Mikey - 24 Jul 2007 07:16
Unreal Tournament 3 Preview - Eurogamer
The folks over at Eurogamer have posted a pretty extensive preview of UT3, here are a few snippets:
Unreal Tournament 3's most eye-catching new feature is a two-metre-square block of pink gelatinous wibble that Epic is currently calling the "slow bubble". Once deployed, it slows the pace of anything that passes through it to a crawl. You can fire a rocket into one end and then run round the side and watch it slowly carve through the centre, before resuming its breakneck pace as it exits. More usefully, you can also dump it in a corridor that chokes your enemy's progress and use it like a flytrap, snaring the opposition and then blasting them at will. And, brilliantly, anybody stuck inside also gets to watch your bullets seep towards them at the same gradual pace that prevents them getting out of the way.
Most of UT 2004's vehicles return, but with the addition of alien species the Necris you also gain access to more unusual options. Morris brings up the word "asymmetric" again. "Axon [the goodies] vehicles may not have an exact counterpart, but they're balanced against them," he explains. We're first shown the Dark Walker, which is an insectoid crawler with three spindly tentacle legs that creeps around in a bubble of energy, able to jump to scale the crumbling environments and tuck in its tentacles to roll around fearsomely, also firing twin laser-beams and screaming to knock enemies off their feet as a secondary attack. "That's horrible," one of our fellow watchers exclaims as it sashays gruesomely over a hill. The Necris also have more manoeuvrable alternatives as well as a stealth option (although we don't see it - ho ho) and both sides have aerial options, including the Axons' Cicada gunship. "Cicada" being one of my favourite words ever.
