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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.

Pretty Graphics, Poor Gameplay, and Unoriginal

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 12 / 17
Date: November 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I was never a big Unreal Tournament player before, and this game isn't going to make me one. It shouldn't even be considered a new game, but rather a map pack and graphics update.

The weapons are more or less the same as in the first Unreal Tournament. Most have gotten makeovers, and a few seem to have been weakened. The sniper rifle has been turned into the lighting gun, which means that it is basically like the laser rifle in Tribes 2 (i.e. it fires a beam that gives away the sniper's position) Most of the maps fall into the category of corridors-with-weapons-scattered-randomly-about, which is good if you like that kind of thing, but bad if you want some verity.

The teamplay options in this game are very poor. The capture the flag game type is basically a deathmatch + flags, in that there is no teamwork to speak of. You find a weapon, you charge the enemy side of the map, and rarely end up seeing the flag because the enemy is doing the exact same thing, and you just play a deathmatch in the middle of the level. Pointless. Epic could have at least incorporated some Team Fortress concepts into the capture the flag game to make it more interesting. Team games in UT2K3 don't hold a candle to Tribes 2.

This game would make a good mod platform. For instance, the game engine has support for vehicles, but they are not incorporated into the game (a demo can be accessed by typing "map vehicledemo" into the console). ...

All and all, this game is good if you like mindless, repetitive deathmatches (which does not describe me). It isn't much of an improvement on the original Unreal Tournament. The gameplay is nearly identical, the maps aren't that much to talk about, and the team play options are unoriginal. The only real hope for this game is a new and original mod, because it seems Epic checked originality at the door when they made this game.

A disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: December 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

UT 2003 was hyped to the stars ever since it was announced (late 2001) but it has failed to impact the way us UT fanatics hoped. The maps on the whole are quite samey and more positioned to show off the graphical capacities of the new game engine than to be fun to play long term.

Some maps, like Plunge, cause any computer not made in the last six months to have a seizure. There are a lot of details put into maps to make them look pretty but there is no thought of the player model who just gets caught up on all the extra junk. (Speaking of player models, I haven't spoken to anyone who likes the "Space Hulk" clones.)

Some old favourites have been re-modelled, like the once impressive "Facing Peaks" but as in this case, they have added too much detail till the map looks as ugly and tacky as Vegas.

I would say save your money until this game comes down in price and is released with all the (many) patches that it needs and hopefully has a working editor that doesn't crash to the desktop every five minutes.

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.

AWFUL

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: October 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The Demo played smoothly, but I purchsed the full version today and so far its been awful. ... System freezes, texture problems, sound problems are just a few of the things plagueing this game.

I have several games that are more more system intensive, and play great. This game is just terribly engineered. 4 year wait...

I would wait a few months for the dust to clear. Or shelve this. It's useless until they patch it over the next several months, if it ever really works at all.

Repulsive...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 19
Date: November 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is a cross between "Pro" wrestling, and an online thug trainer. It's packed with cursing voices, tinged with an ebonic accent, blood, and gender confused female figures. It plays like the headlines..."Semi-literate, afri-cultural hooligans shoot each other.."

Just what America needs..

Avoid at all costs

Terrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 14
Date: September 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is nothing like what it tries to be. It's got extremely spammy weapons, terribly sloppy physics and the graphics and lighting are a joke. For example, you see shadows, but the objects for the shadows don't exist. The water is totally fake and jello (not even bubbles) and the lighting is all out of place. The double jumping is really fake feeling and the adrenaline power ups everyone absolutely hates. Plus, there is no cheat protection like Quake 3 has (PunkBuster).

In fact, this game tries to be like Quake 3 and fails miserably with poor physics, terrible graphics, and spammy gameplay.

If you want a truly intense first person shooter, with better weapon balance, and very solid physics and graphics, just get Quake 3!

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.

This game has taken 1st person shooter backwards

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: December 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

What happened to all the great, somewhat realness we found in unreal tournament? This game has taken us backwards and in my opinion might as well be called Quake IV. To the creators: WHAT WERE YOU THINKING??? Bring back good old fashioned unreal tournament in the next version you make, and second: quit designing them for high end video cards. That is the biggest turnoff for buying this game.

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)

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