Ulukai on 8/3/2009 at 22:15
I can't raise that :-)
Course was always my favourite track, and I have to agree on the UT2004 music being pretty forgettable in comparison.
Ostriig on 8/3/2009 at 23:36
I'd be hard pressed to pick a favourite, but if I had to, it'd probably be The Course for me, as well. Not every track's a jewel, but the ones that are really shine.
Ostriig on 19/3/2009 at 16:38
Ok, bump time - RPS declare UT3 (
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/03/16/unreal-tournament-3-and-the-new-lazarus-effect/) reborn. Apparently, the Steam-hosted free weekend & Titan Pack launch saw a spike of 2000% in activity. Great news. Still, the main thing to take away from that article is not UT3's sudden play for power, nor the fact that people like free stuff (stop the presses), but the big hint the author considers this drops in relation to the PC's viability as a mainstream gaming platform in the wake of digital distribution.
Quote Posted by Alec Meer, RPS
I mean, really. How any other platform could possibly think it can rival PC gaming’s staggeringly vast, fast-evolving, hyper-connected community in the long-term is beyond me.
june gloom on 19/3/2009 at 17:42
2000%? Jesus.
Judith on 19/3/2009 at 17:50
I'd say they exaggerate. It's just a mutator and a pack of some new maps and remakes (Facing worlds!). It isn't by any means revolutionary. It's still the same hardcore fun as it was.
What's cool about UT3 is the modding/mapping community. The editor is supported by Epic guys, there are a lot of mappers presenting their work every day, and the visitor count in User maps & mods is as high as in Gears of War 2 section.
Actually I wish they did the same thing to Gears on PC, releasing GoW2 PC around next Christmas, with stable, modding-friendly editor. If only they'd done such thing with the first game...
Ulukai on 19/3/2009 at 17:54
Epic are great at supporting the mapping & modding community.
(
http://solidflux.planetunreal.gamespy.com/) David Spalinski, one of the Gears 2 Level designers, used to be a 'community mapper' for UT, and I suspect that's how he got the job.
Cliff was great in that respect, you could e-mail him and say, "Hey, could you check out my map?" And he would.
Ostriig on 19/3/2009 at 18:18
Quote Posted by Judith
I'd say they exaggerate. It's just a mutator and a pack of some new maps and remakes (Facing worlds!).
The 2000% spike in activity relates to the (
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/03/07/weekend-steam-75-off-world-of-goo-ut3-black-free/) free-to-play Steam weekend that just passed, and I think that's necessarily an unbelievable figure. How many will have actually bought the game following said weekend experience, even at its discounted price, is another story.
As an aside, in addition to maps and the Titan mutator, the expansion also added two new game modes - Greed and Betrayal.
