UT2004 was bright, yes. But vibrant? Not at all.
Well, in all honesty you cannot pull one screenshot from one level and compare it to one screenshot from another game and make any definitive statements like that.
I recall several instances in the Far Cry demo being:
underground
dark
dull
uninspired architectually
corridors. If I took a screenie of that would you call it necessarily representitive?
Now the bright blue sky is definitely "vibrant", but if you think the UT2004 world isn't colorful, well, there are a lot of guys here who complained it was too colorful for their tastes. No pleasing everyone.
I like the gameplay in UT2004. So do lots of others. Personal taste and all that....
Hyperblast and Morpheus have some bright blue background colors, and Inferno and Antalus actually have other pleasing sky colors.
http://www.unrealtournament.com/ut2004/maps.phpNot everyone judges the quality of the game by the color of the sky, you know....
None of those maps were set on tropical isles, either.
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