My opinion is that Epic need to stop making endless reiterations of the same generic deathmatch game. I’ve played all of the Unreal Tournament games, and UT99 is still the most fun.
I won’t lie, UT3 is beautiful, the graphics are stunning… but it’s just a remake really… when you strip away the minimal changes in gamemodes… it’s just UT2004 with a different look and completely arbitrary content thrown in or removed. UT3 is to UT2004 what UT2003 was to UT99.
All of these games except for UT99 suffer from what I call ‘unreal syndrome’ which means you will become nauseus if you play it for more than 48 minutes… Why? The only way I can describe it is that they lack the power to immerse the player… especially if you’re a fan of UT99, because if you are… you know that these don’t live up to it. Even with all those vehicles and all that content… you know deep down that it isn’t really fun.
It’s my opinion that if Epic really want to make a new Unreal game there is literally nowhere left for the franchise to go except for back to singleplayer… they have done multiplayer… to death. They have exhausted everything that Unreal Tournament could be. I mean, they even tried to apply a story through cinematics to UT3, despite the fact it’s a deathmatch game with no real order. Absolute nonsense.
If they would remake UT99 faithfully, without spamming it up with vehicles and experimental game modes, then it could work… But I don’t think that’s very likely.