Product Description

Unreal Tournament III unleashes the full power of Unreal Engine 3, taking graphics, gameplay, and challenge to a whole new level. Players engage in intense battles with other human players online, or against Unreal artificial intelligence that sets the industry standard. With the most powerful futuristic weapons and vehicles available, this is FPS action at its best!

• Unparalleled graphical and physical realism from the award-winning Unreal Engine 3 technology delivers the most compelling first-person shooter experience to date... online and offline!
• Vast arsenal of weapons. Unreal Tournament has always been known for brutal weaponry, and now the arsenal is even bigger and badder. Detonate your opponent from a distance with the ever popular Shock Rifle or blast away at close range with the Flak Cannon. Over two dozen weapons and vehicles have been upgraded and enhanced for maximum killing potential.
• New single player campaign! This is Unreal Tournament like you've never seen it before! The Necris invasion has begun, and your clan was one of the first to be slaughtered. Head to the front lines and join this Epic battle to defend humanity while taking your revenge.
• New and favourite characters. Fight side-by-side or compete against new and returning characters from the Unreal universe, including two Xbox 360 exclusive characters, all with enhanced abilities, extremely detailed designs, and distinct personalities.
• Enhanced popular game types, including Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, and an all-new Warfare Mode and more.
• Online innovations. Unreal Tournament III brings back all the award-winning online features of previous Unreal Tournament games, plus seamless loading on servers, improved matchmaking, and co-operative campaign play online.
• Additional, exciting content. Players can not only get their frag on with

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2019 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Midway Games Ltd
• Released on: 2008-07-04
• Platform: Xbox 360

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Xbox 360 Version of Highly Anticipated and Award-Winning Franchise has New Features, Exclusive Content and Gears of War 2 Multiplayer Video.

Unreal Tournament 3, for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, is scheduled to be available on July 4,2008, with several new features including split screen, five exclusive maps and two all-new characters, as well as all previously released downloadable content. Unreal Tournament 3, the award-winning first-person-shooter, has already shipped more than 1 million units for the PC and PLAYSTATION3 systems.

In addition, the game will feature an exclusive video preview of Gears of War 2, the eagerly anticipated sequel to the 4.7-million-unit selling blockbuster third-person action game. The exclusive video content will include never-before-seen footage of the game’s multiplayer modes featuring new maps, new modes, new weapons and new gameplay elements. The video is narrated by design director, Cliff Bleszinski, and producer, Rod Fergusson.

"Unreal Tournament 3 for the Xbox 360 will deliver fans the award-winning gameplay of UT3, complete with exciting exclusive content that will make it a must-have title for the Xbox 360" said Mona Hamilton, vice president of marketing, Midway Home Entertainment.

"We’re very excited to be shipping Unreal Tournament 3 for Xbox 360," said Mark Rein, vice president of Epic Games, Inc. "This is a great title and, with two-player split screen support and some very cool new content, Xbox 360 players should be thrilled with this fantastic version of the game."

About Unreal Tournament 3Unreal Tournament 3, the world’s premier PC first-person shooter, will make its debut on the Xbox 360. Unreal Tournament 3 unleashes the full power of Unreal Engine 3, taking graphics, gameplay and challenge to a whole new level. Players engage in intense battles with other human players online, or against Unreal artificial intelligence that sets the industry standard. With the most powerful futuristic weapons and vehicles available, this is FPS action at its best!

Manufacturer's Description
Unreal Tournament 3 unleashes the full power of Unreal Engine 3, taking graphics, gameplay, and challenge to a whole new level. Players engage in intense and hyper-real battles with other human players online, or against Unreal artificial intelligence that sets the industry standard. With the most powerful futuristic weapons and vehicles available, this is FPS action at its best.

Customer Reviews

back to basics
Played this over a mates recently and was again taken in by the incredible visuals and awesome gameplay. I thought it could never possibly live up to the original, but it does, and then some. Ever since i scrapped my old PC when the 360 first came out, ive been looking forward to getting back to basics with unreal tournament- the godfather of the modern deathmatch/CTF/territories game modes that are integral to most online shooters today. The game is great, everything you look for in an online game- pace, flow, rapid killing, that adrenaline rush of a monster kill. I can imagine single player mode getting tedious after a while.
The only thing i cant understand though, is why the 360 version is so much more expensive on here than the other two platforms.
the PS3 version -£10 cheaper. for PC -£25 cheaper!
common amazon play fair, just because we have better taste in platform, doesnt mean we have to suffer higher prices the majority of the time. sort it out.

Unreal Tournament 3 - At Last!
For years we have been entertained with FPS games on a series of different consoles. It is worth remembering, however, that Unreal Tournament is more or less the 'Adam' of the genre. The original's style and play paved the way for other games to take inspiration from the iconic title, thus giving gamers an enjoyable and memorable experience. The original Unreal title brought plenty of fast-paced FPS action to the table, and those who are familiar with the game's style will be relieved to hear that in that department little has changed with Unreal 3.

After being teased with the unknown official release date in the last few months I felt relieved to finally hold the game I had been heavily anticipating. I personally chose to ignore any gameplay footage from the PS3 version of the game to make my experience a little fresher. Its fair to say that I think I made the right choice. Having played very little of the previous titles on any of the platforms I was hoping that Midway and Epic would give me what i longed for; a good solid shooter. Boy, I got what I wanted.

Playing Call of Duty 4 for a few months made me want something different, and something different is brought to the table with Unreal in the sense of today's FPS titles. It's definately more Quake than COD4, but don't let that potentially put you off, because although Unreal may seem a little limiting in it's game modes it most certainly isn't. Now i've blabbered on I will talk about the game itself.

Offline you are treated to a reasonably long campaign consisting of most of the game modes found online. You assume the role of a soldier (not sure if that is a suitable word, but it seems more appropriate than 'warrior') who has just come back from a bad day at the office after dicing with death on the battlefield. Moments from death he is saved and rejoins his squad to face off against the opposing force in a series of game modes. These modes include team deathmatches, capture that flag with and without vehicles and a mode called 'warfare' which is a little more complicated, but still easy to understand. In warfare the objective is to gain control of a neutral node before the enemy does, then you must take the fight to the enemy power core which is located inside the enemy's base. Simple huh? You also have the choice of completing the campaign both offline and online with friends or complete strangers, aren't you lucky?

Aside from the campaign there is the basis of the game; online. Online modes comprise of 6 different game modes to sink your teeth into with a wide variety of maps, 5 of which exclusive to the Xbox 360 version. While the popularity of the game online is somewhat hard to predict with Call of Duty 4 leading the pack, it is fully deserving to be ranked up there with the best. Unless you are a hardcore Unreal player already, I wouldn't expect to be too good online initially. It may just be me, but i found myself getting my ass handed to me time and time again even thought i consider myself good at online shooters. It's fair to say it takes some getting used to becuase of the pace.

Having said all of this I still feel I have only scratched the surface of what is a great, fun game. Together with an exclusive look at the Gears of War 2 online multiplayer this game, in my opinion, is a real must-buy.

Overall: 9.4/10

Support offline split-screen... or lose it
Unreal Tournament III is a great deal of fast-fragging fun, taking most of the best elements of previous UT games and delivering them using the power of next-gen consoles. An absolute must for anyone who loves a deathmatch. But...

I'd like to use this review to grind my own personal axe. I love playing games in split-screen. That is to say offline multiplayer, with a real human being in the room, sitting beside you, as opposed to online multiplayer, with friends and/or strangers at the other end of a broadband connection. And the inclusion or otherwise of a split-screen option is particularly pertinent to this game because while the Xbox 360 version contains split-screen, the Playstation 3 version does not.

It seems that Epic/Midway didn't consider split-screen gaming important enough to include on the PS3 version. You could argue that it was Sony's fault for not allowing two users to log into the PS3 simultaneously, a design flaw that hopefully will soon be put right. But that flaw didn't stop Insomniac Games from incorporating split-screen play into Resistance and Resistance 2. The hardware is more than capable of running the game in split-screen, so why should PS3 owners be palmed off with a lesser game?

Don't get me wrong. There's nothing wrong with online multiplayer games - it's fantastic to be able to shoot it out against 8, 16 or even 60 opponents online. But I would hate to see the demise of split-screen gaming. It would be a real shame if a day comes when you have to send your friends home because split-screen has been consigned to the dustbin and the only way you can play new games together is over the internet.

So, if you love split-screen gaming, don't keep quiet about it. Let developers and publishers know that you want it by using Amazon and other public forums. Please start by showing your approval of this review. If we don't support split-screen gaming, one day it may be gone.