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Summary: Runs under Linux, too!
Review: First, in the System Requirements for this game, Amazon fails to note that this game *will* run under Linux, as well as Mac and Windows machines. I play it under Linux myself. That being pointed out, I'm not real big on these Quake/Doom types of games. I'm more the Tomb Raider or RollerCoaster Tycoon type of gamer. But, this Unreal Tournament is something special. I never expected to like it. But, looking for something new to play under Linux, I decided to give it a whirl, and, WOW! what a game! It's tough at times, but incredibly addictive and graphically beautiful. system requirements are too high. I play it on a now-lowly Pentium II 400, and it runs great. No problems at all. Plus, unlike Quake 3, this game has a great single-player mode, important to me because I'm not a 'Net gamer. All-in-all, a great FPS game. What Quake 3 should have been. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Nezoid
Review: This is a great game, I personally like it better than Q3. (I have both games UT and Q3. I like the maps and weapons better on UT, even though you gotta love the BFG on Q3) This game has great graphics and sound. I love multiplayer, Its very addicting. Maybe I'll see you online...
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Summary: Unreal Tournament is king! Buy this game NOW!
Review: This is far and away one of the most addictive, hands-down BEST games I've played in quite awhile. The game design is incredible, and the game runs spectacularly even on low-end systems! The internet code is fantastic, and the weapon balance and enviroments are mind-blowing. This game is king of the multiplayer first-person shooters. Team Fortress 2 remains to be seen, but unless it makes a lot of improvements over it's brethren (Tribes for example) it may not last long. As for Quake 3 . . . from the demo, it looks like Unreal may be the winner. It really depends on your preference - if you want deathmatch until you die on far-out worlds battling as strange unhuman characters, you'll probably be leaning towards Quake 3 when it comes out. If you want lots of options, realistic enviroments and mind-bogglingly great gameplay, graphics, and other stuff, buy Unreal Tournament right now! It also has beautiful graphics and incredible sound. The character models are great and flawlessly animated. You can enjoy this game without even setting foot in an online game as well - just play against the very-well designed bots. To close, Unreal Tournament is a must-have game for everyone.
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Summary: Good Deathmatch
Review: This game is quite good. Has a lot of eye candy that can take away from the Deathmatch experience, but plays very well. If you can only get one first person shooter I would recomend Quake 3 Arena, but if you can get two, this would be my second recomendation.
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Summary: Unreal is UNREAL...
Review: As a graphic artist who works in 3d, I found that curiousity soon lead me towards 3d games. Upon picking up the demo for UT (which is AVAILABLE FOR FREE ON THE INTERNET) I was FLOORED by the way my computer which was set up primarily to run regular 2d graphics handled this game! From the moment I appeared in the game I could hear the crisp sound of the enemy running all around me in DOLBY SURROUND SOUND...I could hear as the spent shells fell to the ground and I could hear my team members shouting for orders...then...I decided to gamble on the online part of the game...I entered a multiplayer game and all I can say is I walked away shaking...it's the closest I've ever been to REAL war...everything from the graphics to the little things like how your team members can wave to you from afar made this game a keeper in my book. Another cool option is the ability to save your scores and rankings to compare against others in your local area (via internet) or against others throughout the world. BUY THIS GAME....you shall NOT be disappointed. (I give it a four simply because there's ALWAYS ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT IN ANY GAME)
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Summary: My point of view
Review: I have to say, I have more fun playing Unreal tournament than any other game I've ever played on the net. First of all, the Internet code seems to work very well. I have a 56k modem and gameplay is very fluid. The graphics are outstanding and the weapons are superb. The gameplay really can suck you into the Unreal cyber reality, especially if you play with headphones and an A3D sound card. The surround effects are excellent. I've always preferred turning off music and immersing myself in the ambience of a game. Unreal tournament is excellent in that regard. I've played the Q3 arena demo, but the Unreal environment is more realistic in my opinion. They both work very well on the Net. Words of advice, get a good 3D card like a Voodoo 3 or a TNT2 because the higher resolution gameplay is amazing! Merry Christmas, Steve
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Summary: What first-person shooters are all about.
Review: This game is great...surrendering to the fact that "Yes, we are all trying to be a better version of Doom" and putting out to us what we want: no cheesy story line; in this, you deathmatch. It runs really, really good on my machine, and I've got a 200 mhz pentium w/ mmx, and 64 megs of ram. (The guy with the powerhouse down below must have a million tsr's runnin, cause he should be whuppin with that game.) Engine is suped up nice, the weapons are very, very nice (highly detailed and fun to use), and the control is sharp. One thing that's missing: a character editor. I want to paste my face on my guy and warp the wireframe to look like me in an easy to use interface, and not hack it in through 3dsmax. They promised that for next time though. =)
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Summary: Great game!
Review: For one, I would advise any readers to disregard the review saying that the reqs are too high. I run in on my P450 in software rendering mode, and it runs very well. the net play is great (Although I personally am usually the worst player on the server.. heh..) and the various games make it much more interesting than the conventional repeated blowing up of other people. Overall, it's a great highly addictive game.
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Summary: An objective view from an old Ut player
Review: Some of the reviews above suggest a monster machine to run this game, a good PII with a good graphics card (vodoo 2 - 12 mb and above) will provide you with nice gameplay. The biggest bore in FPS is running around endless corridors, UT has the graphics engine to run games in quite spectacular and open arenas. The game itself played OFF the internet is a lot of fun with a lot of different ways of playing. I have seen a couple of very minor glitches in the AI of the bots on a couple of maps, which will be fixed in a patch shortly I hear. Q3A isn't on the shelves yet so I can't compare, but certainly to date UT is by a very long way the most impressive FPS you can find, I suspect that only the most demanding and experienced player will find any fault with it at all. Overall very enjoyable, great graphics, sounds, and plenty of versions of gameplay with AI on the bots you can tweak makes for many hours of fun.
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Summary: System Requirements Too high
Review: I bought both UT and QA, and was eager to run them on my 96MB PIII-500 with high speed University LAN connection. Quake Arena ran really well with all graphics features (except trilinear) turned on at 800x600, and handled more than 12 non-bot players admirably on multiplay. Net connections were smooth at 100 ping. Unreal Tournament, on the other hand, chugged even on 512x384 with lowest detail settings, and had choppy net play. That's really disappointing considering UT had far more gameplay innovations and cooler features (I love Domination). The bottom line is: unless you have a 128MB PIII-600 with a Voodoo 3000 (or better), don't buy it.
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