Not Unrealistic
It's been everywhere already, but may as well mention it here so folk have somewhere else to express their outrage/joy/paranoia/confusion. Yes, Unreal Tournament 3 system specs! Will the beefy quad-core CPU and GeForce 8800 in my PC be worth the investment at last?
Minimum System Requirements
Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista
2.0+ GHZ Single Core Processor
512 Mbytes of System RAM
NVIDIA 6200+ or ATI Radeon 9600+ Video CardRecommended System Requirements
2.4+ GHZ Dual Core Processor
1 GBytes of System RAM
NVIDIA 7800GTX+ or ATI x1300+ Video Card
Huh. Guess not. Surprising, really. Clearly Windows 2000 users will explode in fury, but apart from that it's about the most reasonable rider I've seen any big game demand recently. I mean, apparently my mum's PC can run Unreal Tournament 3, which is a reality I'm not entirely sure I can deal with. I will be amused to see what the game looks like on a Radeon 9600, however. Not much, I would imagine, like this: