Unreal Tournament 3 Preview

Dunno if was posted before, but there's new UT3 media at http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/9539 in .mov and .wmv formats and an ok resolution

Unreal Tournament built its reputation, and legions of fans, on multiplayer...or did it? Not long into our visit at Epic Studios, the developer revealed to us that fewer than half the players who buy the games ever connect to an online server to play.

And the reason? http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19

This game I'm looking forward to a lot...I loved UT2k4 because it was fast and somewhat reflex demanding and had some BF style teamplay going on too...my hope is that this adds greater depth to the latter while keeping the former...with perhaps the weapons being a little beefier (UT2k3 and 2k4 always had weapons that were a little weak it seemed...I generally prefer stronger weapons in my DM game...not quite the overkill of UT1...but somewhere inbetween the two extremes...I feel that DOOM1&2 or Quake1 or Quake2 are good examples...Q3 was a bit weak in that regard and UT2k3 definately was).

I'd also love to muck around with a space combat mod for it (basically take the standard UT3 as a base and add capital ships and fighters and the ability to board or beam aboard ships and fight...maybe try to capture ships or take out their core or disable shit or something...should be possible if you used portals and what have you to link mapped out areas with models of ships). That said I don't have as much time as I used to so that will end up among the big list of things I'd love to do modding wise but never get around to.

Everytime I see "new" news on UT3, I hop out and play a quick game of UT2004/Onslaught. Just played a rocking round of Island Hop ... DUDE ... it's still awesome. Only game I've every played that has the ongoing, never ending playability of UT2004 is Q3A. I played that today too!

People better fucking play this, I live UT2K4 but I want to play some plain ol' DM or CTF without 1.) fucking bots on a MULTIPLAYER SERVER or 2.) low grav/instagib.

It's impossible to find a good pinging vanilla UT server these days without some stupid shit like that.

Hm... I guess when this game draws closer to release would be a good time to upgrade my machine.

Still don’t like the bulky “buzz lightyear” looking armor design, at least they’re finally getting away from the sports theme somewhat, that was just stupid.