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Review title: Great Graphics? Not!
Product review: I don't understand why everybody puts in the obligatory "stunning graphics"; the fact of the matter is this game is just ugly. I bought this game hoping that it would look as good as Unreal Tournament 2003, but it's not even close. What's worse, it requires you to have twice as powerful a machine (as UT2003) to look at muddy enviroments with no sense of color theory. The graphics are okay, but hardly "beautiful"; its more of a disappointment because of all the hype about the new "engine". The visuals are as good as any other game out there, but they should have been better. (And no, it's not my system: just look at the screenshots at unreal2.com).The fact is, the Unreal Tournament games looked better, and were more fun to play. Designers need to stop thinking just in terms of detailed textures, and think about visual appeal. Lessons could be learned from art school graduates; games need the same level of graphic professionalism as movies (disney, pixar, lucasfilm).
