Kolman - DOWNLOAD (1.7 MB), SkinCity
(NOTE: A newer version of this skin is now available! Please see the end of this review for details!)
Author: Slaughter (a.k.a. TheSlaughter)
Model: Brock (MercMaleC)
Team Colors: 2
Online-Friendly?: Yes (he doesn’t have any Custom Species and/or Voicepacks that would complicate things)
Can Be Used in "UT 2004's" Single-Player Mode?: No
Can Be Recruited in "UT 2004's" Single-Player Mode?: TBD
Made For: “Unreal Tournament 2004” (works just fine in “UT 2003”...*POINTS TO THE SCREENSHOTS IN THE PICTURE*)
Bot Stats:
Aggressiveness: 0.00
Accuracy: 0.01
Combat Style: 0.00
Strafing Ability: 0.01
Tactics: 0.01
Reaction Time: 0.01
Jumpiness: 0.00
Weapon Preference: None
Note: There are no Bot Stats in the .upl - this info was gleaned from the Bot Config info in-game using the “Edit" option. I also had to fiddle slightly with the abilities and hit "Reset" to see the numbers, so I'm not vouching for 100% accuracy here.
Bot Use: 0 (no such string exists in the .upl)
THE REVIEW:
To help kick off my skin/model reviewing career, I’m gonna review one of my favorite skins EVER. This is “Kolman”, a nice-looking (in more ways than one…) skin for the Brock model by Slaughter (one of my favorite skin and model authors).
The Good:
My favorite part of this skin is by FAR the face…what a handsome guy! I own other male skins with nice faces, but Kolman is definitely the cream of the crop, IMHO. Move over, Brock! (And in case you’re wondering...yes, I’m a female. *WINKS*)
Body-wise, his armor is a nice, military-flavored recolor of Brock’s armor. Between the exposed parts and the armored parts of his arms are Greith’s bandages.
On the Team Color front, he has Red and Blue Team Colors (no CTF4 support, though). The colors are bright (original “Unreal Tournament”-style), and they’re located on his torso (not the entire breast-plate, though), the “accent” parts of the armored parts of his arms and legs, and his (*AHEM*) crotch-plate.
The Bad:
Unfortunately, there are some quirks and flaws with this skin.
First of all, I’ve noticed that there’s an extra “skin” named “Hadrian” that comes with Kolman. I say “skin”, ‘cause it’s not really a skin at all. "Hadrian" has no portrait at all (there’s a question mark instead), and a quick look at the .upl and the texture file (in “UnrealEd”) reveals that there’s no second face...he would look exactly the same as Kolman. What the heck?! Personally, though, I consider these two to be one and the same: “Kolman” (the name he goes by in the Tournament) is his last name and “Hadrian” is his first name (he looks like a “Hadrian” to me...*GRINS*).
Second, see the white boxes on the Blue Team color skin in the action shots? I believe Slaughter was trying to alpha-mask those off the model, but obviously, something went wrong with the Blue Team skin. (And sure enough, a quick peak at the Texture file in “UnrealEd” reveals that the Blue Team skin wasn’t alpha-masked at all. Oops.)
Third, the portrait is quite nice, but it doesn’t show up in-game. (I hate when that happens.)
And finally, he has no Bio, and if you’ve made one up for him, you’d have to alter the .upl file to add a “Text=XPlayers.Kolman” (no quotation marks) line so that you can give him one that’ll show up in-game, sadly. I’ve made up one of my own Bio for him, BTW:
The Bottom Line:
Despite the flaws, Kolman is still a definite winner in my book. If Slaughter were to fix the problems I pointed out, though, this skin would be an even bigger winner.
Download him today!
Score: 8/10
New version now available! (2.7 MB, Skincity)
Click here for a picture of the newer version.
In response to my review, Slaughter took Kolman and updated him. Everything that I pointed out in "The Bad" is now fixed, he's playable in Single-player mode now, his Bot abilities are now identical to Brock's, his favorite weapon is the Shock Rifle (he had no preference before), he now has a Bio (which is the one that Yours Truly made up for him
), and in addition to the Red and Blue Team Colors, he now has Green and Gold Team Colors for CTF4, too. The old score still stands (since this review concerns the original version), but if I were to review this skin (not counting the Bio, since I wrote it, and that would be a conflict of interest, wouldn't it?), I would give it an 8.5/10. Go get it, for Pete's sake!
(NOTE: A newer version of this skin is now available! Please see the end of this review for details!)
Author: Slaughter (a.k.a. TheSlaughter)
Model: Brock (MercMaleC)
Team Colors: 2
Online-Friendly?: Yes (he doesn’t have any Custom Species and/or Voicepacks that would complicate things)
Can Be Used in "UT 2004's" Single-Player Mode?: No
Can Be Recruited in "UT 2004's" Single-Player Mode?: TBD
Made For: “Unreal Tournament 2004” (works just fine in “UT 2003”...*POINTS TO THE SCREENSHOTS IN THE PICTURE*)
Bot Stats:
Aggressiveness: 0.00
Accuracy: 0.01
Combat Style: 0.00
Strafing Ability: 0.01
Tactics: 0.01
Reaction Time: 0.01
Jumpiness: 0.00
Weapon Preference: None
Note: There are no Bot Stats in the .upl - this info was gleaned from the Bot Config info in-game using the “Edit" option. I also had to fiddle slightly with the abilities and hit "Reset" to see the numbers, so I'm not vouching for 100% accuracy here.
Bot Use: 0 (no such string exists in the .upl)
THE REVIEW:
To help kick off my skin/model reviewing career, I’m gonna review one of my favorite skins EVER. This is “Kolman”, a nice-looking (in more ways than one…) skin for the Brock model by Slaughter (one of my favorite skin and model authors).
The Good:
My favorite part of this skin is by FAR the face…what a handsome guy! I own other male skins with nice faces, but Kolman is definitely the cream of the crop, IMHO. Move over, Brock! (And in case you’re wondering...yes, I’m a female. *WINKS*)
Body-wise, his armor is a nice, military-flavored recolor of Brock’s armor. Between the exposed parts and the armored parts of his arms are Greith’s bandages.
On the Team Color front, he has Red and Blue Team Colors (no CTF4 support, though). The colors are bright (original “Unreal Tournament”-style), and they’re located on his torso (not the entire breast-plate, though), the “accent” parts of the armored parts of his arms and legs, and his (*AHEM*) crotch-plate.
The Bad:
Unfortunately, there are some quirks and flaws with this skin.
First of all, I’ve noticed that there’s an extra “skin” named “Hadrian” that comes with Kolman. I say “skin”, ‘cause it’s not really a skin at all. "Hadrian" has no portrait at all (there’s a question mark instead), and a quick look at the .upl and the texture file (in “UnrealEd”) reveals that there’s no second face...he would look exactly the same as Kolman. What the heck?! Personally, though, I consider these two to be one and the same: “Kolman” (the name he goes by in the Tournament) is his last name and “Hadrian” is his first name (he looks like a “Hadrian” to me...*GRINS*).
Second, see the white boxes on the Blue Team color skin in the action shots? I believe Slaughter was trying to alpha-mask those off the model, but obviously, something went wrong with the Blue Team skin. (And sure enough, a quick peak at the Texture file in “UnrealEd” reveals that the Blue Team skin wasn’t alpha-masked at all. Oops.)
Third, the portrait is quite nice, but it doesn’t show up in-game. (I hate when that happens.)
And finally, he has no Bio, and if you’ve made one up for him, you’d have to alter the .upl file to add a “Text=XPlayers.Kolman” (no quotation marks) line so that you can give him one that’ll show up in-game, sadly. I’ve made up one of my own Bio for him, BTW:
If you can spot the references to the original “Unreal Tournament’s” single-player mode in the Bio, give yourself 1,337 points. (*HEH*) Oh, and in the interest of full disclosure, Satin is the player model I use in “UT 2003/2004”.
The Bottom Line:
Despite the flaws, Kolman is still a definite winner in my book. If Slaughter were to fix the problems I pointed out, though, this skin would be an even bigger winner.
Download him today!
Score: 8/10
New version now available! (2.7 MB, Skincity)
Click here for a picture of the newer version.
In response to my review, Slaughter took Kolman and updated him. Everything that I pointed out in "The Bad" is now fixed, he's playable in Single-player mode now, his Bot abilities are now identical to Brock's, his favorite weapon is the Shock Rifle (he had no preference before), he now has a Bio (which is the one that Yours Truly made up for him
), and in addition to the Red and Blue Team Colors, he now has Green and Gold Team Colors for CTF4, too. The old score still stands (since this review concerns the original version), but if I were to review this skin (not counting the Bio, since I wrote it, and that would be a conflict of interest, wouldn't it?), I would give it an 8.5/10. Go get it, for Pete's sake!
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