[kupoartist]

Originally posted by Il Palazzo It looks like Epic is just starting to half-ass it, atleast thats what I noticed they are doing with the xbox. I mean there latest release Unreal 2 just sucked in my opinion. Hopefully though they will make this a very good 8 player expirence.

Unreal 2 was created (and later ported) by Legend Entertainment, so Epic only had a hand in the development of the engine it ran on... regardless, Unreal 2 sucks on whatever system you play it on (XMP is passable, single player is totally dire)

I suppose the justification of not offering Big and Small game options, is that if you concentrate on just the one thing at a time, you'll get one good option, rather than having two crappy options. Epic have usually put together big products which end up being weak in certain areas: in the first UT, Domination and Assault were lacking whilst CTF and DM ruled. In 2003, Bombing Run and DM were fairly good but CTF and DDOM were pretty bad. They may have got round it for UT2004, but they cheated a little by employing community mappers and commisioning other developers to make maps... Hopefully, a focused game would work better for them...

Hope they do something a bit more interesting than usual for the single player game though... the menu-based "tournament" idea of the UT games is getting old...