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The Skaarj are heavily inspired by Predator, including such homages as dreadlocks and wrist-mounted blades.
The second single-player level, "Nyleve's Falls" is named after the levelmaker's^[1] wife.
- The Vortex Rikers registration number (NC114-85EKLS) is a reference to him, as well.
- All the names in the translator logs belong to many of his friends.
The ninth level, also made by Eekels, is called Harobed Village.
In the level "Bluff Eversmoking", there's a tombstone marked "Myscha"^[2]
In the first mission of Return To Na Pali, "Edge Of Na Pali", near the end, after you killed the Pack Hunters and opened a locked the door, when you go outside, near the crashed ship, you can find a dead soldier under the name M. Worch. Matthias Worch is one of the Legend Entertainment developers.
- There's another one, at the beginning. When you exit from the building you start, you'll find a guy drown at the lake. His name is W. Marshall. Warren Marshall is one of Epic Games's employees.
The map "Glathriel Village", also from Return To Na Pali, has an Easter Egg which guides to a secret. It has the Unreal Tournament clan Ocrana's logo, and the translator has the following message:

"Will you die for this? http://www.ocrana.de"

The team logos are references to Unreal:
- The blue team one is the Vortex Rikers logo, a lightning with three bars.
- The green team one is the Skaarj Razik. It's also the model for the Damage Amplifier.
- The yellow team one is the Mercenaries logo.
Word of God stated that CTF-Face, a.k.a. "Facing Worlds" was inspired by a third-party map from the first Unreal.
The Chainsaw Good, as stated above, a Shout-Out to Doom.

"Its been 5 years since I've used one of these."

DM-Morpheus is inspired by a scene from The Matrix, and its name was taken from Morpheus, one of the main characters.
AS-Overlord ("Operation Overlord") is inspired by D-Day.
When you play in the campaign, in the Venom team, two of the characters are named Ada and Lovelace, a Shout-Out to the (arguably) first programmer in the world.
The Sniper Rifle is a custom scoped M16.
One of the female Commando (Dark Phalanx) characters is called Nikita.
The map CTF-Orbital has, in the ceilings of both flag bases, the Digital Extremes logo.
The name of the map DOM-Sesmar is taken from Ramses's Sdrawkcab Name.
The hallways guiding to the flag bases in the Bonus Pack 1 map CTF-Hydro16 form the number 182.

The Assault level AS-MotherShip is a literal Battleship Raid on the Skaarj Mothership, which is a Shout Out to the first Unreal game.
"Flawless Victory!"
ONS-Icarus to DM-Morpheus.
DM-Inferno explicitly references The Divine Comedy.
Invasion mode uses the classic Unreal enemies.
AS-Junkyard, from its description to the objectives of the map itself, references Scrapheap Challenge / Junkyard Wars.
The Nightmare voicepacks have varying shoutouts to horror films:

Male: No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering.
Female: I'll swallow your soul!

Two of the Thunder Crash members are called Picard and Riker. Riker even appears in the first game as part of the same team.
Gorge's team, their suit, and their name, (Juggernauts) are Shout Outs to The Juggernaut from X-Men.
One of the maps is given the name "Grendelkeep".

One of Devastation's adrenaline combos, "Head Turret", has her activating mounted turret defenses, not unlike those of Fulgore's fatality.
Continuing with the Shout Outs to Mortal Kombat, the announcer will yell "Finish Him!!" before you do a Coup De Grace.
- Some of Raiden's taunts are "You fight like Johnny Cage" and "Fatality". And, for the sake of it, his Coup De Grace is one of his Fatalities from Trilogy.
One of Sobek's taunts is "It's better to burn out, than to fade away."

The name of Act III is "The Liandri Conflict", which is also the subtitle of Unreal Championship 2.
The Titans and Behemoths in the Titan Expansion Pack take their names from the Titans and Behemoths from the first Unreal game.
The achievement for beating the Chapter 4 is called "Not In Kansas Anymore".
The achievement for defeating Akasha in Insane is called "Fear The Reaper".
Get the "Combo King" award 15 times, and you get the "Don't taze me bro!" achievement.

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