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just a quake knock-off

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: October 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I loved UT, and will continue to play it. The people are larger and more realistic in UT, and I am disappointed with UT2003. Something is missing and the announcer is annoying. UT was classy, and this is just (while the details are great) in a word, lame. I'll play it, cuz I sunk some hard earned cash into it, but i'm disappointed nontheless.

What a waste!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: October 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game had so much going for it ... don't be fooled by all the awesome graphics, there's some bugs, lousy gameplay and sound within. If I only knew I could have waited till it went down to 20 bucks. Not worth that cash, wait till it comes down. It's great for a 20 bin game. That's all.

Awesome graphics, but not as exciting - fewer options

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: January 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I own the following hardware and expected UT2K3 to be unplayable:
AMD Athlon 1GHz CPU (200MHz FSB, not the newer 266MHz version)
512MB RAM (old PC133 SDRAM, not DDR SDRAM and certainly not RDRAM)
7200RPM 40GB hard drive with 3GB remaining
ATi Radeon 64 VIVO video (2 year old video card)
SB Live! X-gamer

The game ran acceptably well, provided no more than 2 bots were used. Upon using 3 bots, the display became very jerky and unplayable.

I replaced the Radeon VIVO with a Radeon 9700 Pro. The game now FLIES!!! (The Radeon 8500 gives acceptable performance and costs a couple hundred dollars less, but the 9700 yield a bigger advantage, especially for having a slower CPU.)

The installation takes 2.5GB (though the install claims 3GB are needed). It's a lot, but not surprising given the sumptuous quality of the graphics.

So the game can be played for the most part on semi-recent, though updating the video card to something made within the last year would be a good idea.

But the game isn't as fun. The weapons have been scaled down so they're not as powerful. Also, there are fewer weapons to choose from. And where's the Ripper?! What about the proxy mines? Why does the rocket launcher fire only up to 3 rockets and the ability to time-release rockets no longer exist? And the new lightning gun is naff!

Also, the Assault game no longer exists. If you liked Assault from the original Tournament, be prepared to have to live without it. In its place is "Bombing run" - where you grab a ball bomb and plant it in the middle of the enemy's base. It's the reverse of "Capture the flag" and makes me long for Assault even more. It's okay, but I do prefer Assault.

Domination has changed as well - instead of having to guard 3 goals for a period of time, it's whittled down to 2 goals. And if a team controls both goals for 8 seconds, they make the point. Takes three points to win. It's different and takes a while to get used to, but it's fun.

And what's up with the stupid announcer voice? We didn't need him before! His inclusion is more of an annoyance than anything else.

In summary, go to a store where you can try the game before you buy it. You might like it.

But given a choice, I would have waited until the price came down to $.... (It started out as $..., is now $..., and will probably get to $... by the time UT2K4 arrives, which I probably won't buy unless they dramatically improve the array of weapons and restore Assault.)

Fun, but limited single player game.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: October 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Unreal Tournament 2003 is entering a marketplace relatively crowded with FPS games. What does it give the game player that they don't already have?

First off, there are the amazing graphics. I recommend a Radeon 7900 Pro (the first of the "new" generation of 3D cards) to get the best out of the game. As I write this review it is the fastest card on the market and gives magnificent colour saturation and anti-aliasing.

Unreal Tournament 2003 is the best looking game on the market at the moment, period. You can even see individual stalks of grass, my goodness! There are no day/night or weather transitions however as was rumored. But really everything looks top rate, particularly some of the out door scenes.

Of course, looks aren't everything. How is the game play? Unfortunately here the game recieves less that a perfect score from me. The character models, particularly the bulky ones with the sunken heads (yet you can still get a head shot, why is that?) are poorly designed. When playing, you will feel tiny in respect to your outside envirment. This fault needs to be fixed. Some things, such as the bonus pills, are drawn in such a way they give the game a cartoonish feel. I wish they could have included more weapons, there isn't much variety, particularly as the ripper and sniper rifle have been deleted (the latter in favor of the lightening gun) Epic have taken away the assault form of game, which I miss, because they say single player gamers will be served by Unreal 2. But what do I do if I don't want to buy Unreal 2? As it happens I do, but still...

If you can't get online to play multiplayer you may want to reconsider if this game will be worth buying, as it has a fairly small single player experience. Not as good as Unreal Tourament in that respect.

If you are buying this game because you want to try making maps and mods on your own, which is a lot of fun, you should know that as is, the in built editor won't let you do that. You need another program like Maya or Max 3D. Luckily, UT3 ships with a trial, or "light" version of Maya. Unforunately it uses very intrusive watermarks which are both difficult to work with and ugly. So while you might use it to learn how to use a 3D program, you are unlikely to find it much use to creating meshes for your map.

Learning how to create maps has become quite a bit harder because of the need to use third party programs and I'm not sure how this is going to effect the UT map and mod making community yet. Perhaps people will team up to make maps, for example a really good texture maker might team up with the map designer who will work with the editor and somebody who has learnt Maya might create the meshes.

You need a really good computer to run this game. If in doubt do your research. Check out what other people are saying in community forums, as they are sometimes more reliable than the specs you will read on the side of the box.

My review has been a bit cautious but really UT3 is a buzz. Don't expect it to be something quite revolutionary as were Unreal and Unreal Tournament however.

Best looking game out.. Most uninteresting too

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The engine is a work of art. Beautiful, unmatched graphics to anything out. But thats where the compliments end..

The game is so alike UT that you feel like you're playing the same game. weapons are mostly 90% the same. But somehow it's worse.. as others have mentioned here there doesnt seem to be as much skill involved. You run around a lot and keep moving and shooting and jumping. Gets old real quick and is pretty mindless. No new toys to try really unless you count the sniper rifle that reveals your position blatently everytime you use it (fires a streak of lightening). The intangible "fun-factor" aspect associated with any game is severely lacking in this one, other then the initial jaw dropping reaction to the beautiful graphics.

In an age where other game manufacturers come up with refreshing ideas, this game has none. Kudo's for the developers for generating a top notch engine. I'm sure they'll sell many engine licenses and spawn a lot of UT2k3 based games. IT excells in the engine, so the mod scene and other games based on this engine should do for the engine what this game couldnt. Your money is far better spent on a game like Battlefield 1942, Medal of Honor - Allied Assault, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, or heck play the freeware game America's Army. all of those games are far superior to this one..

This game is the ultimate deathmatch.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: October 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have played Quake since Quake I came out and have wasted hundreds of hours of my life becoming an expert at Quake I, II, and III. I can truly say that Unreal2003 is the only game I have even considered to be comparable to Quake. (The original Unreal is a lousy knock off of Quake). It combines everything that is good about Quake and improves it. For example, the difference in gameplay between an expert and a novice is vast. There are so many complex combinations of jumps and moves that an expert can move about without hardly being grazed by a bullet, even in a packed room of shooters. (Not so in Quake III). I agree with some of the criticism above about the goofy announcer's voice--how on earth they decided that voice was consistent with Unreal's image its beyond me. The voice in Quake III is much better (if a voice is needed at all). I also agree that Unreal2003 is trying our patience with the silly "invisibility" and other unnecessary powerups. That said, this game rocks. I have played dm, ctf and bombing run about 50 times and I am hooked. The gameplay is so fast and so fluid and so expertly created that it is impossible to walk away from a game. The graphics are superb. I have them cranked up to the max on a 2.2 gig system with a 64 meg nvidia geforce 3 and it's breathtaking. The characters are creative, detailed and move with appropriate heft and sway. I suspect that those parties above who were so critical are likely playing the game on a slow computer or graphics card. This game demands the fastest computer you can get. I highly recommend this game for anyone who likes quake -- unless you are trying to become a lawyer, in which case, stay the hell away from this and any other addictive first person shooter.

boring and crappy rolled into one.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: February 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

After spending 49.99 on this game, hoping it would be at least a shadow of Unreal Tournament, I was so dissapointed. The amount of disk space it requires is ungodly (3 gig) and the system requirments are unforgiven. Think your 1.4 ghz is fast enough for this pos? Maybe with everything set on low detail. The makers focused on flash and forgot about content. All the really cool weapons are gone, or replaced with what the makers say are improvements. Forget your sniper rifles at home kids, they're not here. The only good thing that came out of this, is I started playing UT more than ever, I only paid 10 dollars for that on the shelf. If you have to buy one crappy game a year, make it this one and get it over with. This game is going to rely on mods to keep it alive. (think half-life)

Crap with nice graphics

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 18
Date: March 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The graphics were good, but the rest is [bad]. It took about a half hour till I was bored with this. Here is what happens:
1. spawn
2. run around like a chicken without a head
3. shoot at anything that moves ( including teammates )
4. pick up some guns
5. shoot at anything that moves ( including teammates )
6. run around like a chicken without a head
7. shoot at anything that moves ( including teammates ).

Occassionally get killed, then start at step one. Repeat ad nauseum.

Unreal Tournament gets an unfair rap from average users...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Let me start this review by stating that I'm a fairly finicky gamer. I disliked Half Life: Counter Strike, immensely enjoyed the No One Lives Forever games, and was disappointed by Unreal 2 (though the game had its good merits). As much as I loved the first Unreal Tournament, after spending some quality time with UT2003, I can honestly say that this game is truly... better.

Some people disliked the game because it was too demanding of their systems. This is bull. The engine is refined. A GeForce 3 Ti card on a system with no bottlenecks will run this game smoothly with moderate visual settings, but a GeForce 3 coupled with a 1Ghz proc. is expectedly slow. Why? Because as textures are bump mapped, when volumetric fog is thrown about the maps like candy, and when the poly counts are through the bloody roof, the DEVELOPER EXPECTS PEOPLE WITH DECENT SPECS TO PICK UP THE GAME. Don't cry when your ancient rig can't hang with the new big boys. Get a 9800 Pro or something and see what you're truly missing.
Although it is easy to be disappointed with UT2003 when you find your favorite sniping rifle or map has been removed or modified, most players will begin to appreciate the near perfect balancing scheme Digital Extremes put into place. There are no overpowering weapons dominating the field. New game modes like the insanely intense Bombing Run replace the game mode stripped from the original. The addition of the double jump imposes players with addictive, arcade-feel action... causing firefights to last for minutes, not moments. Realism isn't the deal here. Fun is.

In conclusion, Unreal Tournament 2003 has an insane amount of content right out of the box. The Unreal platform is fast, beautiful, updated, hip, and stable. If you have the paltry fee required to purchase this game, then do so. I think you'll be happy.

Same game, just better

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you liked the original Unreal Tournament, there is absolutely no reason not to get this one. It has the same fast paced slaughter groove and the same general feel of the original.

The graphics are amazing. The beat games like Halo and even match up with games like Halo 2.

This game rocks in more ways than one. Though for the most part, it is just a great remake of the original UT, some of the changes made are just superb. There is now excellent rag doll physics and beautifully gorey blood effect. People blow up into many little bloody chunks when you nail them with a rocket launcher.

All this being said, there are a few sad changes. The got rid of the sniper (the reason being it was incredibly cheap, but it's still sad). They have gotten rid of assault (there is no exscuse for this). But both of these painful changes are coming back in the UT 2004 edition, so dont worry too much.

Another thing, the announcer doesn't suck at all, if you are a fan of UT at all you understand that the voice is Dark comedy and it all adds to the feel of the tournament.

OUT OF TEN...

SOUND: 8 (it's good... but nothing special)
GRAPHICS: 10 (orgasmic)
A.I: 9 (they think... but more often they kill)
GUNS: 10 (rock ON!!)
GAMEPLAY: 10 (thats what its all about man)

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