Amazing. Thats the best way to summarize my feelings after playing this game a few days. Let me say I have never been a big Unreal fan. In fact the last Unreal game I bought was the original Unreal. I skipped all the following "Tournament" editions because I was more on the CS, DC and BF side of the fence. Anyway...after reading the great glowing reviews of this version I decided to give it a try. Wow, am I glad I did. The Gamespot review says it all so I wont repeat. But a few thigns I have to touch on... first of all the game is beautiful and fast. If you have a ddecent system you will be impressed. Make sure you have 1 gig of ram..it really helps. But the action is fast and furious but now with the great Assault & Onslaught modes you get some strategy in the madness. There are tons of little great features...a coupel the review didnt mention... the game has a playlist editor so you can setup playlists of your favorite mp3's while playing..nice. It also has exceptional bot AI which the series has been known for. I played a few Assault games and the Ai played so proficiently I was amazed. There is one Assault map that you play entirely on big semi type rigs which will make you feel like your in a Mad Max action sequence... very cool. There is a ton of graphic and performance tweaks in the options so regardless of your system horsepower you should be able to get it to run. The game also has all the editing tools included to make maps so it should be only a matter of a week or two before we start seeing tons of great new maps from the community. Anyway... I havent been a UT fan in the past but they have me now. Great game.
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