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Unreal Tournament 2K4 First Look
Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to a Gamespot first look at Unreal Tournament 2K4, which comes with the first 3 official screenshots of Epic's PC FPS. This title includes much of the goodness in UT2K3, "as well as new game modes, huge new maps, and controllable air, land, and space vehicles", and Gamespot mentions that one of the screens "provides a look at the space flyer in the assault mode, while the other two show scenes from the onslaught mode, which will take place in giant outdoor environments."
Those look very nice. I hope 2004 ships with Linux support out of the box, like 2003.
Duke Nukem' Forever finally makes it?
Bad joke aside, UT2k3 and UT II just came out fairly recently, and there are still people creating maps, mutators, etc. for them. Hopefully this won't steal too much thunder from the UT2k3 and UT II camps, since there's still lots of good gameplay left there.
P.S. Slashcode continues to be broken. Either fix the headers for games on the frontpage, or, apply the color schemes to all the other headlines. In fact, that might be kind of cool. BSD headlines in red, Apple in the Aqua theme, etc.
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This reminds me entirely too much of Quake 3: Team Arena, which flopped horribly. (Not Quake 3: Arena, but the other, crappier one.) It looks to be the same engine with more maps/characters/vehicles (IIRC there was the capability in the UT2K3/U2 engine for that, but it was never done..), and a little facelift. That formula doesn't work well for first person shooters, though..
The article was about Ultimate Tournament 2004. What's this 2K4 you're talking about?
No, this is not a troll. Maybe you meant 2k4 instead of 2K4. Please note that 2k4 == 2400 != 2004.
Halo? UT2k4? Missing something here, like a press release?
Maybe we'll be able to play with the Halo Online Kids!
Rumor Rumor Rumor!
Looks like a warthog to me...
With all the chat about new releases needing good plot and game play to differentiate themselves, why do we still feel the need to drool over bleeding-edge screenshots? I still prefer Tribes2 to any recent games like UT2k3 or RtCW-ET, but damn if these new shots aren't great. Gotta hate human nature.
Random tidbits from my visit to E3 and seeing UT2K4:
1. It's completly backwards compatible with UT2K3. Any mod for UT2K3 works in 2K4.
2. Atari is planning some sort of rebate for existing 2K3 owners, but no details were announced at E3.
3. 2K4 adds more content to the game then what 2K3 shipped with.
4. This still uses the same engine as 2K3, with some tweaks.
5. There are no plans currently for a UT2K5. 2K4 exists due to so much new content being developed for the game. More then they were willing to release as free bonus packs.
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I might actually buy this one, as I like the idea of space vehicles etc... I hope they've cleaned up the physics first though.
Maybe you saw this game when it was called tribes2
If they implement this well, it should be a great game. Assault was one of the most missed features when UT2003 came out, so I'm not that surprised to see it back. If the upgrade price from UT2003 is reasonable, it should be a hit.
Tribes 2 done right (as in: network code that doesn't suck, but after playing ET a couple of times, UT2k3's network code looks sucky in comparison; a terrain engine that really scales). I wonder what the AI is like. Tribes 2 had a very steep requirements list for its time in order to have halfway decent AI -- and it wasn't really that hot.
I already bought UT2003 in january,iÂm not going to buy mods and vehicles! I'm saving my money to buy Half Life2/Doom3.
I will not download it through Kazaa, for two reasons. The first (and practicle reason) is that I'm stuck at 26k right now. I have no idea why. I just moved into a new apartment complex, and the fasted dial-up speed I can get is 26400. I spent a whole night that I should have been unpacking boxes messing with my network settings... Damn erfwink. So download UT2k+4 would take a week and a half to download. It summer, free bandwidth isn't available for another 3 months, when I get to play with that nice ph4t T1 again.
Now the big ethereal ethical reason; I support Epic/Atari. The Unreal series of games has been very good, and I have gleamed much enjoyment from them. And being that I like the product, and would play it obsesivly, I'll pay for it. I view buying a product like voting, if it is good it gets my vote, if not, it doesn't. My vote being my hard-earned cash. Now I'm not completely against piracy, I've pirated some utilities (and an OS) in the past, just because I'd only use it once, and that it wasn't quite the software of choice. Sometimes I pirate because prices are too high, I can't afford a $300 peice of software, so I hit up kazaa, or search astalavista. But for things I want, and can afford, I buy.
Also, buying it more convenient.
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