This weekend sees another Steam special. You can play the full version of Unreal Tournament 3 from Thursday for the whole weekend. I will be running a server this weekend if enough community members show interest. Please let me know via this thread whether you are interested in playing sometime Saturday/Sunday. If you let me know your preferred times I’ll try to oblige.
Check out some videos of game play. You can play it either as single player or online with friends. There's several modes of play such as Team death match, deatmatch veicle death match, plus several more modes. The graphics are amazing. The 3D environments are diverse and interesting.
Check out some you tube videos of Unreal tourmanent game play, showing some of the different environemnts, weapons and vehicles you'll use if you play HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE
About Unreal Tournament 3:
Unreal Tournament 3 marks the return of the world's premiere first-person shooter. Unreal Tournament 3 unleashes the full power of Unreal Engine 3, taking graphics, gameplay, and challenge to a whole new level. Players engage in intense battles with other human players online, or against Unreal artificial intelligence that sets the industry standard. With the most powerful futuristic weapons and vehicles available, this is FPS action at its best!
Unparalleled graphical and physical realism from the award-winning Unreal Engine 3 technology delivers the most compelling first-person shooter experience to date...online and offline!
Vast arsenal of weapons - Unreal Tournament has always been known for brutal weaponry, and now the arsenal is even bigger and badder. Detonate your opponent from a distance with the ever popular Shock Rifle or blast away at close range with the Flak Cannon. Over two dozen weapons and vehicles have been upgraded and enhanced for maximum killing potential.
New single player campaign! This is Unreal Tournament like you've never seen it before! The Necris invasion has begun, and your clan was one of the first to be slaughtered. Head to the front lines and join this Epic battle to defend humanity while taking your revenge.
New and favorite characters - Fight side-by-side with or compete against new and returning characters from the Unreal universe, all with enhanced abilities, extremely detailed designs, and distinct personalities.
Enhanced popular game types, including Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, and all-new Warfare mode and more.
Online innovations - Unreal Tournament 3 brings back all the award-winning online features of previous Unreal Tournament games, plus seamless loading on servers, improved matchmaking, and co-operative campaign play online.
PC version bundled with the award-winning Unreal Engine 3 Toolset - Build your own levels, game types, and more, or download the latest mods from the massive Unreal community
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The “Titan Pack” gives players a substantial amount of enhanced features and new content, including many original environments, new gametypes, the namesake Titan mutator, powerful deployables and weapons, new characters, and the Stealthbender vehicle.
Also included are sweeping enhancements to AI, networking performance, UI usability and mod support, plus the addition of 57 Steam Achievements to make the UT3 experience even more satisfying. The “Titan Pack” also brings client-side demo recording, major Server Browser enhancements, a new maplist system, plus mid-game mutator and gametype voting functionality to the PC.
“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 game types 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
• Stealth bender, a new vehicle that carries two spider mine 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
• Significant AI enhancements, especially in vehicle game types; networking performance upgrades; greatly improved menu flow and UI usability; better mod support
• Client-side demo recording, highly improved Server Browser, a new map list system, plus mid-game mutator and game type voting functionality for PC
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You do require the free Steam client to be able play the game. Join the Giveawayoftheday Steam group and then you’ll find it easy to jump into the server that I’ll be setting up 9assuming enough members say they will be joining the game. If you like it you can buy UT3 black for £13.99 (around $20). The black edition includes the recently released expansion Titan, which you can read about above. The whole Unreal tournament games package can be bought via Steam for around £23 ($35) and Includes: Unreal 2: The Awakening, Unreal Tournament 3 Black, Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition, Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition, Unreal GoldHere’s your opportunity to play in a friendly server for free this coming weekend.
Check it out HERE
Yeah, most of the game play characters look as intimidating as the one above, though he's tame compared to some of the alien species, lol
