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Counter-Strike, Battlefield, Quake, Doom. Boom the heck out of them with your redeemer. Every once in a while, a decent fps game is made, Unreal Tournament, Counter-Strike, Metroid Prime, and now UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2004.

For those of you unfamiliar with the Unreal Tournament series, here's a recap. It started on 1999. A lonely game that sat on the shelf, until like a million freaking people bought it and threw away their quake and doom games. It was superior in graphics, presentation, story, online play, controls, EVERYTHING! Then it came out for PS2, Then 2003 came out and it rocked, but missed the assault modes, ripper, hammer, sniper gun, pulse gun. but still it sold about a million copies. Then this one came out and now it's gonna sell a zillion copies!

This games got everything: Bombing Run, Assault, DeathMatch, Team DeathMatch, Onslaught, CTF, Mutant, Double Domination, Last Man Standing, and Invasion. This games gots 2k3's weapons and 4 new ones. The avril, the sniper rifle, the mine launcher, and grenade launcher. You won't believe what you can do with the vehicles. It's crazy. I must of cut up and smashed a million people. There's like a hundred characters and 150 levels. If thats exicting, the single player campaign was freakin fun. Options everyone wants options and there's no shortage of options from this one. From the smallest tweaks to the size of the screen, it does it nicely. The controls and slick and fluid like any other unreal game. The vehicles are so easy to drive, it's like you played unreal for years.

Trust me, when a game this good comes out, you have hold on to it. Buy a copy. You'll know what I'm talking about.

UT2003 was pretty much a failure when released with gameplay that wasn't even as good as the original done years before.

With UT2004 Epic as redeemed themselves. Epic has taken this game farther in a year than anyone could have ever imagined and the result is breathtaking.

The return of "Assault" game mode and the addition of a new "Onslaught" give players 10 different game types to choose from. There really is something for everyone now, with many of the modes so addicting you'll wonder why they even included "Deathmatch" at all. There's over 100 maps, and already there are several new fan based ones for download.

The Bot engine that drives your teammates and opponents (if your not online) is the best there is. They follow instructions via either voice input or voice menu command and seem "real".

Vehicles add a third dimension to the gameplay as you have to worry about what is above you (or shoot through the canyons below). Most vehicles can be taken out by ground troops with guided missles, so they don't overwhelm the maps. They have cool weapons, but are more for mobility than anything else.

Graphics and game sounds are excellent and can be configured for most systems. You will need a DX 9.0 card, if don't have one and were waiting for that next generation game to get one - it's time and they're much cheaper these days. My system is able to run the game maxed (Athlon 2800+, Radeon 9800 Pro 256, 512 DDR RAM).

You should get this game. There are few games out there that pack as much content out of the box as UT2004. Within a month there will be dozens of more player generated maps to download along with all the mods the fanboys create. You simply can't beat the gaming value this one has to offer.

wow, this game was surprisingly good, compared to the other ut's it has made a pretty good comeback. Nowadays i play fps(btw, i am 13) and i almost played them all, halo for pc, counter strike( a must have cheapie!), doom 3, etc. I loved the variety of vehicles, weapons, mods, maps EVERYTHING! I don't have a high end gaming computer, just a p4 with a 128mb vid card, but i can turn it on high w/o any lag! I usually buy pc games for the online play and this has the best. With tons of servers up all the time and the customization of gameplay makes this a must have. Even though the price is a little to expensive because of how long its been out, i think it is worth it. You will be playing for hours, i probably have played this game more than halo, cs, or doom 3(which i haven't beat.) You don't have to take my opinion but this is a great game that you should own!<br /> <br /> Fact: If you dont have a DVD rom drive for your computer, you won't be able to play the DVD special edition pack(the one in the fat DVD case.)