I can't quite see why people say those textures look very washed out. They look fine here, in fact I didn't even notice that those weren't the higher resolution textures until I read this thread.. I'd say that's a positive thing actually.

By the way, I do have AA activated in UT3.

As for the engine and game itself, in comparison I definitely think Enemy territory: Quake Wars is wildly overrated both technical and gameplay-wise. It's reall not thát different from Battlefield at all, in fact, it's nearly the same but with a bunch of objectives thrown in and situated in the Quake universe. Don't get me wrong though, because I nevertheless think Quake Wars is the coolest game in the Quake universe yet (except perhaps Quake 1, but it's style was quite different). I've bought Quake Wars and am very happy with it, but I've also got Battlefield 2142 and it's very similar....

The UT3 demo definitely looks quite a lot better than ET:Quake Wars does, even with the lower resolution textures. Quake Wars is not at all an ugly game and also looks fine, but all in all UT3 is looking better.

In Quake Wars you have plenty of blocky terrain parts, but mostly you won't notice this too much. (which is a good thing off course).

Did you guys play the deatmatch level in UT3 Beta demo? Those are the kind of levels I could play forever...

With ET:Quake Wars you don't have the same kind of freedom in play-style by the way and I do not agree that UT3 is a 'slower paced' game. It's probably faster, especially with the addition of the hover-boards (those ROCK!!).

Quake Wars really is not that much more tactical at all than Quake4 or say UT2004. I'm not going to say that UT3 (or UT2004) is better, because UT3 is a very different kind of game. Just like UT2004, it's not squad orientated and doesn't have classes. So naturally it will play a bit different.

Still, I've noticed especially in online play that it doesn't automatically makes Enemy Territory: Quake Wars a more tactical game at all. Most people will simply do as they please, as happened a lot with the Battlefield games too...

Having said all this, basically it will come down to what game you like better, but technically the UT3 engine has already proven to be much better than the Quake Wars engine.

Cheers