I haven't bothered with 2k3 since I need a new comp, but I played Unreal Championship on Xbox. Anyway, I was wondering how 2k3 has been received by Unreal fans since I haven't really been keeping up with the UT community.
I know 2k3 has some nice new gamemodes, but it seems like the weapons/weapon ballance is weak compaired to UT99. It seems in large part like 2k3 is trying too hard to be a compromise between UT and Quake 3. The assault rifle seems like a pointless n00b-friendly bullet hose compaired to the old pistol. What's the deal with taking away the secondary fire of the rocket launcher? It also sucks that they clean took the ripper out completely instead of tweaking it to be less "spam friendly" or whatever. The lightning gun also seems like a compromise to make the sniper rifle more like Quake's Rail gun. It's also disapointing that there weren't any particularly new weapons besides the satellite laser marker thing.
Don't get me wrong, I like Quake as a game in it's own right, but UT is not Quake. By trying to combine the good features of both games it seems like it just produces a watered down compromise. Anyone else have thoughts on this?
I know 2k3 has some nice new gamemodes, but it seems like the weapons/weapon ballance is weak compaired to UT99. It seems in large part like 2k3 is trying too hard to be a compromise between UT and Quake 3. The assault rifle seems like a pointless n00b-friendly bullet hose compaired to the old pistol. What's the deal with taking away the secondary fire of the rocket launcher? It also sucks that they clean took the ripper out completely instead of tweaking it to be less "spam friendly" or whatever. The lightning gun also seems like a compromise to make the sniper rifle more like Quake's Rail gun. It's also disapointing that there weren't any particularly new weapons besides the satellite laser marker thing.
Don't get me wrong, I like Quake as a game in it's own right, but UT is not Quake. By trying to combine the good features of both games it seems like it just produces a watered down compromise. Anyone else have thoughts on this?