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Unreal Tournament 2007 Officially Announced

Posted by Zonk on from the faster-prettier-shinier dept.

Midway has officially announced the next Unreal Tournament title, naming it UT 2007. Additionally, Gamespot reports on the Conquest mode expected to be a focus of the next title. From the article: "The idea behind conquest is to create huge, expansive levels that take advantage of the engine's new content-streaming technology and use onslaught-style instant transport to jump to hot spots on the map where the action is. Epic apparently feels that one of the greatest strengths of onslaught was the way it could accommodate large groups of players in vehicles but also drive them to congregate around specific areas with the control point system, rather than have them wandering around the map aimlessly."

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  1. Re:EA of FPS? by TheRealFreakish · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I'd also like to see more interesting weapons and vehicals. Every FPS has the same handful of weapons that every other FPS has. It would be neat to have something crazy and interesting that doesn't also screw up the gameplay.

    I'm not sure I'd agree with that. Pretty much every new version of UT has brought us at least one or two interesting new weapons. Maybe some of the other FPS games (all the tactical shooters, world war 2 games, CS clones) have stale weapons, but they've done pretty well with UT*.

    For instance...

    • Unreal: the Ripper, the Bio Rifle, even the shock combo was a neat new thing (though it didn't really come into play until..
    • UT99: The redeemer and THE TRANSLOCATOR (one of the best ideas for a FPS to date). And the shock combo came into major use.
    • UT2k3: Should never be spoken of.
    • UT2k4: Spider mines, sticky mines, a reason to use the new link gun.

    As for vehicles? Well 2k4's the first to have them and there's a decent variety. I love the fact that you can bail out of one of the vehicles in 2k7 and have it keep going to detonate on impact...sweet.

    I'm hoping Epic really means it when they say they're going for gameplay over graphics this time around..because I would love to have a game as great as UT99 come along again.

  2. Re:EA of FPS? by Khuffie · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I heard that they were intending to be the EA of FPS games. They wanted to release a new version of Unreal every year. But 2004-2007 is three years, so . . . I guess they nixed that idea? Let me be the first to say...Thank God! Im really glad they didnt up and release a new UT game this year. One year between a game isn't anywhere near enough for an online FPS to mature with new levels, mods and such. I love UT2k4 and I shuddered when I heard them say they were going to release one every year. Thishis game will be released in 2006, although my best guess is towards the christmas season, so that's a 2.5 year period between UT2k4, which is a decent period. It's one of the few games I actually bought for my pc, and really am looking forward to the next installment!

  3. FF by Given+M.+Sur · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hopefully when this comes out more servers will turn friendly fire on. I doubt it though, unless they made that the default, as I can never find any UT2004 servers with FF.

    FF forces better tactics than simply aiming towards groups of people and spraying.

    I'll still probably get it and play it a little either way, but I would be extremely happy if FF was turned on by default.

    As others mentioned mech-type vehicles would be pretty cool too.

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