You should start seeing UT2003 out in the shops either today or tomorrow, Ross, who works for Harvey Norman contacted us to say they wont be selling it until tomorrow, but some people are reporting it available in some locations.

We received our copies from Infograms yesterday, and I spent a fair amount of time checking it out. I have to say, I'm a fan. Whilst the gameplay isn’t anything new, for seasoned FPS gamers it does seem to hit the spot, physics are good, the duel maps look like a lot of fun though some might be a bit too small, but most of all, it looks totally awesome and plays fast.

I thought player speed had been bumped up a notch since the beta, you can actually see and strafe around rockets now, which lends to some really cool fun rocket battles requiring decent prediction skills on you're part. Some of the levels look totally awesome, with some nice Gothic style levels, and some more UT style sci fi looks. Duel servers are going to be popular with the old school quake players, though UT players will get totally skooled at this game type. BR looks like its defiantly going to hit the spot in team games, despite it being basically one flag ctf, its done well. Look out for it in the stores today!

This game absolutely rocks. It's fast and the graphics are amazing. I haven't seen all the levels yet but from what I've played I'm very impressed with this. Can't what till tomorrow so we can LAN this. Woohoo!

>insert trog saying "Its not doom3" here<

UT2003 is awsome from playing the demo... i am fully buying this game tomorrow

What are the minimum requirements? I really want to play this game, just not sure if my computer can handle it.

1.1 Minimum System Requirements
-------------------------------

Operating System: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP (Linux has separate README)

Processor: Pentium III or AMD Athlon 733 MHz processor

Memory: 128 MByte RAM

Hard Disk Space: 3 GByte free HD space

Video: 16 MB TNT2-class or other DirectX version 6
compliant video card*

Sound: Windows compatible sound card. NVIDIA nForce or
other motherboards/soundcards containing the Dolby
Digital Interactive Content Encoder required for
Dolby Digital audio.*

DirectX: DirectX version 8.1b (on CD)

Modem: 33.6K baud (for modem/Internet play)

Internet (TCP/IP) and LAN (TCP/IP) play supported.

1.2 Recommended System Requirements
-----------------------------------

Operating System: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP (Linux has separate README)

Processor: Pentium III or AMD Athlon 733 MHz processor

Memory: 256 MByte RAM

Hard Disk Space: 3 GByte free HD space

Video: NVIDIA GeForce2 or ATI Radeon (32-128 MB VRAM
recommended)*

Sound: Sound Blaster Audigy series sound card*

DirectX: DirectX version 8.1b (on CD)

Modem: 56K baud (for modem/Internet play)

Internet (TCP/IP) and LAN (TCP/IP) play supported.

Thanks alot reverend, looks like I should be able to play it.

Yeah, it runs surprisingly well on a TNT2.

duel eh
From what I've played of UT2 I still prefer Quake 3's gameplay.

asif it runs well, game runs like arse.

You've only played the beta dangles so get some skills

I get an easy 50-60fps on my TNT2 with AthlonXP2000+

*cough*

do you even HAVE textures on?

thanks, i might switch them off as well.

actually i might try that, all texture and character and world detail right down and run some benchmarks through it.

:-)

I'm running an Athlon 1800 and a GF4 4200 with highest detail settings and it runs fast-as with no slow down. Kicks Q3's ass all over the place.

learn to spell athlon

and i bet it runs like arse.

edit : turn on 4xs AA and 8 anisotrpic also for 5 fps slawage.

Haven't tried ut2k3 yet, but in Q3 I still get about 70fps with 4x FSAA and 8x anistropic on. Carmack is my god.

Great game !!
Great Engine!!

...but I wont be buying it!

I'll wait till some good mods come out on it. DM and CTF are just too frickin boring! Damn shame they couldn't have added some new gameplay to UT2003.

DooF!

yup, got the full version and i like it;
very pretty

yeah but khel, when you can run q3 at 400fps normally thats not so impressive.

It's catheter. Hehehehe, I'm just messing with ya :P

hehehe knew I was going to get that one wrong!!

When they pulled the right hand one out my fingers twitched all night.

Ow dude! Did u have nerve blocks in your wrists or what? Hope not from too much gaming......

Well both times they have inserted
catheter's into my right wrist its always gone weird after they have removed it. Only had one in my left wrist and it feels fine.

my valued opinion .... q3 rapes it, so will doom3.

Sweet. My computer should be decent enough.

now all we need is someone to make a HALO mod for it.

make a warthog jeep and recreate Blood Gulch and HALO for PC will be redundant!

did everyone get a manual with their retail version?

Seems mine isnt in the box and I can't find a CD key anywhere as its supposed to be on the manual.

Rang Games Market and they are going to email me a Key from another game tonite, and return that one to publisher.

s*** of all the boxes that would have shipped, I get the ONE without a manual?

grrrrrr

and i bet it runs like arse.

edit : turn on 4xs AA and 8 anisotrpic also for 5 fps slawage.

4x AA and 16x Aniso runs fine on mine at 1600x1200 :) :) :)

Anyone know how to show the actual ingame framerate? I'd imagine there is a console command that will do that...

Anyone run PIII 750Mhz / GeForce 2 MX for UT 2003 ?!

stat fps i think shows the ingame framerate.

I just did a fps test thingie, with a 20 player server, the lowest i got is about 34fps, so i'm a happy chap, to get that on my machine :D.

huh skyrbe? what system? i reckon a radeon 9700 would chuck a s*** even at that sort of res. and "fine" as in what fps?

skrybe, i think the 9700 chucks a fit with those settings ... quite unplayable, thenagain maybe its my p4 .. might have to go back to AMD or just get a faster cpu becuase an average fps of 40 isnt fun

When was this game released in US because the warez has been all over the shop for a month or more, I don't think I'd pay for it but, I might go and pay for the original Game of the Year version of UT thats prolly only like 10 bucks.

after playing it some more

this game definately rox

lanning this morning with big head and slow motion death was awesome

mucho pretty

yes, the big heads were cool!

Bought my copy this morning and loving it! Adrenaline is definately a cool addition and bringing back the maps from the first is brilliant.

You die like nali!!

thats a pretty awesome deal, glad i held off buying it yesterday. Might have to stop by tomorrow and pick up a copy.

it so does NOT run well on the net....i was playing DM on GA the other day....on my XP 1800 GF4 4200 and 256 2700 DDR and i was CHUGGIN....but i put it down to BPA gayness.