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They were trying to prove that they could in fact blow their load while producing a game on all major consoles and release them either at the same time or in very close proximity. In fact I was priveleged enough to catch commercial for UT 3 on the TV last night! No, not for PC...but rather the miserable PS3.

Tell me. How do you play a FPS with a controller?

There once was a time where computers were so much more powerful than any console on the market and therefore PC games had a major advantage of being over the top compared to the meek limitations of yesteryear's consoles like PS1, or N64 where you had to be extremely creative in order to stuff everything into the limit of your cartridge or be playable on the low-end 3d hardware of the day.

Nowadays they're building consoles with as much power as a mid-level gaming PC and game publishers want to see the title released on every platform imaginable ... not so that it can be better.. but that it will sell more - which is what its all about.. UT as we knew it might very well be dead for the sake of mass marketing and exposure. The fact that they went out of their way to make the UI console friendly and remove every useful configuration option shows this. The fact that they went out of their way to make stupid over the top maps to attract these console gamers shows this. At least they tried to bring back some of the original UT in the form of classic map remakes and such. However, what pisses me of the most, are the bleeding obvious flaws that stand out to any idiot who's played the game more than 10 seconds..

You hit a character... any character, they each play the same generic "GaAAAHH" sound whether they be Liandri, beast, human, male or female. That one just baffles me to all hell.

The server browser, history, favorites is another fine example of idiocy.. Thanks to shitty consoles you cant see a THIRD of the information that was once visible !

And why in pete's fucking sake does it have to load a main menu every time you quit? Why can't it return you where you left off? Has that suddenly become a lost technology to be recoved perhaps in 3,000 years by our future decendants?

This could have been its own post.. but well, whatever. We like to vent and I know I'm not alone.. Too bad noone else really gives a shit.. If EPIC did, they would have done their core loyalty base a favor by not releasing a peice of shit product.

At least in the past, the console UT games were spin-off's.. sigh.

but I have faith that eventually, as with all games, it will be updated and fixed as time goes on,, hopefully long before it has been obsoleted.