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CVG: Unreal Tournament III Review

Linkin Park Fan | November 20, 2007 | Reviews | PC Playstation 3 
CVG has put up their review for Unreal Tournament 3. They loved the game, but they said the two worst things in the game are the bots and the single player campaign. So even if Epic tried to make the campaign a lot better this time around, maybe it didn't work out to well.

Final Score=8.9/10
So, normally with this type of review - the type ending in a big score - the criticisms are left to the end. Let's not do that this time - it means finishing on a sour note, and then trying to rope it back with a hasty "But it's awesome!". UT3 is insane, and brilliant, so we're going to get what's wrong with it out of the way early.

Developers Epic chucked out a remarkable stat a while back: more than half of all UT2004 players never played the online shooter online. Not once. And you've got to imagine the minority who did venture out onto the internets also put in some time with the excellent bots. That pretty much settles it - UT is primarily a singleplayer game.


So for the fourth edition, unaccountably named Unreal Tournament 3, Epic have concentrated a lot more on the offline campaign. Here are the two worst things about UT3: the bots and the offline campaign.

You play 'Reaper', a man in a dress with a hilariously crap goatee. You, your sister Jester, your token black sidekick Othello and apparently Catholic sniper Bishop are all that's left of the Ronin, a band of yada yada destroyed by whoever when they inevitably etcetera. It's tragic. The campaign consists entirely of one-off matches comically unrelated to the absurd briefings, and punctuated now and then by cutscenes of you arguing with a man in a beret.
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    djjimmy2k2 | November 21, 2007
    sad to say that im part of the "more than half of all UT2004 players never played the online shooter online". even though the single-player may have a shit story so do many other games, so thats not gonna deter me from havin some fraggin fun with the game. still gonna be a release day purchase for me.
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    HBK619 | November 21, 2007
    There are too many other great online shooters right now to bother with this, it's a shame it had to be released when the competition was so fierce, but I suppose it had to be released some time.
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    slumpy monkey | November 21, 2007
    token black guy?

    thats sounds racist....
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    SSBB_Crazy | November 21, 2007
    Ive never even heard of this game to tell you the truth.
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    Red 9 | November 22, 2007
    Never really cared for it. And after seeing this, I'm sure not to get it.
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    Charuzu | November 22, 2007
    This will be one of the best multiplayer games of the season... i hope.
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    Nath | December 02, 2007
    I've played all of the Unreal Tournaments, and I'm not sure that this really stands out as weak. The campaign couldn't possibly be worse than 2004, yet it was still an awesome game due to Instant Actions. The same seems to be true in 3.

    I've played the demo, and from what I can see from the levels it has it's just a much prettier 2004 that brought back some weapons from the original. Not a revolutionary sequel, but not horrible.

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