Customer Reviews
great fun lacking a storyline!!!!!!! - By: Oliver Ashworth, 29 Dec 2008 
it is really good fun i love the impact hammer blows up the enemy into blood & bits.The hover board swirves round enemys but if you get shot once you fall. The only problem is that it has no real storyline abit like quake wars which i dont like.Basically just because its made by the Gears of war people dos'nt mean that it'll have a chainsaw massacre thing going on know this time its a blow up the enemy into bits massacre.But its really fun X6 the reedemer missles are great to control when they land they cause a sort of nuclear strike once I smashed someones headin with one of those lol. Thats gotta hurt its more for blowing up vehicles like spaceships or tanks. The characters are cool my favourite is Othello he has a sense of humour with Jester which is quite funny. Bishop is a relegious man who likes war abit weird but ok overall 5 star for fun but it lacks storyline nearly their lets hope Unreal tournament 4 will make 5 stars. (thats a long time away i think)
Just one cotton picking minute! - By: CGGREENHILL, 13 Oct 2008 I would just like to say that all those people knocking the offline gameplay value of this item are being rediculous. The storymode is good fun & of a decent length, Shakespere it is not but to be fair original intresting story lines are very hard to come by with most gamesin this generation of consoles. On top of this you have the option of playing all the online modes offline against computer controlled bots. In my mind this is all most as much fun as playing onlinein the first place & somthing other games dont offer. I would have scored this game a 5 however the lack of splitscreen multiplayer gaming is a shocking ommission
and ruins what is possibly one of the best value purchases I have made for my PS3.
Good Game - By: Mr. H. Ward, 02 May 2008 I have alot of different opions of this game. Before I owned it I read some reviews saying don't buy it for the the single player mode. When I got the game I really liked the single game mode, there are good cutscenes & you really feel like yourin a team. the online is amazing, but there is one problem. its difficult to find a game with 16 people, even over 10 is sometimes a challenge. There just aren't enough people online which i was really disappointed about but when you do find a match it is a brilliant online experience only rivaled by COD4 & Warhawk. Hope this review has help.
The latest incremental update to the massively successful franchise - By: *-[ROB]-*, 01 May 2008 A bit of history first:
I admit that I have an sentimental connection with Unreal Tournament, because I was actively there when the "big shift" happened. This "shift", for want of a better word, was one from all-things-IdSoftware to all-things-EpicGames.
Most online gamers are too young to remember, or at least have forgotten that at one time, the only online FPS gaming experience of any longevity was from IdSoftware - 3d Realm's DukeNukem3D had it's time, but was simply was washed away by the first truly 3D FPS - Quake - & it's freely mod-able architecture. (Truly 3D,in that before then, FPS games were rendered with a twin view point perspective & the players were all scaled sprites - dead bodies always faced you feet first, no matter what angle you approached them at. Hell, before then, no one used the now-standard look&strafe control method. Playing Doom was like being a rolling gun turret).
This was where the idea of an FPS online community started, because beyond simply making new maps (as before with Doom & Duke3D), people started making total conversions that shifted the game into new directions that the creators have never envisaged - Quake Hoverboard racing was one I remember fondly. In short: the open architecture enabled this FPS to 'live' way beyond anyone's expectations.
So that was 1997, & it would seem that IdSoftware were the rulers of this realm. But then, after years of delay & speculation, Epic's "Unreal" was finally released. Not only was it the most significant enhancement to the genre of the decade, but eventually took the gaming world by storm as the engine of choice for many 3rd party games developers.
Unreal firsts: Massive environments (no more tight corridors, unless you wanted them), proper transparency, amazing water effects & full development tools supplied with the original install disk. 1999 saw the follow-up "Unreal Tournament", & the rest, as they say, is history.
So now to UT3:
So here we arein 2008, & so what's new? Well, it's an incremental update to the previous UT's, so don't expect anything earth-shatteringly different - the formula has been tweaked, but that's about it. It's still an FPS (unless you have installed the ActionCam or UT2D mods - both of which I recommend), & happily it runs on all the high end platformsin one near-simultaneous release effort. Too bad Xbox 360 owners can't join the PC-PS3 party (I mean that sincerely).
The one thing that I do notice though, is the heritage of this title. The network performance is very slick, & the whole experience of battling people online is handled incredibly smoothly. This is facilitated by over a decade of experience, & it showsin bucket loads.
The PS3 version is mod-able like the PC version, & this is the key to the longevity of this title. You probably won't feel the value straight away (especially as there is no proper single player campaign, just like the previous UT installments). It will be next year, when you find yourself still playing it, probably with some bizarre mods that have popped upin the meantime. It will be that "go to" game when you have some mates around & a fridge full of alcohol. Weirdly, online play feels very similar to Halo3, so for PS3 owners UT3 may just fill that void if you need it to. Do I need to mention that one of the standard player models looks like GearOfWar's Marcus Phoenix?
NOTE: PS3 users should also to be aware that the 1.1 update expects the baked SAVEGAME.MOD files to bein the root of your usb storage media, so loose the folder structure if the ps3 mod you've downloaded has one - otherwise UT3 won't find it when you try to import it.
I also recommend that you go to ut3mod[dot]com via the ps3 web browser & check out some ps3-ready direct-to-console downloadable content. All gratis - superb!
Brilliant Multiplayer Mayhem - By: Caveman, 15 Apr 2008 
Unreal Tournament III is a multiplayer game that has single player practice missions. The whole fun here is going online & blasting it out against other people. The thrill comes from knowing that anyone - including yourself - can be killed with the right couple of shots with the right weapon. However, when you get killed you can very quickly get right back into the action It has a very similar feel to the original UT game. It is not deep, nor meaningful & deathmatches - my favourite - are pure chaos! Story? errrm, there is no story, at least not one worth paying attention to. This is all about the game play!
I could give it 4 stars because the single player is not nearly as much fun as the multiplayer but why complain that chalk is not cheese? The single player works as a tutorial, nothing more. My advice is make sure you know what you are buying before you plungein because if challenging multiplayer chaos doesn't sound like fun to you then you won't like this.
