Topic: UT3 Thread

[MysterD]

UT 2007 is now UT3

UT3: It's Real
Epic changes gears with new name and adds a platform. New footage and details.
by Douglass C. Perry


January 25, 2007 - Punching home a message that Midway is coming to the next-generation with a full stable of goods, the Chicago-based publisher today announced that the game formerly known as Unreal Tournament 2007 is now Unreal Tournament 3. And it's coming to the PC, PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360 in the second half of 2007.

Using the Unreal Engine 3 (what other engine would it really use?), Epic's seminal first-person shooter will douse gamers with gorgeous, life-like graphics, arm them with unbelievable futuristic and brutal weaponry, and hurl them into online deathmatches like never before.

The new game comprises a vast number of changes from increased aggressiveness and intelligence in the AI to better, more ridiculously powerful weapons to new characters, game modes, and online improvements. New weapons are highlighted by the long-range Shock Rifle and the shorter range Flack Cannon, and more than two dozen weapons will be ready to wield when UT3 is ready in the second half of 2007.

The new single-player campaign is deeper and more engaging than before, and players will be happy to know that old favorite characters have returned and are joined by several new ones. Epic plans to provide advanced online changes to suit all three platforms, bringing seamless loading, improved matchmaking and co-operative campaign online play. Yes, cooperative online play indeed. Familiar online modes such as Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch and Capture the Flag will be joined by an all-new Warfare mode among others. And PC gamers will be happy to get their sweaty mitts on the bundled Unreal Engine Toolset, enabling them to build their own levels, game types, rules, mods, and more.

We'll have more on Unreal Tournament 3 soon. In the meantime check the new screens and video.

[Quemaqua]

I want to be excited, but I'm sort of... not.  I think I really got my fill with the last UT.

[idolminds]

I only want it for the mods.

[iPPi]

Yea... I don't care about this kind of game anymore.  I mean, they're fun for short bursts, but I want to see the fps genre evolve to something more than just a mindless shooter.  Nevertheless, the Unreal 3 engine is awesome (re. Gears of War and Rainbow Six: Vegas).

[Quemaqua]

I have no problem with mindless shooters, I just don't feel the need for a team-based MP-styled thing.  I did plenty of that and have no need to do any more of it.  That, however, could change at some point.  Just how I'm feeling at the moment.

[scottws]

I really liked UT2004 at first, but then I got completley bored of the game.  Several attempts to get back into it lasted all of 5 or 10 minutes.

The engine is awesome, but that only goes so far.

[gpw11]

UT

UT2003

UT2004

UT3.


Wait.....what the fuck?

[idolminds]

UT2003 never happened. Didnt you get the memo?

[Xessive]

I guess they decided to go back to the original naming plan after all.

I'm really excited about the next UT mainly because I wanna see what it's gonna look like. I know that just like all the previous UT's I'll eventually get bored with it, and just like Scottws I'll fail to get back into it for any longer than 5 to 10 minutes. Oddly enough I actually enjoy the original UT a lot more than UT2004; I love UT2004, just not as much as classic UT.

I don't think many people played the Unreal 2 Expanded Multiplayer (XMP), but I really enjoyed it. It was like Team Fortress but fun! Hmm, come to think of it, it was a bit like Tribes too.

[MysterD]

UT2003 never happened. Didnt you get the memo?

I don't own any of the UT's...

...So, was UT2003 that bad....?

Or was UT2004 just that much better than UT2003?

[idolminds]

UT2003 and UT2004 are pretty much the same game. 2k4 even came with all the content that was in 2k3. 2k4 was pretty much 2k3+.

[MysterD]

UT2003 and UT2004 are pretty much the same game. 2k4 even came with all the content that was in 2k3. 2k4 was pretty much 2k3+.

Ahhh....that'd make buying UT2003 a waste then!

I'd be better off getting UT '04.

Though, UT3 does look sweet...

[Quemaqua]

UT2K4 was bloody awesome.  I have to say.  It was an amazing game that did so much right and had so much lasting value.  I played the living snot out of that game and still didn't touch the surface of everything it had to offer.  It was some really, really good shit.  I just don't really have any current need for anything similar, I guess.  I'd like to get excited about UT3, but nobody here ever plays DM games with me and stuff really.  I'm cool with playing with bots and junk, but I'd like to see it a lot more fleshed out.  Still tournament style but with a lot more tiers, awards, and the ability to manage some kind of career.  I dunno'... just don't think I'm going to get excited until there's something new to attract me.

[MysterD]

UT2K4 was bloody awesome.  I have to say.  It was an amazing game that did so much right and had so much lasting value.  I played the living snot out of that game and still didn't touch the surface of everything it had to offer.  It was some really, really good shit.  I just don't really have any current need for anything similar, I guess.  I'd like to get excited about UT3, but nobody here ever plays DM games with me and stuff really.  I'm cool with playing with bots and junk, but I'd like to see it a lot more fleshed out.  Still tournament style but with a lot more tiers, awards, and the ability to manage some kind of career.  I dunno'... just don't think I'm going to get excited until there's something new to attract me.

UT3 probably will have a great MP......it is what it's known for....
That is probably worth the price of admission alone....

...But how did the SP hold up for UT2004? Was it any good? Or was it more or less training grounds for the MP??? Or does the SP actually have something more to it???

[Quemaqua]

Then again, maybe it's a little tempting...

[idolminds]

Can you guys even believe we're playing games with these kinds of visuals (GoW already, UT3, Crysis)? I mean, playing Gran Turismo 2 on the PSX wasn't *that* long ago and I thought it was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.

[iPPi]

WOW!  That looks freaking amazing.

It's truly impressive to see what the Unreal 3 Engine can do.  I mean, Gears of War was absolutely gorgeous.  Rainbow Six: Vegas was also impressive in its own right.

[sirean_syan]

Can you guys even believe we're playing games with these kinds of visuals (GoW already, UT3, Crysis)? I mean, playing Gran Turismo 2 on the PSX wasn't *that* long ago and I thought it was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.

I've had the thought a few times myself, especially when I look at something like, Rachet and Clank, God of War, or WoW and still get completely impressed by how good they look on technical levels. A lot of these shots still strike me as unreal (good chioce on the engine name, huh?). Koodos to Gears of War really being the first game to pull this stuff off and being on the market.

[MysterD]

Can you guys even believe we're playing games with these kinds of visuals (GoW already, UT3, Crysis)?

Yes, look how far the game industry has gone, since the NES days. It's been amazing, every few years.Every few years, especially when a new console is pumped out, the graphics just seem to get WORLDS better w/ each change. NES to SNES was amazing, graphically. Sega's Genesis looked awesome -- definitely a step up over Nintendo's NES; I bet it looked better than Sega's 8 Bit Master System. N64 went even further. Yeah, I could go on and on here....hehe....The jump for me from Genesis to PSX was incredible, graphically.

Of course, by the time a new console is pumped out, we seem to normally have a new Windows or something.....usually.....and when a new version of DX comes, we can expect more AMAZING-NESS. And, usually around that time, we've jumped a few vid card generations -- and that is normally when I buy a new vid card and go "WOW!! This is even more AWESOME (than what I had)!"

[scottws]

Yep.  I remember when I thought the graphics on Doom were ridiculous (at the time, they were).  Now it seems so primitive.

[MysterD]

Official site for UT3 is up, y'all....

...With a trailer, screenies and newsletter y'all can sign up for.

[scottws]

Wow.

[angrykeebler]

i wish i had lots o monies to upgrade

[gpw11]

I'll buy this.  Fuck, it's one of the reasons I want a new pc...not this game by itself, but the unreal 3 engine.  I never played 2k4 that much so it might still feel fresh.

[Xessive]

I'm hoping to upgrade my system soon.. At least my processor!

[Pugnate]

MULTIKILL.... HEADSHOT....

Yes I am excited.

One of those games I'll buy at launch. This and Crysis... and Bioshock...

The INQ is excited too:

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39507

AFTER A SMALL name change the ground has finally been set for arrival of mega-hit title for this year, Unreal Tournament III. This game is being finalised as we speak, and haiving ditched UT2k7 to become UT III, it looks even more impressive now.

We first saw UT2k7 back at E3 2006 with a gameplay demonstration showing some serious kick-ass action and the power of two GeForce boards in SLI left a lasting inqpression on everyone present.

With the launch of the official site, Epic also released couple of new screenshots, showing what FPS gamers will play later this year. So if you are wondering are high-end DirectX 10 GPUs worth the money, take a good look a these pictures





The screenshots are mighty impressive, even though these represent souped-up versions for magazines (judging by resolution of some shots, that were in 24 Mpixel resolution), still these graphics show just how impressive UT3 is shaping up to be. This will also be one of the games for graphics benchmarking – expect UT3 scores in reviews of Back-to-School refreshes of G90 (NV55) and R670, and upcoming marchitectural generations like G100 (NV60) and R700, Larrabee, G110 and R800 and so on. µ

L'INQ
unrealtournament3.com

DX10 and UT3

Unreal Tournament 3 is Vista DX10 compliant

Yet more goblin-bashing

By Wily Ferret: Friday 11 May 2007, 09:33
Click here to find out more!
WHILE THEO waxed lyrical about the upcoming release of Unreal Tournament 3 yesterday, the one thing he forgot to mention was that the game will be DX10 and tied to GraphZilla's TWIMTBP programme.

We first saw the game in action at the GeForce 7 launch here in France, and got the opportunity to speak with Epic MegaHoncho Mark Rein, who seemed pretty happy with the way the game was progressing. That was a long time ago now, and since then, a number of Xbox 360 titles have shipped using the titular graphics engine, whilst UT3 itself has been stuck in game development hell.

Gears of War, the most high profile UE3 title, was developed and tweaked for the ATI Xenos architecture in the Xbox 360, but the creators of the engine, it seems, have been working closely with Nvidia for its first outing on the PC. This isn't really a big surprise - UT2004 was heavily branded with Nvidia logos.

So if you want the best out of Unreal Engine 3, it seems like you're going to need to be running Vista with an 8800. As Theo said, expect this to be a majorly popular benchmark - but with the release date still to be set in stone, don't hold your breath. µ

[Pugnate]

http://www.unrealtournament3.com/screens/UT3_15.jpg
http://www.unrealtournament3.com/screens/UT3_13.jpg

[TheOtherBelmont]

Holy crap, triple post, someone might want to trim that, even if it is pretty.

[MysterD]

UT3 will come equipped w/ over 40 MP maps....

UT3 In The August Issue of OXM
by DeathBooger (Unreal Tournament 3) 50 Comments / Permalink

The newest issue of OXM has a short video documentary on it's demo disc. While it's only a few minutes in length I think it possibly the most detailed look at UT3 to date. Within the video there are many maps shown. As far as one can tell, it showed mostly all CTF and DM maps. Some maps are shown with vehicles, but I saw no nodes to distinguish them as Warfare maps. One particular interesting map shown looks like the new Deck DM map. While I can't confirm it as Deck, it had the signature pool of toxic sludge at the bottom of the map. The other maps shown had a wide variety of different themes and they all looked fantastic.

Aside from the gameplay shown in the video, it offered a few details about the game. It was said that the original idea was to make gigantic maps utilizing UE3's streaming technology for up to 64 players at once. They decided that it didn't feel like a UT game and went back to improving the original formula. Each map starts out as a basic BSP layout and is play tested until they think it is fun and then it is handed over to have static meshes and the rest of the artistic assets created. There will be 3 to 4 dozen multiplayer maps in the retail version of the game. The single player portion will have even more maps than multiplayer.

Someone tell Shadowrun's makers about UT3 coming equipped, right out the box, with more maps than you can shake your stick at!!! Geeezzzzzz!!!

[gpw11]

I think you need more exclamation points!

But in all seriousness, I imagine a good oh....15-20 of those to be old maps.

[MysterD]

I think you need more exclamation points!

YES!!! I!!! DO!!! AGREE!!! WITH!!! YOU!!!

But in all seriousness, I imagine a good oh....15-20 of those to be old maps.

That'd be cool, a good NEW 20 maps of them say 3-4 dozen maps would probably be fine, I bet.

Though, 40+ NEW MAPS would be sweet as all hell though.

[MysterD]

UT3: Collector's Edition contents revealed.

UT3 Collector's Edition Goods
Sep 22, 2007 at 9:12 PM - Robert "Apache" Howarth - 7 Comments
GameStop reveals the contents of the Unreal Tournament 3 Collector's Edition:

    Bonus Packaging:
    * Exclusive Collector’s Tin
    Bonus Content:
    * Collectible Hard Cover UT3 Art Book
    * Bonus DVD:
          o 10+ hours of Unreal Engine 3 Toolkit Video Tutorials
          o The History of Unreal Tournament
          o Behind the Scenes of UT3

[Pugnate]

I am going to be getting the UT3 CE. It has less to do with the contents and more to do with how much joy Unreal has given me.

[MysterD]

System Requirements for UT3 has been revealed.

Midway and Epic have released the system requirements for UT3, and it doesn't look half bad. Especially since you've already upgraded your rig for Crysis.

Minimum System Requirements

    * Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista
    * 2.0+ GHZ Single Core Processor
    * 512 Mbytes of System RAM
    * NVIDIA 6200+ or ATI Radeon 9600+ Video Card
    * 8 GB of Free Hard Drive Space

Recommended System Requirements

    * 2.4+ GHZ Dual Core Processor
    * 1 GBytes of System RAM
    * NVIDIA 7800GTX+ or ATI x1300+ Video Card
    * 8 GB of Free Hard Drive Space

[scottws]

That's actually not too bad, even for the recommended.

[Xessive]

Wow, those are pretty easy reqs.

I can't wait

[MysterD]

They're lower than I expected, as well...

[idolminds]

The problem with minimum requirements is theres no baseline on which to judge it. What does "minimum" mean?

I think we need a standard "minimum". All settings on low, 1024x768 res, and it will get at least 30fps.  Base your minimum spec on that standard so people know what to actually expect. It won't be pretty (though it can still look good, depending on), but it'll be playable. I don't want to see requirements that simply run the game...it should be a playable spec.

Some comments on Shacknews give me hope about this one. One of the sites writers mentioned that it scales back to look like UT2004, so those specs seem possible.

[MysterD]

The problem with minimum requirements is theres no baseline on which to judge it. What does "minimum" mean?

Very true.

For me, when I see "minimum", here's what *I* expect -- 800x600 res', 30 FPS at the lowest of all times, where all settings range mostly from mostly Low to a few on Medium.

I think we need a standard "minimum".

Agreed.

It'd be nice to be told on the box, what the settings are that they see as the bare min. And, the reccommended, too.

All settings on low, 1024x768 res, and it will get at least 30fps.  Base your minimum spec on that standard so people know what to actually expect. It won't be pretty (though it can still look good, depending on), but it'll be playable. I don't want to see requirements that simply run the game...it should be a playable spec.

Agreed.

Some comments on Shacknews give me hope about this one. One of the sites writers mentioned that it scales back to look like UT2004, so those specs seem possible.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm....now that's interesting. So, sounds like even gamers w/ older rigs really won't be shut out, too much; they just probably won't be able to run it w/ the new fancy Unreal Engine 3 settings, basically.

Being an Unreal Engine 3 game, given what I've seen for performance on other UE3 based games -- such as like Bioshock, SC: Double Agent, R6: Vegas, and GRAW PC -- I expected much higher requirements for UT3.

[Pugnate]

System Requirements for UT3 has been revealed.

That's bullshit and they know it.