Unreal Tournament also lacks the punch and personality of Quake III. The single-player mode was far more enjoyable simply because of its quick pace and balanced gameplay. Like T.S., I found that the online play was too slow, too small, and too buggy to be worth the effort.
Others, such as the immensely frustrating lag time of the Dreamcasts 56k modem, are simply unavoidable. Some of them, such as the discrepancies in team designation, should have been obvious to developers. said, there are a lot of issues that plague the online play. Most of the modes are intact-domination, capture the flag, tournament, and deathmatch-but the eight-player limit and lag-plagued combat detract from the suspense that made the original so popular. Unfortunately, this is where the Dreamcast version falls markedly short of its PC counterpart.
Of course the original Unreal Tournament wasn't popular because of its single-player features, but rather its online play. The enemies will give chase, fish you out of hiding places, and horde power-ups, but it still becomes easy to outsmart the CPU bots after a little practice. Since crafty bots are more difficult to program than accurate ones, the single-player campaign cant hold a candle to the online competition. Because Unreal Tournament is more reliant on strategy than Quake III, the draw of the gameplay lies in outwitting (rather than outgunning) human opponents in online play. The gameplay, then, relies more on strategic utilization of the levels than a quick trigger finger. The weapons in Unreal Tournament, on the other hand, can be mastered with remarkably little practice. Quake III features more outlandish level design and faster action that revolves primarily around players ability to capitalize on the strengths and weaknesses of each weapon. Upon further inspection, however, Unreal Tournament and Quake III are actually quite different. While Unreal Tournament for the Dreamcast does remarkably well for its platform, it still lacks the depth and refinement of its PC cousin.Ĭritiques of Unreal Tournament inevitably juxtapose it with Quake III, and rightly so both games, at least superficially, are quite similar. Its certainly nice to see a respectable number of options-domination, capture the flag, tournaments, and the like-but all the options in the world are useless unless the core gameplay concepts are implemented effectively. Yet despite being a well designed game, gamers must ultimately tread through a watered down version of the PC incarnation. Its great for the 3D-card-deprived to be able to experience the immensely popular PC shooter firsthand. Unreal Tournaments arrival on the Dreamcast is kind of a double-edged sword.
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