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games: Unreal Tournament 3

Hello,

We’ve got a great 360 game for you today - Unreal Tournament 3, a huge success on the PC and PS3, has finally crossed to 360 bringing a few little extras with it. This gorgeous looking, solid game brings some fantastic FPS tournament gameplay to the system and is sure to become a staple for fans of the genre. 

Check it out!

Katharine

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owner
July 17th, 2008 - 5:19pm

UT3 is awfull on the PC so I can only assume that playing this on the 360 is worse. The vast majority of unreal fans feel that UT3 was a complete disaster. No one wants to waste proccessing cycles on a game that looks like as one reviewer said “somthing shat by the vaseline monster” The graphics dramatically detract from the quality of the game,servers for ut3 are virtually nonexistent and are being shut down left and right.
UT 2004 is a real unreal game UT3 was brought to by the people who just happen to make a console game called gears of war which is very good and actually works well in the console enviroment.
UT3 was clearly designed for the consoles before the PC and suffers grealty for it. Again no one is playing this online,why should they when a non broken version of the game is a previous version! A dangerous trend to be sure.
Again UT3 was and is a major failure on every level a truly broken project. Many people feel myself included that Epic had better listen next time for ut4,real gamers do not want distracting graphics where is everything has bloom set to 11. Yes you can tune it down in the clunky”console friendly menus” but at this point why bother.
I would strongly recomend not buying the 360 ut3 or for any other system for that matter.
Do yourself a GIANT favour and buy UT 2004 instead I would but the actual dvd rom not the download a lot of people are having trouble with it but if you like STEAM by valve I think you can buy it there just be sure you are on a broadband connection.
Katherine this was a rare miss for you but I love you anyways! thanks for your casts!

July 17th, 2008 - 9:42pm

Well, taste is a personal thing Owner - thank you for providing a different viewpoint! But I stand by mine that this is an enjoyable and technically accomplished game. I also just checked metacritic (you know, just in case I HAD made a complete balls up) and UT3 gets 83 on PC, 85 on 360 and 86 on PS3, so even if it’s not for everybody, its popularity and overall critical success are fact.

Thanks for watching and posting though! :)

Ryuzaki
July 18th, 2008 - 1:36am

Maybe microsoft might have some good DLC to make up for no user created content

July 18th, 2008 - 1:38am

I tried a demo of this on the PC and didn’t really like it either.

TBH I also didn’t like any of the previous iterations. At risk of sounding totally lame UT is just to bloody hectic for me lol

Its not because I dislike fast games as a whole I just usually only enjoy FPS’s that are slower and more realistically paced like Battlefield or COD.

July 18th, 2008 - 8:48am

As a teenager I loved the fast paced world of, Quake 3 and somewhat UT ,and after seeing UT3 it would seem they have managed to keep the awesome fast pace, unlike Quake 4 which was a tragically crap.

Even now quake wars was very difficult to get in too(I played the demo for hours on end, and when the game was released i bought it, sigh its one of those the demo is addictive, but just the demo.

from what I could see UT3 has stayed within there core design, and made improvements rather than dramatic changes :P

Norbit in my older age I’m going to agree with you, there is nothing better than chillazing on a sunday with your
M82.50 Caliber Sniper Rifle in COD4…….”peace”

Pidge
July 20th, 2008 - 7:29pm

I personally love this game and think the graphics look great. I own the PC version. This review seems like so old news though. Why no love for the PS3? There are very few PS3 reviews and too many Xbox 360 reviews for games which are very bad.

July 20th, 2008 - 9:41pm

I loved Unreal Championship on the Origonal Xbox and way back when UT was released on PC loved that too
the game of the year cd stitting on my shelf err somewhere
May pick this up sometime but too many good games to get on the 360 - havent got gta yet!
Also I dont miss keyboards find em arkward thesedays an rather use a joypad anyway
nice review taa much!

July 20th, 2008 - 9:52pm

oops I actually meant Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict on the xbox the 2005 game
good times online back then -
very enjoyble, more so I thought then halo2 which i also liked.

Matthew
July 21st, 2008 - 11:55pm

owner, no offense but I doubt your credibility as a Unreal fan as you say UT 2004 is a \real unreal game\, as many Unreal fans would say UT99 or the original Unreal are \real unreal games\, IMHO UT3 is more of a \real unreal game\ than UT2004.

RawsteelUT
August 12th, 2008 - 7:30pm

I agree with Matthew. While UT3 doesn’t have a lot of modes, it feels a hell of a lot more like UT99 than the horribly Quake 3-like UT2004. I imagine UTIV will be an amazing game.

August 27th, 2008 - 9:47pm

As much as I love UT2k4 and UC2, I think the Unreal cow has been milked dry. I couldn’t shake the been-there-done-that feeling when I fired up my 360 version of the game.

That said, it is still a solid game that can be highly enjoyable to those uninitiated to the joys of wielding a lightning gun.

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