Unreal Tournament 3 Getting Expansion Content

I actually picked up this game not two days ago -- the special edition in the tin for $20. Like the fool that I am I totally forgot that there is no single player campaign.

Anyway, after playing Crysis/warhead/clear sky/COD4, this game felt very "loose" and claustrophobic, while looking very tight. The weapons are super-inaccurate and slow, the levels are tiny, and visually nothing makes sense; everyone is super bulky and deformed and covered in so much logic-defying visual designery that the game ends up basically making a mockery of itself and it's own style.

I had the same feeling when playing Devil May Cry 4 and Gears. They were so caught up in a visual design style that it became totally perverted and discomforting. It's like they didn't know when to stop designing. There are levels of visual complexity -- for instance, if you're flying a plane the landscape outside is a different complexity level from, say, driving through a wooded road, or looking at the palm of your hand, or reading a book. The designers at Epic seemed to want to simply cram as much visual finery into everything at every level. Looking at a puddle in that game is as at the same visual complexity level as looking down out of the window of a plane. Add to this the fact that there IS NO COVER to hide behind and most of the time you get the feeling of at once being visually disturbed, claustrophobic, and perpetually vulnerable -- all the while jacked up on the feeling of anticipation because of the pace of the game, the inaccuracy of the weapons, and the fact that death can come from any one blast by any unseen opponent. I just feel... uncomfortable playing this game.

I tried so hard to like this game but it just wouldn't happen.

Loved UT99 and Quake3. I always preferred the movement in Q3 to UT99 and I was happy that UT moved more in the Q3 direction, but somehow along the way it picked up a few extra gallons of bumpy shiny normal mapped shit that stuck to everything.

Visually appealing doesn't mean complexity and specular bloom.

Team Fortress 2 is visually appealing.
UT3 looks silly

The game does have a lot of potential(for improvement), but what are they gonna do about the basically non-existant online community?

It was stupid to return to UT99-ish gameplay, after UT2K4.

One of many mistakes. No Linux Client, gamespy, promising a real SP part and not delivering, an UI that doesn't save things important to over half of the fanbase, are a few others.

It doesn't help that everyone knows they will go the UT2K3 to UT2K4 route, and release another, improved UT in one year, because of the deal with Midway.

Good news. Not a bad game at all to be honest, it just lacked support from the company that was too busy with Gears of Ego's.

Yay! I picked the PC version up for cheap and I enjoy the occasional match.

new UI please

Are those screenshots from UT2004? Or have they decided not to release bullshots anymore?

UT3 is an unfortunate situation in that it's a perfectly good FPS, but no one plays it. Hopefully this will change things a little. If they really want to change things up, they will redesign the entire UI from scratch, and add some good, original infantry game modes. Warfare is fine, but CTF and DM don't cut it for me.

I thought this would make a good console shooter but even the console crowd didn't bother with it because it's not CoD4.

People, put down the M4 and pick up a "Machine Gun" or "Super Shotgun" from time to time. Unrealistic, factually inaccurate and often physically impossible shooters is where FPSes were born. And they're goddamn fun.

BTW, the 1 mil sales figure is before the xbox version came out.

A million units across all three platforms worldwide is pretty shitty. I bet UT2K4 sold a million units on the PC in the US alone.

The storyline that was switched from competition to war felt kind of weird. I hope for assault and bombing run added, and I guess more lightning fast deathmatch maps. I hadn't really gotten into warfare due to so few players online.

screw the haters. that's all i'm sayin

This game would have to be alive in the first place. Very sad that they dropped the ball on this.

I would love to have a reason to buy ut3

like people playing it and having fun and some innovation beyond what nexuiz and warsow are doing, that could be a reason

I tried the PC demo last year and didn't like it. However, since then I got a new video card. May try it again... if there's a big enough community. I need a new FPS game to play. Sons of Bitches on the CoD4 server I played on modded it up and now it sucks.

Was UT3 ever in the top ten for the XBox 360?