Comments on: Unreal Tournament 3 Demo

By: Sucram

Sucram — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:01:42 +0000

You can spawn other vehicles in the demo using the console:

summon utgamecontent.utvehicle_darkwalker_content
summon utgamecontent.utvehicle_cicada_content
summon utgamecontent.utvehicle_fury_content
summon utgamecontent.utvehicle_paladin
summon utgamecontent.utvehicle_nemesis

And the “Slow Volume”:
summon utgamecontent.utslowvolume_content

No sounds for them though.

By: Rock, Paper, Shotgun » Blog Archive » Unreal Tournamentette

Rock, Paper, Shotgun » Blog Archive » Unreal Tournamentette — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 17:31:31 +0000

[...] few very quick thoughts on the Unreal Tournament 3 demo. These are rather tainted by hungover subjectivity, so may very well not match your own feelings, [...]

By: The_B

The_B — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 15:53:14 +0000

“This was pretty much what I was expecting from UT3. I think the most pleasing thing about it is simply how well it runs on my machine”

My thoughts exactly, although to me this isn’t that much of a bad thing. The main thing I want from the game itself is more of everything – an evolution rather than a revolution. And I’m also looking forward to the mods and scope on a wider scale than the game itself.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 15:12:19 +0000

Pros: the darkwalker vehicle (they just copied a tripod off war of the worlds, including sounds), new weapons/map design, hoverboard and the fact you can feign death.

Cons: Basically an updated UT’04… (which I think is very hard game to improve on)

By: Ghiest

Ghiest — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:02:52 +0000

Oh and I forgot to add, it has the same shitty FOV / Screen clip problem that Bioshock had, talk about bad ports :(

(yes it clips the top and bottom of the screen for widescreen players) and has Field of view of 90 degrees instead of around 100.

By: GibletHead2000

GibletHead2000 — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:02:36 +0000

I dunno, I’ve actually been looking forward to this… I’m a fan of Deathmatch, and there aren’t many multiplayer-centric FPS’s with a strong DM component being produced these days.. Everyone seems to expect us to want to play in teams.

By: Ghiest

Ghiest — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:01:33 +0000

I quite like the speed and pace of it, it’s no TF2 … but then again it ‘is’ a sequel to a game not that old (unlike TF2 7 year gap), it has to be familiar enough to appeal to the older players of the previous games and be nice enough looking to appeal to new gamers.

I think this is the first major UT version to out for the consoles as well, unfortunately for us PC players it shows, and quite badly at that. The menus are quite clunky and obviously designed for console use. I had massive troubles installing and making it work correctly and can still only play it windowed mode as it is.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 13:07:01 +0000

The demos great so far – but I haven’t played tf2 yet!

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 12:46:01 +0000

Dave, that doesn’t seem to work either. I settled for just typing “at”.

By: Jim Rossignol

Jim Rossignol — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 11:05:07 +0000

This was pretty much what I was expecting from UT3. I think the most pleasing thing about it is simply how well it runs on my machine.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 08:09:38 +0000

Chis, Aimless: try using shift+2, that’s where the @ is on a US keyboard.

By: Aimless

Aimless — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 03:33:25 +0000

My first impressions weren’t great when I went to create a profile and trying to insert an ‘@’ into my e-mail address made the console pop up instead, requiring me to Tab out and reach for the scissors and glue.

Still, I played a few bot matches and it seemed rather good. I’m not a big fan of the Tournament games’ pace, but I can still appreciate the game’s polish and technical wizardry. True, I spent most of my play time messing around on a hoverboard rather than actually shooting things, but I’m sure the game will spawn an avid fan base — incidentally, I think the game will do quite well on the PS3.

It isn’t something I’d buy, but I don’t have any glaring issues with it either. (Other than the horrible character designs and unironic machismo, natch.)