While the whole world is watching the Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas. Epic is slowly rolling out the big guns for Unreal Tournament 3. Yesterday the PS3 Mod Tools were released and within the past week a PS3 Unreal Tournament 3 commercial has hit the cable/satellite airwaves.
This is kind of surprising considering the company has been so silent up to this point when it comes to the mainstream media.
The problem and the reason I don't have a pretty little video screen up to show you is that everyone is so focused on CES that no one is even paying attention to these commercials and therefore no pretty internet video to show you.
I love Unreal Tournament 3 but unlike a lot of other games that have come out this holiday season; Unreal Tournament 3 is about as hardcore as a game comes. Even for the PS3 this game really puts the player in a fight for their lives right off and really never lets go. The PC side sports a unix style server window that pretty much keeps everyone who doesn't understand how to do a sever from command line out of the picture. The PS3 version is better with a more graphical configuration and is a little more user friendly. Even if you can't see logs or see games in progress when running a dedicated server.
With the incredibly fast paced nature of the game itself. This kind of thing really doesn't help too much. Also, the complexity of the mod tools that are provided for the PC version are very overwhelming and to most causal and even some hardcore gamers they may see a little too much to handle.
This isn't to say that all this complexity isn't great. But sometimes it is just annoying. Just like the dedicated server madness. The uploading of PS3 mods is insane. The files must be put in a special folder on your removable media and it appears impossible to copy over multiple mods on one piece of removable hardware. This seems like it could have been done better.
The whole PC/PS3 convergence is practically complete and with all this it would have seemed a no brainer to allow PC players to play PS3 players. But due to some technical issues dealing with patches this feature was canned. But it just seems like the whole software package was built with this in mind. This is strange also, because the original ability for PC servers to host PS3 games has also been canned. This was touted all the way up to launch of the game, which makes it's lack seems incredibly strange.
While Epic is still talking about patching Unreal Tournament 3 and all the things that might be possible through those patches. What makes me wonder even more is the upcoming XBOX 360 version. This will be the height of ingenuity if they can bring user created mods to XBOX LIVE for the first time.
While this may appear to be a review of Unreal Tournament 3 it really isn't. I haven't played anywhere near enough of the game to review it. These are just a few things about the game to make people realize what is up with it and hopefully more people will run out an purchase it.
The PC version runs great on most system specs. As long as you purchased your PC within the last 2-3 years you will be able to play Unreal Tournament 3. With the PS3 the graphics are incredible and with mouse and keyboard support the game is virtually the same as the version on the PC. Right now there are more mods on the PC but since the PS3 mod tools came out earlier this week I'm sure there will be plenty of mods converted for the PS3 in the coming weeks.
The game is great and any shooter fan will love the game. Also, for anyone who is playing the game and wants to change their experience. Download the mutator for the 3rd person Cam called, "ActionCam." This can be downloaded for the PC or PS3. This totally changes the game and makes it incredibly cool and makes you want to do some crazy dodging and jumping.
So until my 1,000 dollar PC arrives I will have to give the PS3 version a 9.5/10 and the PC version a 9.8/10 (mod tools son, mod tools...). If you want to see what the next generation of shooters are doing under the radar; check out Unreal Tournament 3.
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