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."

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awesome

[qed123]

Those look very nice. I hope 2004 ships with Linux support out of the box, like 2003.

UT2K4 / Q3TA?

[thamaht]

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..

Re:2K4?

[jpr1nd]

well it's actually _Unreal_ Tournament, and if you're going to be picky about the 2KX formula for naming games you may have to start off with (just about) every sports game released since 2001

Re:In other news...

[Baloo Ursidae]

I dunno about anybody else, but I wish everybody would knock it off with the retarded 2k(yourmom) naming scheme for everything. I think the real Y2K bug was that it was supposed to happen 3.5 years ago and people still won't let that fscking buzzword die.

Re:In other news...

[Omestes]

Eh, k = 1000. 2k4 2000 + 4 = 2004. Not quite a buzz word, being that it is correct notation. Y2k was pure buzzword.

Also officially Ut2k3 is Unreal Tournament 2003, so it just user shortening, jus' like typing MS to be Microsoft, IE6 being Internet Explorer 6.**. Geeks like acronyms, alot. With all our big nasty RAMs, ROMs, MP3s, MMORPGS, MUDs, BMPs, etc etc... Saying "Unreal Tournament 2003" is cumbersome, saying "YOO TEE TWO Kay THREE" is easier.

Back OT (on topic), I'm miffed at Epic/Atari/whatnot for this. I just forked over my $50 for UT2k3 (unreal tournament two thousand and three), and now I'm expected to fork over ANOTHER $50 for the same damn game. Change content as much as you want, I didn't really buy it for content, I bought it because it was a really pretty engine. I don't (do not)think a minor engine update, and some inhouse mods (modifications) are really worth another chunk of cash. Why not remake Unreal2, except make it better, that might be worth my money.

I mean that $50 is already slotted for Frozen Throne and the Morrowind expansion, not for a game I already have two copies of. (UT, and UT2k3 (unreal tournament, and unreal tournament two thousand and three).