For those of you unfamiliar with the history of the Unreal Tournament mod version of Tactical Ops, the team-based multiplayer mod was released several months after UT was released in stores under the name SWAT (the name was changed later to Tactical Ops because the mod was switching to more of a universal counter-terrorist feel). Tactical Ops was slated to be included as one of three mods in a Game of the Year edition of UT but was pulled out at the last moment. Still, Tactical Ops became perhaps the most popular of all the third party mods created for UT and because of its popularity Infogrames decided to contact the mod team to make a stand alone retail version of the mod.