PS3 Trophy Support and Split Screen in New Unreal Tournament III Update

Today, Epic has made available the first screenshots and details of what's to come in the much-anticipated free bonus pack, which we can reveal will be coming to PC and PS3 on March 5th 2009.

"Unreal Tournament 3: Titan Pack" includes:

* 16 environments – four Warfare, three vCTF, six Deathmatch, and three CTF maps – that are new to the PC and PS3 versions
* Three bonus pack maps, CTF-Face, CTF-Searchlight and DM-Morbias
* The namesake Titan mutator, which lets players overwhelm opponents as a 15 foot tall titan, or crush them as a 30 foot tall Behemoth
* Greed and Betrayal, two gametypes that breed new-found fervor throughout the competitive UT3 arena
* Two powerful weapons, the Stinger Turret and Eradicator Cannon artillery
* Two valuable deployables, the X-Ray Field and Link Station
* The Slow Field power-up, a portable version of the Slow Field deployable
* Stealthbender, a new vehicle that carries two spidermine trap deployables, one EMP mine, and one each of the new Link Station and X-Ray Field deployables
* Two new characters, Nova and Kana
* 57 awards attainable as Steam Achievements and PS3 Trophies
* Broad improvements for PC and PS3: Significant AI enhancements, especially in vehicle gametypes; networking performance upgrades; greatly improved menu flow and UI usability; better mod support
* Client-side demo recording, highly improved Server Browser, a new maplist system, plus mid-game mutator and gametype voting functionality for PC
* High demand PS3 features including PS3 Trophy support, two-player split-screen support, and mod browsing

[jkhan]

Does anyone play this game anymore? I used to play it a lot back when it was released but then moved on to other games. The mod thing was pretty, wasn't handled well by the devs. I will give this game another go just for trophies.

[Fishy Fingers]

What do you mean by, the mods not being handled well by the devs? They did a terrific job allowing mod support.

[xhi4]

haha i think i was one of the few who bought the game, now with split screen and my mods i'll definitely go back to it

[hakis86]

I played it yesterday, tried out a few mods as well (PS3). This is great news, this game looks really good and is very intense and fun to play! And Trophies:D Better mod support is great (maybe they mean support for sounds on the ps3?)
And better AI is a bonus...great, can't wait til March 5th!

[TOO PAWNED]

my bro will now get back to it, that's for sure. great update.

[jkhan]

@1.1
By not handled well means, the whole mods concept was cool, but downloading a mod on PC copying it to a usb in a stupidly named folder and then importing it in the game & I can't remember and I may be wrong but I think you could add only one mod at a time, so it was really a chore. They should have the mod browser support from day 1 or should have been patched long time ago. The game came out around Nov./Dec of 2007. so yeah thats what I mean by not handling well.

[Fishy Fingers]

Well your obviously making more of it than you need to. Certain UT mod sources, such as http://www.ut3mod.com/ allow you to download the mods from the PS3 browser. No need for a PC what so ever and it's been like that since day one.

[Mindboggle]

3rd time this news has been approved !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its brilliant news but do we need it posted 3 times with 3 different titles ???

I thought mods were a great addition and like fishy fingers said you can download mods using the PS3 browser but you still need a memory stick and not all the mods were on that site, so it was still a pain. But this mod browser is a welcome addition...and i hope everyone goes back to ut3 as its a brilliant game.

[Real Gambler]

A news like that can be posted more than 3 times and I won't be mad...

It's a lot more features for an old game for FREE... Dang, somebody post his opinion about the 360 > than PS3 or vice-versa on a BLOG and this get posted 20 times... I hate BLOG posts, and yet, we see them over, and over in NEWS for gamers.

So if one news deserve as much headlines as it can, it's devs giving us so much for FREE. Most devs would have made us pay for all this. Dang, there's nothing I hate more than DLC being available for $$$ one week after a game release. Common, just include it in the game! But those guys did an awesome job. I'm glad I bought the game and sure enough will come back to it.

[caliblue15]

We had 5 in approval for over 1-2 hours and it wouldn't get approved. All I did was add my own title that would help the article and it was instantly approved. I was trying to get the news out to the masses faster.

[Lifendz]

when COD4 implements trophies. That mile high club on veteran mode is going to separate the men from the boys.

[Downtown boogey]

It's just a plain shame not enough people bought this and after mastering it I sold it. But I might buy it back now!
BUY THIS GAME!

[Megaton]

The online in this game was dead a few months after it was released. I traded it in at Blockbuster for $33 and bought Uncharted. Now that it's down to $20 new, I might buy it again for this substantial patch. The modding in this was great, and there were some really cool maps too.

[vhero]

talk about an update! great features! i'm glad I still got my copy :)

[CBaoth]

I thought the communication was nerfed in the game. Poor quality and halfway through matches, friends would lose the audio altogether. And if I remember you had to press right on the D-pad to talk anyway, making it impossible in the heat of battle to effectively communicate with your team. Never tried it with the new bluetooth though.

[sinncross]

I think I'm going to give this a try!

[flOw]

Too late...

[killax3563]

This game is only $20.... when a game is that cheap, its never too late.

[zaz12]

this update is equal to a new sequel.

[byeGollum]

i liked unreal, ill be gettin it back for this update. . .

[poopsack]

omg awesome, i was planning on getting this game through Gooozex and this just makes it more awesome.

[Mozku]

Too late... Killzone 2 mp will rape this.

[poopsack]

or you know, people can play both if they want.

[Mindboggle]

I Hope not Ut3 in my opinion is just as good as kz2, not graphics wise but the gameplay is brilliant. Dont comment unless youve played both.

[killax3563]

UT3 is only $20 now. Great game for cheap.

[Viper7]

This game is as far as you can be from Killzone, Unreal tournament has always been highspeed frag fest while Killzone is more about semi-realistic team and tactics based combat. (more closer to call of duty and battlefield.
Both this and Killzone share the differend audience, and those who like both will play both :p

The game was pretty good as multiplayer but the fact that it lacked all these rankings and ulockables trough multiplayer pretty much made it dull for many achieving players.

Now that it will get trophies the game player ammount will probably get a huge boost. Or atleast I hope it will. Ill definetly go check it out!

[G1L]

Does anyone know if the splitscreen support is for 4 player or just 2?
Thanks in advance :).
Cheers
*Edited* Sorry, my bad, I didn't read properly, it's 2 player only :S

[rob6021]

Mods on the current UT3 on PS3 are a chore to get working, glad to see they're fixing that, and split screen is really nice(seems like they used whatever coding they had in the 360 version on the ps3 one). Funny wheres the 360 version in all this?

[forcefullpower]

At last i can start playing it again. Got really pissed about transfering the MOD and couldn't be bothered to play

[Sir Ken_Kutaragi]

I want 4 player off-line split-screen support???
+ With Bots???
+ Each player has their own Profiles???
Hmm...Like TimeSplitters 1/2/3???
Oh well...

[thereapersson]

Why would you want BOTS?

They'd cause your PS3 to overheat and instigate a chronic case of fanboyism and graphical nitpicking.

[thehitman]

*Dusts off UT3 and gathers friends IN A HURRY!*

[RedVsBlue]

I guess now we know why it is taking a long time to fix Gears 2 & that should be top priority & ont a game that flopped on all platforms its on. Ah well its Epics fault for killing Gears Of War

[Mindboggle]

I always prefered ut3 to gears anyway so im happy.

[Vip3r]

Sweet! I'm really looking forward to this.

[m-s-8-2]

Im surprised by this. The game was released over a year ago and didn't sell well on PS3 or PC (dont know how well it did on 360.) At the very least, Epic is showing support for the series that was their workhorse before Gears was even conceptualized. Kudos for that.

[paracardium]

I agree with theHitman above time to dust off this baby and starting kicking ass again.So much to play on the Ps3 lately with all psn games and new releases. I wonder if there are people out there still believing that the Ps3 has no games lol.

[jcgamer]

i still have the game...i will DEFINITELY try this out...great news!

[Cajun Chicken]

Thank you Epic!
Thank You Epic!
Thank you Epic!
Thank You Epic!
Thank You Epic!

Hell yes!
The old you hadn't died!

[phosphor112]

YYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSS SSSS

But I already have 8 MP games I need to work at.. =[..but it's nice to know I can invite my bro to play this game now. =]

[ZILLA]

MODS,MODS and more mods!!!with gamers making new levels all the time this game is new every single week.UT3 is still one of my top 5 shooters of all time.PS3+UT3=A W S O M E !!!

[Cajun Chicken]

I wish it had a Sim Mode like the old games though. I really liked the credit/team management and ladders part of the game.

[Solbadguy]

thinking about selling this game awhile back, glad I didn't.

The biggest issue imo is the mods, people cannot join unless they have downloaded the mod themselves. I remember a few times where people I was playing with on the regular maps asked how to download and install mods.

[andron666]

It's a bit late for me. I have traded it in and don't think I will get it again.

But for those who still wants to blast some great mp this will be great...

[dragonyght]

what ut3 lack is community support such as clan and stats

[Magic_The_Celt]

Too bad i got rid of my copy a long time ago

[s1lens3]

I always picked this game and dropped it before check out because it didn't have split-screen.

The best part is that the game is on sale, awesome news.

[Cynical-Gamerzus]

This actually makes me happy.
THis is Epic stepping up to the plate and delivering!!!
Im very happy with this update!!
Split screen was always a necessity and here it is,
Damn good job Epic.
\Now were is that PS3 Exclusive!!!!

[ELite_Ghost]

I guess it makes up for not having Gears on ps3 cause it's better.

[Doppy]

This update should have came out when the 360 version did. By now everyone has probably traded this game in or don't care anymore.

[[email protected]]

Hope for rectroactive trophies ala Bad Company style linking to the PSN ID on they server ^^

[ARog34]

Probably a good buy when you can get it $10-20... then the map pack shouldn't be too much?

I didn't think people played this game anymore, but I'll see if I ever get bored of Killzone in the upcoming months!