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Bombing Run can best be described as Unreal-style football where the player gets the ball and has to take it into enemy territory and score in the enemy forces goal. Players can pass to other teammates. The ball carrier drops the ball when they're killed. This however, is only a shallow viewpoint. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Unreal Tournament 2004 is a first-person shooter computer game designed mainly for multiplayer gaming although the game had a built in single-player mode that mimics multiplayer gaming by featuring AI-bots. ...

Bombing Run as described by the masters of the genre, is an all out simulation of a generic team vs. team ball game. BR-Football is just one map in this genre which simulates football. It is a symmetrical map with 2 goals on either side of the field. This is not one of the standard maps packaged with the game.

In general, BR maps are geometrically symmetric with a single axial plane of symmetry. This need not always be the case.

The same dynamics that are felt by football players, basketball players and other team vs. team ball game players everyday in real life, can be simulated and felt while playing bombing run. And this includes the adrenaline rush. However, because it takes a lot of effort to master the genre, it has not gained much popularity and Epic Games plans to drop it in Unreal Tournament 2007.

Unlike any other unreal genre, the score in terms of points in Bombing Run does not reflect the success of the player all the time. For example, one common strategy in Bombing Run is to commit suicide when the ball is with the enemy heading towards your goal and you are in enemy territory. Obviously, the UT2K4 point allocation system would mark you negatively for a suicide, but in certain maps, such as BR-Colossus (perhaps the most popular map in the genre), this strategy works well against a fast but amateur player.

There are a lot of key skills that a BR master has that no other genre inculcates:
1. Fast translocation
2. Superior Dodging
3. Ball Running
4. Kill fast or Die fast