So close
I’ve been a fan of the Unreal Tournament series since it first came out (bring back the razor-jacks!!) and have played each incarnation with renewed joy and enthusiasm, but when the UT3 was released I felt it was somewhat lacking… Don’t get me wrong, I thought it looked amazing, but having played the rest of the series it seemed to add a little too much. It all seemed very busy and cluttered and far removed form the clean crisp lines of UT 2003/4. One way to look at it is that more clutter is more realistic, cracked and collapsing cement has a much more visceral look to it and it works.
Anyway, last weekend Steam had a free weekend to help announce the new titan patch and update to version 2.0. So I set steam to download the game and enjoy my weekend, waiting for the download to finish.
Around about 6pm on Sunday the download completed, and after letting it install and getting all the settings as I wanted them I played about 3 matches before the free weekend ended (at 8pm!) and I was turfed out of the game. Grrr. It’s only 8 quid now though, and as I already have it pre-loaded it might be worth a punt…
**Update**
Looks like Valve/Epic realised the problem and if you’ve still got your pre-loaded data this weekend coming will be free play as well!