I want to say from the Creators of Gears of War but then Again Unreal Tournament has been long since GoW.
Unreal tournament has been a major success among online
players as well as single players for those who can’t afford DSL. Trust me I
feel your pain. What makes unreal tournament so great it’s the online
competitions as well as the modifications that are made. The last unreal
tournament game we saw was about 4 years ago with the release of Unreal
tournament 2004. Now with beefed up graphics and better weapons as well as
Modifications Unreal tournament makes a comeback on PC as well as Consoles.
Unreal
Tournament is a game based on online multiplayer so their main focus in online.
However with the single player campaign or as you will see it in the game
offline mode focuses on events within the tournament. It uses a similar feature
to that of Counter Strike for the Xbox where you go around collecting weapons
and shooting people however you’re not always just going around in circles, you
actually move forward. The events take place in a Massive level and few
objectives are given for the player to complete before moving on to the next
level.
Online
Multiplayer is the main feature on UT3. You can challenge people from around
the globe and join a team. There are a few teams you can join and depending on
the team each will have its own unique armor and style. You can play several
different game modes such as: Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the flag,
Duel, Warfare (FKA Conquest) and Vehicle Capture the Flag. The Vehicles and
Weapons are probably the main attraction for UT3. If you’ve played UT2004 you
will know that the weapons look similar to the ones in UT3. In fact they could
actually be the same since the graphics have been beefed up so the weapons
could have more detail. Killer awards have been expanded as well. For example
if you accumulate 15 kills with a certain weapon the player will be given the
award for that particular weapon. The awards are: Jackhammer, Gun Slinger, Bio
Hazard, rail rape, Combo King, Shaft Master, Blue Streak, Flak Master, Rocket
Scientist, Head Hunter, Skeet Shooter, and Big Game Hunter.
There
are 2 types of vehicles: Axon vehicles (made by the Axon Corporation) and
Necris vehicles. The Axon vehicles are the same ones that were on UT2004, but
with a few changes. When tagged to a vehicle the player gets a hover board that
can be used to travel from one place to the other on the level. However because
the player is hanging on to the vehicle he is venerable to attack not to
mention that the hover boards are weak and can be destroyed with a few shots
from the enemies. Necris vehicles are newer vehicles controlled by the undead
humans. There are six Necris vehicles, and although they are not parallel to
Axon's vehicles, they are intended to make a good balance against them.
UT3 was
made using the newer engine from Epic which is the Unreal Engine 3, the same
engine used to make Gears of War, Hour of Victory, Blacksite Area 51, etc. The
game features stunning details as well as massive worlds for battle. The
framerate is very smooth with no lag what so ever. The only lag that occurs in
the game is when playing online with a bad connection. The audio fits in right
with the graphic details. It has very good sound effects as well as voice over.
For the Sound track it varies from person to person. Some people might like it
some might not.
I
installed UT3 on 5 separate machines with different specs. The highest one was
3.0GH, 2 GB Ram, Windows XP running on a 19 inch HD monitor. The game runs on
both Vista and XP so it’s really a good thing for any windows player. The recommended
requirements for the game are: 2.4+ GHz
Dual Core Processor, 1 GB of System RAM, NVIDIA 7800GTX+ or ATI x1300+ Video
Card and 8 GB of Free Hard Drive Space. These requirements are what it takes to
take full advantage of the game and they in fact look stunning. The minimum
system requirements are: 2.0+ GHz Single Core Processor, 512 Mbytes of System
RAM,NVIDIA 6200+ or ATI Radeon 9600+
Video Card and 8 GB of Free Hard Drive Space. While these are only the minimum
requirements the game will default to the basics of what your system can
handle. The Last PC that I installed Unreal Tournament on was only a 1.7GH dual
core processor, 2GB of RAM, ATI Radeon Xpress on a Windows XP and Vista (I Dual
Boot). While the game may still run flawlessly on a system with the less than
minimum requirements the graphics do suffer. So if you don’t care about
graphics you can run your UT3 on the less than minimum on your system. The
frame rate stays solid and the action is the same as always.
The
control system is the same that has been for years for FPS. Sometimes it can be
very sluggish to follow commands and with so many buttons being pressed at the
same time, it can confuse new comers. It takes a while to get used to them but
eventually new players will get better and better at it.
UT3
comes with an editor that will allow you to edit characters and levels as well
as weapons and vehicles. You can post your mods up and challenge friends with
your new looking level design. Using the Editor is very simple because it is
more of a drag and drop type of feature rather than programming everything from
scratch.
UT3
offers many levels of excitement, Online and Offline LAN play as well as a
single player campaign. Over all UT3 will keep you coming back for more for
years to come. Specially with the level editor where you can create your own
custom mods. If you love online games then you will definitely love Unreal
Tournament 3.
