Unreal Championship 2 Fact Sheet And Pics

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Epic and Microsoft released a Fact Sheet this morning along with 16 new screenshots of Unreal Championship 2. The shots are from a news service, apologies for the watermark, we'll try to get a hold of some unmarked shots.

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Fact Sheet:

"Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict"
Fact Sheet

Title: "Unreal® Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict"
Publisher: Microsoft® Game Studios
Developer: Epic Games®
Format: DVD for the Xbox® video game system, Xbox LiveTM-enabled
ESRB Rating: Pending
Availability: Holiday 2004
Pricing: $49.99 (U.S.) estimated retail price

Product Overview:

"Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict" brings the "Unreal Championship" franchise to Xbox and Xbox Live with bold enhancements to single and multiplayer gameplay including all new super-agile player acrobatics, third-person camera mode, and intense melee abilities. "Unreal Championship" fans can play as any one of 14 characters from the "Unreal" Universe, each with spectacular new Adrenaline powers that enable new offensive and defensive combos.

Key Features:


Bone-crunching melee combat. For the first time in an "Unreal" franchise game, players can battle using hand-to-hand weapon combat seamlessly melded with Unreal's trademark fast-paced shooter action.


Unprecedented player mobility. Combat takes on a whole new dimension. New third-person navigation makes it easy for players to pull off incredible acrobatic combo-moves. Levels are designed to allow the players to maximize their movement skills and take combat to a high-flying vertical level, never seen before in an action shooter.


Adrenaline Powers for fighting. New Adrenaline Powers enable players to deflect projectiles and invoke powers for new offensive and defensive tactics.


Unparalleled multiplayer action. The "Unreal" experience is optimized for Xbox Live, enabling players to take on adversaries from around the world. System Link provides the ability to play against others by directly linking Xbox consoles.


Intense single-player excitement. Players are immersed in a two-part, single-player tournament experience that allows the player to take on the role of a variety of uniquely-skilled characters, as well as the role of heroic Anubis as he fights to reclaim his people's Rite of Ascension tournament from the omnipotent Liandri Corporation.

Developer Information:

Epic Games Inc, based in Raleigh, NC and established in 1991, is a developer of cutting-edge computer and video games. The company is best known as the creator of hit PC 3D action games Unreal and Unreal Tournament, both award-winning blockbuster hits having each sold more than 1 million units each. Epic is also well known as creator of the Unreal Engine which it has licensed to several major game developers. To date over 10,000,000 games have been sold that utilized Epic's Unreal Engine technology and the number is growing steadily each year. Prior to their 3D success, Epic Games was well known for the hit shareware games Jill of the Jungle, Jazz Jackrabbit and Epic Pinball. Additional information can be obtained through Epic's Web site at www.epicgames.com.

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The information contained in this fact sheet relates to a prerelease product that may be substantially modified before its first commercial release. Accordingly, the information may not accurately describe or reflect the product when first commercially released. This fact sheet is provided for informational purposes only, and Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, with regard to the fact sheet or the information contained within it.

Microsoft, Xbox, Xbox Live and Unreal Championship are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

[Parser]

Malcolm looks constipated.

[pine]

A good half of those screenshots are corrupted somehow. :/

[Parser]

They are? They look fine here...

[hal]

Originally Posted by Pineconeboy

A good half of those screenshots are corrupted somehow. :/

All fine here. Which ones are giving you a problem??

[Dontbeanass]

In true Epic and Digital Extremes fashion--you can bet it won't be out for holiday 2004!

[Bang Yr Head]

saw the trailer, and screens, and it looks ****ing badass......

[KiloDelta]

will this be enough to tear me away from UT2004, and wipe the dust off my XBox that UT2004 is solely responsible for?

[TaoPaiPai]

wow malcolm took 20 kilos

[Recoil812]

Those shots are incredible considering many high profile XBox games release screenshots in 1024*768 (CoughHALOcough)

Wish they'd turn on AA though :/

[hal]

I didn't take the shots, nor did I resize them, Recoil812.

[Xabora]

Gotta love Spectrial Lighting... But why does the Skarjj look like Mr. T?

[Daedalus]

malcom looks like a crazy african regime General.

[Atrocity]

Malcom looks seriously f00ked up... everything else is eye candy, though. I have an Xbox myself, love it but not nearly as much as my PC... but this game warrants interest!

[BoboThePenguin]

OmG J00 Thinkz it will Haev thOrnz?????//

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[CH8yo$1]

so wath ya all think? how old did malcom really got ? i think he is 80-90

[pine]

hal, this is the 'image corruption' I'm talking about. Now for some reason more of them look right, but after awhile they start loading messed up again.

edit: It's doing this in I.E. and Firefox both, but there's no consistency with which specific pictures get corrupted.