Unreal Tournament III/PC, $39.99 w/free shipping

[loafbred]

UT3 for PC

 

[AmberClad]

I think GoGamer has it for a little bit cheaper ($37.49 including shipping). And they'll apparently toss in a free UT3 t-shirt too. It's a guy's size Large...so it'd probably work as a smock or nightgown .

 

[loafbred]

Dang it, no shirt for me... I already ordered and paid $8 for 2-day shipping.

 

[AmberClad]

Well, after reading the t-shirt description, it mentions "pre-order". Not sure if orders placed now would have qualified anyway, so who knows if you would have gotten the shirt. *shrug*

 

[ericlp]

it's 34.95 @ go gamer now.

Tho, I've played most of the new UT games. Nothing comes close to the original... I am a die hard UT classic.... I guess you know your really bad when you start trying to load it on your linux system!

I don't think they sell Unreal Tournament G.O.T.Y. Edition but there is always ebay and I keep hearing that the original programmers before atari came in and mucked it all up were going to give it away for free!

The network servers are all still hopping and new maps are coming out just like day 1. The only problem is... UT classic ain't for noobs. If you don't want to feel like a noob you better get a pretty good fast computer, fast internet speed, a gaming mouse and keyboard and a 24" monitor....

Oh well, back to the deal... I think the shirt comes with the deal.

 

[AmberClad]

Originally posted by: ericlp
I don't think they sell Unreal Tournament G.O.T.Y. Edition but there is always ebay and I keep hearing that the original programmers before atari came in and mucked it all up were going to give it away for free!

GoGamer actually does sell Unreal Tournament GOTYe. It's included in Unreal Anthology. Only $14.90, for a slice of FPS history .

 

[WhipperSnapper]

I wish they would come out and just release UT99-GOTY as a free public download. It would be a great way to get some publicity for the franchise and to market the series to new people. FYI, UT3 feels like UT99-2 if you can get to the actual game play and put up with the user interface and server browser. When the UT3 Demo first came out, that's what the UT99 community was saying.

I agree that UT99 still has the best game play, but if you're in North America, where the heck do you go to find populated servers online, at least for regular weapons CTF? Haley's all-CTF-Face Hot House? The 125 speed FOCR server?

I'm still hoping that UT3 takes off. I still play UT99 CTF pug matches with my UT99 friends, but UT3 is where the action will be in the future. If anyone wants to play the game the way it should be played--as part of a (spontaneously) organized team and with assigned positions and teamwork, come play pickup games (PUG) matches! Here's where to find them (and the UT99 and UT3 communities) on IRC:

SERVER: irc.GameRadius.net

CHANNELS:

#speedpug (125 speed regular weapons UT99 CTF)

#ut3ctf (regular weapons UT3 CTF)

#ut3tdm (regular weapons Team Deathmatch)

You play whenever you feel like it. Just come to the channel and .join up! When it fills to 10 people (or 8 for TDM) two people become captains and draft the other 8 players, gym class style. Then everyone gets on a Teamspeak2 server (free download -- http://www.GoTeamspeak.com ) for voice comm and joins the gaming server to play a best of three maps match. It's the closest thing to playing a clan match without being in a clan and without having to adhere to advanced scheduling and the teams are often balanced, leading to intense, tight matches! Note that there are several other PUG match channels on Gameradius, too.

 

[Devil2U]

I won't get into all the details, but consider this:

Top Game Servers By Players
#6. Unreal Tournament 2004, 1539 servers, 3822 players
#25. Unreal Tournament 3 (PC), 960 servers, 325 players
http://archive.gamespy.com/stats/

Need I say more?

 

[WhipperSnapper]

Question is, are those UT 2004 players real human players or bots?

 

[soccerballtux]

Originally posted by: WhipperSnapper

Question is, are those UT 2004 players real human players or bots?

Actually, once I learned how to look for a bot (spectate and pres F4 on the character and watch for non-continuous mouse movement; ie jumping), I found that all the people I thought were bots really weren't. Been playing some Instagib CTF and am getting pretty good.

I might go to UT3 when I get a better graphics card, but for now UT2k4 is plenty fun.

 

[j0j081]

Originally posted by: Devil2U
I won't get into all the details, but consider this:

Top Game Servers By Players
#6. Unreal Tournament 2004, 1539 servers, 3822 players
#25. Unreal Tournament 3 (PC), 960 servers, 325 players
http://archive.gamespy.com/stats/

Need I say more?

well ut3 has over a 1000 right now. I wouldn' trust those gamespy numbers anyway because they are a lot dif than other sites I've seen.