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Have you ever fought with a shock rifle or lightning gun in real life? It'd be hard to hide behind cover when someone can blow it up :X so maybe it WOULD be fast-paced.

The whole premise of sci-fi DM style games is specifically NOT to mimic real life. Personally I don't like being tied down with slow movement schemes that are actually LESS than what I can do myself. I'd rather do things that I will never be able to do physically. Ubisoft isn't going to stop making games ;\ so there'll always be slower "tactical (mindblowingly bad use of the term but people seem to like it)" titles available.

I just spent 6 hours running a 1v1 UT2k4 tourney last night, I would consider myself fairly qualified to speak about the dynamics of the game's combat =X. I'm doing them every Sunday night at 8pm EST in #2k4tdm on irc.enterthegame.com btw. We have 2 UTV servers to spectate through and trying to line up shoutcasting starting this next week. So if anyone would like to see some games of cat and mouse, there'll be plenty each week. You need ut2k4 installed/patched to watch UTV though. Hard to get video streams online with $0 budget ;\