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Unreal Tournament 3 Beta Demo Released

[Oct 12, 2007, 12:26 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

The Unreal Tournament 3 Beta Demo is now available, a little earlier than planned (we checked with Midway who said this represents the demo's release). The story below this has details on the demo contents (along with the now-inaccurate 3:00 pm release time), and the 741 MB download is available on 3D Downloads, 4players.de, ActionTrip, AusGamers, ComputerGames.ro, eXp.de, FanGaming, Fileaholic, FileFront, FilePlanet (registration required), FileShack, Gameguru Mania, Gamer's Hell, and PixelRage.

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127. ... Oct 15, 2007, 13:15 theyarecomingforyou
 
They've just done a performance review over at Legion Hardware that shows the game is entirely GPU bound - they underclocked a Core 2 Duo to 1.6GHz without any drop in performance. They also managed to apply anti-aliasing and that shows terrible performance. It's ridiculous that the game makes barely any use of the processor while flogging the graphics to death - the engine isn't at all balanced. They write-up also demonstrated that the main difference between UT2k4 and UT3 is the lighting - scale that back and the game looks like its predecessor. The engine is hugely over-hyped and just doesn't deliver.

NEway, I tried it with anti-aliasing and the performance was pretty poor and there was still a lot of shimmering on the floor (even at 8xAA/16xAF) [the method used is not official though and so probably not optimised at all]. That really detracts from the experience. The gameplay is fun and easy to get into but it doesn't seem to have much depth, which was the problem I found with UT2k4.

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