UT2004 Release Date Rumors

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Wow. Not much news, but rumor is going around that UT2004 should be a 'Holiday Release' now. Kinda sucks.... I saw the trailer say "Fall 2003" and I had my hopes up. Oh well, at least no one's saying "Two Weeks" this time.

Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2003 9:13 am

that is indeed weird..

Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2003 2:25 pm

I went over to the amazon site to see what their estimated release dates are. Even though they may not be accurate, they're usually close. Unreal Tournament has an ETA of November 18, 2003. Half-life 2 has an ETA of December 1, 2003, and Doom 3 has been pushed all the way back to March 1, 2004. So much for the star lineup of games to buy for the fall.

Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2003 2:28 pm

november 18th?

it better! Very Happy

and may the demo come verry soon!

Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2003 2:32 pm

I still can't beleive they pushed back Doom 3 AGAIN!!! It has been pushed back since 2002.

Half-life 2 should be interesting. Hope they make their new ETA.

As for UT2004, they better not start this delaying bit again. Every time they lose just a little more of their fan base, which is never good for a series.

Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2003 4:07 pm

no its sure not.. and UT2004 better not be the last of the Unreal Series Very Happy

may more come! Cool

Guest

UT2004 could easily suffer more delays because from what I've heard, the AI isn't properly implemented yet... and we all know how many glitches can riddle the AI. Of course it's not impossible that it'll make the mid/late-November date (especially as UT2003 only had a week or two between going Gold and being released- unlike the debacle of Jedi Academy), so let's keep our fingers crossed. However I'd be very surprised if Half-Life 2 didn't come out before December: Valve didn't say that there was no chance of their meeting the Sept 30th deadline until about a week beforehand, so it must be close to completion. As for Doom 3, though... well, from what we've heard about from the QuakeCon multiplayer test, hardly any of the actual game content (other than the engine, I mean) seems to be finished. The Amazon release date for D3 seems like the most likely estimate at the moment, and I wouldn't be surprised if it took even longer than that.

Guest

Ain't it interesting that Max Payne 2 was originally meant to come out early next year, and now it's going to be the first one of the Big 4 to hit the shelves? Razz

Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2003 10:59 am

me = n00b
what is diff between going gold and being released? Confused

Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2003 11:15 am

gold = in production and sent to the manufacturers for mass production

being released = duh!

Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2003 11:54 am

The Assualt AI was the least completed when I played it about 3 weeks ago (they didn't play objectives at all).

According to Cliff, a lot has been updated since then, which is, btw, the reason why he won't let me release any of the video I captured while I was there (I have like 16 gigs of UT2004 video in DV format on my external harddrive.)

I may get a chance to go by and capture more updated game footage in the next few weeks...but honeslty, id rather see the demo out before then. Wink

- Tye

Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2003 2:17 am

I want Max Payne, UT2004 DVD release, HL2 only for the story, and I don't know about anything else.

Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2003 8:45 am

awwww come on we wont tell Wink

jk,
DV? did you carry a camera with you?

Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2003 10:05 am

I have a Sony media converter device that converts s-video and composite audio and video to DV (and vice-versa). I can capture the dv directly through my firewire port on my laptop while playing on the other computer. This provides the best quality...better than the some of the more expensive scanline converters or even better than recording directly to a camera..

The video from the trailer was NOT captured this way, btw, or it would have been better quality.

- Tye

Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2003 10:16 pm

ahhhh

thx for explaning that. sounds like a lot of work to get something soo wonderful Smile