🚀 go-pugleaf

I suggest laying off the Q3 vs UT flamebaits since most
people usually don't take the discussion further than the
subjectline suggests. Let people prefer whatever game they
like, and talk about what's good about UT and what could be
improved. This is after all a UT specific board.

Here is a bit of my mind after playing the UT-demo. As
background I'll say that I had already committed myself to
play Q3 on clan level, so I wasn't out to find a game to
beat it. Neither have I played Unreal too much in
multiplayer mode, but enjoyed it in singleplayer.

I find the weapons in the demo to be very well designed. I
understand that there will be more in the full version but I
can't say that I miss too many of the other original Unreal
weapons. The leveldesign felt a bit cluttered and messy at
first, but I soon realised that it's probably because I've
played so much Q2 and Q3test this year and most of those
multiplayer levels are a bit more plainly laid out. Habit is
a powerful thing. After a while I started enjoying the tight
actionfilled map design.

I couldn't stop playing and finally got to the teamplay
maps. Lots of action and very lifelike bots, not only the
way they complain when I accidently shoot a comrade in the
back. ;) They really handle teamplay well, the best I've
seen bots doing so far. All the sound notes and taunts
really adds to both the experience and the gameplay. Having
a SB-Live card fitted with a surround speaker system doesn't
hurt either.

After forfeiting some sleep to be able to truly consume this
demo I am convinced that i will play UnrealTournament quite
a lot this winter. Earlier this year i felt a bit worn out
on firstperson3d games. Having two great multiplayer games
complementing each other nicely this winter in conjunction
with a cable connection has to mean a complete revival of my
interest in this genre of games. UnrealTournament seems to
be the one shipping first and if waiting for Q3Arena takes
too long then it's not too unlikely that I'll take up UT on
clan level as well.

My thanks to the game designers for a nice experience. This
demo alone could be worth a few bucks. Keep supporting Glide
too by the way.


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Mikael K Karlsson - http://surf.to/mkk/