Unreal Tournament 2007 Preview

So what kind of weapon unlock system will ut2007 have?

Such a neat looking game. Yet those screenshots upset me. I see so much stuff i want to blow up with rockets, yet i know the environment will look pretty, but will never break.

Let me tell you something about game loading Martin. It fucking sucks.

After playing Dungeon Siege 1 I realized "Holy shit it is liberating to play an entire game with only one loading screen!" It is so much less frustrating than sitting through downtime.

Then came Half Life 2 which I think was 15% less awesome because of the loading of new maps which totally broke the immersion.

Then comes BF2 which totally redefines loading. What seems like minutes of videos to load which you have to delete manually. Then you wait for the server browser screen to load, then you wait for what amounts to 1gb of game data to load, then when the map switches you do it again! It even takes a perceptible amount of time to unload the game. This is what they invented RAM for, so you can have 1.5-2gb and make SURE none of the game gets into the page file.

But even back after playing Dungeon Siege, I decided that streaming new data rather than loading in one chunk was the way of the future. And that a most excellent group like Epic is embracing this idea brings me hope for the future.

Also notable is that Mark Rein knows what the fuck, even though he probably didn't have anything to do with this.

every unreal game I buy I get bored of after a few months and never play it again, but I still buy the new games, and I'll still buy '07, just hope it has what it takes to be a real keeper

I'm very interested in Conquest and still enjoy Onslaught, but I do hope they realize the atmosphere and CTF is what made UT(imo).
Do away with the cheezy sports theme and the stupid character designs....back to UT damnit!
But most importantly, return CTF to the fun it was before the UT2k* series emerged.

Console games have been streaming for years, at least back to the PS1. No new tech here, move along.

and NO FUCKING MORE BOTS ONLINE... I'm sick of looking for UT server and there is TONS TONS of bots with 0 ping...

they should DISABLE BOTS so people would join the game and play with acually real people... those newbies can't tell different if its human or bots when they play online so they kind of playing with bots and think ut is so fucking cool... I'm sick of all those kind of newbies just fucking pull out bots online its not even worth it!

Must complain about something so... still using light maps?

looks good... i wonder what platform i'll be using in 2007... PC are gettin' ridiculously expensive...

2007? Do they know it's still 2005?

"Amazingly, even the first load wasn't long. Unoptimized and running on development hardware / software, UT 2007 still booted up in less time than the average Half-Life 2 or Far Cry game. Good stuff!"

Wow so it takes less than forever and a day to load a map? That is amazing.

this hoe better then fear yo hahah

You got to talk with James Brown? Awesome! Now make it funky!

Cool I'm glad they've stopped using the Quake3 engine (joke).

Unreal Tourny and Quake3 just looked too similar in the way it showed colors and textire detail.

Ooooh, shiny!