welp...

Welp, I loaded it and played a map during lunch.

Quick thoughts:
Very nice graphics. Bright.
Still getting the hang of deployables. Don't like the stations in bases and 17 different stations for everything you want to deploy.
Tank and fighter vehicle seems...bleh. Need more time with them though.
Very smooth playing. Not as frenetic as UT2004, and that's a good thing.
Skiing was nice and smooth. Not insanely fast like the latest T2 patch. Need to study whether or not routes are going to be manditory.
Nice weapon effects. Decent sounds.

I'll play some more and write it up.