Unreal Tournament III – Free weekend

Brian Ambrozy (primesuspect)

September 16, 2009 9:15 PM ET in News, , , , , , , ,

ut3logoUnreal Tournament III will be free to play this weekend; you can preload now and on Thursday at 1pm PST, the game will be unlocked and playable all weekend.

I did a stint with UT3 and found it not as fun as UT2k4. What did you guys think?

I’ll be downloading it and playing it this weekend with fellow {IC} members to give it another shot. Maybe it will be more fun with friends.

Don’t tell Sharkydart. He’s not invited.

8 Comments

  1. 17 Sep '09, 1:37 am lordbean

    I have to agree with you. For some reason, UT3 just didn't grab me the same way UT2k4 did. Can't quite put my finger on why, though.

  2. 17 Sep '09, 1:40 am Cyclonite

    I bought it the day it came out. Was really excited. It was incredibly disappointing. For more reasons than this, but they got rid of Bombing Run. That was my favorite game mode!

  3. 17 Sep '09, 2:27 am Cliff_Forster

    Other than the silly hoverboard UT3 is a big improvement, especially with some of the crazy modifiers.

    The last time they did a content update they added a few classic style maps. Play a standard deathmatch in Morbias Station just for the old school kicks.

  4. 17 Sep '09, 3:11 am Thrax

    But the game sure is beautiful.

  5. 17 Sep '09, 12:56 pm drasnor

    Not even close to as fun. All the maps are low-contrast and the fog of war plane is far closer than in UT2k4. Also, EPIC never delivered on the Linux client.

    -drasnor

  6. 20 Sep '09, 7:35 pm Komete

    Sucked lemons IMO. Too much catering to the consoles. UT's primary audience should always be for PC gamers. UT2k3 was my favorite. LGI 135.. ahh the glory days.

  7. 20 Sep '09, 8:46 pm RWB

    I guess I am the odd man out, I never got into UT too much in the first place but I've played it through the years and enjoyed it(just not as much as others). But this free weekend gave me the reason to buy their deal pack. I cannot believe this game is doing so badly that they can sell it for cheap I am lovin' the game! The game is beautiful as you guys already know but I enjoy the hell out of the single player instant action so far though I haven't done the MP yet as I feel I might suck and wanna get to know the missions better.

    I read someone here got UT3 for like $5 from the bargin bin somewhere, wow. I thought this game just came out LOL

  8. 21 Sep '09, 6:30 am Komete

    I tried getting into UT3 but the online community for it is almost nonexistent. At least it was a year or so ago when I was looking into it. The only servers that I usually found people on were in the UK and if I wanted to play with them I had to endure a 200ping. It was just too frustrating. UT99 still has a much larger following than ut3 ever did.

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