Unreal Tournament 2003

Unreal Tournament is returning with fancier graphics, new gameplay modes, and more things that you can make explode in showers of gore.

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The Unreal franchise is always high on innovation. However, there has been some concern that the new UT won?t offer enough fresh content to move the series forward or that it will be too reworked and lose consistency. Based on the multiplayer test demo, first-person shooter fans need not worry about Unreal Tournament 2003. It promises a perfect blend of both freshness and familiarity, which will likely satisfy everyone.

Things That Make You Go Boom
The UT2003 public demo provided three classic games: the standard DeathMatch and Capture the Flag contests that put it on the map, as well as the buddy-system brutality of Team DeathMatch. It also offered Bombing Run, in which a ?ball? must be thrown or carried through the enemy?s gate?something between Rollerball and boot camp. The weapon selection also blended the established and inventive concepts. Changes included the Lightning Gun, which tossed bolts of volts in Primary mode but doubled as a shocking Sniper Rifle in Alt-Fire mode.

Playing with Dolls Can Be Fun
The biggest?and best?changes came from the vastly improved look. Realistic grass, sand, metal, and rock textures composed stunningly lifelike playfields. Larger-than-life statues and moving machinery dotted the terrain, which was brightly lit by in-battle gunfire and explosions.

The coolest advancement was simply gratuitous yet highly entertaining: ?Rigid-body physics,? often called ?rag doll physics,? created death animations that weren?t pre-rendered. For instance, in the Bombing Run map, jumping into the pit under the gate brought instant death, but it created a wild technology demonstration as each metal bar or ledge struck caused the body to spin and pinwheel to the floor below.

While the demo offered only a sampling, the final version should offer months of engaging combat against other players and in-game bots.

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