bit-tech Shopping: Midway Unreal Tournament III (PS3)

Rating: 8

Time with product:

Strengths: Graphics, sound, steady frame rate, support keyboard/mouse setup

Weaknesses: No real single player story mode

Summary: This is an old school run and gun shooter in the likes of Quake 2, 3, and Unreal Tournament 2003, 2004. It tests the players' reflexes and aiming accuracy. In a over-crowded FPS genre, old school game play has been dropped in favor of strategic game play in recent shooters like Call of Duty 4 and Rainbow Six Vegas series. This game brings back the simple yet fun game play of first generation FPS, with Gear of War like graphic and sound. The game is not for everyone but is a good one for me as shooters like these are very rare these days.

Rating: 8

Time with product: 2

Strengths: Fast-Paced Gameplay, Graphics, Buttery-Smooth Framerate, Fun Multiplayer

Weaknesses: Single-player campaign should be called Training Mode

Summary: UT3 brings classic first-person shooter gameplay to the PS3. It is fast-paced and the online multiplayer is very addictive. Fans of the Unreal Tournament franchise will feel right at home with the gameplay and weapons. It?s hard to argue with being able to carry more than two weapons and all of them having secondary firing modes (i.e. this is fraggin heaven). It does take a bit of practice to get accustomed to using the DualShock3 controller if you?re more of a mouse and keyboard type of FPS player but then again, you can always go with the mouse and keyboard functionality, which is enabled on the PS3. I also like the fact you can see which online matches allow M/KB players. Like previous Unreal Tournament games, the single player campaign is just training mode filler. The only reason to get this game is the fun multiplayer. This is a worthwhile purchase if you like your first-person shooters to be fast and furious.

Rating: 8

Time with product: 5 Days

Strengths: This is one amazing looking game if you have an HD TV with an HDMI hookup, looks better than Gears of War if you can belive it.

Weaknesses: This game does NOT offer offline multiplayer support (vis a vis splitscreen). For online multiplay, it's great.

Summary: Its fast, fun, and increadibly addictive. Its one of the best first-person shooters I have played this year, right behind Call of Duty 4 and Halo 3. Unreal tournament 3's charm comes from its fast paced non-stop gameplay and the great wepons at your desposal with wich you can deal carnage. Many people are complaining about the lack of off-line multiplayer, but with UT3's incredible online play, the offline is not sorely missed at all. It has a single player campaign but its really useless when you have thousands of people to go to war with online. In short UT3 is one of the top 3 shooters this year and the best on the PS3( until Killzone2 comes out anyway) so far. If you love amazing visuals, fast non-stop gameplay, great wepons, and terrific online support you really can't go wrong with UT3. Kudos to EPIC for following a fantastic game likeGears of War with another gem that is UT3.Amazing Game!!!

Rating: 6

Time with product: 2 Months

Strengths: If the speed modifier is used on a level then the game is awesome because it is so fastpaced and the weapons work like you would expect them to. The graphics are very pretty and the maps are big.

Weaknesses: Unless you have great connection the game will kick you off a lot or it is hard to even get on to play.

Summary: I have been playing unreal since it was called unreal. The first version was had incredible graphics and the single player mode was amazing in the days before hardcore gamers were battling each other in the tournament. I am a huge fan of this franchise but the last few versions have left me disappointed. This game is fun but not as addictive as the last few titles. The big problem I have with it is that their server sucks or my connection sucks. It does not work as smoothly as I thought it would being a console game. The PC versions work way better for me. I think that if you have to make a choice between UT3 Resistance and Call of Duty 4 (because not everyone can own all three like I do) you get the most fun out of resistance overall.

Rating: 8

Time with product: 2

Strengths: intense online multiplayer, great visuals

Weaknesses: single player campaign is a joke

Summary: Call of Duty 4 is the first time I really played multiplayer online so I picked up Unreal Tournament get some more online fun. The two games are very different and I prefer Call of Duty of this, but its still a lot of fun. The game play is very intense and fast paced. I know this game is known for its online mode, but the single player campaign is nothing more than bots put into levels that you kill until you reach a certain score. Some story is thrown in between each level, but it doesn?t add anything to the campaign. If your into more intense futuristic shooters then im sure you will enjoy this game.