The game is pretty cool. If you've seen or played Quake, you can pretty much imagine what this one is like as far as game play. The difference is in the quality of the screen rendering. If you have an ATI Rage Pro or 3DFX graphics card, this game looks incredible...even compared to quake. There are areas where the floor has actual reflection mapping making it look glossy! Lights of course glow and flicker, and water is stunning to look at.
It's almost like walking around in a 3d virtual world....until you get blasted by some monster.
It does require a beefy machine or at least a decent graphics card on a mid-line PowerPC procesor (like a 200Mhz 603e minimum). I have an iMac 333 with 160MB RAM and a Rage Pro graphics chip, and it only gets about 10-12 frames per second (anybody know where there's a comparison chart of various Macs and their Unreal framerates?). Voodoo-enabled macs do much better, and faster processor macs do much better. The B&W G3's get >20 frames per second, which is a must for network deathmatches.
Anyway, if you have a decent mac and/or graphics card in it, I'd say download the demo and check it out at least! Same goes for the Quake3Arena Test. Get it! Frag some PC users! It's a very satisfying thing to do :)
Jason Cox Wintermute http://www.xtn.net/~wintermute/JEC.html
