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Unreal Tournament 2003

Unreal Tournament 2003

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Enjoy the silence....as long as you can!
Review: German law is forcing me to get "UT2003" shipped from overseas. Anyway, I'm sure that it's worth to do this, in order to be able to see a full piece of art whithout missing the ideas and the creative work of many talented artists.

Since the original "UT" shook me up emotionally in every way (graphics, sound, balanced gameplay, inner logic), i can't wait to explore how the developers have re-invented the simple idea of "hide and seek".

It's amazing how a single game-release can make hundreds and thousands of pc-gamers conversating about it without even knowing the final result. It's no secret: I am ONE of the gamers, who expect the developers to do have done their work properly one more time! But this time I'm trusting in their words: The fact, that the game-release has been delayed several times is no mismanagement at all! It simply is a a proof for the heart and the soul, the hole staff has put into the game so far. They really want to call it a "legal sequel" and this means hard work that is followed up by several testings in a consequence.

Everyone who thinks that playing a "beta-version" of the game is "cool" or justified, simply because of the fact that he liked "UT", should read the statement of Mark Rein (Epic-Biz). Some true words are spoken here!!

For me, it's quite hard to go on working "day in and day out", but I defintely will wait "until it's done"! Everyone, who has read my thoghts so far should know that I pre-ordered UT2003 today because I'm looking forward to see the postman, having no idea of the fact that he's delivering a sequel of a "already-classic"-phenomenon!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Unreal is REAL
Review: Unreal Tournament is the best PC game I have ever played, not only agaist the BOT's but on the net with others. You will feel the pain when you get shot. weapons are geat and have the feel of the hunt.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: UT can be for all ages...Dad!
Review: First, I am 50 years old. UT is the only game I play regularly and I do it to relax evenings after work. I play 2-3 times a week and enjoy the first person shooter aspect and matching skills with people of all ages from all over the world. If you like to compete, you will find you can excel in some maps and find yourself not quite up to the competition in others.

I laugh many times at how I get fragged or frag others. You just have to laugh at it. It's great. If some poor kid knew he was getting his from a 50 year old... When the night is over, I always thank the remaining players for the fun and look forward to returning. Occassionally, I set up a dedicated server and just watch the action rather than play along. It is fun to see the strategy of others. You can tell the new players with ease...they are frequenly missing their heads.

Most amazing is the talent some of the younger generation has for creating new maps. Very ingenious and I hope they keep up the good work.

Lastly, thanks to the developers and staff for keeping this game on the level it is. Just look out for that sniper on the tall tower to the left of the hill, I have my sights right between your eyes! Head_Case.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: So far, so good....& the clock is ticking *edited*
Review: *This review will be updated when the game is released*

Yipes, is all I can say.....I just played several maps of a late-beta version of UT 2003. I had previously played a much earlier version a few months back, and was (tentatively) a little scared of the game, to be honest, because the game was just sooooo jumpy, the AI was terrible, and worst of all, I couldn't see anything of beauty in the gfx dept. Turns out I should have just waited, because UT2003 is going to be THE gaming experience of the next two years. It already has been, for me, and I've only played about an hour's worth.

The first thing I noticed as I played this newest version was the gorgeous level design. UT is well known for its crazy and graceful level design, but the Digital Extremes folks really took it to another plane now that they've got their teeth into it. Complimenting this is some unbelievable character animation. I was almost completely and sincerely fooled at times as to whether or not I was chasing a real person on the screen, the fluidity of motion was just that good. On the whole, the game is just fantastic to look at, and to top it all off, it plays well on my machine. I had the graphics and sound cranked up all the way with no trouble. OK, I do have a [outstanding] rig, but seriously this is bleeding edge stuff, and my machine is a few months old now....it was encouraging to see that a good system with a GF3 card and 512 MB DDR RAM isn't quite over the hill yet. Epic Games has always tried to cater to the old school crowd too though, so don't be surprised if the game runs pretty well no matter what the system, within reason. I remember playing UT with my old 233 MHz laptop with a 2D gfx card, and I had a ton of fun, so suffice it to say, this game will bring a lot of fun with it even if you can't always hear all the bells and whistles of the advanced graphics.

I also can't say enough good stuff about the sound of this game. I really can't describe it in any way other than to say, if you've played Thief 2 and appreciated the little squeaks and shimmy-sounds like I did, you're gonna dig this game, because the game is incredibly detailed like that, only about ten times better than T2. In a time where graphics capabilities are all the rage, it's nice that they took the time to add some sweet sounds to the game for audiophiles like myself. (The music seems cool, too, although the version I played had a limited soundtrack)

I can't say it any clearer than this: if you weren't a fan of UT before now, chances are this game is going to suck you in with the rest of us. & I just hope you aren't waiting for me with a flak cannon when I see you on the other side...

/begin edit - 11-01-02

Well, the day has come and gone, and on that fateful day of October 2nd, I went to EB and bought this game, thinking I was in store for exactly what I had said above, but (and I really hate to say this)....it didn't quite turn out to be the revolution in gaming that I was expecting and hoping for.

Granted, it's a good game, and will probably be voted game of the year at more than one gamer's website. However, when compared to the original UT, I'm afraid that there is no comparison. Perhaps I'm jaded more now than I was in 1999, as far as graphics go.....indeed it really is a pretty game to look at, and no doubt the gameplay isn't really lacking so much as it is just slightly not as in-your-face as the last iteration.

I don't know, I guess the speed of the game is just slightly off as compared to UT, among several other very subtle differences that sort of contribute to the overall sense of disappointment I feel when disconnecting from a server. I'll tell you what though, playing this game HAS sort of revived my interest in the old UT, which is odd I guess since this 2003 game is basically supposed to essentially replace the former game. To sum up, I guess I'd say that I'll have to wait awhile before really making a final call on this game, since hopefully Epic will continue their tradition of not only patching the game regularly, but improving it and adding new features and map packs that just might make this game a truly remarkable experience, after a bit of work.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I've played the beta, this is my reaction...
Review: I played the UT2003 beta about a month ago, and I was blown away (in more ways than one). Unfortunately the beta wouldn't let you see the game in high resolution, it only had 640x480 support. But I've never before seen a game look that good in 640x480 mode. The smoke effects from the rocket launcher are incredible.

Now for the bad news... You'll need a fairly high-end PC to run it. My friend tried to play the beta on his computer, and it was literally a slide show (even at 640x480!). He has a Pentium 3 800mhz processor, 512 MB SDRAM, and a 64 MB ATI graphics card. It ran very smooth on my computer, but I wonder how well it will hold up when I up the resolution in the retail version... At LEAST a GeForce 3 Ti 500 is highly recomended. My system is P4 2.0ghz, 512 MB RDRAM, and a Geforce 3 Ti 500. If you have anything similar to mine, I'm sure it will run great, but I'm not sure about high-res (1280x1024 and above).

The sound is awesome. The AI is superb (though there was a glitch or two in the beta, I'm sure they'll fix/have fixed that before release). I'm really looking forward to the next generation of Unreal, and also looking forward to future games that will build on this updated version of the UT engine. The only game I've seen that looks better than this is DOOM III, but I'm sure the release of that is a ways off. This will more than keep you occupied until then!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Unreal Tournament 2003: Raw Power
Review: Simple to explain, Unreal Tournament 2003 is raw graphics power. It is made to work with lower power graphics as well. Such as geforce to and even voodoo 3 and 5. It has great game play with up to 4 game play modes like capture the flag and more. With a few more races and tons of diffrent characters. Up to 30 in all. It has really good mods coming out for it as well. Since I have gotten used to games like half-life sometimes ut 2003, will be too much as in to fast to much killing ect. You can always go to another mode or mod. All in all this is a great game. I can play it on my dell 4300 with a porlink geforce 4 ti 4200, pentium 1 .6, 384 sd ram wich is a big bottleneck and a siple monitor. Though you will need a good connection such as my dsl to play. So, go and preorder this game today even with one day shipping its worth the extra money thats what I did.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: best game in the world
Review: Now i have played unrealtournemnt the first 1 and it was great now im betting that this 1 will be the greatest game of all time so i erge u to get it i have seen the previews and they were really cool so get it if ur not afaraid.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: beautiful
Review: think about it. unreal tournament, but better.better guns, better levels, its almost perfect. i will pre order it now and spend many a night in an insomniatic rage killing many things on this game. of course, you could always wait for unreal championship for xbox, but its a whole different game.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Finally - What Unreal Tournament Fans Have Been Waiting For!
Review: Can it really be that the replacement for the singular Unreal Tournament is about to be released? This is great news and I am personally looking forward to locking myself away for days on end to indulge!

From the sources I have seen there are valid improvements to UT but keeping the basic idea the same - so the developers have concentrated on moving the graphics forward and keeping the logic of the game the same. This is right on the money as games need to make the most of the forward march of PC technology. For myself I have been busily upgrading my PC in preparation with more processor, more memory and a new graphics card. I mention this because it seems to me that the enhanced graphics are going to require a pretty much top-level PC to drive decent performance out of this game.

My experience with UT shows that we should take the developers guide-lines on Hardware requirements with a big pinch of salt. The box of my copy of UT said that it would run on a PC without a graphics card - sure, try that if you want one frame every five seconds!! Let's get real - the higher the PC spec the better this game is going to run and I wouldn't be thinking to try this game without a fairly serious graphics card.

I hope that Amazon.com will publish this review this time around (I think they censored the last one as I mentioned the PC requirement issue); even though I am urging caution on the PC requirements side I have actually rated it as a 5* release.

Recommended

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A word from an UnrealĀ® master!
Review: What can put you in doubt about a game named UNREAL?Absolutely nothing!!!I'll preorder it now and play it to death when it arrives,many sleepless nights await me but I just don't care.I addicted my life to this game,I mean UT,and I'm playing it almost every day ever since I've bought it.Nonstop fun and adrenaline folks.


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