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Article #82302Re: Doom III multiplayer
From: Ook
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 20:01
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 20:01
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<snip> > > >Tomorrow is another story. Valve has been sitting on their laurels and has > >not been willing to move into the 21st century. Half-Life server admins are > >shutting down their severs and leaving the fold. The arena is ripe for the > >Next Big Thing. UT2003 shows promise, but I doubt it will be The Next Big > >thing we are waiting for. They concentrated too much on eye candy and not > >enough on game play, I think UT2003 will do about as well as UT did - good, > >but it's not likely to have 20,000+ servers running anytime soon. Doom3 > >might be The Next Big Thing, we will have to wait to see. > > Right. Let's just hope that ID hasn't been resting on their > laurels. > But be careful, too high expectations can ruin even the best > experience. :) > UT2003 pretty much popped my bubble - I had high expectations and I was rather dissapointed. Eye popping eye candy, but gameplay is nothing new at all - same old stuff with better graphics and sucky weapons. But what more can you do with online fps games?
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