I don't see why people are saying UT doesn't scale well - I have one of your "older spec" systems (1.3Ghz, GeForce2 Ultra) and UT2k4 runs great on my machine. Probably doesn't look as nice as some other systems, but it runs just fine. Sometimes in huge onslaught maps you can notice it start to slow down a bit, but still…
That would have been my kneejerk reaction to Torque as well. If anyone can point out a really good looking game that has been made using Torque, please do so. No disrespect to Tribes intended, as it has really fun gameplay, but even when it was new it didn't look particularly stunning graphically. Perhaps if it was just…