Unreal Tournament 2003 is the sequel to 1999's multiple 'Game of the Year' award winner. It uses the very latest Unreal Engine technology - where graphics, sound and gameplay are taken beyond the bleeding edge. Unreal Tournament 2003 is a lightning-fast, no-holds-barred sport of the future, where warriors face off like the Gladiators of ancient Rome to determine the ultimate combatant. Super human reflexes, awesome weapons and the skill to use them effectively are what separate the good from the bad, the living from the dead, the victor from vanquished. Already this game is causing a stir with many mod authors turning to it in the quest to create a 'next generation' modification, by utilising this brilliant game engine. Whilst not much can be said many existing UT mods are said to be ported over so already this game looks like it is going to be a ripper - modification wise of course!
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great game
My rating is a bit relative but I am rating it this way because I feel that the game is not appreciated enough and overshadowed by its sucessor. It was interesting more science fantasy like take on UT but having unique style and centered around the four planets and it had shared developement with unreal championship which was just a different shade of the same game. this was mostly de's lone job until like the last phase of developement where epic stopped focusing on unreal warfare and helped de get this game out. As a result it includes a bonus in form of warfare's bulldog vehicle as some kind of presentation and the epic bonus pack had used dom junkyard which was a warfare dm map as shown briefly in the gdc 2002 presentation and the leaked warfare demo from the same period. Overall this was still a way better game than that warfare demo sorry to say. The DE bonus pack consists of mostly cut maps from the game which isn't bad at all. The gameplay was very balanced and dm felt right unlike ut2004 where to make it fun you had to activate all kind of mutators.
The first installment of the 2nd Generation UT (the next is UT2k4), it's mostly basic stuff around here and there,the campaign stands-out from UT2k4.
In some way, I like this game a little better than UT2004, I regret it's not so popular.
Good game