Unreal Tournament 2007 Screenshots

its so silly. this engine has so much potential in stills.
in motion, however, theres no cohesion. the graphics look real, but the animation looks crappy, the physics are all bouncy and retarded, the particles are not real at all, and fuckin MALCOLM is the biggest idiot this side of mars.
true, i have inferred all this from looking at shitty quality movies. but still.

one game that came together really well is half-life 2. everything works well in that game and works towards an end. its as if they had a really good project director who managed to mix everything together very nicely.
with games like ut2k7, its like different people are incharge of the various departments, and theres no communication between them. they just bring everything together at the end.

sure this game aint comin out or a while... but i can bet a lot of money these things wont change.. cause probably, whoever is leading the project (isnt it the reaperbot dude?) is happy with the way its turned out presently.

anyways, still cant wait to play. just bickering.

The original Unreal is the only Unreal for me.

Needs movies. Stills make shaders looks crappy, imo.

The polygon count is out of control, btw.

You know, as I looked at these pictures and pondered wether or not this will really be UT 2007 or UT 2008, it made me realize that maybe consoles really ARE going to push out PC gaming. The biggest advantage PC Gaming has is that it is constantly improving while consoles only improve every console release. But now games are now taking 3-5 years to make anyway, and the graphical "wow" factor is less and less the closer we get to photo quality. I wonder how long it will take it before even I, the hardcore PC gaming enthusiast, will break ranks and jump on the console bandwagon?

Show me the physics!!!
Show me the physics!!!!
Show me the physics!!!!

The eye candy is there but Ill like to know how is the physics for the vehicles specially.

Hey these graphics are awesome.

I can't wait to turn them all off and down to lowest settings so I can kill people faster and see people through the objects that my low graphics settings have hidden for me!

:D

what weapon is that?

I almost can't imagine this in motion... Like, I could see it as prerendered, but to think that one day I'll be sitting there and be able to play it.

Of course, as soon as the action starts, I don't see the visuals anymore. The only time I really notice how good games look these days is when I'm not the one playing them, like if I walk up behind someone at a LAN party or something. I'll ask them "What the heck are you playing, it looks so good" and they'll say something suprising, like, "Oh, it's Area 51" which isn't the most visually stunning game out there to be honest, but when I wasn't concentrating on playing it, then I could appreciate all the shaders and details and environmental effects.

Looks nice. One thing that always seems to gnaw at me a bit is that I rarely ever see rounded curves and/or circles in any unreal engine....they are always close, but if you look, things like the wheels and the circular objects and/or curves on buildings, models, etc....usually still have some obvious faces or edges.

I always thought a marvel of gaming engines was how q3 made curved/smooth surfaces and/or round shapes (like archways) - although you had to crank the detail up, it was there and looked great. (shaders?)....why doesn't any Unreal/UT game have that yet?

These shots are the closest...

I can't stand UT or the graphic style and cookie cutter gameplay, but those graphics are insane.

Was kinda hoping to see large city-scape views included ... in an earlier demo of the engine they panned the camera up out of the city-maze and showed you a crapload of rooftops and water glimmering in the distance. I realize thats just demo candy, but for the love, someone make an engine that this is a technically feasible element to maps.

I don't care about the specifics, I realize this is no simple request, but having a seamless level loading engine be able to render complicated cityscapes with people inside/outside of it and able to look down on it from a hillside would be awesome for non-deathmatch crap games. Multiplayer FPS/RPG hybrids, MMOs, and the like. (Games that involve more than running around in circles for hours.)

Games keeping pushing more and more for photorealism, but I want more flexibility realism. My limited experience with mapping for HL1/HL2 made me realize just how poorly game engines perform with large amounts of potentially visible polys. There are tricks you can do to hide crap, give the illusion of more visible things/larger distance (esp with HL2 skybox stuff), but ultimately its still gimped out smoke and mirrors and careful layout for visibilities sake, gameplay flow completely aside.

Re: http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=10597257

Ok. My eyes were fucked up somehow. It looks beautiful now.

Me personally, that looks great visually. But how in the hell are you supposed to see the damned players with hotel lights flashing in and out etc...

I'd rather the game be more strategic than just a bevy of crap to hide the player in.

Meh, r_picmip 5 FTW I guess :)

One thing I have really loved about the UT games is that design wise they haven't painted themselves into a corner.

They have the "snow" levels, and the "ancient civilization" levels, and the "swamp" levels and "desert" levels and the "ultra modern sky rise" levels and it all fits.

But it is odd seeing these ultra high tech vehicles -- in these screenshots -- in this Old World setting; It looks like present day Europe w/ a lot of crazy neon. It's like all of the technology has advanced, but the architecture has remained for hundreds of years (and just been plastered with neon).

if it looks that FUCKING GOOD in stills, how the hell is it gonna look in action. Needs more divx.

Unreal Tournament: The movie.

i could do without the bloomy highlights but that looks damn good. Except 2007 WTF?

Looks great. UE3 engine sure is awesome and it's cool to see real game screens from UE3 based games live up to the old tech demo shown last year.

I'm a bit tired of the standard FPS online deathmatch though. I hope it offers something unique but i'm not going to expect it. Shackbattles could be fun.

These look great... but is this the next UT game? The one after the next?

I really like how the map is an actual city environment not just some chared battleground.

I posted this the other day...
I'd rather play a detailed RPG in this environment than a run & gun FPS.

I'm getting too old for competitive death match stuff.

These are unreal (lolz). I love that several light sources are being allowed to cast shadows.

Displacement maps are being used so well here, I don't know where to begin!

The tank looks kinda meh

You'd think I've been looking at screenshots long enough to not go "Jesus Christ" when I see something like this, but here they are and here I am.

I'd dig this far more if I liked the art style, because the tech is hot.

Let's hope they make onslaught a little less linear this time.

From the latest preview:

"They're environments, not levels." What James is getting at is how each distinct killing field is intended to be a believable place. The Carbon Fire deathmatch environment we were demonstrated, for instance, was a robot manufacturing facility. In different areas robots were being constructed, painted, shipped, and distributed.

Oh boy. This usually spells trouble. Hello gimmick levels, goodbye mapflow/gameplay.

Bad decision. Bad bad bad.

I guess here's where the "stop boo hooing, you can have both!!" guys reply, but I'll just have one thing to say to them: you're wrong. It's either/or.

some of those level look hard to navigate with all the stuff laying around. I hope they dont forget about the flow of levels just to force vechicles to be used more or something.

is that a gun or a water tower?

Moon boots 4 ever!

Not to bitch, but these are stamped from gamershell and have been resized from the GIGANTOR resolution I've seen elsewhere. Can we get some HQ replacements?

These shots look fucking sexy. Too bad it's still like at least a year away :(

Could use a little less bloom bit looks great.

as an ardent Unreal-head, these make me happy on the inside

http://www.shacknews.com/screens.x/ut2007/Unreal+Tournament+2007/1/082205/082105_ut2007_1.jpg
"The Scorpion Buggy... The Goliath Tank... The Raptor Fighter... Have you ever looked at me and asked yourself, 'How does the motherfucker do it?' Well, stay tuned and over the next half-hour I'll show you how!"

Overall they look really dark. That's probably just the level though. Other than that, digital sex.

Yeah. Holy shit. I think that best sums up that visual orgasm.