Edited sentence: For example, in 2001 it was possible to find thousands of people playing the Original’s Capture-the-Flag mod online at any given time.The general consensus amongst experienced Unreal Tournament players seems to be that the original Unreal Tournament's game play (on a PC) is far superior to that of its successors, UT 2003 and UT 2004, which explains why so many people tried and rejected the later versions and continue to enthusiastically play the Original to this day.This might also help to explain why online player counts for the Original were dramatically higher two years after its release than online player counts (of real humans and not bots) for Unreal Tournament 2004 two years after its release