Unreal Tournament III

[Nick Sheldon]

Anyone played it yet?

When did it come out?

I just noticed it for ?32.99

Cheers

[Volatile]

I got the collectors edition when it came out. I'd say it was earlier this year.. maybe Feb. or March. It enhanced on the graphics quite a bit and added some new toys to play around with. I am a huge UT fan although have not played it as much because my gaming time has diminished.

[Guyro]

in the uk it comes out on friday, coz i preordered it im getting it on thurs

[AsciiSmoke]

Bit of a disappointment really. Looks very pretty but it plays too fast, more like the random, rage, infusing speed of Quake than the aerobic action of UT2004.

Biggest annoyance for me is that there's no server browser. In order to play a match with a mate he has to bring down the console and connect to me by ip! Which is insane bearing in mind that we've always referred to the UT series as having the best net code of any game.

I've had lan games of the original unreal tournament connected over a twisted parallel port cable.

Ascii

Update - Sorry, didn't spot you were talking about the console version. It actually feels like it's been built with the consoles in mind so will probably be much better.

Edited July 2, 2008 by AsciiSmoke

[Nick Sheldon]

Ah..Nice one.

Just noticed the release date..4th July.

Cheers for the replies. I'm gonna get it for 32.99....Bargain!

[Coldgunner]

got both PC and PS3 version about 6 months ago, I intended to do map making for both systems but I found the game quite boring and is gathering dust.

[Guyro]

Ah..Nice one.

Just noticed the release date..4th July.

Cheers for the replies. I'm gonna get it for 32.99....Bargain!

what site?

[Nick Sheldon]

got both PC and PS3 version about 6 months ago, I intended to do map making for both systems but I found the game quite boring and is gathering dust.

I thought the UT2004 was hopeless and boring, and thought it was quite poorly done, but this version looks a lot more polished.

At the end of the day, you CAN NOT beat the original Unreal Tournament (PC), the gameplay was awesome.

/Gonna have to look out my pc version now, and give it a whirl...lol

@Guyro :http://www.woolworths.co.uk/web/jsp/product/index.jsp?pid=51556996

[Ricardo Gil]

At the end of the day, you CAN NOT beat the original Unreal Tournament (PC), the gameplay was awesome.

So true, it's the only one I really liked and played like hell. I was still at the Uni. back then, everyone played it in the cs labs. Really awesome.

Nowadays I just don't feel like playing it anymore. I feel old :wacko:

[Guyro]

I thought the UT2004 was hopeless and boring, and thought it was quite poorly done, but this version looks a lot more polished.

At the end of the day, you CAN NOT beat the original Unreal Tournament (PC), the gameplay was awesome.

/Gonna have to look out my pc version now, and give it a whirl...lol

@Guyro :http://www.woolworths.co.uk/web/jsp/product/index.jsp?pid=51556996

cheers, thats a pretty awesome deal

[Ayepecks]

360 version comes out on the 15th.

I may actually get it for the split-screen. Me and my roommate could have some good games.

[Guyro]

are there bots in it?

[Ayepecks]

From what I've read, yes. But I could be wrong, so don't take my word.

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

Played it on and off a few months back for the PC. It's a good game but it just didn't hook me in like the previous titles :/

[Coldgunner]

there are bots in both console and PC versions.

My advice is, unless your a fan, avoid.

[jokeripa]

in the uk it comes out on friday, coz i preordered it im getting it on thurs

Where did you pre order from? I pre ordered from Play and noticed a pakcage from them in the mail this morn before I went to work, could be my USB hub though... hopefully it will be UT :D

[Guyro]

game.net

the game is great, really fast paced, i just found teh necris darkwalker earlier and that was awesome, good to play with friends over as well which i think is the only thing a 360 game has been missing up into now

[+BeLGaRaTh Subscriber¹]

Sadly it looks like the 360 version will be the inferior one of the bunch as MS will not allow untested/unsigned umod's to be used in their version, thus 360 owners will not have access to some of the incredible mods out there :(

[Ayepecks]

^ No mods, but the reviews thus far are positive. It also has a little more additional content and split-screen.

No good mods out for UTIII anyway, IMO.

[PricklyPoo]

At the end of the day, you CAN NOT beat the original Unreal Tournament (PC), the gameplay was awesome.

Heh, there isn't anything special about the original UT now days. Sure back in it's time it was awesome because there was only quake and counterstrike to compete with it.

Just gets annoying, it isn't like if you released the first ut right now it would do well. (Which is basically what ut3 is - a rehashed ut99)

[Guyro]

Sadly it looks like the 360 version will be the inferior one of the bunch as MS will not allow untested/unsigned umod's to be used in their version, thus 360 owners will not have access to some of the incredible mods out there :(

arent epic supposed to be making some of the better mods *official* and putting them out as dl content themselves?

edit: where did u get that gamerpic?

[+BeLGaRaTh Subscriber¹]

arent epic supposed to be making some of the better mods *official* and putting them out as dl content themselves?

edit: where did u get that gamerpic?

Wasn't aware of that, but again that is a way of charging us 360 users for what is otherwise free content.

The Gamerpic is from the Wanted gamerpic content.

[Guyro]

who said anyhting about pricing it? i think epic will try and force ms to give it to us for free since they scrapped us making our own dls

[HawkMan]

I don't see the problem. VERY few UT mods are really worth ****, and those that are only exist as mods for a short period before they're bought up and released as standalone games.

The good Small mods that still remain are few enough that most of them will be picked up and "officially" bug tested by epic and released through them.

MS stance makes the most sense here, a broken mod can cause a lot of problems, and the blame gets split half and half, with half going to epic and half going to MS... and very little to the mod creators, afterall it's the game/console that allowed them to make a broken mod :rolleyes:

I suspect the only reason sony allowed it in the first place was to get more "cool" points with the gamers for allowing it, and partly because they need a few bonus points on MS And their system is allready wide open. By the PS4 though expect Sony to have finally made a solid enough online system to lock it up and force all developers to use it and follow their rules for using it, just like MS and XBL. The only reason PSN Compatibilty and central friends list support and all that isn't mandatory on the PS3 isn because it wasn't done at launch.

As for pricing, They may release the officially "signed" mods free, or require a small fee. wich would make sense sense bug testing and Q&A even for a small mod/mutator does require a lot of man hours.

[simmorya]

This game is twice as good as the PS3 version. On the playstation version the graphics dont look as good and online completely sucked.

I love the Xbox 360 version.

Mods just cause problems. We will more than likely get more map packs.