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Preview of Unreal Tournament 2
An Anonymous Coward writes: "Looks like we can finally have a glance at the Unreal Tournament 2 screenshots and a nice preview. Wow, games these days are just too real (but you wont hear me complain!). Enjoy!"
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They're apparently including vehicles this time around, Tribes 2 style.
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already been done. Tactical Ops (for UT 1)
There's also Strike Force, but Tactical Ops is the best IMO.
Then for Half-Life there's CounterStrike.
FYI, Tactical Ops & Strike Force are more taxing on the system than regular UT. Real life(like) requires more detail.
Well I haven't played Q3 since I finished Uni (hey those iMacs where good for something after all) but if I remember it right you could usually see where the person with the railgun was because it left a trail. UT didn't have this but now UT2 will.
I don't really have a problem with snipers, I just found it amusing what they where replacing the sniper rifle with.
BTW does anybody know how horrible it is to play FPS games with only one mouse button!
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The level editor that came with UT is the exact same one that Epic use to make the game. Any shortcomings of it, they had to deal with in the development process. So clearly, it is a very usable editor since the game was released and was also pretty popular!
It definately isn't one of the easiest editors to use though. I suggest checking here if you want to learn more about how to use UnrealEd efficiently.
What you want then, is Infilitration, Tactical Ops, Covert Forces and/or Strike Force. They are 'realism' CT-like mods for UT, and they (at least Infil, TO and SF, I haven't tried CF) have quite a few servers running them.
There are also other realism mods in the working: SAS:Into the Lion's den, Platoon 19, Blitzkrieg: 1941, and more.
A lot of people are.. 'So what, Doom is coming out within a year' and 'Q3 is better' etc etc. I guess some people don't realize why UT is a special game.
It's the simple customizations you can do. While Quake 3 is a lot of fun to play, the interface is quite rigid, and there are few options to adjust how the game plays.. unless you want to download giant mod packs of course.
With UT, you have 'mutators'. There's lots built into the game.. things like 'Insta-Gib' (a single shot = death style mode).. 'Rocket Arena' (rocker launchers only), and so on. You can customize every game you play in this way.
Not only that, but you have more modes of play. Now just CTF and deathmatch.. but a 'Return to Castle Wolfenstein' style Assault mode where you have to complete objectives.. a 'Domination' mode where you have to hold several checkpoints.. and even a 'Last Man Standing' mode where the only goal is to die as few times as possible.
It's the way you can constantly refine the games to your own style that makes UT fun.
Another great feature is that you can change the game speed! You can run as low as 50%, or as high as 200%. I always play UT at 120% because then it matches the speed of Q3.. as UT is generally a slower game action-wise.
So.. UT is great because Epic understands that simple tweaking and customization options means you can get far more out of the game!
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