Customer Reviews

Unreal Tournament III

5 star:		(42)
4 star:		(20)
3 star:		(7)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

Oh yes it does look better than Gears but plays a lot different. Think of this as Gears meets Unreal Tournament 2004 but with many modifications, additions and tweaks.

Here is my review of the Good, the bad, and "Ugly" on all about this game...


First... The Good:

The most noticeable thing is the graphics and sounds are un-freaking-believable! Look at this game and then look at Halo 3 and you will laugh at what Bungie considers next gen graphics. Whatever? THIS is next gen graphics. Best looking game on the PS3 system by far. Why didn't SONY hype this game is beyond me? It is THEIR Gears or Halo 3 for the system. What people say is true. Gears of War meets UT2004 is exactly how it looks, feels and sounds. Just to let everyone know that I am not a PS3 fanboy and I own both systems. I love Halo 3, Gears of War, Call of Duty 4 and the like. I am just reporting on my opinions between them. They all have something for everyone to enjoy. If you like fast FPS games in the tradition of Quake with fun vehicles but with truly next gen graphics than this game is for you.

This game has cool looking characters with exchangeable armor, vests, boots, helmets etc... like Halo 3 has. All the characters have a Gears "look" and the vehicles all have a Gears style to them. Some of the alien buildings have alien tentacles inter-woven into them and pulsate in and out. The distant vistas are really awesome and distracting and it even has the volumetric lighting that Halo 3 has. The shadow lighting is done very well. The quality in the graphics is just unbelievable and really shows off what the PS3 can do. I can't wait to see it on 360 to compare them.

No lag when I played except on just one server I played on. When I switched to a different one it ran great the whole time I played. just depends on who you are connecting to I guess.

UT3 controls really well with a PS3 controller. I was fragging in minutes with no problems. You can even select servers with no keyboard/mouse allowed to keep it fair.

Weapons overall seem stronger and have more punch. All the "hold to charge" up the weapon to release (like on the big truck in UT2004) has been removed except for the rocket launcher. The Truck has a laser on the back that just shoots normal like a turret and no charging is necessary.

Good change to the anti-vehicle Avril rocket launcher: The rocket launcher that you use to shoot down vehicles has limited ammo of like 5 shots or something. Thank god. In the old UT2004 it was annoying that you can fire off practically unlimited rocket ammo at the enemy with almost no way to avoid getting shot if you were in a vehicle. Now you can hide and hope they run out of rockets after a few shots. You are warned when being locked on and can see the laser pointer line from where it is coming from so you can fight them with your vehicle if you want. In UT2004 you never really knew where the rocket was coming from.

Sniper riffle works really well and they removed the lame laser/Lightning riffle. I killed 5 people in a row the first time I used it. Any Sniper fan will like this weapon.

I has new cooler weird vehicles! Twice as many as 2004. There are new vehicles to use and they all have a secondary weapon or feature on them. Some have cool additions like a turbo speed boost feature on the jeep. Some that stand out are the tentacle alien vehicles that look like they are strait out of "The Matrix". There is a flying alien vehicle that looks like a tentacle squid (alla Matrix) and another one that crawls on the ground like a spider-octopus. You can turn into a ball and roll over guys running on the ground, bounce around with the jump button then unfold back to an octopus of death again at will. Really fun vehicles all over the place. There are a bunch of other cool vehicles but I won't go into all of them but most of them are really fun to use.

A really cool new addition is the new hover board that will remind you of Back to the Future 2. Everyone has this available at spawn and you can't loose it. You just press the square button and you're off! If you are near a vehicle you can also just press square and boom you enter the vehicle. All the controls feel right and are easy to use.

On the board you move about twice as fast as running and can jump and even do tricks like 360s/720s and the like. If you get shot while using it, you will "eat it" and have to get up from the crash and can't shoot until you are all the way up standing upright. This takes a few seconds and it is sort of a penalty for getting shot while zipping by. It is hard to shoot people when they are on it sometimes so it feels good to see them eat it when you do. Looks really funny watching people slam face first into the floor when you shoot someone zipping by on a hover board.

When you use the hover board you can't shoot but you can use an auto targeting "Laser Tether" to any vehicle near you (that is on your team) if you press the shoot button. This is really fun and it speeds up your movement as fast as the connecting vehicle is going. So if a hover Manta flys by, you can shoot your laser tether on him and start flying over the terrain like a water skier (on land). If the vehicle stops, you can move forward to the side and zip by really fast like a sling shot and detach your tether to get killer speed.

While in hover board mode and you jump off something that is really high you will always crash land so you can't just use it and move anywhere you want without consequence. I love the new hover board addition. You won't get angry when people take all the vehicles and you need to get to a node really fast. Now you can just hitch a ride with the tether and hover board. All aboard!

The Jeep (with blades) has a cool new feature where you can turbo into a group of enemies and press the square button to power eject out of it. You fly 100 feet in the air and down below the jeep will PLOW into the bad guys without slowing down and then explode upon impact with pieces flying everywhere killing anyone that gets hit by it. VERY cool.

New really cool addition is the Power Node Ball that changes linking nodes strategies. It will help a team that is losing have a chance at a comeback if all the nodes are taken.

When the game starts, a node ball appears in a little generator near the core. If you take the ball you can't get into a vehicle but you can still use the hover board. This Node Ball will make ANY captured node change to your team's node if you run over the node beam while it is in your hands.

If the node isn't captured yet and you run under the node (with the ball) the node will become yours without having to capture it with the link beam. If you see a bad guy running up onto your node a computer voice will warn you that an enemy is approaching with one. If you kill him the ball will fall to the ground and a 25 second countdown ticker appears over it. If it counts down to zero the ball re-appears at their base. If another bad guy runs over it he can still pick it up. OR if you want you can go over to it and press the square button to sacrifice your life and destroy the ball so they have to start all over from the main base with a new ball. This new node ball addition will make some really crazy game sessions back and forth.

There is a new stealth vehicle tank that as soon as you enter it, it disappears. It drives kind of slow but you can drive it into an enemy base undetected or take it to a node to add defense to your node area. Once you press the deploy, it un-stealth's (can be seen) unfolds and you have a mine layer and a large time displacement force Jell-O field thing. You can deploy this thick Jell-O wall over a node and anyone that walks into it will walk super slowly. All bullets or rockets or even vehicles that touch or go though this wall will slow down super slow. This reminds me of the force field suits from Dune. You can use this to create a choke point in a hallway or defend a node. This is a cool defense to keep your node alive for a little longer if it is being attacked since rockets or bullets will move so slowly while in it.

The graphics on the Power Core at your base looks even better. It looks like the power generator from Spiderman 2. As you shoot it, protective cover panels break off the surrounding energy core ball (like Tron) and looks really cool. When you finally destroy it, parts of junk and parts will get sucked in as the ball gets bigger and then explode just like spiderman 2. Cool visual.


The Bad:

I hate online multiplayer games on the PS3 since no one uses a headset. For all the time I played UT3 online I NEVER heard anyone say a thing. None of the other people outhere on the PS3 network has a damn headset and the UT game supports it. Thank god that the game has a computer voice that tells everyone where they should be and what node is being attacked and such. It helps, but there needs to have communication when playing. If the 360 is as good as this version I will def go and use that one instead.

Also Epic made it a "press right directional pad" to talk (alla warhawk and Halo 3) instead of just talk when you want like Gears. I hate that.

Since this game is so new there is hardly anyone playing right now. There was only like 8 servers online to play with last night. Small amount for a new game. This will change in the next few weeks when more people get it.

Okay now the Ugly.....

There is nothing Ugly in this game. One of the best looking games of this type out there if not the best.

Other than that I like the game a lot and is a really fun multiplayer game. Call of Duty 4 is a blast but if you want a game with furrious action and fun vehicles this is the best place to play. Sorry Halo 3.

The Unreal Tournament series has been around for years. Generally having a welcome home on PC's the third incarnation works on changing that. Unreal Tournament 3 is a beautiful and fast paced shooter that has been perfectly ported over to the Playstation 3 console.

From the very get go this game gives you several different options. I want to cover all of these so you can become more familiar with what you want out of the game. Many look at the Unreal Tournament as an online only style shooter. I will tell you that it is much more than that.

The game actually has a story based mode. This is little less on the story and generally a great way to get people into the game and familiar with the game modes. So if you are expecting an involved story you should probably go elsewhere. You get all the difficulty settings from casual to very hard. For someone like me who has never played Unreal Tournament I played casual to get more familiar with the game. One thing I can say after playing the story for several hours it is not simple on any level. The A.I. is actually excellent giving me more of a challenge than I ever expected.

Next the game has instant action where you can go from death match to team death match and the other true favorites like capture the flag. There are other game types available also. This instant action is played against the bots who provide plenty of competition. This is also another great way to improve your skills before you take on the real competition.

Now is the most interesting part and that is the online. This game provides an almost seamless online experience as you can take on 15 others in some matches. What keeps this game fresh is the incredible amount of maps that never get old. The game modes also provide for frantic fun. The game play is incredibly fast paced which is unlike any shooter I have ever played.

If you are looking for a fun sci-fi shooter that is non-stop action then Unreal Tournament 3 should be up your ally. This game has been done perfectly on the PS3. From the incredible graphics to the amazingly quick game play. It's hard not to get addicted to the fun in this game. Shooter fans this game is well worth at least a look if not a purchase.

Having played the Unreal series only sparingly over the years, I would consider myself somewhat of a noob. I've never been big on online multiplayer, but I have dabbled in it with Warhawk and Resistance. That being said, I think UT3 is helping me become more and more interested in this weird online craze. UT3 is quite astonishing to look at. The environments are beautiful and the textures look about the same as Uncharted and Gears. I would say the graphics are about the same as Gears of War (made by the same developers). The ability to get into a match sometimes takes a while (10 to 20 seconds for me), but if that's fast enough for you then great. The single player campaign is rather weak. There really isn't much of a substantial story, but rather it's more practice for the main event, online multiplayer. This is where UT3 shines. The action is fast and frenetic. The weapons (both primary and secondary fire) are satisfying. I experienced some lag until I fully installed the game on my PS3 (you can either fully install or play from the disc). After installation, everything was smooth sailing. I enjoyed the ability to fully customize my character's appearance (boots, chest plate, helmet, you name it). I'm giving this game 4 stars mainly due to its weak single player campaign. That's my favorite part of FPS's, so I was a little disappointed in UT3's campaign. All in all, it's a great game. It looks and runs great. Do yourself a favor and experience it on a PS3 if you haven't already picked one up (and no, I don't work for Sony).

I never write reviews...but here's my 2 cents.

This is probably the first mature title for the PS3 since its launch. By 'mature' I am not talking about content rating but the quality of this game. It seems that this is the first title post launch of the PS3 that is pushing the console to its limit. Sure, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune is an awesome game but I don't think it pushes the box to its limits.

Thanks to this game, I will have to stop playing the quite enjoyable COD 4 (and I was getting so close to a promotion!).

My only critical comment about this game is that the multiplayer match-up will still need a little time to build up users...but I am very confident that this will probably not be an issue a month from now.

If you like shooters, don't hesitate..get this game now.

This game is a must-own online multiplayer FPS & its amazing on every level but be warned, if you're spoiled by the slow pace of Halo 3 or COD & expect to have time to set up your 5 minute sniper rifle shot while drinking a cup of coffee you will hate this game with a passion. The pace is fast & furious & relentless. The whole point of the game is to not shoot at your opponent but where you think he or she might be(What folks who suck at this game call "random shooting"). If you have quick reflexes & good hand eye coordination & you're looking for a game thats just one big adrenaline rush then here is the best game you will ever play.

This has to be the best looking game on Ps3 right beside uncharted and rachet....different games different style graphics....But this games game play graphics and fun factor are top notch....They wasn't joking when they said better graphics then gears !!....If you are into to shooters this is the king of all....Pick it up its a great purchase!....No doubt the best hardcore shooter on Ps3...well Best shooter on any system at the moment...Yea better than Halo in my book i own both!

I've played quite a few first-person shooters in my day, dating back to Quake on PC in the early 90's. The Unreal Tournament series came along and sort of upped the bar in a way. The game is VERY fast paced compared to many on the market.

I bought this game expecting a decent experience, but was surprised at how vivid the graphics are (constant 60 fps thus far @ 1080p.) The single player story is mediocre at best, but the gameplay is out of this world. It really does get your adrenaline pumping. The slew of guns, vehicles, and characters really help the game transcend the list of PS3 games heading for the bargain bin at the Dollar Tree.

If you're looking for something different than the Orange Box and TF2 (all fans of first-person shooters should own a copy of that as well), then give this a try. It should hold us over till Haze drops in February. I pray that it lives up to the hype.

A wonderful game; currently unmatched in its genre. The Multiplayer was quite laggy but I'm sure that will soon change. The single player is very solid and seems to run at an almost constant framerate. It justs goes to show what a dedicated dev team can do.

I picked this game up yesterday, as I was skeptical about it, I enjoyed COD4 immensley, and I must say, as far as online play, this game is on par or better than everything out at the moment. The graphics put even its Gears of War brethren to shame. (Although a couple of the characters resemble GOW characters alot, I think Othello's voice is the same as the Cole-trains) Realistically speaking about online, if you have never played Unreal before, practice first, because the Unreal players of old and new, play hard and play for keeps, these guys dont mess around.

This game is great, although I can see how it would get repetitive, as no team really has any advantage other than experience playing. No real weapon advantages, everyone runs and plays at the same speed. So essentially the bigger guys are just as fast as the female characters with less armor. No class selection of any kind.

When you fire the game up, it will scream Gears of war, but it plays as a standard FPS. Combat is fast and intense, get ready for a real fight.

I highly recommend this game, to all PS3 players, and PC players alike. This game is excellent, especially if you are getting a little burnt out on COD4. Have fun, and fight on!

The splitscreen is the only reason that I did not buy this game in the first place. Now this game is splitscreen offline (not online), and I am happy with my purchase. One of the best online games I have ever played as a matter of fact.