UT3

I've played the demo and it's every bit as fun as its previous incarnations. My only criticism is that I didn't fell they had moved the game forward enough and wasn't that much differant from UT2K4.

I play, but mostly coop, I miss Assault.. as far as feeling like 2k4, I feel as though it's more like 2k3, but with vehicles...

Hopefully a sniper mod will be out soon. The sniper mod on the original is the best game ever.
Still I enjoy a good CTF match on ut3.

Well I hope UnrealED 3 isent to hard. I tryed to make a map UT99 and to my suprise it was very much fun. Making a room and then walking around in it was like playing god!
Same type of feeling as with Sim City, sim golf and those other building programs i guess.
It's the smart tricks thats hard to learn. There are tricks to make the map easier for the hardware to run and such stuff thats a bit tricky.

Unrealed3 has changed a bit, but if you're used the 2k4 version, it's pretty easy to pick up. The gameplay is a lot of fun. They've dialed down a lot of the movement they built up in 2k3 and 2k4 and pushed it back towards a more UT99 feel. It's much less floaty. However you can still perform some good wall dodge combos to say pull a flag out of the base, or to grab a vehicle.

If you're a noob to the game, you'll probably get owned, at least for a while. The only players I've seen online on a semi-regular basis are old time players of 99 and 2k4. If you're in Europe the online UT3 scene is much stronger than it is here in the states. The active servers here are fun though, and hopefully things will pick up.