Love it!
User Rating: 9.4 | Unreal Tournament 2004 (DVD Version) PC
Ahhh, the life UT has taken on with new MOD's and Mutators. The one this review is about 'Holywars' especially caught my attention though. Man... just think about the concept!! Everyone racing, and hunting around to find the invaluable 'Halo'. Then once you find it, you gotta play good enough to be worthy of keeping it. Freaking out and hiding is not an option, you gotta fight!! Its a bad ('heretics' and 'normals') against good ('halo holder'), "kill the man with the ball" style game. The sounds, I thought were rather humorous. =) The choral symphonies, and the cherub laughter, it was all too amusing. I would add funny announcements regarding heretics, to spice that concept up a bit. It was weak with them. All in all, the sounds were there, and worked well.
Holywars was small, and easy to plug into most maps, with one limitation. The maps had to be small. During that initial search for the halo, and the occasional "i cant find it" experience, you get the drift. Noone wants to get bored searching a huge map for a small shiny ring. On the good side, when there was a small map it ROCKED!!! Everyone fighting for the halo, and the 'holder' fighting almost impossible numbers of players at times. My favorite map to play with 'Holywars' is Liandri with 5-6+ people. If I were to change anything it would be the scoring concepts, a little tighter wrapped around the time you have the 'halo' just in possession, as well as kills with it. 
