UT3 - Pretty impressed.

Being a fan for 8 years now I may be a little biased, but all I have to say is wow. It took me a little bit to get into the faced paced action that is UT, re-adjusting from BF2 took a little bit. I'm so glad they strayed away a bit from the 2xxx formula and went with what felt a little more like the original UT. The levels demo levels we're pretty darn visually impressive, and ran smooth as hell. Vehicle CTF is pretty fun, I hated walking everywhere on that huge ass level until... I discovered the hover-board :):). Also when I was playing DM a bot managed to hop in the darkwalker before I could take it and I was so surprised how well it navigated that lumbering beast. I felt like a little ant dodging threw rubble as he kept trying to zap me. All in all, for a demo this is impressive to say the least.

I'm already hearing complaints about how it still plays "like the same old UT", but who cares? It's a tried and true formula that flows like liquid sex, and there's no debating that.

It looks like poop but plays goodWraithsLotus

so it doesnt look good?

I'm downloading it now - I'll render my verdict in a little while.

Does it have steep system requirements?

[QUOTE="WraithsLotus"]It looks like poop but plays goodTClms5400

so it doesnt look good?

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[QUOTE="WraithsLotus"]It looks like poop but plays goodOoSuperMarioO

so it doesnt look good?

[QUOTE="WraithsLotus"]It looks like poop but plays goodTClms5400

so it doesnt look good?

its REALLY jaggy and the color is dull. idk it doesnt look nice, i can see it looking nice but something is wrong. Its really fun tho and stays true to UT formula. And the requirements arnt steep at all. Whats your specs?

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[QUOTE="WraithsLotus"]It looks like poop but plays goodWraithsLotus

so it doesnt look good?

its REALLY jaggy and the color is dull. idk it doesnt look nice, i can see it looking nice but something is wrong. Its really fun tho and stays true to UT formula. And the requirements arnt steep at all. Whats your specs?

Yea it's jaggy cause the UT3 engine doesn't support AA.

As a fan also for about 8 years i have to say i'm optimistic about UT3 now after having played the demo for about three or more hours. It definately felt a lot more like UT'99 and less than UT2k3/4 which i think is a very good thing, i never felt UT2k3/4 were as good as UT'99.

I had the game on max settings and running at 1024x768 resolution and it was running smoothly, no lag or slow/poor performance. The graphics weren't as sharp as i had expected but this might be down to the fact im using a 7900GS and not an 8800 series card. I tried to play it online but the only servers i could get into were either laggy as hell or had only a couple of people playing in them so i abandonded the multiplayer and went for the single player instead.

With the bot difficulty set high and the map chosen i entered a game of vehicle CTF and boy was it fun! i had a really good time playing that gametype lol. Even managed to capture the flag a few times and escape using the new hoverboard they've added into the game.

From the demo i think that UT3 will turn out good, theres some time left for Epic to optimise, improve and tweak different features here and there. But really i'm rather excited about the game now, haven't had so much fun playing a UT game since the original in 99!

Graphicly, IMO the game looks wicked, I don't how anyones feeling under impressed. There is a great sense of scale. Take the city level for example, did anyone even bother to look at the surrounding buildings? Tell me thats not good looking. You guys are just too immersed in the action to take notice and actully look at stuff :)Av177

Look at my specs the game didnt look like it does in online videos but its a demo and they give you many options in the menu to max it all out...I think since its a beta demo when the games comes out it will look like it should...

[QUOTE="Av177"]Graphicly, IMO the game looks wicked, I don't how anyones feeling under impressed. There is a great sense of scale. Take the city level for example, did anyone even bother to look at the surrounding buildings? Tell me thats not good looking. You guys are just too immersed in the action to take notice and actully look at stuff :)OoSuperMarioO

I'd agree, I guess they didn't really add any dramatic looking levels in like the ones in some of the screenshots.

Being a fan for 8 years now I may be a little biased, but all I have to say is wow. It took me a little bit to get into the faced paced action that is UT, re-adjusting from BF2 took a little bit. I'm so glad they strayed away a bit from the 2xxx formula and went with what felt a little more like the original UT. The levels demo levels we're pretty darn visually impressive, and ran smooth as hell. Vehicle CTF is pretty fun, I hated walking everywhere on that huge ass level until... I discovered the hover-board :):). Also when I was playing DM a bot managed to hop in the darkwalker before I could take it and I was so surprised how well it navigated that lumbering beast. I felt like a little ant dodging threw rubble as he kept trying to zap me. All in all, for a demo this is impressive to say the least.

I'm already hearing complaints about how it still plays "like the same old UT", but who cares? It's a tried and true formula that flows like liquid sex, and there's no debating that.

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Actually, I would disagree that it plays like the old UT. I find it a little slower paced than 2004, and I also don't have very much trouble aiming anymore. I like it that way.

i found out why my game looked crappy, it was cause the full screen render was set 50 so i put it to 99 and looks great. Tho i am playing 640x480 ina window and so it isnt stretched to get good fps, but it looks godlikeWraithsLotus

[QUOTE="WraithsLotus"]It looks like poop but plays goodTClms5400

so it doesnt look good?

Yep. Like all UT2k releases before it epic has severely limited the graphical options available to you. Mainly in terms of lighting and textures. Just look at gamespots review of the graphical options. the graphical quality of the textures doesn't change once you go past the 3rd setting.

I love this game already afther playing a couple of hours. I think this game has good gfx. This game is not aiming for super good gfx like crysis is but is rather looking for a good balance imo. I run this game whit around 40fps during normal fighting and 30 during intense fighting, my machine is a amd 3200+ 1gig of ram and a geforce7900gtx 512mb.

Gameplay is pretty fun, guns are balance and the speed of the player is pretty fast.

I was looking foward for this game and it didnt fail to satisfy me.

Are you guys running vista?Av177