MSUC Phase 4 finalists

Neox

Here are the Phase 4 finalists for the “Best non-FPS Mod” category in its $1 Million Intel Make Something Unreal Contest. All finalists in this category (as well as in the best FPS Mod category) are eligible to enter the Grand Finals. This competition rewards top mods created for Unreal Tournament 3 with cash and hardware prizes in four preliminary phases and a grand final. Visit http://www.makesomethingunreal.com for full details.

The competition was stiff in this round - there are a number of honorable mentions in this category that would easily have been finalists in previous phases.

Best non-FPS Mod Phase 4 Finalists:
Coda http://www.moddb.com/mods/coda
The Haunted http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-haunted
Steam Racers http://www.moddb.com/mods/steam-racers
Unreal Tactics 2 http://www.moddb.com/mods/unreal-tactics
Airborn http://www.airborn-game.com
Archasis II http://www.moddb.com/mods/archasis-ii
Hazard: The Journey of Life http://www.demruth.com/hazard.htm
Renegade X http://www.moddb.com/mods/renegade-x
UnWheel 2
BailterRay http://www.moddb.com/mods/bailter-ray
Killing Time UT2D (eligible for grand finals, but not for Phase 4 prize since not updated from Phase 3)

Best non-FPS Mod Phase 4 Honorable Mentions:
Voider
Takeshi Gladiators
Millagun UT2D
Robo Coop
AZ66 Mod
Macchinisto
Steel Halo: Imperial League
The Year 2000! Gameshow
ToonDoom http://cs14productions.com/toondoom.php
Cartel
Cubes of Serenity
Project Swing
CarBall 3
Ancient Tales Mod
SCUM
Adrenaline Rush
Doll Carnage

Here are the Phase 4 finalists for the “Best FPS Mod” category in its $1 Million Intel Make Something Unreal Contest. All finalists in this category (as well as in the best non-FPS Mod category) are eligible to enter the Grand Finals. This competition rewards top mods created for Unreal Tournament 3 with cash and hardware prizes in four preliminary phases and a grand final. Visit http://www.makesomethingunreal.com for full details.

The competition was stiff in this round - there are a number of honorable mentions in this category that would easily have been finalists in previous phases.

Best FPS Mod Phase 4 Finalists:
The Ball http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-ball
Crucible http://www.runestorm.com
Defend Unreal Territories http://www.defend-ut.com/
Prometheus http://www.moddb.com/mods/prometheus
PlanetStorm http://www.moddb.com/mods/angels-fall-first-planetstorm
Sanctum http://www.moddb.com/mods/sanctum
Unreal Space http://www.fileplanet.com/111586/0/0...es_and_Patches
TRE Last Life http://www.moddb.com/mods/tre-last-life
The Witching Hour http://www.fileplanet.com/204466/200...-Witching-Hour
Warm Gun http://www.moddb.com/mods/warm-gun
UT3 Jailbreak http://jailbreak.beyondunreal.com/

Best FPS Mod Phase 4 Honorable Mentions:
Domination Games and Maps
Kilter Bombing Run
DM_Spectrum
XS Vehicles
Hostile TakeOver 2050
Black Sierra Alpha v21
Reapers Curse
Holocaust
Deadman's Tales
VCTF-Boilerplate
End of the Beginning
RamPaGe Mod

Neox

whoooooo!

Xoliul

Cool, I'd have expected Airborn to make it this far. I have to say, there are maybe 1 or 2 others in the Phase 4 finalists that can match the level of graphical polish of Airborn. Can't really judge gameplay however, but I really want to try Airborn sometime soon!

Blaizer

Congrats!

i wish you all the best ^^, airborn looks uber cool.

Japhir

hahahaha yeah
I didn't expect any less from you guys.

crazyfingers

Been waiting for news on this!

Haha, well at least my map RamPaGe got an honoreable mention! Congrats guys, you put a lot of work into your map and it showed

Edit: Wait this is only 2 of the catagories, maybe i can still pull a win in the educational catagory.:D

Slash

Congrats! I'm not surprised AirBørn made it!

Pankake

Go Prometheus!

Ged

impressive work, airborn goes without saying but I also like the look of some of the others planetstorm and warm gun look fun, some others also look like they have some inventive gameplay like that hazard game

soulstice

nice, AirBørn woot!

glynnsmith

Pankake wrote: »

Go Prometheus!

^^^^^^^^

Murdoc

Renegade X was allowed to enter? That seems weird since their entire mission is to recreate an already made game.

And yeah Airborn automaticall wins for good art with me, hehe.

FAT_CAP

Congrats to everyone who worked on Airborn. Im definately not surprised you made it into the finals

Neox

Murdoc wrote: »

Renegade X was allowed to enter? That seems weird since their entire mission is to recreate an already made game.

well they have the permission and support of ea to do it and enter the contest, a loing while it was not sure if they could enter because of the copyrights rules for the contest, but ea talked to epic and they are now allowed as they don't break any copyright laws. I think they could do better with less copyxing of the original game, but when their game is set, plugging better and more modern art above it isn't that hard.
I played prometeus which looked so far like the most promising to me, i played alone and it was a bit confusing but looked like it has a lot of potential.
it felt pretty huge, at least the space level, i'd personally drop the battlefield planetary level, and focus more on the space mission which was really cool so far
Warm Gun dunno, not really my thing but will test it soon, i kinda like the gasmask indian but the rest is just not my style.
The Haunted was very boring for me (it has more gameplay as airborn, no questions about that).
The Ball also looked quite promising, i dunno if its a game a lot of people would play but from what i saw it looks the most like a finishable game.
On Steamracers i couldn't leave the first room to get to the cars, haha it was the phase 3 version and i didn't test the phase 4 but that was a really bad thing for me
i will definitely test hazard and archasis h and sanctum love the colourchoices they made

Airborn is, no doubt pretty much art focussed so far, this is basicly because we started as a bunch of artist and our main coder flavius joined way later, i hope we can do a bit more for the finals, but i wouldn't count on that, as everyone whos helping is working in the biz, we are all very busy, so i definitely don't see us winning the finals. But who knows maybe crytek and splashdamage stop their crunchtimes and our members have some more time to spend on the game

nrek

Congrats to everyone on the Airborn team, as well as the Toltec guys since I know they hang around here as well. Aside from The Ball and Airborn I am really happy to see that Sanctum made it.