Epic: No New Unreal Tournament Games For Several Years

[Optimus Hagrid]

UT2004 was possibly the best multiplayer game ever. The problem with UT3 was that all they did was improve the graphics and then actually REMOVE things from the previous games. Assualt mode? Gone. Bombing run? Gone. Invasion, my favourite game-mode? Also gone.

OH YEAH, the utter PLETHORA of game modes, with THOUSANDS of people playing them.

Seriously, there are like two people playing invasion, double domination, elimination and some of those other gametypes I can't remember right now at a given time.

It's a shame, because in my opinion, UT3 is blatantly faster paced than any of the other UT's. Weapons which don't kill you instantly can kill you in under a second. Also, the maps are TONS more interesting than any of the original have to offer, many with pretty unique objectives.

However, the removal of assault mode is utterly stoopid.

And the 'campaign' is dire.

And there's still no Ripper.

And there are no bloody death reports.

0_o

Well, at least they kept Face.

 

[InfectingTheCrypts]

I thoroughly enjoyed UT3, I thought it was brilliant, fast and perhaps more interesting than Gears. It had more varied weapons, not as dull graphics and was way more fast-paced. I won't be happy to see it take a break, but I think when it does eventually come back, it'll be stronger and better than ever.

At least this proves that Epic Games are amongst the few developers that know that they shouldn't milk their franchises to death and have some dignity.

 

[ILPPendant]

Oh no?

 

[scotth266]

Fine by me. I haven't played any of the Unreal Tournies yet, but my friend (who is a fan of the series) tells me that they've been pretty bland of late. I saw an old Xbox one that he was playing, and I have to admit that it looked like a blast... so perhaps it's time to indoctrinate myself so that I can get interested when they announce the next one.

 

[Ken_J]

Whent to a camp and all that we had to play were LAN games of Warcraft III and UT3, it was fun and Half the people their never played it before and got it right off the bat.

 

[ThePirateMan]

To me, the good ol' Unreal Tournament and Unreal Tournament 2004 are among the best FPS games I've ever played. Unreal Tournament 3 as many have said, it removed way too much, the story was simply idiotic to me. (In the earlier games it was pretty literaly a tournament) So if I had to choose between UT 3 and UT 2004, UT 2004 is an obvious choice. The monster mode (dno what it's called) on UT2004 on lan with some friends was also aaaaweeeesooooomeeeeeeeee.

 

[Valiance]

Yea, mostly because UT3 sucked. UT was good when it was original, not now that there are 30 identical shooters next to it.

UT is dead. I just hope Epic can come up with something to revive it into a new game that is actually you know worth buying

Only becuse they found their niche market with Gears and decided to piss all over UT3. If Gears of War never happened, UT3 would have been much more amazing.

R.I.P. Unreal Tournament. There will always be a special place in my heart (and index finger) for you. I'll enjoy UT until I die.

That.

That's pretty much it. They said HEY GUYS GEARS OF WAR IS POPULAR LET'S PUT IT IN UT!

Not realizing that the real UT crowd doesn't want to see that in their UT game. Honestly:

They messed up the story (Spectator-sport deathmatch by Liandri for money --> FIGHTING ALIENS TO SAVE THE WORLD)...
They messed up the graphics (everything was "too" pretty, if you know what I mean; you can't play a game competitively/seriously when you can barely tell an opponent from the beautiful background texture)
They messed up the gameplay, removing the things that made Unreal Tournament Unreal Tournament, and instead putting things in that make Unreal tournament "generic deathmatch shooter." They removed Assault (big mistake), took OUT guns, didn't put in NEW guns, removed levels people knew and loved (Rankin? Hyperblast?) and sort of mixed them together in a bad mess (Phobos + Hyperblast = Demios)...Removed characters we cared about. Added characters we didn't care about. Added a character customization screen that was such a tacked-on after thought that you could barely change how your character looked anyway, but worst of all:

They stopped catering to a UT crowd, and went to cater to a GoW crowd. Why is this bad? Because the people who would make mods, who would host servers, who would keep your game alive DO NOT WANT TO PLAY IT. And they don't, and the game's online multiplayer was basically Dead on Arrival, forcing UT players to go back to 2K4 or go play Quake since it's the only other arena shooter that comes close to UT in terms of speed/skill etc...

But anyway, long story short, I beat the UT3 single player campaign, and played it over LAN a couple times, and then just realized that all it ever made me do was want to play the original game again, so now I just do that. I never got the titan pack, but I doubt it added enough for me to like UT3 again. I really did like some of the CTF levels, but maybe they'll just bring it back for UT4 (Or if they're smart they'll do what Mechwarrior's doing and just call it Unreal Tournament and reboot the franchise ;P)

But hopefully the next one, if there is a next one, is 100x better than this. (BY THE WAY, BRING BACK DOMINATION)

 

[Woe Is You]

Um, complaining about the story and characters in Unreal Tournament is basically the same thing as complaining about them in a game like Tetris (but then again, I find idea of complaining about story in fighting games equally ridiculous, as both only serve as an excuse to turn others into bloody mess). Part of the reason why modders don't touch UT3 has relatively little to do with the game itself and all to do with the amount of work you have to do to even make a reasonably pretty room. In that time you can pretty much make a complete map in any previous UT.

 

[Mr Sunday Night]

Hmm, not sure whether this is good or not... It's sad because I adore the UT games, and life without them would bad times. However if they're just waiting to do another it might be ok. Give it time to bring out some upgrades and design some cooler weapons.

And bring back the Ripper from the original Unreal Tournament...

I miss you Ripper.

 

[Blind0bserver]

As far as I'm concerned they don't need to make another UT game. If they just go back and patch UT2K4 so that it can run in Wide-Screen then maybe I'll stop throwing bricks with death threats taped to them at Epic's windows XD

 

[roflpwnt]

Good to hear.

UT3 was epic fail. Right now it's the least popular game in UT series.

UT2004 with still rocks with over 800 servers!

 

[AceDiamond]

Very good to hear seeing how disappointing Unreal Gears of War Tournament III was. Maybe they shouldn't go with the same graphical style for every single game they make and try to go back to the somewhat vibrant color scheme of UT2K4...when they make another one that is.