Hmmph, about UT 2003 ... - half impressed, 3/4 disapointed

[BWS-1]

Anyone played it yet? If so then, tell me, am I the only one having a lot of game bug with it? Sure you'll tell me that the reason why sometime 10 % of the textures in a level don't show up is because I don't have enough memory to put them (yeah, I mean duh, I should've known that 524 RAM is waaayyy not enough for this game ... or maybe it's my 64 meg of ram of my premitive Gforce 2 that doesn't do) or that the reason why it is VERY LAGGY no matter the resolution and the amount of detail must be because of my LOW-TECH PIII616, or maybe I don't have enough free space while we're at it? 4 gigs in my d:\ must not be enough I presume ...


But I'm not talking about those bugs, I'm talking of the bugs that happens EVERY TIME you frag someone, the person just, freezes there, at first when I got fraged, I thought it was a cool feature since I was a robot and I thought I "short-cicuited" but no, it does that to everything. And there are no way to see a corpse when you kill someone with a machine gun, nooo, if the corpse receive a bullet right after it's dead, well POOF! it disapears, leaving some "most of the time not so visible blood since it's a very dark game" on the ground.

In a map, parts of my body used to be poping in the sky, above the center of the arena I was fighting every time I died at a certain place, sometime many died around that place so we could see hagging in the sky bodyparts all piled up at one position.

I was VERY disapointed when, in a map, I got stuck in the cliping -_- how humiliating, I was walking and hiding on the side of a wall and when I wanted to make my move I couldn't move!

An other strange thing happened when, in a map I was hunting a bot down when, all of the sudden, I stoped running, he just passed trough a hallway but I was apparently blocked by an invisible wall but that happens often at random places in almost everymaps, you're just running around when BANG! you can'T move, you're apparently stuck and have to go around the invisible obstacle and move on... but it doesn't always work, as I mentionned above.


It's sad that the only thing that I found good was the graphics, the sounds, and the snipe (that happens to be replaced by a zooming lightning gun but, no worries, you can do head shots with it [by aiming on the Solar Plexus tho, if you aim the head, the shot just, goes trough without dealing damage, -clipping bug-])

So Technicly, the game sucks. Some will probably say I'm wrong but hey, seing cool shodow effect on my gun isn't what makes a game technecly clean and perfect, when MAJOR flaws are constantly poping in the gameplay, it's a proof that it's technicly poo. I mean, Doom II is less buggy then that.

And about the game modes ... I have to say I didn't play them all long enough to understand most of them. Their's a ball game (sounds cool once you get used to it) a CTF, a TDM and a DM, and 2 other domination mode. I've been a bit disapointed by the manager feature in single player or coop, I thought I'd get to have my team, not my character as a leader and be stuck in getting a team, gee, It's like if you'd want to create a team in a baseball game you'd be stuck in taking already existing players with no options in making new players.

Bleh, there better be a lot of update and patches, otherwise in it's present state, this game isn't worth it at all.

Graphics: 9/10
Sounds&Music: 10/10
gameplay: 3/10
Value: 4/10

Overall: 5/10

Hey, that's my first game review ever! woohoo

[Senkir]

:kungfu:

actually, when i first tried it, it wouldn't play at all on my system! I had to get the patch for it to run on the ol' Voodoo4 i have running.

I haven't played that much, and really only once (with SaitoH). SOoooooooooo.... i guess i'll hold off my oppinion till i play more. o_ô

I haven't ran into that stuff yet, but i'll keep a lookout.

(also, the sniper lazer electric gun thing, effect is just very cool. )

~that is all~

[RuneLateralus]

I have been playing the demo like mad. I cannot wait until Wednesday when the game comes out..

So far, the only problem I had was slowdown in the graphics...thanks to my crappy little GeForce 2 MX 220...

[BWS-1]

Beside the graphical bugs most likely caused by crapy drivers for my Gforce 2 there are game bugs like I said, that makes you stick in the clipping, and after enjoying the game for much longer, I've noticed that the A.I. is the dumbest I've seen, well, at least only for the bots in YOUR team. For exemple, in a CTF in Orbital II, I was fallowing one of my teamate closly to back him up when, shorlt after he captured the enemy flag, he started to jump back and fort from the elevator (the first you see when you come back to the base, I mean geee, it's a mutafunkin straight line!!!!) and he was just staying there, jumping back up, jumping down, jumping back up, jumping down, then killed and "the bleu team returned the flag" .

Also, in a map where you are in a bunker, my teamate just got stuck in the clipping with the enemy flag, unable to move and standing there like a jack-azz with a big "FRAG ME!" sign on his forehead -_-.

I also looooove how the death animations (that I found by doing some little search in the editor) are totally not showed. I mean, is it just me having a major bug or is it just the game that is naturally fild with crap???

I can enjoy the matches, but there are absolutly no matches without anoying bugs here and there, there are only some with less then others, and that's how I can enjoy my matches, wishing NOT to be stuck in the clipping or NOT having 2 "Starcraft-like" soldier in the same map cause otherwise one of the 2 will have a major texture crash and cause me NOT to see anything when he'll be in front of me -_-

Hope you guys can enjoy the game more then I did.

I'll stick with Tactial Ops

*pets Desert Eagle .50

[Aindriahhn]

Wow, UT 2003 is the greatest Quake 3 mod ever.

[BWS-1]

HAHA so true, I mean, just look at inferno, it's almost a twin brother of the hellish map in Quake 3