Revisiting UT2004 two decades later! This sequel to UT99 (er, UT2003?) from Epic Games and Digital Extremes was a staple of PC gaming in the 2000s, with the ...
They really fucked themselves with UT 2003 and 2004. Trying to annualize an arena shooter - a genre that lives or dies on its player base, and had years-old games still going strong - was an unforced error that killed Unreal as a franchise. I did not buy this game, because I felt like I’d just bought 2003, and it was a coin toss whether all my friends would make the jump even if I wanted to.
They really fucked themselves with UT 2003 and 2004. Trying to annualize an arena shooter - a genre that lives or dies on its player base, and had years-old games still going strong - was an unforced error that killed Unreal as a franchise. I did not buy this game, because I felt like I’d just bought 2003, and it was a coin toss whether all my friends would make the jump even if I wanted to.