Unreal Tournament 3

Story:
The human race is on the brink of extinction in a none cliche manor. Basically what happens is a bunch of emo's and goths known as the Necris, lead by one badass ***** plan to destory the last remaining Tournament members.

This is the latest incarnation of the Unreal Tournament franchise, let alone the entire epic game's Unreal franchise. It is alot darker, more frantic, and now features for the first time in the series breifings before games and cinematics.

Voice acting is good, and features automatic chat during the game. half way through a game, a team mate will yell out somebody get our flag back, or i've got the flag. the relationship between you and your tema mates is great, they fell more real than just plan AI.

Each character can be customised Spore-style. change there armour, gloves, goggles, hats , etc
each character is unique, and online, there is a 1000-1 chance that custom models will look alike!

Graphics
graphics have really come a long way in 9 years and counting. blood is spontanious and when equipped with the right one, will splat your screen with blood, walls and floors. electrical weapons will cause them to glow, rocket launchers may make the catch on fire, and the impact hammer (oh the impact hammer!) will make the enemy explode in front of your face!
there is a lot of blood, and those with a weak stomach can adjust the level of gore.

water reflects, motion blur, and lighting are bravisimo. when under water, your vision looks as if you've been drunk for a few minutes, so if you want to see what being drunk is like, just take a drive under water and get impared vision. water reflections are great, seeing buildings upside down, just as you would in you leaning over the railing, at sydney habour. the lighting, and shading is great in levels with huge backgrounds, particaly in the Japanese maps, with the sun behind the mountains, and the projecters screaming outwards.

Gameplay
If you've ever played quake, this is very simular but it one difference - most people hate the OpenGL rendering device, so UT3's using Microsoft's DirectX 9.0c Rendering system, which has more compatablity with older PCs say form pre 2006. waeapons very from bulet spraying enforcers, to plasma blasting link guns, to mortor launching/scrap metal shooting shotgun flak guns. weapons come with two firing modes. the first is the primary fire and the second the secondary fire. secondary fire may include "use sniper scope", "laser sight", "multiload", "rapid fire mode" or "grenade fire".

Pew Pew Pew, BOOM, Screeeeeeech, (horn blows), what the **** was that?

vehicles are fun to use and are controled using the wasd buttons, not the mouse like halo, which may take some time for halo regulars.

in UT3 you can dodge a bulet of a sniper rifle by pressing the combo "jump + direct you want to move" or a double tap of the movement key.

UT3 is one on the hotest shooters and is more active the most online games and counter-strike funs will consider giving this one a look

wriiten by DannyV

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