Overall you should find UTs graphics to surpass all the games currently on the market apart from Quake3Arena. You will of course require some beef to get the best and a VooDoo3000, TNT2, G400 or ATI Rage Fury should certainly provide the right meat when combined with a solid CPU. Owners of a Voodoo2 and downwards might find themselves seeing some slowdown, so you have been warned. You also might have heard that the retail CD is slower than the demo, even without the 'SafeDisk' bug this is true and can't be tweak so well without 'Advanced Options'.

Sounds of a thousand gun fires

With support for A3D, EAX, Surround Sound, Direct Sound3D and normal stereo you certainly can't say UT hasn't thought of everything you ear could possibly want. From the wheezing noise of machine guns clashing, rockets streaking past your head and lasers burning their way through your teammates bodies are all unmistakable with 3D Sound. It adds that extra level of interaction that can't be reached by most other games.

Music consists of a rock, punk and various techno styles so I suggest turning it off if you want to play the game and win, just plain distracting. On the whole you can't really fault the sounds, clearly a lot of work has been put into getting them just right.

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