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Unreal Tournament 2K4 First Look

Posted by simoniker on from the unreally-updated-yearly dept.

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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  1. How many UT games will come out before by mhesseltine · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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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  2. UT2K4 / Q3TA? by thamaht · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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..

    1. Re:UT2K4 / Q3TA? by jpr1nd · · Score: 5, Informative

      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.

  3. Random Tidbits by Drakino · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  4. UT2k4 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe you saw this game when it was called tribes2