I’ve got it entirely maxed out and it runs smoothly, but it just seems so grotty and not particularly nice to look at. I was really surprised when I went on the oriental-like map and found a complete absence of vibrant, beautiful colours, which is a particular shame as the map is literally crying out for it.

I’ve seen comments from developers of UT3 who put some serious thought into the assets in the game, including the statue on the oriental map which apparently had a number of iterations and loads of research.

Actually, you know how in most games/films/art you have a lot of stuff that is meant to blend into the background, and then something that’s all lit up nicely and vibrant that you’re meant to notice? It feels like everything is in the background in UT3, all blended into one muddy mess.

It’s a massive shame.

Gameplay-wise it’s just your average UT so there’s not that much to distinguish it in my opinion apart from its graphics, and with those falling way short of impressing me I can’t see much worthwhile here. The general UT gameplay seems very bland and overplayed to me.

People say gameplay is more important than lighting, but where would games be without lighting? Nowhere, that’s where.”

dont you mean… in the dark?

in all honestly i LOVE this demo, COD4 got a big meh from me. bitch if you will but there will always be a market for hardcore deathmatch games, and UT3 fills the void Q4 left, and battlefield-esque games dont appeal to some people, id rather have a polished game to go head to head with my friends.

As for UT, erm, bit dull. Playing it actually made my eyes hurt a little, trying to pick things out in the grime (was on the urban level). WIll have to have a fiddle with the post-processing. But I don’t know, it just didn’t /feel/ like the UT I know and love (ever so slightly less than Q3A). The weapons had far too much going on on them, I mean, what the hell was the front of the GES Biorifile doing?

Obviously it’s success is already almost guaranteed on the modding community alone, so as long as you don’t expect hard tactical class based teamwork like QW:ET, BF2 or TF2 then UT3 is going to be everything you expect it to be. I wouldn’t say it’s underwhleming, it’s just not really going to blow many people away as such – and I think Epic might almost already be admitting this by not including any ‘new’ game modes in the demo. Personally, I’m predicting an 80% ish scores upon release for this.

Also did anyone get excited hearing the main menu music?