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| From: Midway Entertainment
Category: Video Games
List Price: $59.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 154
Platform: Xbox 360
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 30106
Model: 30106
UPC: 031719301065
EAN: 0031719301065
ASIN: B000O5K3TO
Release Date: July 7, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Unreal Tournament has always been known for brutal weaponry. 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. | | • | 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. | | • | 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. | | • | Enhanced Popular Game Types: A variety of game modes including Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, an all-new Warfare mode and more. |
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Product 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 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!
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Continuing the intensity of the well-known series, Unreal Tournament 3 unleashes the full power of the Unreal Engine 3. In this adventure, you're thrown into the thick of the Necris invasion and immersed in the battle of your life. Defend what's left of your clan with an arsenal of more than 24 powerful, futuristic weapons and a slew of upgraded vehicles. Both new and returning characters can be friends or foes, so watch your back. Whether you're under attack from advanced Artificial Intelligence adversaries or from human online warriors, one thing's for sure ? you're in for gut-wrenching, breathtaking action once you've entered the world of this compelling first-person shooter.
| Features - New single-player campaign thrusts you into the heated Necris invasion, where you must exert brutal force to defend your dwindling clan
- Choose from an arsenal of more than 24 close-range and long-range weapons, including the Shock Rifle and Flak Cannon
- Utilize a fleet of upgraded vehicles to travel through incredibly detailed landscapes generated by the famous Unreal Engine 3
- Enhanced Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch and Capture the Flag modes, as well as an all-new Warfare mode, keep you engulfed in the action
- Extremely detailed AI characters and awesome graphics provide a high level of realism
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| | Share the battlefield with familiar and all-new characters, each with enhanced abilities and distinct personalities. Decide which weapon works best as you take your revenge on the invaders. Should you use the Shock Rifle to obliterate the enemy from a distance? Or would the close-range Flak Cannon do the job? It's all up to you to devise the winning strategy, proving that this saga requires just as much brain power as firepower. Put your survival skills to the test in challenging Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag and all-new Warfare game modes. |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
Better than your average shooter July 21, 2008
Unreal Tournament has always been a franchise to look out for... The graphics, the weapons, the multiplayer modes and even the music is always pretty top notch. This is no exception for the newest entry, which actually came out for the PC in 2007. Despite a late arrival for the 360 I can honestly say the wait was worth it. There are dozens of characters to play as and the xbox live play is fun and addicting. The campaign mode is surprisingly good and its a definate plus to players who like a story to go along with their games.
Fast, Frantic, and Fun July 16, 2008
Unreal Tournament III has finally come to the 360 about a half a year later then the PS3 and PC version.
Was the wait worth it? It's a double edged sword really. The game obtains a few new maps, at the cost of the lack of modding the other carriers had. Wait I thought modding was bad, and looked down upon! In some instances it truly is, but UT3's modding enabled much customization and freedom to making maps. Thus heavily expanding the replay ability, and showing users creativity as a community. Even with this removed, the game still holds up quite nice actually. With a variety of (Single/multiplayer) maps easily surpassing any other 360 game to date, UT3 definitely holds high replay potential regardless of modding or not.
Keep in mind while UT3 does hold a single player campaign mode, it isn't a true blue 'single player' experience. As the game is strongly aimed at the multiplayer department, which is actually a good thing. Many can get together on a variety of maps and game types, ranging from Deathmatch (free for all), Team Death Match, Capture The Flag (CTF & a vehicular variant of it), and a warfare mode! The vehicles are a nice touch, featuring varieties for a multitude of purposes. The vehicles vary per team, adding greater battles, as teams must find alternative ways to defeat one another.
The game holds a rather large roster of characters and classes to choose from. While you may only choose your character and not truly develop them any further, as previously mentioned the vastness of characters surely make up for it. Characters customization or not the guns go above and beyond, emphasizing diversity.
The balance overall is fair, as opposed to many other games where one weapon or object over powers the user/game and ruins the experience. Some games release updates/patches as a remedy to this, but this game is in no need of any such cure. While some may note the rocket launcher
as a site of reasonable complaint, it's a freakin explosive! In all reality though, it's manageable upon getting over the relatively low learning curve one can cope with these timid missiles.
The only exploits in the learning curve is getting use to the speed, many veterans of UT games should be fairly use to this (With the exception of not using a PC mouse/keyboard set up). Other similarly fast titles are the Quake, Doom, and Time Splitters series. Look at that they are all available on the Xbox, if you are use to that welcome UT3 and its smooth controls. Some guns are easier for some than others (like that wasn't a given), but the sniper is rather hard for new comers to use. Again due to the speed some may get agitated, or for that matter not even drawn into the amazing experience this game offers. Give it some time, don't miss out!
If you blow at this game, you can at least enjoy the graphics. Similar to an updated Gears of War graphically, it comes as no surprise as they were both made by Epic and share the same engine the Unreal Engine 3. Some note this as a Gears knock off. In all honesty besides aesthetics the two titles contrast so strongly from one another, it is like comparing apples and oranges.
All guns enable a special left trigger use, instead of standard firing they come with an additional ability (obviously right trigger is to fire ones weapon).The sniper being special in the case that its left trigger is solely reserved for zooming in, with the scope. Their are a myriad of weapons at ones disposal here. Pistols, bio/toxic guns, snipers, lazers, assault rifles, flac cannons, miniguns, anti vehicle guns, small nuke like guns, and the powerful melee only Impact Hammer. Definitely enough tools for some destruction and some sprees of mayhem.
So now you have all the information you need to choose whether or not to purchase this title. A somewhat durable learning curve, variety of characters, maps, guns, vehicles, and a highly saturated multiplayer experience. No modding allowed, AI bot based somewhat weak single player, and no character customization deeper than choosing a skin. Top notch graphics, and some cool sounds make for great audio and visual stimulation. Strongly recommend renting this title, if one has not played a similarly fast First Person Shooter (FPS). IF you have played and enjoyed fast paced FPS's, welcome to the holy grail of them...do enjoy. UT3 is a strong title in the ever growing mass populated shooter (specifically FPS) genre, expect many to play online for ages.
 Twitch Gaming Returns! July 14, 2008
Ahhh! Finally a 360 game that measures up to the original PC version of Unreal Tournament. It's lightening fast, gorgeous, and like greeting an old friend.
All the UT favorite weapons are here, the nuclear redeemer, sniper rifle, shock rifle, flak cannon, and bio gun. Sadly the only one that's missing is The Ripper, which used to shoot saw blades and had an alternate fire option that would let you bounce them off walls and around corners. As in the PC version the Redeemer can be fired guided or unguided, and you bet you can use the alt fire on a shock rifle to launch a ball of plasma that you can then shoot to cause an explosion.
The game includes many multiplayer maps to choose from including an updated version of the classic Deck 16! You can play these via system link or on Xbox Live. Maps are beautiful in HD and play like greased lightening on Live. No more tactical sorts of slow moving action or rechargeable shields. Its a welcome return to old school twitch gaming previously only seen on the PC. You need to earn your armor and fight for health packs to stay alive. There's many game types to have hours and hours of fun which including Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, CTF and a couple of new variations like "Warfare" and a one on one "Duel" mode.
The interface for multipayer hosting is very much like the original Unreal Tournament where you can make a subset of the list of maps and arrange them in any order you'd like to play them in and the game will automatically queue them up. The manual also mentions being able to add "Mutators" to the game, like the original, though I've not played with that option yet.
UT3 also includes a single player campaign that can be played either as a single player or in a co-op format with friends. For the most part the campaign mode is designed as a collection of the different multiplayer game formats and more like a tutorial on how to play the different game types simulating online play with bots. It's fun but it's not where the real action in UT3 is, which is online multiplayer playing against real thinking people. You will, however, learn about many of the new game types and features like the numerous new vehicles that are available. There are flying craft, tanks, and even war of the worlds style tripod walkers.
Graphically the game has a similar look to Gears of War, but is much cleaner and sharper. Depth of picture on a 1080i HDTV is amazing. I've played on Live with my settings all set to max and encountered no issues with frame rates or slowing. Like the original PC version it runs like greased lightening but also looks amazing.
If you're into old school, high action, fast paced, online multiplayer fragfests THIS is the game for you. If you're into slower paced duck and cover strategy gameplay this probably won't be for you. Fans of the original Unreal Tournament will enjoy it.
 Single Players Beware! July 12, 2008
7 out of 14 found this review helpful
GAMEPLAY: Presumably okay for multi-player addicts.
GRAPHICS: Average, flat grounds and environments; nothing to write home about.
SOUND: Again, average -- nothing that we haven't heard before.
I bought this game because the trailers looked fantastic, and the self-proclaimed best single-player ever.
DON'T BE FOOLED!
This is a multi-player game only! I had to spend sixty-dollars to learn this! If you like multi-players, then this is your average run-of-the-mill multi-player. However, if you are like me and, really only enjoy playing single-player, consider yourself warned, the single-player campaign consists of mulit-player maps with AI competing against you. No bosses, no breath-taking missions, just capture the flag against AI.
I've never been so disappointed...Oh wait, then there's Alone in the Dark...
Lightning Fast Gameplay & Stunning Visuals July 10, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
UT3 is probably the fastest FPS on the consoles at this time. With lightning fast gameplay and stunning visuals. I only noticed very minor texture pop ins and the occasional framerate dips but really I'm being nitpicky here, UT3 looks and plays fantastic, near perfection for it's style of gameplay and probably the best looking,best performing game currently on the 360 to date.
With the addition of 5 New Maps for the 360 version, 3 of which are wholly new and 2 are reinvisioned versions of the PS3/PC version with Necris themes. All of the maps look quite good and some are fantastic looking.
I've noticed that they improved the 360's version , by tweaking the core controls with a 'minor' aim assist , I noticed that the bullets track a little better and behave more realisticly. I don't prefer aim assist myself ,BUT , I will say the 360 version is the most refined version yet ,aside from the HUGE GAP ,of not supporting user created mods, it is the most polished port.
The split-screen is fun,if your into that, UT3 360 supports split-screen online multi,co-op,local,and System Link. (no split-screen ranked matches though)
All DLC that's available for the PS3 is included in the 360 version (ASIDE FROM USER created mods)
(If your still into UT 'fast twitch'style gameplay)
The multiplayer is liquid fast and fun, with Game Modes DeathMatch ,Team DeathMatch,CTF,Vehicle CTF,Duel, and last but not least Warfare which is a team based mode involving Capturing and linking together 'nodes' with your orbs ,so you can destroy the enemies core. Warfare adds a little strategy to the twitch gameplay mechanics of UT3.
UT3 is so fast,so frenetic , you'll barely have time to come up for air .
I was playing UT3 for about 7 hours and didn't even realize it, there's definitely no down times in UT3.
The single player campaign ,is little more than glorified BOT matches, but that's not such a bad thing as the enemy AI are really about as close as you can get to real humans, (sometimes better) especially on the harder settings.
There isn't much of a story in the campaign,but that's ok I don't wanna watch a bunch of mini-movies anyways. But It would've been nice to have a deeper 'in-game' story mode,instead you get the occasional little cutscenes in between matches. AT least you have access to all online matches offline as well. Some of the MAPS are absolutley stunning as you progress into the game,these maps by far look superior to just about any game on the 360. There were quite a few 'jaw dropping' moments in the maps. When EPIC said in there early interviews with various magazines that UT3 'makes Gears look ugly' , They weren't kidding. But the comparison ends there,don't expect a Gears style cover system. UT3 is pure unadulterated lightning fast gameplay. I can't get over how fast this game performs. Other games like Gears,RSV, move at snails pace compared to this game,its insanely fast. You know some games slow down your player to help the graphics perform better, BUT UT3 , turns the dial past 11 and it still looks smooth as butter.
Switching weapons are mapped to the RB and LB respectively and of course all have some form of alternate fire (LT),
at first I would've preferred a quicker layout of weapon toggle, BUT , the controls are really easy for any 360 FPS veteran ,you shouldn't have any problems jumping right in and playing.
The vehicles all drive and perform closely to Halo's Warthog ,there quite easy and intuitive as well ,with a little learning curve ,that's a perfect time to check out the campaign's offline BOT matches to hone up your skills for online.Especially sharpening your skills for capturing nodes and learning the best routes in the maps.There's also tons of unique flying vehicles .
UT3 is a fantastic game on the 360 ,with the only real downside to the 360 version is the lack of 'user created mods' and the lack of a 'real' story in the campaign , BUT THERE IS TONS of game content offline with the BOTS.
I've seen from interviews from EPIC you can expect some solution for user created mods most likely in the form of DLC ? who knows? . But the 360 is so meaty ,so full of game content it really is an exciting game and the lack of user created mods should'nt detour you from picking up a copy for yourself. If your looking for a deep single player story campaign and don't have LIVE access I would suggest renting it first, as there's no real deep story here ,BUT , even offline the BOT matches can be fun. There's just no match though for human counterparts online,UT3 true shining feature is the Multi-player and it's one of the best looking ,best performing games on the 360 to date, if not THE BEST.
I got through the camapaign's single player in about 17 hours. I gotta admit the BOTS are extremely impressive on the harder settings and you get (8) difficulty settings from Novice to Godlike. Trust me these BOTS will test even the most skilled players. You can even play 'instant action' offline ,and manually set Bot skill levels,number of combatants,Goal Score,Time Limit,Opposing Bot Faction,and Force Respawn toggle. WOW what can I say ,stuff usually reserved for online play only is ALL available to the non-LIVE players. Very nice indeed.
Overall UT3 is much better than I had expected. EPIC really knows what there doing when it comes to Unreal Tournament style gameplay and they tweaked the 360 to its maxium limits and to my surprise ,the game is exceptionally smooth,clean,and fast paced with out so much as a hiccup or a very rare framedrop on the 360. Definitley pick this game up a very,very solid FPS.
PEACE
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