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No thanks, I'll pass

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 19 / 47
Date: September 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Just downloaded and played the demo. Gave it a good 4 hours of play time to make sure I gave it a fair shake. Played all the demo maps against bots and on-line (when I could get on-line...still need to work out some server bugs Epic!), and tried, really tried (WANTED) to like this game...but...

Conclusion:

Adds nothing new to the genre, Quake 3 and the original UT are much better games. Very disapointed. :(

Reason:

Take Quake 3 (physics, speed, level design), remove the fun (i.e., "feel" of the game), increase everything that annoyed you about it (like bunny-hopping), add a voice that announces everything that is obvious in the game "you picked up a powerup" but does NOT announce actually important things like "Joe has the ball"; add features that are extremely annoying like the bunny-hop that pretty muched ruined Quake 3 into the game (call it a double-jump), add "combo" moves (ways to make you faster, invisible, harder to kill) that are NOT documented or easy to turn on (so the "elite" gamers will figure out how to do cool moves but novice gamers will just get beat down even more and not really get to use these moves), throw some more useless technology at the levels (like pretty grass...what a joke, just to keep up with the "Jones") that doesn't actually improve or innovate gameplay (Epic, don't you know Id's doing per-pixel lighting now...looks like you're lagging behind...better get cracking!) and there you have Unreal Tournament 2003.

If you're looking for awesome FPS deathmatch or CTF buy Quake 3.

If you're looking for an innovative team FPS experience, buy Battlefield 1942.

If you're really itching to play an Unreal Tournament style game, play the original.

Don't bother pirating, it's a waste of your download time.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: January 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

While bringing a technically revolutionary and visually mesmerizing engine to the light, UT2003 is unforunately cast to the same gameplay of Quake3, which is pathetically hackneyed and unoriginal--to be nice. More of a movie than a game, the only real reason to play this silly ripoff is to get a screenshot, as it is actually below the original UT. It's a bit hard to explain, but even though it's taking full advantage of your video card and taxing the hell out of your system, it doesn't bring the goods that other games nowadays have.
Unreal Tournament 2003 is more of an update to the original than anything new, but you can't call it an update because this takes away more than it adds to--yes I know there is like 7 other modes of gameplay and I guess some new guns so the fun could potentially "never end", but try playing with any of those new features without missing the same feel of the original UT and you will see what I'm saying.

The engine on the other hand is great. You'll see the UT2kQ3 engine in many future games, and it's currently in one of the best FPS games--America's Army; and will soon be in many more good games: Splinter Cell and Raven Shield. the name "UT2kQ3" was spawned after people started to see that it took Quake more as an influence than the original, and instead of progressing in to something new they just copied Quake and put a great engine on it.
It's like a nice car, it looks pretty and has a lot under the hood, but you can't really drive it--it's only purpose is to look pretty and have a lot under the hood. It gets 1 extra star because it's purty.

Unreal is Quake

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: October 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The reason I liked Unreal is that it was not like Quake. Not the frantic, run and gun style play, but more "sophisticated" killing fun.
The new Unreal has become Quakeish.

Bummer.

Battlefield 1942 for me now...

Ok, I guess

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Whatever, its not great. It is not realistic at all, nor does it try to be. You run at incredibal speeds, take punishment that seems more sutable for a tank, and there are all sorts of powerups around the ring. But it does offer a relief from games like Counter-Strike. Its always fun playing futuristic FPS's, where you wield massive guns, and wear giant power suits, but it gets old fast. Also, because its entirely tournament based, your introduced to all the weapons the first time you play, so once youve seen them all, its sort of like, "Oh... thats it?" but whatever. Since its only $20, I would say buy it, but if it were any more expensive, it wouldnt be worth it.

One of the best frag fest that you can have online!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is great man. I just got it and I'm totally hooked on it. This is the first game ever to make me uninstall Counter Strike. My hard drive is sadly only 40gb for my newest gig and I had to uninstall Counter Strike to install this game. I first tried the demo which takes only about 200mb of my hard drive and I bought the full verision which was larger and forced me to uninstall CS. I won't say much because you probably tried the demo or already played the full version before so you know that it is good. some people said get Unreal Tournament 2004 instead but this game is about the same. UT2k4 only has few more maps, more vehicles, and the new Onslught mode. If you already have UT2K3, then you can stick to it for another year. Not only that, there are many great mods and you will definitly like it. Sorry if this review was waste of your time but you should still get this game.

This game is worth the money!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Unreal Tournament 2003 is an excellent game. What I like most about 2K3 is the multiplayer. I don't like the single player mode on any UT games. This game probably requires a better system to run. The old system I had, had a lot of trouble running this game with all the settings set on low. I got this new system (AMD XP 2500+, 512 MB of DDR400 mhz (PC3200) RAM, ATI Radeon 9600 Pro) and it runs very well with all the settings set on high. I love all the weapons! I've always been a fan of the Unreal games. The graphics are very cool on this game and I like the taunts. UT 2K3 has more characters and new game types that are quite fun. I would recommend downloading and playing the demo before buying this game, just to make sure this is the type of game you like.

NOT GAME OF THE YEAR MATERIAL HERE

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: October 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I downloaded the demo and it's fun but it's nothing shockingly new. UT2003 is an average FPS as I see it. I applaud the graphics but that alone will not earn it GOTY. There is hardly anthing new that makes it unique from previous FPS. Halo and Battlefield 1942 was revolutionary. The bar has been raised. Vehicles and planes should come standard in all FPS now. This was basically a major enhancement of the original UT, a mindless search and destroy game. If you actually want to use your neurons and you have the computer to handle it, get Battlefield 1942. BF1942 has many bugs but the fact that it's an original WW2 game with ships, planes, tanks, and vehicles has a better chance at GOTY.

Disapointing

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: October 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is a big disappointment. There are not that many levels, and many of the levels are just re-hashes of the same old thing. Granted, the game engine is beautiful and plays nicely - but I was expecting more. The enemy bots still play well in deathmatch, but are terrible in team games. The game was also released with bugs.

Unreal Tournament meets Sonic the Hedgehog

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: January 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

It's possible that someone who'd never played UT (or someone who didn't like UT), could play this game and enjoy it. However, for someone like me who purchased the new game anticipating more of what I liked in the older versions, UT 2003 is a real disappointment.

I suppose the game is "good" in technical terms. The graphics are impressive, or at least would be if my two-year old PC could support even "normal" settings. I have a pretty generic set-up (256MB of RAM and an Intel 82810E graphics card), and in order to prevent stutters in play, the "detail" settings must be at their lowest values. Sure, the game will function on the lowest settings - I can still run around and shoot things - but as I play I'm nagged by the feeling that I'm being cheated. See the nifty features vs. playing the game? I should be able to do both without having to run out and buy a new computer. And speaking of buying a new computer, you'll probably need one after you install UT 2003; minimum system requirements call for 3 GB of hard disk space.

I don't feel as cheated by the game as I might, however, because UT 2003 has a completely different look and feel from previous versions of Unreal Tournament. In fact, I take issue with this version being called "Unreal Tournament" at all! The new environments, characters and weapons all have a "Sonic the Hedgehog" feel to them, with bright colors, flashy effects and cartoon-like characters replacing the gritty, industrial feel I associated with UT. Even the audio has suffered - I cringed when I heard some of the new characters' voices. I can't tell you how humiliating it is to be fragged and then taunted by something with the voice of a Scooby Doo villain.

Basically, UT 2003 is the Saturday morning cartoon version of Unreal Tournament - flashy lights, pretty colors and wacky voices, but no real substance. Original UT fans might be better off downloading and/or creating new levels for the old games rather than buying the newest version.

UT sequel-improved graphics/audio but lacks gameplay :(

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 14
Date: October 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have to admit, when I first played UT the gameplay was good for an all multiplayer game, but ut2003 lacks it. Yet an imroved graphics/audio/AI engine also means that it requires bigger system requirements, ut2003 ran OK on my computer. I use an Intel Pentium 4 procoessor at 1.7ghz(1700mhz), NVDIA GeForce 2 MX FAMILY with TV OUT, 256 MB of RDRAM at 800mhz, CREATIVE SOUND BLASTER LIVE!Value, Direct(R)X 8.1, One 40 GB Hard Drive, 56k Modem Dial-Up Built in [bad] internet connection, and Windows XP home edition. It ran OK, not so well, though the graphics/audio/AI blew me away, and there was an major improvement in that catagory, but in gameplay it defnitley decreased, and there's no good outdoor levels. I truly don't recommend this for an gameplay digger gamer, but for an graphics digger, get it! It requires an Pentium III processor at 733mhz, 128 mb ram, 16 MB 3-D DirectX Compatible Graphics card Accelerarator, like the TNT 2,
DirectX8.1, 3 GB of Hard Drive space, Windows Compatible 16-bit Sound card, 33.6k modem dial up TCIP/Network Play connection to the internet, Windows 98/98SE/ME/2000/XP, and standard mouse and keyboard. P3 1ghz,. 32-128MB 3-D graphics accelerator, like the NVDIA GeForce 2 or ATI Radeon, I'm not sure how much hard drive space is recommended, sound blaster audigy sound card is recommended, 256 mb of ram is recommended, and cable/dsl connection to internet is recommended. This is my review, so I sort of recommended ut2003.....:/

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