Unreal Tournament LogoI downloaded the Unreal Tournament 3 Demo, and it's awesome.

The graphics are amazing. Vehicle Capture the Flag is fun. There's nothing like taking the impact hammer and seeing an opponents skull blow up.

It's also funny to run, and then fake your death. It's funny seeing your body just crumple underneath you, and then get back up again. Faking your own death doesn't help against a tank. Turns out, the tank just shoots you anyways.

Another cool feature that Epic Games added was the hoverboard. I wasn't sure how well this was going to work out, but it does work. It's good to get you in the action faster. Example. There's fighting going on, you die. You spawn at your base, but the action is accross the stage. You hop on your hoverboard, and it gets you there faster then walking.

Another cool thing is you can grapple onto friendly vehicles while on the hoverboard. If you get shot while on the hoverboard, you fall off, and you have to get back off the ground. So if you get knocked off it takes about 3 seconds to get back on your feet and shoot. You can't shoot while on the hoverboard either. So the hoverboard does what it needs to do well.

I also played a deathmatch round, and that was fun. The stage had a giant robot with a turret on top of it that you could drive. I can't remember what it's called, but it's pretty fun to liquify people using the giant laser. The computers actually tell you where they are and what they are doing now. For instance, computers will tell you "I'm going for the redeemer!" or "An enemy Golieth is in the middle!" Now I'll actually know where to go in a big stage.

With Unreal Tournament 3 coming out in November for PC, I've been playing some Unreal Tournament 2004. I just finished playing some double domination, and played probably one of the most frustrating stages for Double Domination. For those who have the game, it's the one where you spawn in a chamber with 5 teleporters, 3 go up, and 2 go down. At the bottom, there's A, and at the top there's B. 14 minutes into the round, our team finally gets a point. That's 1-0 now. It's just crazy. It's fun though.

I've learned to balance my games. I'll play a little Dragon Blade, a little Unreal, a little Hellgate London.

For Hellgate, I had to redownload the beta. It's a couple Gigabytes worth of files to download. about 4 i think. Yeah 4 GB. it's crazy. I have the option of using their Java based download manager, or I could use my own downloader.

I used my own, which is Download Accelerator Plus! it I got 400 kb per second download speeds. I had the files downloaded within 2 hours. I love DAP. I should add it to the downloads section. It really is a hidden relic of the internets.

Well I'm gonna go install hellgate london and study for a test I have tomorrow.