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ix's demo reviews: UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2003
Well, it's finally here - the demo for UT2K3:
98 Megs
I'll just say this up front - if you liked the original UT, you will more than likely enjoy this. The core gameplay remains the same, with several nice additions and extra game modes. The demo includes:
2 deathmatch maps
1 capture the flag map
1 bombing run map
Plus 1 character model and many of the weapons.
Deathmatch and CTF are just like they were in the original. Bombing run is an interesting cross between football and capture the flag. Each team has a goal in their base. There is a ball sitting in the middle of the map. You try and get the ball into the enemy team's goal. You can't fire a weapon when you've got the ball, but you can throw it, making it possible to pass between your teammates - or even throw it at an enemy so they can't use a weapon, leaving them ripe for a kill. You score 7 points for jumping through the goal and 3 for throwing the ball through it.
Some of the additions to the core gameplay include double jumping (if you hit jump again at the right time in the air you can get more distance and air) and adrenaline. You gain adrenaline by getting kills and finding it around the map. Once your adrenaline gets to 100, you can hit a keystroke combo to get a powerup - for example, tapping forwards 4 times gives you extra speed, tapping right right left left makes you invisible. Very cool. Also of note is the ragdoll physics for player deaths. Rather than a prescripted death animation, dead bodies will fly through the air, roll down slopes, and bounce off the walls.
Most of the weapons remain the same from UT with a few changes. The link gun fires a burst of plasma, or you can use your secondary fire to hit a teammate and powerup their link gun. The lightning gun, well, fires a rather powerful bolt of lightning. Overall, I'd definitely recommend the demo if your system can handle it - i've got a P3 1.0 GHz and a GeForce 2, and the framerate really drops if there's more than 2 people onscreen at once.
Previous demo reviews:
Spring Break
Battlefield: 1942
Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom
Hitman 2
98 Megs
I'll just say this up front - if you liked the original UT, you will more than likely enjoy this. The core gameplay remains the same, with several nice additions and extra game modes. The demo includes:
2 deathmatch maps
1 capture the flag map
1 bombing run map
Plus 1 character model and many of the weapons.
Deathmatch and CTF are just like they were in the original. Bombing run is an interesting cross between football and capture the flag. Each team has a goal in their base. There is a ball sitting in the middle of the map. You try and get the ball into the enemy team's goal. You can't fire a weapon when you've got the ball, but you can throw it, making it possible to pass between your teammates - or even throw it at an enemy so they can't use a weapon, leaving them ripe for a kill. You score 7 points for jumping through the goal and 3 for throwing the ball through it.
Some of the additions to the core gameplay include double jumping (if you hit jump again at the right time in the air you can get more distance and air) and adrenaline. You gain adrenaline by getting kills and finding it around the map. Once your adrenaline gets to 100, you can hit a keystroke combo to get a powerup - for example, tapping forwards 4 times gives you extra speed, tapping right right left left makes you invisible. Very cool. Also of note is the ragdoll physics for player deaths. Rather than a prescripted death animation, dead bodies will fly through the air, roll down slopes, and bounce off the walls.
Most of the weapons remain the same from UT with a few changes. The link gun fires a burst of plasma, or you can use your secondary fire to hit a teammate and powerup their link gun. The lightning gun, well, fires a rather powerful bolt of lightning. Overall, I'd definitely recommend the demo if your system can handle it - i've got a P3 1.0 GHz and a GeForce 2, and the framerate really drops if there's more than 2 people onscreen at once.
Previous demo reviews:
Spring Break
Battlefield: 1942
Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom
Hitman 2
CURSE YOU, DIAL-UP MODEM!
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