UT2004 Shows Upgrades, Spaceships, Onslaught

Posted by simoniker on Thursday September 11, 2003 @02:51AM from the getting-better-all-the-time? dept.

Thanks to GameSpy for their hands-on preview of Unreal Tournament 2004, checking out the PC FPS title that's due out this Xmas. This latest upgrade "...will ship with vehicles, new weapons, two new game modes, and more new maps than all the maps UT2003 shipped with", and a new space level has you "...piloting small Wing Commander-style space fighters [before] the action switches to more traditional-style combat." The novel 'onslaught' mode, in which competing teams use vehicles and special weapons to "...control a series of nodes connecting your base to theirs" was the "clear favorite of the day" for the author, and IGN PC has another hands-on report that suggests these new modes introduce a "surprisingly satisfying strategic layer" to the upgrade.

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Uhhh...yeah by gazbo · 2003-09-11 02:54 · Score: 1, Funny

Sounds great, except that I read somewhere else that this "upgrade" will take the hardware requirements up so that the *minimum* spec machine will be a P3 with 64MB of RAM.
Now for office apps I can understand needing that number crunching power and storage, but for a game? I can understand needing a good graphics card, which is why I bought an S3 Savage 4 for Unreal Tournament, but those specs will just price it out of the market for people like me.