This may be a sign of the apocolypse but I somewhat agree with pork.
First off, the demo didn't ship with the high rez graphics as they are just trying to get a baseline of feedback so we shall see there.
Also I have to say upon first playing the demo I was out completely as the hazy look and motion blur really felt like it was Gears of War, which unfortunately this game mostly is, with UT's name slapped on it. I have seen so many players when they first logged on a server say " I thought I downloaded GoW accidentally". :p
However after tweaking it and getting the sharper/crisper look out of the game and adjusting to the feel I have had a lot of fun with it. Of course I loved quake 3 and played it as much as the original ut so you have to add that in when you hear my stupid opinion because this game to me feels like the unholy spawn of quake 3/ut99/GoW with a pinch of Quake 4. I didn't care for q4 multiplayer but it still has some of the feel in there.
The Crysis demo by far beats this big pos demo by a long shot and you know what, crysis didn't face cross platform development hinderances like this game so it's a pc game through and through. UT3 is being developed for the console with some pc afterthought clearly by the ui which is a console ui if I have ever seen one. Just today the ut3 faq on the epic games forums had this added:
Q: I am unhappy with the UI.
A: We're aware that the UI isn't perfect. We're working on numerous improvements and additions to the user interface that will be made available in future updates to UT3.
http://utforums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=584654This scares me a bit because the ut2k4 demo had a lot of issues with the ui, esp. with the game browser, and it was all fixed by launch, however the gameplay in the demo was pretty damn good. So is this really a "beta" demo when it doesn't sound like things will be fixed that obviously suck before launch?
So I started off saying I kind of agree with pork, which I still do because the online play of ut3 will keep it around longer than the other games coming out right now, however, once again another great pc game franchise is flushed down the toilet of potential due to cross platform development. I saw the same thing with Oblivion, (the ai was dumbed down so consoles could handle it and it has a big clunky console interface), Age of Empires III, (big console interface over the main game with less strategic and tactical commands than AoE II and Age of Mythology from the same dev team released years earlier), and the list could go on and on.
Damnit Houdini, you made me rant!