I thought it was close to being as bad as Quake4 was
Both quake4 and ut3 really remind me of console games, so no surprise really.
I think I played the ut3 demo for a few hours really trying to like it as I'd played and liked the previous ones

such a let down, seemed to be another one of those games with pretty graphics but no substance in multiplayer.
I remember playing unreal for the first time, the graphics were amazing for the time

and the gameplay was fresh and new.