Unreal Tournament 2004 Goes Gold

psyco484 writes "Unreal Tournament 2004 has gone gold, the game will be in stores on March 15th. After an impressive demo, I'm certainly looking forward to this one." There are several improvements over UT2003, but my favorite is the ability to carry dual assault rifles.

Re:assault rifles

[Ozone Depletion]

*looks at da govinator*

Re:assault rifles

[frankthechicken]

Is it even possible to carry two assault rifles simultaneously in real life?

It certainly is possible, much like the British SAS' much vaunted ability to fire a rocket at the ground, propelling themselves behind enemy lines.

In fact only the other day, I was walking around town, felt a bit short of cash, and decided to headbut a wall, and bounce a top several passerbys, earned a small fortune that day.

Re:assault rifles

[Anonymous Coward]

Not possible for a puny weakling nerd like you. A big burly jock like me could handle it.

Can anyone help me out?

[Anonymous Coward]

I seem to have lost my UT 2004 CD Key during my deployment in Iraq with an army group rolling out open source based systems for the interim government. Anyone care to lend a fellow patriot one of yours?

Re:Can anyone help me out?

[Squidgee]

Yea, sure. Just send $20,000 US to this Nigerian Prince I know, and I'm sure we can work things out...

Re:assault rifles

[AbstracTus]

Is it even possible to carry two assault rifles simultaneously in real life? sounds a bit heavy... Well, you can carry two, but if you're gonna shoot somebody you might wanna put one of them down first.

Re:assault rifles

[rholliday]

Man, I can't tell you how many times those floating stars have kept me from getting a ticket. So handy to just dive in an alley and make the police forget about you ...

Decent price too

[Fiz Ocelot]

I got the collector's edition for 40 bucks, comes on DVD with a nice logitech headset and bonus dvd. It also has some kind of emblem that adds either 50HP to your car or 2ghz to your pc (whichever you apply it to)

Re:assault rifles

[Anonymous Coward]

Did you not see the Steven Seagal counter-terrorist documentary, Under Siege? There's a scene in which he demonstrates how to clear out two rooms at once by using assault rifles pointed in sideways directions in front of one's chest.

If he can do it, I'm sure Anthony Michael Hall can do it.

Re:Vehicles

[nukem1999]

And most other games' vehicles don't have horns that play La Cucaracha(Manta) and Dixie(Scorpion) :)

Re:Vehicles

[pcx]

Vehicles in UT2004 = hopping shotgun into a jeep driven by an insane pre-teen with no-motor control who makes a strategic decision to drive halfway across the map to an unlinked power node (the kind you can't attack) and makes the tactical calculation that if you smash the tank head on the jeep will be the winner.

What's amazing is that onslaugh is fun despite this :)

Unreal on the Ides!

[MigrantHail]

Enjoy such new features as onslaught, assault...and good old backstabbing.

Which version will you pick up?

[MMaestro]

The 7 CD version or the special edition 2 DVD pack?

Re:Linux???

[Saven Marek]

> But will it run on Linux?

Yes

> Thought not.

That makes no sense. Yes it does run on Linux

> Yet, this same crowd who hates Microsoft with a passion still
> love the precious windows games.

Yes I hate windows, I havent run it this century. I'm still an intense gamer. I don't play Windows games

> Hypocrites.

Having a little argument with yourself there Mr. Slow minded?

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Re:Decent price too

[Kelz]

How exactly can you be out of stock when they are not even IN stock yet?

Re:Naming Conventions...

[El]

They're basically making themselves stay on a once a year schedule Just like Microsoft! First there was Windows 95, then Windows 96, Windows 97, Windows 98, Windows 99, Windows 2000, Windows 2001, Windows 2002, Windows 2003... they haven't released Windows 2004 yet, and Windows 2003 seems SO dated!

I think we'll all forgive them if they skip a year or two.

Re:Decent price too

[Dirtside]

It also has some kind of emblem that adds either 50HP to your car or 2ghz to your pc (whichever you apply it to)

Cool! The extra 50 hit points will keep my car safe from clowns driving rocket-launcher-equipped ice cream trucks. (I live in L.A.)

Re:Vehicles

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, Gabe Newell, of VALVe fame, also like to stay in touch with 'the community'

Gabe. we love your HL2 alpha !

Offnote tactic for the airvehicle

[88NoSoup4U88]

If some opponent is on the redeemer spawn spot, and you have control of a flying vehicle (not sure on the name)
Spidermine it first, then lightly scrape over the floor while flying past the high-redeemer spot : The spider mines will jump off, and target any enemy on top of it :
Great fun :)

Re:UT 2004 is good, but consider...

[lowe0]

Good news: They ARE giving you a rebate.

Bad news: It's only $10.

Details inside the box. If this is as good as it's supposed to be, though, I won't feel too bad about dropping $30 after rebate on it.

FYI

[MachDelta]

Just FYI, the Raptor vehicle (no relation to the UT2004 Raptor) in Unreal 2: XMP plays Dixie too if you get airborn with the boosters (and hit the horn). :)
I loved watching that thing come flying over a hilltop with fire streaming out the vents playing that cute little tune. It was hillarious, right up until the point that it smacked into you, chewwed you up in the grinders, and spit your gibs out the same vents.

Re:Does anyone remember the original Unreal Tournm

[Anonymous Coward]

Does anyone remember the original Unreal Tournment

Nope, mandatory memory erase. It helps sell the same games over and over...

Re:Vehicles

[mcpkaaos]

God I admire you.

Re:Why is it always idsoft and Unreal?

[cozziewozzie]

I agree, and this lack of realism also pisses me off. When I play a game, I want it to be realistic dammit. For example, in Quake3, you never have to stop and pee, WTF?! I mean, you can play for 10 hours straight, and never once have to urinate!!!! Wouldn't it be much more exciting if you had to stop in a corner from time to time and pee, exposing your vulnerable back to the enemy!

Then there's the eating. Since Duke3d we haven't had hot-dog stands in FPS maps, and even those weren't fully operational. What I want is that each UT2004 map have a hot-dog stand so people can eat, just like at paintball, it would be much more realistic that way. And if you cuss, your mother should come and ground you for a day.

On a semi-serious note, why the hell would anyone want to play a shooting game where your shots are semi-random?

Re:Vehicles

[ErroneousBee]

Were you the one that went backwards, forwards, turned a bit, bumped into the gate post, realised they couldnt drive and ran away to join the battle on foot?

Next time I'll have a microphone, so I can try the 'Put it in gear, love. Now turn the wheel, bit more, bit more. Now go forward. STOP!!!' routine.