UT2003 Gold [Sep 20, 2002, 08:24 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
After a sprinkling of false rumors yesterday, a post to the Infogrames, Inc. Forums
by Epic's Mark Rein (thanks JP) has word that Unreal Tournament 2003 has
gone gold as of 5:00 AM EDT this morning, and the game is expected in stores by
the end of the month. He describes the contents of the three CD distribution,
which will include the game and its over 35 levels, tools including Maya
Personal Learning Edition from Alias|Wavefront, The Karma Authoring Tool, a mod
"starter kit," the game's Linux support (which is not mentioned in the
packaging), including the client and the server. He also mentions plans for
future related releases such as a stand-alone server which will not require
ownership of the game, the UDE (Unreal Development Environment), a customized
version of Gmax, and other cool features for a bonus pack. In a
later post (thanks Unreality),
Mark also lists the names of the 37 maps the game will ship with.
I'm one of those old skewl "hardcore" gamers myself. Personally I think the apex of the genre was q 1/2 as well. I think the weapon balance and style of play in q2 really was the most balanced and did require the most amount of skill/map knowledge than any game released since. I don't however dislike the style of the new generation all that much. The fact is people make arguments like this at every generation change. When q2 came out people made comments about how slow it was compared to q1, so what did id do? make q3a faster. Same deal here. There is always going to be a rotation of styles going on and people are always going to point to a previous iteration as the high water mark. Personally I think this problem would be solved if epic and id didn't rotate on the same schedule so that we have to deal with two very similar games (don't flame, im just talking generally). That said I wasn't looking forward to UT2k3 all that much but have been caught up in the demo recently. For once I think epic finally got the weapons done right, and the maps on the whole seem to be well designed if a bit frantic.
On a seperate note, does anyone know if any of those game server rental businesses are still around? I'd really like to start up an organized clan and don't have a server of my own. Does anyone have any experience with any of this, i'd really like to find a realible company. Finally have some time to actually play games semi-competively on a team again and think UT2k3 might be the game.
oh as for the anon posting. believe me, it's helped out quite a bit.
On a seperate note, does anyone know if any of those game server rental businesses are still around? I'd really like to start up an organized clan and don't have a server of my own. Does anyone have any experience with any of this, i'd really like to find a realible company. Finally have some time to actually play games semi-competively on a team again and think UT2k3 might be the game.
oh as for the anon posting. believe me, it's helped out quite a bit.
dave snider
comicvine.com
comicvine.com
Date
Subject
Author
Copyright © 1996-2025 Stephen Heaslip. All rights reserved.
All trademarks are properties of their respective owners.
Privacy Policy. Manage Cookie Settings.
News CGI copyright © 1999-2025 James "furn" Furness & Blue's News. All rights reserved.
Chatbear v1.5.0/blue++: Page generated 14 January 2025, 14:17.