• Publisher: Atari
  • Release Date: Sep 30, 2002
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 49 Ratings

  • Summary: Reload with Unreal Tournament 2003 - the sequel to 1999's multiple 'Game of the Year' award winner - "Unreal Tournament." Using the latest Unreal technology, Unreal Tournament 2003 takes you to the merciless arenas of the future, where elite warriors rely on skill, speed, cunning and awesome firepower to demonstrate their style and become the ultimate champion. [Infogrames] Expand
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  1. Positive: 22 out of 27
  2. Negative: 0 out of 27
  1. 100
    Mind-blowingly more amazing than its older brother!
  2. Combined with top-notch sound effects, new weapons, and special moves, it will leave you speechless. [Dec 2002, p.88]
  3. While not perfect by any means, there's enough fun in Bombing Run and Double Domination alone to make this one worth picking up for some multiplayer fun.
  4. There is no excuse for a game to perform so badly at the lowest settings, especially on a system which meets the recommended system requirements. Unless you have all the latest hardware, don’t bother with UT2K3 for a while.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 19
  2. Negative: 2 out of 19
  1. [Anonymous]
    10
    I actually think its a 9.9 but 10 is close to it. Why i think that? The weapons are awesome The graphics are cool The maps are great The sounds are okay The gameplay is SUPERCOOL The system requirments are O.K The bots are ok too But the menu is only worth a 8 bye. Expand
  2. Lack of some good game modes and in the need of more better maps is something I would want until UT2004 became the answer to this. Overall, a good game with some missing features. Expand
  3. SimonB.
    7
    As a first person shooter fan and a great UT fan, I can personally say that UT2003 was a huge balloon that was blown right out of the sky. The gameplay is still there with bots that have similar A.I. problems to the first game. Though to a great deception: Assault is replaced by an action-packed tactical football game. Instead of playing football with tackles, the players go look for the ball which is in a neutral field. Then, the ball is taken and all teams converge on the ball carrier. Why? Because if he reaches the "goal", he will score. In order to tackle the carrier, who has regenerating health but no weapons at all aside from the ball gun, the defending team uses all its weapons and abilities to strike him down and take the ball. Once the carrier is dead, the ball drops for anyone else to take. There is a pretty clumsy passing system, but it "passes". The game can get pretty hectic once you are the ball carrier, as you try to make it out alive to the goal. A good team has great coverage of the ball carrier and know not to let any ball carrier through their lines of defense. Otherwise, you can get scores like 57 to nothing. Shooting the ball into the goal gives one point. Jumping through the goal gives 7 points. Jumping through the goal isn't as easy as just shooting the ball, though. You'll come to realize that as you play. Aside from Bombing Ball (that football game), there are all the classics coming back, revamped. When I say classics, I mean maps and guns alike, as well as some of the characters from UT GOTY. Brock, Lauren and Malcom make a comeback but there is nothing dramatic about the game. It goes out like a Professional League where aliens and modified humans alike battle in fierce fights of extreme gore. The variance in all the maps gives free movement to the players and really gives a feeling that you are in a wide opened world, aside from the claustrophobic environments of the first opus. The weapons have more "unrealistic" sounds to them. Which doesn't please all, but hands up all the way for the music. Music which mixes orchestra and trance music together in order to give Unreal Tournament 2003 a baroque feel, which it already has. Expand
  4. CHRISW.
    4
    I would agree the weapons really suck most of all the lighting(sniper) weapon.the weapons feel clumsier and less satisfying than the original UT.im not too fond of the 'warhammer 40,000' look of the characters either.as for the game being 'TOO heavy little processors etc etc' as someone sed i wouldnt agree the game runs just fine with a good video card. but it still sucks Expand

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