Originally Posted by
AussieCunt
That's good to hear, I'll have to try play some games of it. Not sure if I have my copies of 2k3 and 2k4 but yeah, 3 was a novelty and tech demo to me. Really could have been interesting.
Don't bother with 2k3, not that it's bad, just that they rushed it & released 2k4 as a "fix" with all the missing modes people expected. Stick to 99Goty & 2k4 for online. The original Unreal is still pretty neat for retro SP, but you wont find many online games. Shame, the 8 Ball gun and original ASMD were pretty neat weapons in MP.
3 was bad because it was Epic that made it, the good Unreal games were made by Digital Extremes or Legend Entertainment with Epic as publishers & design input. Same with 90% of the older stuff released as Epic Mega Games, they were more into publishing than making games.
They make nice engine tech, but the games they release to show it off are kinda bleh. GoW is another example of Epic bleh, you can't really call it shite because it's competently made, but they just feel and play bleh.
You could say the same about i.d now, they lost their design talent a while back and it really shows in the game play. If Bethesda weren't propping them up Doom would've been yet another train wreck with a nice engine.
Ut99, small map (DM-MorbiasII, DM-HyperBlast, DM-Deck16II recommended), last man standing set to 10 & instagib shock rifle modifier. /A+