Crisis Response Team Versus Urban Terror

Introduction:

Crisis Response Team was developed and released by Alten8 in 2007. Alten8 has released several games such as Power Of Destruction, State of War: Warmonger, GT Racers and Project Xenoclone.

Urban Terror was developed and released by Frozen Sand in 2007, after several releases of the mod Urban Terror. Urban Terror is their only game.

They both feature a very thrilling website.(1) (2)

The Graphics:

This comes down to a tie, they are both visually similar. Although, Urban Terror seems to have smoother and more responsive menus. The level-design in these games is where they differ from eachother, the maps in CRT are small, bugged and odd. Whilst in Urban Terror, they're big, relatively open and less buggy. For example in CRT, there are doors that you can open when they only show a brick wall, which would trap you in the heat of a moment. The level descriptions are also odd, they tell you about certain objectives, whilst the objectives themselves are uncompleteable. The only downside to Urban Terror is that the maps don't hold players back from spawnkilling, since everyone spawns at set locations.

The Gameplay:

Both games are standard online FPS'es, they both don't have a singleplayer. The major difference between the two shooters is that in CRT you have to pick up weapons on the move, whilst in Urban Terror you pick them beforehand, and you have an option to pick up different weapons whilst you're already in combat. Urban Terror offers more weapons than CRT does, although the differences between weapons is quite unclear, whilst in CRT they are so standard that you already know which one is the better. In Urban Terror it's possible in some servers to register so that you're stats are registered, in CRT you cannot. CRT also has a bug concerning reloading, when you don't have any ammo left and you walk on ammo of the same kind, you don't have to reload, but you'll need to be shooting at that exact moment.

The Sound:

Both games don't feature an in-game soundtrack, so the only things we can judge is the sound of the guns and what not. In CRT the gunsounds don't match the guns, for example an uzi sounds heavier than a minigun, which is definitely not the case. CRT also has a soundbug, when you're firing your gun the sound sometimes loops, even when not shooting. Urban Terror isn't really noteworthy on sound, but it isn't as bad as CRT.

Multiplayer:

The multiplayer in CRT is non-existent, there are no servers. We even went as far as trying to set up a LAN, which resulted in nothing, we were never able to join, because the game told us to wait, for eternity. Urban Terror, however, does feature online multiplayer, like it should. And I found it to be pretty enjoyable, despite the occasional lag and cheating asshole. It offers several game-modes, all of them are standard game-modes such as TDM, DM and CTF.

Conclusion:

Urban Terror is clearly the better one and on top of that it's free, as in no money required(= no transaction of currency-holding items is required). Whilst CRT is sold for extremely high prices, I personally got my copy for the ridiculously high price of €1. But on a serious note, CRT has no players, no servers and no online support(for which it actually was designed), Urban Terror does feature all of that, so it'd make no sense to buy CRT, instead of downloading Urban Terror for free.