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One word sums it up. SUCKTACULAR. They call this the new unreal tournament? Sorry i must have something wrong with my eyes and hands because the game looks and plays almost identically to quake 3.

We get the usual assortment of weapons (all of which are in unreal tournament in 1 form or another) and they take out the handy enforcer pistol and give us some shit assualt rifle. Then they add the "super weapons". We get the ion cannon (hello command and conquer rip off anyone) and the redeemer (snore really new weapon eek: ). the ion cannon i havn't seen but the redeemer is basically the same as in the first game only its explosion looks better but the damage iit inflicts seems to have been nerfed heavily.

The in game weapons are nothing short of shit. Epic must have realised "hold on this is just the same fucking game all over again" and proceeded to fuck about with the weapons to make it seem as if effort was actually used in the game.. the once very handy minigun now seems to fire 1 round per rotation of the barrel making it a piss poor piece of shit, even the standard wanky assault rifle now delivers more damage in quicker time than the minigun.

Rocket lancher now takes about 2 hits to kill someone. The plasma rifle has been nerfed heavily and now does diddily shit damage and the shock rifle secondary fire has the speed equivilant of that of an arthritis ridden tortoise making the secondary fire and primrary fire combo completly useless over any given range.


When all is said the game looks visually ok and borrows heavily from the quake 3 look, the characters look bulky and the models are actually undersized when compared to weapons lying aroundon the ground. The overall feel of the game is very quake 3 like as well. From what ive heard the "pro" players are pissed off at this game which was suposed to be the sequel of unreal tournament but plays more like a quake 3 addon.


Yet another dissapointment in a long history of hyped dissapointments.