An Old School FPS
was thinking about this game for a very very long time, being remarkably new to the series i was intriuged when seeing the PS3 version in action, seeing the graphics as well as foreign vehical gameplay caught my eye.
Coming into the series (as well as being the only one standing infront of a midnight blockbuster to get this game, having no other mightnight launches of course...), I felt a bit uneven...saying to myself..."is anyone even going to buy this game other then me? or even rent it?" that question has been anwsered.
(Review style): Story, Gameplay, Graphics, Sound, Multiplayer, Overall
To let everyone know now, NO this game has no story line, you face bots on a variety of maps which basically gets you ready to take on the online component of the game. (That was simple)
The gameplay (espiecally for a newcomer only playing the last UT for the Xbox which name i forget which was basically a 3rd person action game) will be trouble for people who have played alot of, Halo 3, COD4, BFBC,TF2 ect...those games had a relvativly more realistic type of gameplay being more slow and easily to handle, UT3 throws all of that away and is more like Counter Strike with its fast sense of gameplay and controls, as well as Quake Wars with lots of jumping around and firing off your weapon randomly to try to get a hit.
So at first if your not already used to this type of gameplay just keep at it for a while and you'll probably get a hang for it after a while, and after that while you will be getting messages saying DOUBLE KILL!!, KILLING SPREE!! and so on and so force...makes you happy after a while.
The weapons in UT3 are bizzare, you start out with a standard pistol but soon work your way to getting the Bio Gun, Link Gun, Sniper Rifle, Flank cannon which are all UT favorties from what i have seen in other reviews, all these guns depend diffrently depending on what your attacking, like the bio gun isnt going to be much affect against a vehicle when the flank cannon and launcher can really tear them apart.
Vehicles are one of the great aspects of the game and they run like the Halo 3 vehicles do, pushing the right stick forward to move and shoot where the reticule is, these controls can get a bit akward at times depending on the vehicle you are using, all and all though most of the vehicles handle nicely, the grav boards are fun to use, the goaliths are powerful as ever, and spinning and slicing some guy in half with the great ball of doom is so much fun :D
There are many types of gametypes to chose from as well such as:
Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the flag, Duel, Warfare and Vehicle Capture the Flag
These are all fun gametypes which gives great replay value especially when it comes to multiplayer.
The graphics are absouloutly beautiful with a couple of frames out of sync depending on the battle, but other then that everything looks gorgeous being beautiful built, one of the best examples of this called Gateway which teleports you into very different types of enviroments like snow, or a jungle and it looks great.
The sound is also pretty darn good, their is some voice acting in the game when dying and getting the flag and lossing the flag going "Son of a *****" which funny to hear for the most part.
Multiplayer is the focused part of UT3, you are not in this for the short campign of facing bots you get this game to play with your freinds on Xbox Live and having loads of fun everything gets amped up now facing actually opponents on these large game types can be ALOT OF FUN (Has played 3 matches getting owned in all 3 but still did pretty damn good, uhhh HEADSHOT!!!)
Overall this is not a game to get if your expecting a great single player portion, your coming into this Fast paced game with having no idea what to expect, but once you get online you'll be trying to frag it out with people with all different types of weapons. I will warn you though, like i've said before this is not like your regular FPS this is high speed, fast paced shooting which might not be for everyone and it dosent revolutionize FPS's at all.
PS: This game has the patches that were already on the PS3 and PC version was well as i think 5 exclusive maps
