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• Amazon Sales Rank: #293 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Midway Games Ltd
• Released on: 2007-11-23
• Platform: Windows XP
• Number of items: 1

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Purposefully held over to take full advantage of next generation PC graphics cards and the new consoles, this latest sequel in the Unreal Tournament series is looking to set new standards for multiplayer first person shoot `em-ups. Considering developer Epic Games' Unreal graphics technology is used by so many other companies you always know a new Unreal Tournament game is going to look good. There's tons of new features beyond just eye candy here though, including a whole new game mode called Warfare, which works like a combination of the existing Assault and Onslaught modes, with more involved mission goals that make team play absolutely essential to success.

As you'd expect there's a hanger full of new vehicles and weapons including some nifty hoverboards for when you're just on-foot and a number of new robot mechs for you to drive; all with varying numbers of legs including tripods and four-legged walkers. The enormous Leviathan tank is particularly impressive, with four independently manned turrets and a giant energy weapon.

Considerable work has also gone into providing the game with a decent single player mode, never one of the series' highlights, with newly improved artificial intelligence that allows you to simulate a multiplayer game properly even when you're playing on your own. User created modifications (mods) will also continue to play a hugely important part in the game's success with the game shipping with a new version of the Unreal Editor for both PCs and consoles. After a quiet 2006, it seems like 2007 is going to be the best year ever for PC gamers.
HARRISON DENT

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

Buggy But Fixable - if thats your thing
Bought this game, and initially thought wow, though then noticed that there were quite a few things that didn't seem quite right, including not being able to save the game in an offline mode, and that it crashed reasonably frequently also.

However then noticed that there was a patch, ok a rather large patch at 240meg though still a ray of hope. Since then I have not really had any problems and am once more having serious fun.

My problem is that these companies, this is not the first game that I have had to download a patch for, know that there are problems and someone obviously goes to the trouble of trying to fix them. HOWEVER - and this is a big HOWEVER, why can't they find these problems and fix the game that comes on the disk that you buy. After all you are buying the gaming experience, and surely the software makes that. YOU DO NOT buy the game thinking oh - i'd love to buy this game, become frustrated when it doesn't work properly and then have to mess about finding a download, join a gaming website that you never wanted to join in the first place, and then mess about downloading and installing the fix for the game so that it does what it should have done in the first place. It's not as if we don't pay enough for these games in the first place, though are then left to feel as if - OK we've got your money now, who cares!!!!! Aghhhhh

Beautiful Graphics, and not much else
I'll keep this short and to the point -

Good -

Graphics. The new Unreal engine is truly amazing to behold. On a even a mid-to-high level system (mine: 3800+ X2, 2 GB RAM, 8800 GT) you'll get rapid frame rates on high graphics settings. It just looks gorgeous.

Bad -

Everything else. There are no new weapons. There are a few new maps, but to be honest, the number of maps is not great and some of them - particularly deathmatch - are absolutely dire. Game modes are basically CTF, Warfare (Onslaught with a few tweaks) and Deathmatch, with some modified modes (1-on-1 is now a whole extra mode). No Assault etc.
Vehicles are nice an well realised, but the Axon ones are minor tweaks to UT2004 and the Necris ones are okay, but don;t really add that much overall.

Teams and characters are a cut down version of before. No skaarj, no egyptians, just a few human teams, Krall, Necris. Oh, and the robot things - the Corrupt.

Menu and interface would best be described as a tragedy. They're completely unintuitive, they require you to log onto internet just to be able to save anything, and the menu setup is completely different to UT2004.

The bottom line? Only get this is you've never played any UT games before. UT2004 is twice the game and less graphical splendour.

I have no idea what Epic have done to make the development of this game last 3 years. There's just not enough here.

Dumbed down for the consoles, dead online.
This game is incomplete and unfinished. It's missing basic features such as webadmin or a decent UI. All the things that Epic learned from polishing the previous UT games has been forgotten as this game arrives with small numbers of maps, broken bot AI, missing gametypes, bland unbalanced weapons and vehicles, and far more.

Three months later, the average number of people playing online is around 500. The four year old UT2K4 can still put nearly 5000 people online most of the time.

Epic have let us all down by trying to make one game for the consoles and sell it to the PC owners too. Even though the console game is additionally nerfed with slower everything and auto-aiming, the many console-orientated compromises and split focus of development have given us a game still incomplete, unfinished, and unpolished.