Unreal Tournament III

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $19.99

Features:

• 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.
• New Single Player Campaign: 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. Join this Epic battle to defend humanity while taking your revenge.
• New and Favorite Characters: Fight side-by-side with or compete against new and returning characters from the Unreal universe, all with enhanced abilities, extremely detailed designs, and distinct personalities.
• Enhanced Popular Game Types: Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, and all-new Warfare mode and more.
• PC version bundled with the award-winning Unreal Engine 3 Toolset. Build your own levels, game types, and more, or download the latest mods from the massive Unreal community.

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

Customer Reviews:

Lots of eye candy [Posted on 2008-05-11]
game has lots of eye candy, very health machine needed to be able to enjoy, check system requirements. I started with nvidia 8600GT 265mb and it lagged, upgraded to Nvidia 9600GT 512mb plays great. dedicated server is a little difficult to set up but is do-able. My current system is a core 2 duo 2.4Ghz over clocked to 2.88Ghz, 2048mb ram DDR2 800 Mhz, 9600GT 512mb with raided sata drives. plays great. If you have an off the shelf or 2 year old computer more than likely it will not run on you machine. In other words it will not run on your family pc, get a true gamer machine.

UT3 [Posted on 2008-05-25]
Lots of fun to play if you are into shooting things. The vehicles are pretty sweet and the guns are all classic UT staples. There aren't as many maps as I would have liked but since it comes with map creation tools there are lots of possibilities.

unreal tournament 3 [Posted on 2008-06-07]
This product looks great but the gameplay has change from ut2004 that it is no longer as fun. This try was much hyped and I was let down being that I have played ut games from the beginning.

WAY Better than TF2!!!! [Posted on 2008-07-04]
I just bought TF2 and what a piece of cr@p! UT3 is actually FUN! Definitely try the demos of each before you buy. I wish I had and not wasted $20 on TF2. Here is a game of TF2 in a nutshell: Pick a cool looking character that you can imagine you'll have all kinds of fun with. Run out and get shot by the crazy mayhem in the first 30 seconds. Wait 22 seconds. Repeat. That;s it, that's the whole game. The game makes you wait 22 seconds each time. Why??? Who knows. It is just worthless. UT3 has all kinds of strategy that makes it insanely fun. It's probably more addictive than crack. Buy it!

What a shame! [Posted on 2008-07-21]
I've been a true fan of the UT series since the first version and each release has been brilliant, five stars all round. This version however was a real let down.

Granted, the graphics are out of this world and going back to play UT2004 afterwards is like going back to playing a 2D game almost. There are things I love in UT3 (which is why it doesn't get only one star) like the flack cannon, it's extra powerful and if you can get up to an enemy and use it point blank they get shredded and it's really satisfying. The new vehicles are okay, the new Necris Darkwalker is a highlight and they did well to make the Hellbender useable by one driver, in 2004 you weren't able to fire any weapons if you were in one on your own, but the game over all is a let down for several reasons.

First of all the style of the original games is missing completely. You can tell it's by the Gears of War people, every character in it is seriously muscular and/or wearing armour plating that's about 2 feet thick. That's fine for one or two characters to choose from, but to have no choice in having an athletic looking character..?

They've also done away with the whole futuristic sports theme and that's weird because it's the name of the game - TOURNAMENT! It's now all about battles and fighting in situations that make no sense at all, but would have still made sense in the TOURNAMENT context. I don't see any reason why they strayed from the original concept. The single player game was ridiculous as it seems everyone agrees, but even that can't have been the reason why they changed the theme, can it? - if it was, then the single player campaign was an even worse crime than it seemed, because the group of mercenaries could have done the same things for their employers in the context of a TOURNAMENT in which they were trying to win money.. I don't know, I was going to try and not mention the useless single player game because it's irrelevant anyway because I bought this for the multiplayer experience.

But it's the multiplayer experience that is the real let down. Absolutely everything else I've mentioned could have been easily forgiven if the on-line games actually worked. For me playing any version of UT was about the stats. That's what attracted me to this series in the first place. I've played other on-line shooters, like Call of Duty 2 and the Half Life games on-line and other things like them, but these never competed with UT for one reason - with UT, everything you do gets recorded on the permanent stats record for your character - in this version? Well, maybe one game in every three, if you're lucky, sometimes you can play games for several days and not get a single one recorded. That's what really annoys me. It's the most frustrating thing to have got some really good kill to death ratios sorted out and some top awards received in a game and then you go and check your stats and nothing's there. I've tried to not care about the stats and to just enjoy the games for their own sake, but I can't. For me it's all about the stats. I've tried going back to UT2004, which faithfully records everything, but it's just not the same after you've experienced the things you do like about UT3. I've been mailing the tech support people constantly ever since I bought this product. They're very quick at responding, which is great (in the past I've e-mailed tech support for other games and never got one reply) but they've not been able to do anything for me to fix this. I've followed all their advice, but it never made a difference and after my last mail they said they had to give up on me as they were out of ideas.. well I gave up on this game at that stage too. It's a real shame. I'd look for a refund if I thought it were possible.

So if you like UT and you don't ever look at your on-line stats, then I'd say give it a go, because it's a good game at the end of the day, maybe not a worthy successor to the previous UT incarnations, but fun if you don't care about the stats.

If, like me, however, the point in playing UT is to see what you've done on the stats board and to always be trying to improve on what you managed to achieve in the past then don't buy this. Stick with UT2004 and keep enjoying it. I'm amazed they haven't switched the stats recording off on that product to be honest - they switched of the original UT stats when they brought out UT2003 after all.

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