiplayer first-person shooter. The
Unreal Tournament website explains:
The forum post describing how to
install the UT pre-alpha playable build is only visible to signed in forum
members in the Top Secret Members Only forum. Unreal Tournament is still very
early in development, so the build is incomplete, buggy, full of placeholder art
and therefore is not in any way representative of the ultimate vision for the
game. You really shouldn't play it now! We’ve made it available to Unreal
Tournament forum members so they can try the game out and offer constructive
feedback on these forums, or maybe even jump in and start contributing.