1. trackers use 8 bit samples? stereo or/and mono?
I'd say whether the samples are 8 bit or 16 bit doesn't really change anything. Since you mention Unreal Engine games, you will find plenty of 16-bit samples in those.
Stereo vs mono is much more important, but that's not specific to tracker music. Of course to get a nice stereo spectrum, you need to work completely differently with mono samples than you would with stereo samples. The Unreal Engine games you referred to all use mono samples, so if you want to create something similar, that is probably the way to go. Even when using stereo samples of exactly the same sources as those mono samples, the resulting stereo image of the music will be completely different. You can observe the same effect outside of trackers in sample-heavy music from the 90s, like jungle music. Most producers were using samplers back then, and mostly using mono samples. This gives this type of music a very distinctive sound that would be very different if it was recreated with stereo samples.
2. what made or makes the songs out of trackers sound so unique? i mean if i listen to e.g. CRUSADER NO REMORSE, DEUS EX, UNREAL etc. it sounds so unique. is it the samples? i also listened on youtube and some tracker music like Techno, Drum and bass, trance etc. which sounded more STANDARd but still kinda unique and old school, not as CLEAN (i dunno how to describe!) as nowadays.
A bit of everything. Have you thought about the fact that all of those soundtracks are written by a very small group of people, and that this group of people have very recognizable music styles? Of course you can just take their samples and maybe that would give your own track a but of an "Unreal" feeling, but it's only one part of the equation. Alex Brandon has a very distinctive style that you can still hear in his modern soundtracks that are
not done with a tracker. That shows that neither the samples nor the software used are all that important (but they do contribute of course), the creative mind behind the music is much more important I think.
3. is there a way to emulate this sound in a DAW like Cubase for example? there are plugins which could just be on the master bus and turn down the sample rate to 22khz for example, i tested it and played some VSTs but it didnt sound like tracker music, so i must be missing something?
There is no need to turn down the sample rate. What can help is using a sampler that allows you to use lower-quality resampling (interpolation settings). There are plugins that specifically try to emulate the sound of some famous 90s sampler hardware, those could be a starting point. Trackers aren't identical to that hardware but their sampler code typically has very comparable fidelity. If you just use the default sampler of your DAW, its focus is probably much more on high-quality playback of samples, so old, low-quality samples taken from MODs will sound very muffled in them.
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