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.

How many UT games will come out before

[mhesseltine]

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.

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:UT2K4 / Q3TA?

[jpr1nd]

you're correct about the vehicles, there is a small vehicle demo hidden in UT2K3 that i'm sure most people know about. if not, open the console in UT2K3 and type 'open vehicledemo' (w/o the quotes, of course) to drive around a volcanic looking area in some sort of buggy contraption. fun.

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

Random Tidbits

[Drakino]

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.

In other news...

[AlexMax2742]

Sega sues the hell out of Epic for stealing their '2K' naming system.

Film at eleven.

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).

UT2k4

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe you saw this game when it was called tribes2

Re:UT2k4

[FuzzyBad-Mofo]

Maybe you saw this game when it was called tribes2

My thoughts exactly, except the graphics are slightly prettier. T2 was one game with huge replay value.. I still play it regularly after almost two years. If this new UT game plays as good as it looks, they should have a winner on their hands.

Re:Makes me glad i DIDNT buy UT2003

[weicco]

I bought UT2003 and what a horrible mistake I made. I had to eat macarones rest of the month and what did I get from it... Stupid game that doesn't run on my computer (Duron 1200, Ati 8500LE).

Graphics was supposed to be awesome, at least somebody said so back then. Well maybe they were, but all those fancy details and flashing things made the whole screen to look really confusing. I couldn't tell what part of the screen was supposed to be a wall and where the enemy was :) I hope UT2004 does a better job on this one and I have the money to buy better PC so I'm able to play it (if I win a lottery).