All that I can say is that this game is Unreal. From the familiar theme song to the consistently fast game play that the series is known for, Unreal Tournament 3 that builds on its legacy as one of the best FSP that has graced this console in quite some time.
From the Gears of War caliber visuals to the very first console game that has ever allowed true user created content, UT3 is a title that Sony needed this past holiday to convince consumers that their piano black suited Blu-Ray player can play some games. For being a port of a PC title, UT3 for the PS3 is a title that is a needed addition to the line up of piss poor ports the plagues the mediocre PLAYSTATION 3 line up.
There are many strong points to this game but there is one major weak point, the single player campaign. For fuck sake Tetris had a better campaign. UT3's campaign is basically just an ongoing training bot matches that get you to know all the maps and the new gametype called Warfare. Essentially Warfare is an combination of Assault and Onslaught and formerly known as Conquest. Now with that being the only weak point to the game, let me talk about the major strong point which is obviously the multiplayer.
Multiplayer is the bread and butter of this game. With over 38 maps on disc to boot and 6 gametypes, there is plenty of content to play offline with some of the best bots in the business or online. When you take your skills online, you will be greeted with a list of servers to choose. This server lobby crap is so last gen and it still sucks. What does a bitch have to do to get a Party system going. With or without the party system, the gameplay is fast and almost lag free. Aside from the typical versus modes, you can also go through the training missions..... I mean the campaign online as well with up to 3 additional players, if only you could hear them. Mic support just plain old suck donkey balls. Shit like this mic support makes me want to play this on 360 when its available. Never the less the experience is nice but it will always make you go back to the traditional multiplayer.
There is one subject that is synonymous to the multiplayer world of Unreal, and its that little 4 letter word. Not its not Frag, its MODS. With the open nature of the Playstation Network, true user generated content has been possible. With more than 80 DLC mods available for the game at the time of this review, a potential player of UT3 that recently purchased the Heroic Map Pack for Halo 3 might feel a bit violated right now seeing that they paid $10 for three maps. That is not to say that Epic won't release official Map packs for some coin. With the fact that there are so many mods available doesn't mean that they are all good. Some maps available either suck or are well made, but all still free to download and criticize.
All and all this is one exceptional game that also make use of the Unreal Engine 3 middleware that was optimized by Epic specifically for this title. With the addition for full support of user generated mods one can't go wrong with what has to be one of the greatest FPS franchises of all time. Get the game, go online and become GODLIKE.
A list of the best FPS games that have been released for the PS3 so far.
I like the MAG love, but Killzone 3 isn't on the list? It's by far my favorite Killzone. The online is fantastic with the way they handled the classes and the maps are brilliant. Sure the game options and networking design were a bit of a step back from Killzone 2, they should have made it as good and simple to use as it was in KZ2 but the actual gameplay, classes, map design, etc. are amazing in Killzone 3 and that is why I just fell in love with the game all over again today since the Double XP weekend is going on.
i somehow preferred kz2 online, especially with warzone maps. also i think that making sniper invisible when he is using silent weapons is bit overpowered:)
Resistance 3 and Killzone 3 should be on the list. Both of them were awesome first-person shooters.
Default Prime writes: "It turns out that the people who make Gears of War also make some other game series called Unreal. Or at least they used to. You wouldn’t really know it, considering that it has been five years since they actually released an Unreal game. Killing locusts with chainsaw bayonets is all well and good, but now that the Gears trilogy is done, maybe Epic Games can get back to the franchise that put them on the map in the first place."
The Unreal games are pretty awesome, well, all but Unreal 2. I'm not much of a fan the way they had no ladder in UTIII too, UC2 is also great and backwards compatible on 360.
I always found that Gears was a step back from what Epic previously achieved.
I remember my jaw dropping the first time I walked out of the crashed ship and saw the outdoor landscape.
And also that first time in that hallway when the walls went up and the lights went off one by one. Man what a great game that was
This article describes five behaviors that go above and beyond normal achievement hunting, suggesting a severe Gamerscore addiction.
im nowhere near that bad. did not play kids games (apart from Kung Fu panda that came with my xbox and was NOT EASY FOR ACHIEVEMENTS) and i don't use a robot or play hannah montana.
those 5 signs are BAD.. but i do like my gamerscore
I would definitely say if you find yourself following in the path of any one of these warning signs, you may have a problem, haha.
Gamerscore is a great idea and concept, but I'd love to see it yield more tangible rewards for those who are truly dedicated to it.
It would be nice to gain something in-game from the achievements that constantly pop up.
I still believe that a higher gamerscore tends to tell a bit more about the player than people think. You have to play A LOT of games to get what is considered to be a respectable score...The only way you do that is by playing games outside of the popularity charts as well.
And without a doubt it may be bit tacky to get an achievement for random things in-game but it is also somehow genuinely satisfying.
I agree that the lobby system in UT3 is somewhat rushed...however I think that a lobby system of this type is the only thing that would work for this game...
with a game like UT3...having the potential for hundreds of mods and additional maps/content...and thousands of people online at any one time...a lobby system is almost a must...you need to be able to sift through available servers based on ping, gametype, etc. in order to find what you want to get yourself into...
twitch shooters are not nearly as "match-based" as other console shooters...where in CoD 4 sitting around in a matchmaking process is acceptable, and sticking through the entire match is almost always done...UT3 is all about speed...you jump into the middle of a deathmatch in a race to 500 frags...only to score 30, and then jump out...almost no one stays through a single deathmatch for the entire time...its just a game to kill as many as possible, and then move on to start the process over...
ideally though I agree...some sort of matchmaking AND a lobby system would be perfect...something like Resistance comes to mind...but UT3 would be entirely different, in a bad way imo, if you were stuck with matchmaking only...having no idea what other gametypes and maps are open at any one time...
overall great review...I would give the game a 9.0 overall, but can't necessarily disagree with any points you made in the scoring...