Product Description

Unreal Tournament 3 marks the return of the world's premiere first-person shooter to the PC. 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!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9447 in Video Games
• Brand: Midway
• Released on: 2007-11-19
• ESRB Rating: Mature
• Platform: Windows

Features

• Detonate your opponent from a distance with theShock Rifle or blast away at close range with the Flak Cannon. Over two dozen weapons and vehicles have been enhanced for maximum killing potential.
• Fight side-by-side with or compete against new and returning characters from the Unreal universe, all with enhanced abilities. Enhanced Popular Game Types: Including Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, an all-new Warfare mode.
• 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.
• Online Innovations: Unreal Tournament 3 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.
• 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.

Customer Reviews

THE ABSOLUTE GAME OF THE YEAR!!!
Games that are as long awaited as UT3 always bear the inherent danger of becoming over-hyped and to inevitably disappoint in the end. Well, this is NOT the case with this game. UT3 ROCKS!

Graphically you have not seen anything that beautiful this year! Surfaces, shadows and explosions are just GORGEOUS! Yes, I liked the graphics even more than those in CRYSIS (and I gave CRYSIS a raving review - check it out if you like): they are crisper and even more atmospheric.

Fans of the UT-series will meet again all our old ...friends: the Bio Rifle, the Link Gun, the Shock Rifle, the Flak Cannon (my favorite!), the Rocket Launcher and the Sniper Rifle. New additions are the Enforcer (to replace the under-used Assault rifle) and the Impact Hammer (replacing the shield gun). An interesting twist: hitting an enhanced target with the Impact Hammer's alternative fire will drop his power-up for you to grab!
SuperWeapons are also at our disposal, both the Redeamer and the new Target Painter.

The number of available vehicles has been enriched as well. Besides the Axon vehicles from UT2004 (which have been renovated), a new Necris set is available: vehicles that demonstrate novel behaviors, yet are beautifully balanced with the Axon set.

What is really impressive once more are the environments. You have to see them to believe them...! And the skies...! I have not seen more breathtaking skies ever since, well, the original UNREAL.

Since this is a pretty demanding game, once the rockets start flying do not trust that by meeting the Minimum requirements you will be cruising. So, here are the official RECOMMENDED requirements:
· Pentium 2.4GHz Dual-Core (or AMD equivalent)
· 1GB of RAM
· nVIDIA 7800GTX (or ATI equivalent)
· 8GB of HDD space
· WinXp(SP2) or WinVISTA

This is the Collector's edition mind you. So, for the extra $10 all you get (apart for the...tin box) is an ART BOOK on vehicles, characters, weapons and environments design. I guess it's up to each one to decide.

CRYSIS is surely getting a run for its money for GAME OF THE YEAR!

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

Well, it's Unreal Tournament
Despite what you may read from some grognards, this game hasn't changed much from the original. It's still fast paced, twitch-based shooter gameplay at its best. The bots are smarter, the guns are much more balanced than in 2003 or 2004 (I can once again get headshots with the Enforcer!!) and the superfluous adrenaline system has been excised. The two faction's vehicles are likewise balanced, but dissimilar enough to merit different tactics for each. Couple this with gorgeous graphics, the first soundtrack in the series I actually enjoy, a fun and accessible single player and slick controls and you have one of the gaming high points of this year. This is not to mention the Buzz3d VTMs that come with the Collector's Edition. Those, by themselves, make this package a five star deal.

... so then why only four stars? My biggest problem is that I can't turn off the dodging feature. I'm sure there are those out there who swear by it, and they could probably take me to the cleaners, but I don't like using it and would rather turn it off. I'm also not a fan of the menu design. I know it's a small gripe, and I wouldn't actually take off a star for this sort of thing, but along with the slight control scheme issue, it's one star less for an otherwise outstanding addition to the series.

A Good Game but leaing a little to be desired
I was the first one out the door when bestbuy received the game yesterday. With excitement in my foot steps, I quickly drove home and loaded the game on the computer.. and that is where the excitement ended.

I was expecting a huge change in the game, like the difference between Unreal when it first came out and unreal 2004. The graphics and game play were entirely different, most of the maps were win the 2004 package still and some maps that were new, but a lot more maps were included with UT 2004 as compared to The original UT.

In CTF, there are only 6 maps. They brought back an old from the original game, and left out classic maps like face classic, face 3 and the like, and what I love the best is the intel commercial.

Death match mode has several more maps, but several of the great UT 2004 maps are missing.

I just figured that after all these years in development, they could make a few maps, especially the classic fun maps.