Our friends over at Epic were hard at work bringing us Unreal Tournament for the Xbox 360. UT3 for the 360 has great looking visuals that really go hand in hand with the intense pace of the game.
You can play UT3 in single or multiplayer modes. In single player mode, you are paired up with bots to achieve certain objectives while you learn the buttons and new weapons. There are plenty of matches to experience, such as Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, Vehicle Capture the Flag, Warfare, and Duel. Single player serves its purpose for you to get a feel of the game by showing you different maps and game types, but really gets kind of old quickly. The bots that assist you during single player action can be less than helpful at times and matches like CTF can become long and boring because of the lack of support. Read More »
Unreal Tournament 3 is the follow-up to one of the best selling first person shooter series ever. Epic’s ever popular PC shooter makes it’s way to the PS3 with a wave of excitement. This is first time in history gamers can freely use mods in a console game. The PC modding community surrounding Unreal Tournament has always been huge, and now console gamers will get to experience what it’s like. Here is a breakdown of some of the facets of Unreal Tournament 3 for the PS3:
Presentation and Graphics: The Unreal Engine 3 really shines on the PS3. The game runs at 720p at a solid 30fps. I would have liked to have seen 60fps from such a fast moving title, but 30fps with motion blur does just fine. The graphics are on par, if not slightly better, than Gears of War, the other flagship title from Epic to sport the Unreal Engine 3. Characters are gigantic with highly detailed armor. Environments are all very highly detailed as well. Unreal Tournament 3 has a darker feel to it than previous games in the series, which works out really well. Weapons in the game all look amazing, both in form and function. Shooting the Bio Rifle and watching another character melt away like they were dipped in acid while you run by is a blast. 4.5 of 5
I know both UT3 and Gears are sharing the Unreal 3 engine, but couldn’t Epic have been a little more creative with the character modeling here? Take a look at the image above. On the left is Reaper of the Ronin team. He’s the main character you play in the Campaign. On the right is Dom Santiago, the secondary character from Gears of War. Notice the resemblance here?
I know character faces aren’t what you notice most in an Unreal game, but the graphics in UT3 are so terrific you do here. And having your cover boy look really close to a character from another AAA title in your stable isn’t the best option, in my opinion. Again, not the biggest of deals, just seems a bit lazy in my eyes.
Unreal Tournament is fast paced to say the least, those of you looking for a tactical shooter need to go else where, but those of you looking for some good old fashioned fragging - step right up! Unreal Tournmaent only gets more hectic when you add in some rockets, watching this video I couldn’t help, but feel nostalgic about old favorites like Quake Arena.
Midway Games Inc. and Epic Games today announced that the PS3 version of Unreal Tournament 3 is scheduled to ship to stores in North America on December 10th. So it is expected to begin arriving into the grubby hands of stores in limited quantities the following day. The highly anticipated first-person shooter has already shipped internationally for the PC, but look for us to check out the PS3 version real soon.
Ok I admit that I am a bit of a sarcastic person, but the announcment today that Unreal Tournament 3 went gold, really does not change my life. It seems like every game when they are coming out goes gold, so why should UT3 be any difference. UT3 will be tons of fun on the PC and expect a lot of players to jump back into this title head first, but don’t expect people to get excited over Midway and EPic announcing it went gold. Call me when video games start going triple uranium!!
A little bit of UT3 to wet your appetite. The game looks awesome so far and brings back a lot of memories. I like that when you die there is like a random wise crack that comes up.
Midway and Epic today announced the minimum and recommended system requirements for the PC version of Unreal Tournament 3 along with a pair of choice screenshots. UT3 looks like it will need a hefty computer to run this bad boy, the recommended RAM is 1 Gb, whoa! After looking at the screenshots it makes sense why you will need to run a rig of epic proportions.
Minimum System Requirements
· Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista
· 2.0+ GHZ Single Core Processor
· 512 Mbytes of System RAM
· NVIDIA 6200+ or ATI Radeon 9600+ Video Card
· 8 GB of Free Hard Drive Space Read More »
Looks look most big games need a collector’s edition now a days and Unreal Tournament is no different, the limited collector’s edition will be available in limited quantity at select retailers for a suggested retail price in the U.S. of $59.95, available November 2007. It will also be available across the UK, Europe, South Africa, Russia, Australia and most other territories.
From the press release:
Midway today announced an exclusive PC collector’s edition for the highly anticipated first-person shooter, Unreal Tournament 3. This limited edition is encased in a special tin hard cover. Included is an Art Book featuring the flawless art style found in the vehicles, characters, weapons and environments that are signature trademarks of the Unreal Tournament 3 universe. In addition, the limited collector’s edition includes bonus DVD extras, featuring: Read More »
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Midway Games Inc. and Epic Games today announced that the PS3 version of Unreal Tournament 3 is scheduled to ship to stores in North America on December 10th. So it is expected to begin arriving into the grubby hands of stores in limited quantities the following day. The highly anticipated first-person shooter has already shipped internationally for the PC, but look for us to check out the PS3 version real soon.
Ok I admit that I am a bit of a sarcastic person, but the announcment today that Unreal Tournament 3 went gold, really does not change my life. It seems like every game when they are coming out goes gold, so why should UT3 be any difference. UT3 will be tons of fun on the PC and expect a lot of players to jump back into this title head first, but don’t expect people to get excited over Midway and EPic announcing it went gold. Call me when video games start going triple uranium!!
Midway and Epic today announced the minimum and recommended system requirements for the PC version of Unreal Tournament 3 along with a pair of choice screenshots. UT3 looks like it will need a hefty computer to run this bad boy, the recommended RAM is 1 Gb, whoa! After looking at the screenshots it makes sense why you will need to run a rig of epic proportions.
Looks look most big games need a collector’s edition now a days and Unreal Tournament is no different, the limited collector’s edition will be available in limited quantity at select retailers for a suggested retail price in the U.S. of $59.95, available November 2007. It will also be available across the UK, Europe, South Africa, Russia, Australia and most other territories.
