I've tried the freeware PC version, and it does nothing for me. I'm just so glad we still have UT1999 and it's huge (and ever increasing) range of great mods and levels. Even though I mostly play offline (the bots are great!) it's one of the games I can keep coming back to, and helps me keep cheerful even though FPS games (my favourite genre) are in a real rut right now.
I also really like UT2004, but not as much as the original game. I'm not too keen on UT3, and I don't like UT2003 at all. Bottom of the heap, though, is Unreal Champonship on the XBox. Conversely, Unreal Championship 2 on the XBox is in some ways my favourite Unreal game, as it does so much right, improving even on UT1999 in some areas. Some very poor design decisions stop it from being definitely my favourite though (who thought Overdose or Nali Slaughter would be fun? Why keep the limit of two weapons when using the "Classic UT" mutator? And why can't you alter the speed of the game, or the power of the weapons). And why UC2 was never ported to the PC, I'll never know. The mods for it would have been incredible.
I have one major problem with this game so far: Health regen. That has no place in an arena shooter.
That aside i would love to see this game turn out great and be sucessfull.
Yep, I hate regenerating health. It's just another curse of modern day FPS.