Unreal 2 Patch / Demo News

EAX rant (related to the EAX crashing bug in Unreal 2):
Honestly, EAX is worthless and Creative Labs sucks ass.

When are devs going to wise up and just stop wasting time coding this garbage? id already pointed out that EAX is shit and they're not supporting it.

Furthermore, I quote a MAME developer:

"Current PC sound cards have horribly underpowered DSPs and they're not programmable by games anyway. Sound should be where graphics is: fully programmable cards via a standard interface. The Xbox (and NForce2-DD) sound system is an important step in that direction, but until NV gets smart and slaps that on a PCI card nobody's going to code for it."

EAX is just lame filters applied to sound effects that's no more impressive than Duke3d's "underwater" filter. That was in 1996, people, and Duke3d was more efficient CPU wise. :P

It's time to get some real soundcards.

After the genius that was WoT multi (outside of Balefire), I don't understand how Dahlgren could sign off on this.

Maybe it's a quirky form of vengeance for all the fuckers that shunned WoT :P

In short. dont buy this game.

Its just going to laugh at your PC when any amount of bad guys get on the screen (frame rate droping). You'll beat the game in a few days and have nothing left to do. And you'll wonder how the hell a game in this day in age doesnt come with multiplayer...
The graphics are great, no doubting that, and the gameplay is good throughout but nothing amazing. In short, "borrow" it from someone when their done but dont waste your money ;)

ah honest review..please read.

honestly this game was lackluster at best.

There were NONE of the kinds of experiences any of us had in Unreal. After walking out of the Vortex Raiders ship, seeing that sun in the sky..birds circling..music queue, water falls...it was great.

Unreal 2...had barely anything to do with Unreal in the first place...and there were definately no experiences in the game worth remembering. Sure it looked pretty...I will give it that..but are we exploiting an engine here? If so, I would pay half the price and just register my copy of 3DMark 2003.

What are we looking at here guys? A game called Unreal 2, using an Unreal engine, but having nothing to do with the original Unreal in any sort of congruent form.

Now pay attention here. I never said the game was bad. But I think alot of people were let down. I think alot of people were wanting to experience those very simple but well executed instances in Unreal that really made us remember it. None of this happened.

Hell i remember laughing about how Valve was claiming that there levels would be built seamlessly in Half-Life..so even though it loads..you wont be taken out of the game istelf visually.

Did anyone miss the fact that Epic did this first with Unreal?

To me Unreal 2 was like watching the made for tv mini series, Knight Rider 2000. They had a talking car, it had rocket luanhcers, rocket boosters and a very cynical talking computer, all packaged in a cherry red Dodge Viper....

but it still...was'nt knight rider...it was nothing that I was made to expect it to be.

Unreal 2...is NOT Unreal 2.

I hope the badf feeling doesn't ruin the possibility of people building levels for it.If folk think they could improve upon it there is an editor there to try with.

i cant even install this fucker! grrr

Unreal II Condensed Review:

Gameplay: short bursts of FPS sandwiched between long load times and pain cutscenes(how many times do we have to watch the shuttle dock or land?)
Plot: repeatative
AI: weak
COOP: none
Multiplay: none
Length of game: short
Value: low to rip off

I beat the game before it's patch even comes out. Now THAT'S a short game.

Unreal 2 is a good game. Its not a very good game, or a great game, its simple good.

Nothing special, nothing bad, but nothing memorable either. Most people will enjoy it for 10 hours then never touch it again.

The original was much better and definitly longer...

Guess we know why they didnt realease a demo first.

who cares anyway by the time the patch is done everyone will have beaten the game and forgotten it.

No multiplayer support = nothing left after beating it.

Its a short game anyway... Impressive graphics, good gameplay, but just short.

Ohh now you want to make a demo...........too late Im not buying that crap.

where the hell is steve meretzky(sp?), he used to work at legend back during their adv. game period. superheroleagueofhoboken anyone?

I will download this demo.

"address a number of the issues that people have raised in these forums"

They're gonna add co op? :}