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Preview of Unreal Tournament 2

Posted by michael on from the head-shot dept.

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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  1. Graphics Hardware by Ween · · Score: 3, Insightful
    As for the systems that the player will need, we are trying to scale it for the lower-end PCs to the absolute high-end PCs. I can't be more specific, as we are still optimizing the game at this time.


    I hope they truly mean low end hardware, and not a Duron 1ghz and a Geforce 2
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  2. Re:Ugh by Bert+Peers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Eh, FYI Unreal was actually one of the few games that was explicitly using software engineering principles to (a) make it more attractive for licensing, and (b) make it last longer than most games (ie past the a-few-patches-and-thats-it stage). As a result Unreal 2 was able to take a lot of the modules and swap them out for better, more up to date versions. It's the same 'engine' but with all new physics code, rendering backends, character animation systems, etc. So now you have a system that can recycle the good part (data formats, editors, etc) and at the same time evolve to remain competitive.

  3. Weak. by Decimal+Dave · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Those screen shots look good...but not great.

    Personally, I won't be impressed until 3D environments are detailed enough that all of the game's sound effects are generated in real-time by the physics engine.

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  4. Repitition by Raul654 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The problem with FPS's is that it gets so damned repetitive. Run around, grab items, shoot a near-endless supply of enemies. Except for quality of graphics, how are today's FPS's different than Doom?

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    1. Re:Repitition by vicviper · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Go play Doom, then go play UT. If you cannot tell the difference, the FPS games are *not* for you.

  5. Re:Tough Minimum Specs by sracer9 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You know, I wonder if I have a system that this game will play on:

    Athlon 1800+
    512 MB DDR Ram
    GeForce 3 Ti 200
    80 GB Raid Array

    Oh sure, I think the hardware's fine, it's the OS I'm wondering about:


    Linux localhost.net 2.4.17-xfs-preempt #2 Sat Dec 29 19:26:14 PST 2001 i686 unknown

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  6. Re:Sniper Rifle by eddy+the+lip · · Score: 4, Insightful

    this is something that i found interesting when i made the switch from Q2 to UT - what was considered acceptable behaviour seemed much different. Q2 had a kind of Broughton's rules and if you deviated from those, abuse was heaped upon you, but in UT, any kind of slimy behaviour was ok. i liked that. maybe this was in part because of the thought that went into the gameplay. you simply couldn't do things like spawn camp

    but, damn, i am going to miss the sniper rifle...

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