So what can I say?
Old Rogie started an Assault on the E3 to get a hands on feel for the new UT2003. So I go in running past Doom3, Warcraft3, Full Throttle2 and all these other unimportant stuff
Honestly it took me a while to find it, Unreal Championship had a big booth but the UT 2003 presentation was kinda crappy. Shown on two monitors, right next to Unreal2...
So I stand there and look at the graphics (nothing new for everybody who played the leaked U2 demo), some new weapons, fancy outdoor levels, when I hear two guys talking next to me. One was from the press the other one claimed he was one of the developers. I wait till the press guy leaves and start talking to the "developer" dude.
Well, of course I started bugging the hell out of him about the assault mode and stuff. (Turns out he never played it himself (huh? You developer of UT or what???))
Well Hehe, he got all defensive after a while since I illustrated him how worthless a product it is without an assault mode. In my opinion there's nothing that distincts it from any other online game anymore (especially Quake).
Anyway, what the whole experience left me with is the insight that UT2003 is basically a cash cow, aimed at a younger, less sophisticated audience. The new modes that they added are easy to implement into existing levels (unlike Assault levels, that need a great deal of work to be successful) and are generally created for simpler DM minds.
Well nothing bad about that, it's a marketing decision and I'm sure someone will make a great Assault Mod, I'm just thinking that I'd rather give that person my 40 or 50 bucks than some loveless developing team. In other words I think I'll see if I can get a *free* basic version and wait for a good mod to come out.
See the graphics and all that stuff..well Doom3 looks a great deal better, it's about the fun, the effort, the cleverness that is put into a product not about how it looks. UT2003 seems to suffer the same fate as SW "Attack of the clowns". Looks great, is made for kids, full of cliches and dull as hell.
Anyways, to me the whole thing is dead meat, the poor way they presented it at the show seems to indicate the marketing peeps at infogrames know that already.
But as the guy said:"Well, why do you bother to buy the new game if you like the old one?". Hey, I haven't looked at it that way!
Old Rogie started an Assault on the E3 to get a hands on feel for the new UT2003. So I go in running past Doom3, Warcraft3, Full Throttle2 and all these other unimportant stuff
Honestly it took me a while to find it, Unreal Championship had a big booth but the UT 2003 presentation was kinda crappy. Shown on two monitors, right next to Unreal2...
So I stand there and look at the graphics (nothing new for everybody who played the leaked U2 demo), some new weapons, fancy outdoor levels, when I hear two guys talking next to me. One was from the press the other one claimed he was one of the developers. I wait till the press guy leaves and start talking to the "developer" dude.
Well, of course I started bugging the hell out of him about the assault mode and stuff. (Turns out he never played it himself (huh? You developer of UT or what???))
Well Hehe, he got all defensive after a while since I illustrated him how worthless a product it is without an assault mode. In my opinion there's nothing that distincts it from any other online game anymore (especially Quake).
Anyway, what the whole experience left me with is the insight that UT2003 is basically a cash cow, aimed at a younger, less sophisticated audience. The new modes that they added are easy to implement into existing levels (unlike Assault levels, that need a great deal of work to be successful) and are generally created for simpler DM minds.
Well nothing bad about that, it's a marketing decision and I'm sure someone will make a great Assault Mod, I'm just thinking that I'd rather give that person my 40 or 50 bucks than some loveless developing team. In other words I think I'll see if I can get a *free* basic version and wait for a good mod to come out.
See the graphics and all that stuff..well Doom3 looks a great deal better, it's about the fun, the effort, the cleverness that is put into a product not about how it looks. UT2003 seems to suffer the same fate as SW "Attack of the clowns". Looks great, is made for kids, full of cliches and dull as hell.
Anyways, to me the whole thing is dead meat, the poor way they presented it at the show seems to indicate the marketing peeps at infogrames know that already.
But as the guy said:"Well, why do you bother to buy the new game if you like the old one?". Hey, I haven't looked at it that way!
![:\](/images/smilies/submitted/smark/ohwell.gif "Oh Well :\")