Bazzwano, author of CTF-Safeguard for UT3, has released CTF Dreary (UT3), a rather awesome remake of the classic Unreal Tournament level. As you can see from the pics it's quite a looker, but the great news is that it's just as fun as ever.
I thought the same thing too, at first. I fired up the original just to compare the two. Its ceiling is also very low, just like this one. The big difference is that the UT version had kind of an invisible "step" that you could land on just about every time. UT3 has wall dodge and while it's a little tougher to pull off every time, it's a more elegant solution, making the whole thing a wash in my opinion.I find getting out the flagroom high to be too cramped.
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Better a good remake than a bad original? Anyway, the classics always deserve remaking and this one is a perfect example of what a remake should be.
For me it captures the original gameplay perfectly and it's been brilliantly executed.
Only one tiny problem for me Bazz and I hope you don't think I'm being picky here. The glass has reflections of what seem to be a fairly cloudy but slightly sunny day yet the level seems to just have an overall gray cloud layer. That's the only fault that jumped out at me.
If you played and enjoyed the original as I did, this is must have map!
I'm still wondering how you upped the frames from the beta by almost +10 to 15 frames... well i know some of it is cull distances, but i'm sure theirs something else.
Better a good remake than a bad original? Anyway, the classics always deserve remaking and this one is a perfect example of what a remake should be.
Being original is hard work, dammit!