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Unreal Tournament 2004
Added into our wide benchmark suite is Unreal Tournament 2004. The developersof UT2004 didn't want to split hairs with this game. It is still using the same engine and the majority of gameplay elements will be very familiar to players of the 2003 version. If you hated the first game, you'll probably hate this.

Sorry, but that's how it is. This large-scale, vehicle-focused game concentrates and focuses the action so that 12 players can have as much fun as 32. It includes several different gameplay modes including Onslaught, where each team has a power core that they need to protect. Between the teams' power cores are a number of smaller power nodes scattered across the map.

Buggies, hovercraft, tanks, trucks, space fighters, air fighters all feature prominently in Unreal Tournament 2004, and huge maps have been made to accommodate them. Basically what we did was record three timedemo botmatch maps, we run all three on set resolutions with Maximum detail settings enabled and the results then are compiled to an average.

Pretty impressive, we are working on a new high quality timedemo though that will get these cards on it's knees. More on that in the near future. Let's have a look at the results when we enable 4x AA and 8x AF.

Again very similar results. You can see clearly that this card is getting closer to the mid-end segment. You'll still play a fantastic game of Unreal with all bells and whistles turned on in even the highest resolution.