There are a lot of people that do not like Steam – for what ever reason I do not know. But this is one of the reasons why I like having Steam installed, you get perks like this.
Play Unreal Tournament 3 FREE this weekend! Visit the UT3 game page to start pre-loading and be ready to play as soon as it starts Thursday at 1:00PM PDT (8:00PM GMT).
Back in March, Steam offered a UT 3 free weekend. So I decided to load the game and see why the UT series has a solid fan base.
Preloading on Steam took at least 4 – 5 hours on a cable modem connection. The downloading was started around 7:00 am, and finished up around 1 pm.
When UT3 was launched, it asked for log in information. If you forgot your log in information, it could be retrieved from gamespyid.com. That is all fine an dandy, except my gamespy ID starts with a number. AndUT3 rejects account names that start with a number. So a new account had to be created.
It seems counter productive that user accounts can be created on the website, but can not be used in the game. Also, why does UT3 need my gamespy ID to start with?
The map design looks like a throw back to the original single player Unreal, but that is not a bad thing. Overall, the map design looks like something that came out of a single player mission, instead of multiplayer game. Some of the maps are just down right huge. Even with the sniper rifle, enemy players on the other side of some maps can be very small and difficult to hit.
First Impressions – The maps have a LOT of detail, the background music is sweet and the over all game play is pretty awesome.
I can understand “why” the UT series has a solid fan base.
Video with tips and instructions on how to improve your gameplay in Unreal Tournament 3 Titans.
Special thanks goes to VoxHouseStudio for posting this video on youtube. Either visit youtube and post your comments there, or check out this UT3 Titans thread in the forums.
The UT 3 free weekend ended last sunday at noon. So I thought a little review would be in order.
First impression – the game play was solid, but there were certain factors that took away from the overall effect, such as the rocket jump (RJ).
Even though there are a lot of people that disagree with my opinion, I feel that a good death match game needs the RJ physics. And that is one move that UT is lacking on. Having spent so much time in Quakeworld, I learned how much of an asset the RJ can be.
As an example – this weekend, myself and another player faced off. The enemy player fired a rocket that I dodged. While dodging the rocket, I moved behind a large box sitting on the ground. A majority of the people are right handed, so that means there was a good chance that the enemy player would go around the box on my left hand side. The plan was to RJ over the box, over the enemy player and plant at least 2 rockets on him before he even knew what happened. But needless to say, the RJ does not work in Unreal Tournament 3 Black.
Just because UT 3 Black does not have the rocket jump does not mean the game is not fun. While playing this weekend, I found that UT 3 has a lot of offer, was lots of fun and is a recommended buy.
Steam has Unreal Tournament 3 Black on sale for $11.99 until March 22nd.
Also, Steam is offering Unreal Tournament 3 Black free for the weekend. Starting Friday at 10am PST and ending Sunday at 1pm PST you can play UT3 for free.
Unreal Tournament 3 Black was released on November 19, 2007. The system requirements are pretty low by todays standards.
Minimum System Requirements:
o Supported OS: Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista
o Processor: 2.0+ GHZ Single Core Processor
o Memory: 512 MB RAM
o Graphics: NVIDIA 6200+ or ATI Radeon 9600+ Video Card
o Sound: Windows Supported Sound Card
o DirectX: DirectX 9.0c
o Hard Disk Space: 8 GB
Unreal Tournament is considered to be one of the best deathmatch games ever made.