From what I remember though the early Warfare prototypes were more in the style of UT2004 when it came to characters. Same can be said when the original focus of UT3 was basically just a sequel called "Unreal Tournament 2007", with a mix style of UT2004 and early Warfare/Gears of War, before being rebooted into final product having the final Gears 1 artstyle. But yeah basically Warfare (later Unreal Warfare) at first was meant to be a spinoff of the Onslaught-type of gameplay, but with a class system and some modes like TDM and CTF. As for the difficulties do know in Gears 1 it's still Easy, Normal and Hard in the code base, so my assumption is that the campaign difficulties are the same but some reason use Gears 1's text.
im sorry but...i played this game too much when i was younger and i *absolutely loved this game* i was trying to figure out what the game was called again since i forgot about it and now here i am, relieving some awesome memories. truly an amazing game at its time (2007)
I remember going to a friend's house and playing this game on my laptop. My friend (who was a big fan of Gears of War at the time) reckoned most of the characters looked like they were from GoW.
That's game design in general. Marcus Phoenix has hundreds of look and sound alikes. he's just that general "dude bro" character that can be copy and pasted into the protagonist spot almost anywhere
Not really. Sure, they look alike, but the new character is still drawn from scratch so there's plenty of effort that's been put into the models. Maybe they wanted to use the GoW success in order to give UT3 a bit of a boost by loosely "tying" it in visually
I remember that in this period of gaming everything was just bloom and brown. No color, no vivid maps. If it didn't look like a burnt out sewer, it wasn't "next-gen". Thanks Cliff 😒
Stormer248 yuck no way! With few exceptions, a lot of that era’s desaturated games have aged poorly, and look very dull to boot. UT3 looks dreadful compared to the original and UT2k4. Modern games’ embrace of a full color palette makes them look that much more realistic and aesthetically pleasing if you ask me. Some games look great with a minimal usage of color (Dark Souls) but it really depends on the game and what kind of atmosphere they’re trying to achieve.
@@matternicuss Even when modern games (2015-2020) have darker colours, they'll still use the colours to add to the realism of the clothes for example will deploy subtle bits of green because the brown jacket would have strand of green because that's how old tymes clothing was enhanced when coloured dyes were in short supply but people would have a greater appreciation for such minor details before industrial media.
The funniest/saddest thing about UT3 is how Epic deliberately delayed the game just to add that single player story mode nobody asked for. And this delay caused the game to be released within the same time window as Modern Warfare, Crysis and The Orange Box. It's little wonder the game made such a small splash and was quickly forgotten. Epic did themselves no favors at all with a move like that. Putting "From the makers of Gears of War!" on the box art also made me groan.
gears was far bigger by the time UT3 came out. i grew up playing UT, but i knew absolutely no one amongst my friends who gamed who still played it at that time, and i definitely don't know anyone who bought UT3. i prefer UT, but Gears is way bigger now.
EdEmKay I don't even know what the game looks like, my assumption was that it was ut3's version of the single player game. You know how ut99 had Na Pali and gold and ut2004 had the awakening...
I actually really appreciate the amount of work that was put into this game. Considering the game came out in 2007, the graphics and details were amazing. UT2003 was only four years off yet UT3 looked like it came from another decade. Even today graphics haven't improved much from UE3. Now, the pitfall is that it was hard to make out the players from the environment due to too much detail. UT99/2004 both had very simple graphics so it was easy to tell where projectiles and whatnot actually were. In UT3, the extra animations were detrimental.
I'm surprised people had difficulty due to the detail. I can think of maybe one map like that but mostly I was fine. It's sad we probably won't see another UT at least not for ages. UT3 was so awesome. Warfare was fantastic, Vehicle CTF was great and the general deathmatch/ctf was really good. A pity UT4 had unnecessary new movement mechanics but still could have been so awesome but they just abandoned it.
The reason why UT3 shipped with so little compared to the last games is because Epic had a "less is more" approach this time around. They wanted to take only the things that were successful (the original weapons and gamemodes + UT2004's Onslaught mode and VCTF) and try to refine it as much as possible. They really wanted to go for quality, so ironically what seems sloppy might be more due to overengineering than a lack thereof. Everything about UT3 is a reaction to the criticism of UT2004 and an attempt to fix it. EG: - "UT04 players are spread out too thin between too many gamemodes" = truncate the less played modes and merge bombing run with onslaught to make warfare - "UT04 is too colorful and cartoony, UT99 was dark and gritty" = we get the gears of tournament grey and brown art-style - "Bring back the Stinger!" = Stinger replaces minigun. People also wanted the ripper but for some reason the devs refused to add that one - "Lightning gun is ghey/Shield gun is ghey/Assault rifle is ghey" = Sniper rifle, impact hammer and Enforcer all return - "I hate the arcadey shield and health icons!" = Shield is changed back to armor and we get the UT99 Armor indicator back - "Wheres my Necris?" = An entire plotline, new characters, new maps and new vehicles added entirely around the Necris - "The Scorpion is useless!" = That particular vehicle gets a complete rework - "WEAPON BALANCE REE" = The weapon balance more closely mimics UT99 now, except without the ripper or a 6-barrel rocket launcher because that would be OvErPoWeReD Though I don't understand why they dropped the tournament plotline for something more Gears-ish. That can probably be chalked up to Epic forgetting what game they were making. In any case, they really tried to appease the original UT99 players and make "UT99 with better graphics" moreso than a new game. This pleased some of the original fans, and gave us an FPS DM game with pretty solid weapon balance and controls (having played both UT3 and UT2004 I do think the weapon balance and gameplay of UT3 works better), but at the end of the day having a remaster of UT99 was only entertaining for so long and while I enjoyed UT2004 and UT99 for years, I was finished with UT3 after a month. It's kinda sad. I think UT3 deserved better I also disagree about UT3 being the weakest in the series. That award goes to UT2003. The fact that you forget about UT2003 is proof of that.
I remember those days and you pretty much explained it all. On a side note, I remember Epic discovered that many players at the time played solo (Instant Action) instead of online, that's why they made a single player mode more akin to something like Gears of War story-wise (which was extremely popular back then, they at least tried to attract that crowd, I think, since it was also a game aimed at consoles).
UT 2k3 Assault is the best unreal tournament objective game mode that's ever existed, pretty hard to say the game that has that is the weakest in the series.
I think weapons are a lot better implemented in UT3 than in the previous games and a lot more balanced. Biorifle and plasmagun are a lot more useful in this than in previous iterations. I do miss the ripper though. Singleplayer campaign, while true that it would have been a lot better with traditional tournament setting as in previous games, does have one added plus over others and that is the cooperative mode.
+Kerby Ordinarily I'd agree with you, but in this case, the grey filter they put over everything is so fucking intense that it looks like something out of a newspaper.
Unreal Championship 2: Liandri Conflict for the original xbox will always be my favorite Unreal game. So much fun and some pretty great computer AI with unique behaviors depending on the enemy you're up against. I remember playing it back in the day and thinking it looked better than the next generation of consoles.
I remember I had this take for PS3 at the time. I played a lot of split screen with my brother and I remember that I later on discovered it was possibly to download mods to a USB stick, pop the USB stick into the PS3 and it would work just fine. We experimented a lot with community created maps and gamemodes. It's kinda crazy that they could make this work on a PS3 now that I think about it.
I'm surprised that mods were available for the ps3 and they were easy and capable of running on a ps3 version of the game - since mod support is lacking even in today's games even when it's just an exclusive deal sometimes.
mods made up for the lack of content in the first year or two upon release. gggman has his beef with the vanilla package, but overall it's still a solid game. ^_^
For all its faults, UT3 has more polished and balanced gameplay compared to the previous UT games. And no - it's not the weak link in the series - UT2003 is.
It only "lacks content" in comparision to UT2004. Even before the Titan Pack the game had more content than most games of that time and even the majority of titles of this current gen. I also loved UT3, best gameplay in the series to this day.
Dude a few years back we found this game in the bargain bin at a local supermarket so we bought 3 or 4 copies and played through the campaign together (so 4 people) at out local little LAN party which was a total blast man
They downsized the modes because they were extraneous. No one was playing bombing run and the like in UT2k4. If there wasn't a downside to using the hoverboard then you would always use the hoverboard and never run.
EnigmaHood I play bombing run, it's amazing when you have actual people with you it's a great co-op mode. Play the game in single player story mode it's great. I think this guy complained so much because when you do instant action then it gets boring cuz you pick your own terms. But the tournament mode, in ut2004 espetially, is really hard
I really liked Unreal Tournament 3 back when I was younger. I played for hours on end, messing with all the stuff and just generally having a blast. I guess the nostalgia is just there for me.
This really is the weakest in the UT series but it's still pretty good. A solid game for sure, just not as good as UT99 and UT2004 were. The maps have this generic feel to them and the drab colour schemes don't help. It's actually strange that UT2004 looks way better despite running on a older engine build.
The flaws most people say about this game was completely irrelevant & felt like they were just picking up things to be annoyed with. The pace of the game is all that mattered especially in deathmatches & free-for-alls, fast & chaotic. Graphics is immensely improved while gameplay retains its simplicity with no stupid extra features and/or gimmicks for characters & weapons.
Why do people count this as the 3rd Unreal Tournament game, it's the 4th. Unreal Tournament, Unreal Tournament 2003, Unreal Tournament 2004 and Unreal Tournament 3. It's like no one remembers Unreal Tournament 2003.
Overall a good review, but I'm not sure how you count the weapons. The original UT has 11 weapons (plus a Translocator), which coincidentally is the exact same number as the weapons in UT3. The only weapon that is missing is the Ripper, but it's not in any of the sequels. The AVRiL might be only for vehicle modes, but so are all the extra weapons in UT2004. Speaking of vehicles, in UT3 they are nearly double the amount of those in UT2004.
Not to mention that in UT3 there are "less" modes by removing those that this very man deemed "pointless and unfitting" in the UT2004 review. Biased opinion at its' finest
@@SolarisKane not really. It's an experiment. A failed experiment (if it fails so drastically like the modes did in 2004) should be called off instead of stubbornly pushing forward. If people didn't like the premise then, they won't like it now
this was my first ever 18+ game (Uk) Had the time of my life playing this when i was 5/6, looks so different now tho, i still pictured it to have such good graphics and mechanics.
"Only Morons play Unreal for its single player campaign." Beautiful.... Also this was the BEST multiplayer FPS of it's time. It is what Battle Royale should be today. Also The graphics of this 2007 video game is so great compared to games like PUBG.
Ever hear of Mace Griffin: Bounty Hunter? Its a fps released on pc back in 2004 which was known at the time for its seamless on foot to space combat. Its a pretty obscure game now and seems to be forgotten.
The first review I feel you've really missed the mark. This had absolutely PHENOMENAL one-on-one play, an incredibly difficult balance to get right and this is up there with Quake Live. Some of the environmental features on the maps such as sandstorms were an awesome idea, and the vehicular combat is just amazing fun. I mean piloting War Of The Worlds walkers? And the glue cube power up that slowed down time inside? Perhaps it's more nostalgia but this was a highly polished, brilliantly balanced game that will always hold a place in my heart. edit: I honestly don't think a good review of a UT game owes any screen time to single player or bot based play as you mention yourself - only chumps play solo.
It really wasn't phenomenal and the review was bang on. This was a dull and depressing entry which killed the entire series to this day - 2004 was lightyears ahead.
I've been playing FPS since 1994, and I still play UT99 (since 2000) and UT3 (since 2008), both are great games. I would say they are still today more complex (moves as dodges, double jump, Impact jump, primary and secondy shoot, etc.) and hardcore (fast paced, you need more reflex, etc.) than any other FPS (Overwatch, Halo, etc.).
I think that UT3 was a reboot of some kind. New game in the series, new engine, so they maybe wanted to start fresh. I was blown away with those graphics back then and my PC couldn't handle it.
I understood the hate for UT3 back then since many people didn't have machines that could run it. But this hatred is uncalled for. Most of these complaints would fall on a TRUE UT Fan's deaf ears.
I actually loved this game. Even though it looked like Gears, it didn't feel like it. The amount of nostalgia I got watching this video.... 2007 was a great year for me.
Spent hundreds of hours on 2004 and UT3. Not the same games at all indeed. But i love both of them. 2004 was more a "mot the hell out of this" type of games, a bit like CS, with stupid maps taking place in giant kitchens, instagib mods where body flew in the air catching fire ... What a time it was. UT3 is more like a modern game with tons of polished maps available and a more serious and badass feel. And this hoverboard is a gift from god on big maps like Torlan
I still play the '99 goty edition . I enjoyed playing it with my colleagues in highschool ...so yeah nostalgia is a big factor ,but it is still a fun game to play .
Hey man I love your videos, I have almost watched all of them. All the nostalgic games from my childhood. Your reviews are really well done and don't sound like you are reading a script. Please keep making content.
Love your reviews mate. But I would like to iterate on the bots issue. While they are stupid and will take all the best stuff, you can actually tell them what to do in this game. There is a menu or key commands to tell the bots on your team to "DEFEND" "ATTACK" "COVER ME" and so fourth, and they will do it. Hope that helps.
Not as great as the first two entries but still had a blast with it, also loved the weapon design on this one. Fun fact the PS3 version had a lot of mods, probably the first game with mod support on consoles.
Playing on godlike is pointless because the bots can do things you can't which gives them an advantage and makes it nearly impossible and not fun to play
I hope they do an Unreal 3 after UT4 - Unreal 2 was really meh but I still enjoyed it in a weird way but I hope they go back to the style of the original Unreal.
I have to agree with this review as I bought it 14 years ago but dont remember playing long enough to see a lot of the stuff that was shown. i did kind of like the big War of the Worlds walkers
i had a buddy who had an Xbox 360 and had this. it was good fun to play together on the console, it seemed to handle pretty well there. I'm guessing the split focus on pc + console may have had something to do with the final quality of the game compared to UT2k4 which was PC only if memory serves.
I got this game as a gift a few years after release. I still didn't have the hardware to run it back then, and now I don't have an optical drive to run it...
I seem to remember Warfare was originally supposed to be a vastly expanded game mode with multiple objectives interconnected over different maps, but was vastly scaled back to something more resembling Onslaught before launch. The name stuck around though.
Great review video but one thing that I have to correct with you is that Gears Of War was the first game to use the Unreal Engine 3 and not UT3. Other then that great job.
A middling sequel released at a very bad time. Halo and COD controlled the consoles, Battlefield and Team Fortess 2 had a stranglehold on the PC. Particularly, the latter around that time.
Years later that's what I ended up thinking. It was nowhere near as bad as many people claimed (and still claim), it was just released at a very wrong time. If we compare UT3 to almost every other shooter that we can find in the market today, for example, it becomes pretty clear IMO.
This was the first game of this type that I ever played. I was too young to be playing the series when the classics were released. So, while I recognize that this game isn't as good as the others, I'll always have a special place for it because it introduced me to what a real shooter can be.
Couple console features worth mentioning, ability to use any usb keyboard and mouse, as well as ability to install mods from the web! Pretty cool stuff for console
In gameplay therms UT3 was, in fact, the best of the series. Perfect weapon and vehicle balance, in every aspect. The new UT has a good gameplay, but the weapon balance has changed for worse. The only redeeming qualities in its actual state are the oldschool-like maps and PART of the player movement, IMO.
Back when this was released everybody was about done with arena shooters. Game looks great, unreal engine is awesome, but I just bought this game for total conversion mods to be honest.
I don’t care what anyone says UT3 was awesome fun & awesome looking! But I was damn good at the game so maybe I am biased. Only thing that really ticked me off is that they got rid of my precious Anubans. And no double jump. But other than that I thought it was great. Not quite as good as UT2004 but pretty close. Also the hover board is awesome. You just have to know how to make good use of it. And the maps are friggin gorgeous for the most part. Especially maps from the modding community.
Yes the levels had tons more detail than prior games but there is NO COLOUR in them. Poor gameplay and that irritating bro-brah-gears art style kill this game for me.
Dark maps -my eyes in tears trying to whats going on on the screen , inferior botscoding , crouching hunchback players , bad soundeffects , unmature, even today it lags on my 960m 2G videocard, gamespy, and so on and furter
Well UT3 selling the Unreal 3 engine isn't entirely true. Gears of War came out a year before its release along with a few other titles such as Rainbow Six Vegas that were on the Unreal 3 engine and that's what really kicked it off. So much in fact that the boxart for UT3 on the consoles had the logo "From the creators of Gears Of War" which demonstrates just how popular GoW was to where it unfortunately dwarfed the Unreal franchise in popularity, well for the console twats at the very least.
True. And let's not forget how Tim Sweeny, the lead engine designer, would trumpet how consoles would be the future, pissing off alot of pc gamers. All because of lot computers were running on low end intel on board video cards and they didn't want optimize their code on these devices. Fast forward to 2018, Unreal Engine 4 is running on low powered smart phones.
The thing I missed most was the ability to pick what specific bots you fought against. I remember in the previous UTs I loved to play Assault mode with bots that fit the story (like an all robot team at the Robot Factory).
Onslaught was a gimmicky tangent that didn't add vehicles to the finely tuned dance of death so much as it completely replaced traditional UT gameplay with vehicle gameplay. Warfare is very slightly better because it has more level segments where vehicles are impractical so the normal infantry gameplay can shine a little more (also vehicles feel better than in Onslaught thanks to smoother physics) but it's still a gimmicky tangent, imo. Deathmatch, CTF, etc. however work great in UT3. Weapon balance is tight and the game feels great to play, imo. Personally, I like it better than the original, though not quite as much as UT2004.
I was watching a video with the history of ID, especially the quake series, and the guy mentioned that the publishers weren't happy with them releasing Quake 3 arena that required a 3d graphics card when the first unreal tournament didn't need a graphics card (and therefore was more compatible with more systems on the market at the time of release).
UT3 was an amazing game, people didn't appreciate it enough, instead were playing other games that were not nearly as good, because most "gamers" are casuals and would rather play 5-10 minutes of brainless COD or Gears, than put tine into playing an Arena shooter which was much more demanding. UT became the most evolved game in Arena shooters, having not only the classic death match modes and CTF, but adding vehicles and becoming something more. I mean its the same today, people showed no interest in UT4, instead Fornite blew up and Pubg, two games you play twice and already know the whole game, Epic realized nobody cared about arena shooters anymore and for this reason UT4 was cancelled. I really dont understand the complaint against vehicles in UT04 and UT3, they were in separate modes from classic, how is that a con? Anyways, to me, it wasn't Epic that gave up on the genre and the franchise, it was "gamers." Same shit heads today playing boring crap like Destiny or Overwatch, I guess the only true gaming community left is Halo and single player. I'll be waiting for Halo 5 and Ghost of Tsushima.
Kinda fully agree with you. I mean, people still trash talk on UT3 for a lot of stupid reasons, and while I'm not defending Epic (since they later basically admitted that they could - and should - have made way more with this game) I kinda understand their point. I mean, why invest in a new Unreal game if at each new installment people prefer to bitch about it than play it? And since they left the channel open for the "community" for suggestions on UT4, they couldn't satisfy everyone and obviously they abandoned the project.
One cool Thing about this Game is that it supportet Mouse&Keyboard on the Ps3 and u could also choose if u wannted to play on Servers with Mouse&Keyboard only/Controller only or mixed Servers .
Character design is almost indistinguishable from Gears...
John Smith Neither, it's the same developer.
Gears Of War was originally going to an Unreal game
I mean it was made on the same engine
From what I remember though the early Warfare prototypes were more in the style of UT2004 when it came to characters. Same can be said when the original focus of UT3 was basically just a sequel called "Unreal Tournament 2007", with a mix style of UT2004 and early Warfare/Gears of War, before being rebooted into final product having the final Gears 1 artstyle.
But yeah basically Warfare (later Unreal Warfare) at first was meant to be a spinoff of the Onslaught-type of gameplay, but with a class system and some modes like TDM and CTF.
As for the difficulties do know in Gears 1 it's still Easy, Normal and Hard in the code base, so my assumption is that the campaign difficulties are the same but some reason use Gears 1's text.
All mid 2000s Unreal engine character designs are indistinguishable from each other.
im sorry but...i played this game too much when i was younger and i *absolutely loved this game*
i was trying to figure out what the game was called again since i forgot about it and now here i am, relieving some awesome memories. truly an amazing game at its time (2007)
Don't ever be sorry for enjoying a game!
Its still a great game, only it doesnt hold a candle to previous games. hence the critizism.
The vehicles and the warfare maps were better than 2004, and i loved 2004.
me too.
Same this is soo good
Is it just me or does the main character in this game look like Marcus Fenix? I know it's the same devs but come on that's lazy
That's the first thing I thought of when I seen the main character.
I remember going to a friend's house and playing this game on my laptop. My friend (who was a big fan of Gears of War at the time) reckoned most of the characters looked like they were from GoW.
It's made by Epic Games who also develop Gears of War but it is still pretty lazy.
That's game design in general. Marcus Phoenix has hundreds of look and sound alikes. he's just that general "dude bro" character that can be copy and pasted into the protagonist spot almost anywhere
Not really. Sure, they look alike, but the new character is still drawn from scratch so there's plenty of effort that's been put into the models. Maybe they wanted to use the GoW success in order to give UT3 a bit of a boost by loosely "tying" it in visually
I remember that in this period of gaming everything was just bloom and brown. No color, no vivid maps. If it didn't look like a burnt out sewer, it wasn't "next-gen". Thanks Cliff 😒
i agree with this, who's cliff?
Cliff Bleszinki, lead designer of the Unreal and Gears of War games.
Stormer248 yuck no way! With few exceptions, a lot of that era’s desaturated games have aged poorly, and look very dull to boot. UT3 looks dreadful compared to the original and UT2k4. Modern games’ embrace of a full color palette makes them look that much more realistic and aesthetically pleasing if you ask me. Some games look great with a minimal usage of color (Dark Souls) but it really depends on the game and what kind of atmosphere they’re trying to achieve.
I recall editing the .ini files to put saturation back on. Looked way better
@@matternicuss Even when modern games (2015-2020) have darker colours, they'll still use the colours to add to the realism of the clothes for example will deploy subtle bits of green because the brown jacket would have strand of green because that's how old tymes clothing was enhanced when coloured dyes were in short supply but people would have a greater appreciation for such minor details before industrial media.
My first taste of Unreal. Will always be #1 in my heart.
same
I just want a good singleplayer Unreal like the original.
Marcus was trained in Unreal Tournament before the D-Day in Gears of War. :D
The funniest/saddest thing about UT3 is how Epic deliberately delayed the game just to add that single player story mode nobody asked for. And this delay caused the game to be released within the same time window as Modern Warfare, Crysis and The Orange Box. It's little wonder the game made such a small splash and was quickly forgotten. Epic did themselves no favors at all with a move like that.
Putting "From the makers of Gears of War!" on the box art also made me groan.
As if Gears of War was something bigger than Unreal.
Unreal was big, even way before GOW.
gears was far bigger by the time UT3 came out. i grew up playing UT, but i knew absolutely no one amongst my friends who gamed who still played it at that time, and i definitely don't know anyone who bought UT3. i prefer UT, but Gears is way bigger now.
EdEmKay I don't even know what the game looks like, my assumption was that it was ut3's version of the single player game. You know how ut99 had Na Pali and gold and ut2004 had the awakening...
Ut3s horrible netcode had nothing to do with it, i Guess...
I'd say the biggest reason is because it came out like two weeks after gears of war
I actually really appreciate the amount of work that was put into this game. Considering the game came out in 2007, the graphics and details were amazing. UT2003 was only four years off yet UT3 looked like it came from another decade. Even today graphics haven't improved much from UE3. Now, the pitfall is that it was hard to make out the players from the environment due to too much detail. UT99/2004 both had very simple graphics so it was easy to tell where projectiles and whatnot actually were. In UT3, the extra animations were detrimental.
I'm surprised people had difficulty due to the detail. I can think of maybe one map like that but mostly I was fine. It's sad we probably won't see another UT at least not for ages. UT3 was so awesome. Warfare was fantastic, Vehicle CTF was great and the general deathmatch/ctf was really good. A pity UT4 had unnecessary new movement mechanics but still could have been so awesome but they just abandoned it.
The reason why UT3 shipped with so little compared to the last games is because Epic had a "less is more" approach this time around. They wanted to take only the things that were successful (the original weapons and gamemodes + UT2004's Onslaught mode and VCTF) and try to refine it as much as possible. They really wanted to go for quality, so ironically what seems sloppy might be more due to overengineering than a lack thereof. Everything about UT3 is a reaction to the criticism of UT2004 and an attempt to fix it. EG:
- "UT04 players are spread out too thin between too many gamemodes" = truncate the less played modes and merge bombing run with onslaught to make warfare
- "UT04 is too colorful and cartoony, UT99 was dark and gritty" = we get the gears of tournament grey and brown art-style
- "Bring back the Stinger!" = Stinger replaces minigun. People also wanted the ripper but for some reason the devs refused to add that one
- "Lightning gun is ghey/Shield gun is ghey/Assault rifle is ghey" = Sniper rifle, impact hammer and Enforcer all return
- "I hate the arcadey shield and health icons!" = Shield is changed back to armor and we get the UT99 Armor indicator back
- "Wheres my Necris?" = An entire plotline, new characters, new maps and new vehicles added entirely around the Necris
- "The Scorpion is useless!" = That particular vehicle gets a complete rework
- "WEAPON BALANCE REE" = The weapon balance more closely mimics UT99 now, except without the ripper or a 6-barrel rocket launcher because that would be OvErPoWeReD
Though I don't understand why they dropped the tournament plotline for something more Gears-ish. That can probably be chalked up to Epic forgetting what game they were making. In any case, they really tried to appease the original UT99 players and make "UT99 with better graphics" moreso than a new game. This pleased some of the original fans, and gave us an FPS DM game with pretty solid weapon balance and controls (having played both UT3 and UT2004 I do think the weapon balance and gameplay of UT3 works better), but at the end of the day having a remaster of UT99 was only entertaining for so long and while I enjoyed UT2004 and UT99 for years, I was finished with UT3 after a month. It's kinda sad. I think UT3 deserved better
I also disagree about UT3 being the weakest in the series. That award goes to UT2003. The fact that you forget about UT2003 is proof of that.
I remember those days and you pretty much explained it all. On a side note, I remember Epic discovered that many players at the time played solo (Instant Action) instead of online, that's why they made a single player mode more akin to something like Gears of War story-wise (which was extremely popular back then, they at least tried to attract that crowd, I think, since it was also a game aimed at consoles).
UT 2k3 Assault is the best unreal tournament objective game mode that's ever existed, pretty hard to say the game that has that is the weakest in the series.
I think weapons are a lot better implemented in UT3 than in the previous games and a lot more balanced. Biorifle and plasmagun are a lot more useful in this than in previous iterations. I do miss the ripper though. Singleplayer campaign, while true that it would have been a lot better with traditional tournament setting as in previous games, does have one added plus over others and that is the cooperative mode.
We need to start a petition we need new unreal tournament on consoles and pc
I'm surprised he didn't talk about how muted and gray everything is.
I'm honestly so used to that garbage art style that I didn't even notice it.
+Kerberous true, but when comparing UT3 to it's predecessors you think it'd definitely be something to note
Not everything. There are countless maps you can download that are very colorful plus all the older remake maps from 99 & 04 too.
The original game looked gritty to me though. That's why the new free to play game is offputting, so bright and sterile looking.
+Kerby Ordinarily I'd agree with you, but in this case, the grey filter they put over everything is so fucking intense that it looks like something out of a newspaper.
Unreal Championship 2: Liandri Conflict for the original xbox will always be my favorite Unreal game. So much fun and some pretty great computer AI with unique behaviors depending on the enemy you're up against. I remember playing it back in the day and thinking it looked better than the next generation of consoles.
I always love seeing one of your videos in my inbox, best video game reviews on YT
They really are
+Sic Semper Beats Pretty much!
I remember I had this take for PS3 at the time.
I played a lot of split screen with my brother and I remember that I later on discovered it was possibly to download mods to a USB stick, pop the USB stick into the PS3 and it would work just fine.
We experimented a lot with community created maps and gamemodes.
It's kinda crazy that they could make this work on a PS3 now that I think about it.
I'm surprised that mods were available for the ps3 and they were easy and capable of running on a ps3 version of the game - since mod support is lacking even in today's games even when it's just an exclusive deal sometimes.
This game was my childhood
From 8 to 20 I'm still going ham in warfare mode
Sure, it lacks of content, but i still very love UT3. It's a great game at all!
mods made up for the lack of content in the first year or two upon release. gggman has his beef with the vanilla package, but overall it's still a solid game. ^_^
For all its faults, UT3 has more polished and balanced gameplay compared to the previous UT games. And no - it's not the weak link in the series - UT2003 is.
Quality over quantity
Yep UT3 is the best of the series by far for those with a powerful enough PC to play it at max settings.
It only "lacks content" in comparision to UT2004. Even before the Titan Pack the game had more content than most games of that time and even the majority of titles of this current gen.
I also loved UT3, best gameplay in the series to this day.
Wild how this came out only 3 years after UT2004
Dude a few years back we found this game in the bargain bin at a local supermarket so we bought 3 or 4 copies and played through the campaign together (so 4 people) at out local little LAN party which was a total blast man
They downsized the modes because they were extraneous. No one was playing bombing run and the like in UT2k4. If there wasn't a downside to using the hoverboard then you would always use the hoverboard and never run.
EnigmaHood I play bombing run, it's amazing when you have actual people with you it's a great co-op mode. Play the game in single player story mode it's great. I think this guy complained so much because when you do instant action then it gets boring cuz you pick your own terms. But the tournament mode, in ut2004 espetially, is really hard
I really liked Unreal Tournament 3 back when I was younger. I played for hours on end, messing with all the stuff and just generally having a blast. I guess the nostalgia is just there for me.
This really is the weakest in the UT series but it's still pretty good. A solid game for sure, just not as good as UT99 and UT2004 were. The maps have this generic feel to them and the drab colour schemes don't help. It's actually strange that UT2004 looks way better despite running on a older engine build.
nah, ut2003 was the weakest
@@Jaalco2003 I honestly forget 03 even exists because 04 is just a better version lmao.
@@dilby3246 exactly
The flaws most people say about this game was completely irrelevant & felt like they were just picking up things to be annoyed with. The pace of the game is all that mattered especially in deathmatches & free-for-alls, fast & chaotic. Graphics is immensely improved while gameplay retains its simplicity with no stupid extra features and/or gimmicks for characters & weapons.
Good look buying this De-listed game in 2024
Why do people count this as the 3rd Unreal Tournament game, it's the 4th. Unreal Tournament, Unreal Tournament 2003, Unreal Tournament 2004 and Unreal Tournament 3. It's like no one remembers Unreal Tournament 2003.
Epic Games themselves disregard UT2003 as a full separate title.
Overall a good review, but I'm not sure how you count the weapons. The original UT has 11 weapons (plus a Translocator), which coincidentally is the exact same number as the weapons in UT3. The only weapon that is missing is the Ripper, but it's not in any of the sequels. The AVRiL might be only for vehicle modes, but so are all the extra weapons in UT2004. Speaking of vehicles, in UT3 they are nearly double the amount of those in UT2004.
Yet another point of this review being FALSE.
Not to mention that in UT3 there are "less" modes by removing those that this very man deemed "pointless and unfitting" in the UT2004 review. Biased opinion at its' finest
@@jpjfrey5673 Instead of removing what was bad they should've made them good. That's what a sequel is supposed to do.
@@SolarisKane not really. It's an experiment. A failed experiment (if it fails so drastically like the modes did in 2004) should be called off instead of stubbornly pushing forward. If people didn't like the premise then, they won't like it now
@@jpjfrey5673 2004 didn't fail at all it was enormously successful. UT3 failed miserably because it was dog shit, as the vast majority agreed.
this was my first ever 18+ game (Uk) Had the time of my life playing this when i was 5/6, looks so different now tho, i still pictured it to have such good graphics and mechanics.
Yet again, another series entirely covered by Gman.
And yet again, I'm fuckin' satisfied!
"entirely"
I like Potato Salad
Show me potato salad! - - - >
Apparently the Warfare title is a reference. Gears of War was originally called unreal warfare. That's what I've heard anyway.
you forgot how the modding is super great in this game. So great that you can mod the game for both PC and PS3 versions of the game
"Only Morons play Unreal for its single player campaign." Beautiful.... Also this was the BEST multiplayer FPS of it's time. It is what Battle Royale should be today. Also The graphics of this 2007 video game is so great compared to games like PUBG.
"reaper. could they find a more edgy name to use?"
and then overwatch came and made a character just as edgy as the name
Ever hear of Mace Griffin: Bounty Hunter? Its a fps released on pc back in 2004 which was known at the time for its seamless on foot to space combat. Its a pretty obscure game now and seems to be forgotten.
I thought it was a console only game.
Well it probably was designed for consoles first but its definitely on pc, though finding a copy is proving to be difficult.
TheSulaco426
Well I just checked on Ebay there's plenty of copies available for PC.
Im not big on Ebay but for as cheap as some listings are I bet the game would be worth it
TheSulaco426
What's wrong with Ebay?
The first review I feel you've really missed the mark.
This had absolutely PHENOMENAL one-on-one play, an incredibly difficult balance to get right and this is up there with Quake Live. Some of the environmental features on the maps such as sandstorms were an awesome idea, and the vehicular combat is just amazing fun. I mean piloting War Of The Worlds walkers? And the glue cube power up that slowed down time inside? Perhaps it's more nostalgia but this was a highly polished, brilliantly balanced game that will always hold a place in my heart.
edit: I honestly don't think a good review of a UT game owes any screen time to single player or bot based play as you mention yourself - only chumps play solo.
It really wasn't phenomenal and the review was bang on. This was a dull and depressing entry which killed the entire series to this day - 2004 was lightyears ahead.
@@FB87291 sorry you weren't able to play at a high skill level and couldn't appreciate the finesse of the game.
I've been playing FPS since 1994, and I still play UT99 (since 2000) and UT3 (since 2008), both are great games. I would say they are still today more complex (moves as dodges, double jump, Impact jump, primary and secondy shoot, etc.) and hardcore (fast paced, you need more reflex, etc.) than any other FPS (Overwatch, Halo, etc.).
"I CANT FEEL MY LEGS!!!!!!!"
This game is so nostalgic i played it when i was like 8 with my brothers on the ps3 on a fat tv
Do you plan to review first person puzzler games like Portal, Quantum Conundrum, Talos Prinicple, Antichamber and QUBE?
played it as a kid, actually loved it haha
I think that UT3 was a reboot of some kind. New game in the series, new engine, so they maybe wanted to start fresh. I was blown away with those graphics back then and my PC couldn't handle it.
I understood the hate for UT3 back then since many people didn't have machines that could run it. But this hatred is uncalled for. Most of these complaints would fall on a TRUE UT Fan's deaf ears.
At one point this was the only game I had for my then new ps3 so I played it to death. Some of my best childhood memory's.
I'm just happy they didn't change the weapons. Not the best one, but still an Unreal Tournament game.
I actually loved this game.
Even though it looked like Gears, it didn't feel like it.
The amount of nostalgia I got watching this video.... 2007 was a great year for me.
This was my crack back in the day.
Such a shame arena shooters really don't sell these days, even on PC.
Spent hundreds of hours on 2004 and UT3. Not the same games at all indeed. But i love both of them. 2004 was more a "mot the hell out of this" type of games, a bit like CS, with stupid maps taking place in giant kitchens, instagib mods where body flew in the air catching fire ... What a time it was.
UT3 is more like a modern game with tons of polished maps available and a more serious and badass feel.
And this hoverboard is a gift from god on big maps like Torlan
I still play the '99 goty edition . I enjoyed playing it with my colleagues in highschool ...so yeah nostalgia is a big factor ,but it is still a fun game to play .
Unreal Tournament 3 was my first Unreal tournament that I played and I personally loved it to death
Hey man I love your videos, I have almost watched all of them. All the nostalgic games from my childhood. Your reviews are really well done and don't sound like you are reading a script. Please keep making content.
UT3 is gonna be going free to play and cross play with GOG, EGS and steam and its called UT3X
Love your reviews mate. But I would like to iterate on the bots issue. While they are stupid and will take all the best stuff, you can actually tell them what to do in this game. There is a menu or key commands to tell the bots on your team to "DEFEND" "ATTACK" "COVER ME" and so fourth, and they will do it.
Hope that helps.
Not as great as the first two entries but still had a blast with it, also loved the weapon design on this one.
Fun fact the PS3 version had a lot of mods, probably the first game with mod support on consoles.
Playing on godlike is pointless because the bots can do things you can't which gives them an advantage and makes it nearly impossible and not fun to play
Can't help but feel bitter, from Na Pali we get Reaper.
No love for SP gamers it seems.
I hope they do an Unreal 3 after UT4 - Unreal 2 was really meh but I still enjoyed it in a weird way but I hope they go back to the style of the original Unreal.
+G̶A̶B̶R̶I̶E̶L̶ L̶O̶U̶P̶ (Bʟᴜᴇ Aʟᴘʜᴀ Wᴏʟғ) Unreal reboot?
MY MONIEZ IS IN.
I have to agree with this review as I bought it 14 years ago but dont remember playing long enough to see a lot of the stuff that was shown. i did kind of like the big War of the Worlds walkers
I know this game doesn't compare to the previous entries, but the weapons and kills in this game were SO satisfying!
i had a buddy who had an Xbox 360 and had this. it was good fun to play together on the console, it seemed to handle pretty well there. I'm guessing the split focus on pc + console may have had something to do with the final quality of the game compared to UT2k4 which was PC only if memory serves.
I remember playing this game as a kid,still get memory's of me using that hover board
I got this game as a gift a few years after release. I still didn't have the hardware to run it back then, and now I don't have an optical drive to run it...
I seem to remember Warfare was originally supposed to be a vastly expanded game mode with multiple objectives interconnected over different maps, but was vastly scaled back to something more resembling Onslaught before launch. The name stuck around though.
People may think it's bad, but when I first played unreal tournament 3, I loved it. It was AMAZING.
And still is. I played UT99 and loved it, 2003 and.. did not :P 2004 and loved it back in the day but UT3 is just better in almost every way.
Such a good game
God, I love your reviews.
another great review. You've inspired us. Seeing this game just reminds me of Gears. You can just tell it's from the same developers.
Your videos are a real pleasure to watch Gggman. Thanks for the time and effort you put into these.
Thanks!
I like how you added little titles to your revies.
Great review video but one thing that I have to correct with you is that Gears Of War was the first game to use the Unreal Engine 3 and not UT3. Other then that great job.
A middling sequel released at a very bad time. Halo and COD controlled the consoles, Battlefield and Team Fortess 2 had a stranglehold on the PC. Particularly, the latter around that time.
Years later that's what I ended up thinking. It was nowhere near as bad as many people claimed (and still claim), it was just released at a very wrong time. If we compare UT3 to almost every other shooter that we can find in the market today, for example, it becomes pretty clear IMO.
This was the first game of this type that I ever played. I was too young to be playing the series when the classics were released. So, while I recognize that this game isn't as good as the others, I'll always have a special place for it because it introduced me to what a real shooter can be.
Couple console features worth mentioning, ability to use any usb keyboard and mouse, as well as ability to install mods from the web! Pretty cool stuff for console
When it comes to gameplay mechanics and the polish of said mechanics UT3 was the best entry in the franchise. Hope UT4 will live up to it.
Yet another person that knows what he is talking about. UT3>UT99&UT200X
In gameplay therms UT3 was, in fact, the best of the series. Perfect weapon and vehicle balance, in every aspect.
The new UT has a good gameplay, but the weapon balance has changed for worse. The only redeeming qualities in its actual state are the oldschool-like maps and PART of the player movement, IMO.
I agree I played this game a ridiculous amount
I wish you did more than FPS games. Your reviews seriously never disappoint.
Back when this was released everybody was about done with arena shooters.
Game looks great, unreal engine is awesome, but I just bought this game for total conversion mods to be honest.
I don’t care what anyone says UT3 was awesome fun & awesome looking! But I was damn good at the game so maybe I am biased. Only thing that really ticked me off is that they got rid of my precious Anubans. And no double jump. But other than that I thought it was great. Not quite as good as UT2004 but pretty close. Also the hover board is awesome. You just have to know how to make good use of it. And the maps are friggin gorgeous for the most part. Especially maps from the modding community.
IIRC there was double and wall jumping on UT3, however it wasn't exactly like UT2004. IIRC too, someone made a quad jump external mutator back then.
Yes the levels had tons more detail than prior games but there is NO COLOUR in them. Poor gameplay and that irritating bro-brah-gears art style kill this game for me.
But you can download (for free) ALL those COLORFUL maps from prior games, reworked and vastly improved for UT3. So what you say here has to be false.
Dark maps -my eyes in tears trying to whats going on on the screen , inferior botscoding , crouching hunchback players , bad soundeffects , unmature, even today it lags on my 960m 2G videocard, gamespy, and so on and furter
I agree, the style was just... WEIRD... o_O
Alupang Guam and they all sucked , ut3 is the worst game ever made.
Hans Meiser Meddl Meier, spielst etzela auch ut
Well UT3 selling the Unreal 3 engine isn't entirely true. Gears of War came out a year before its release along with a few other titles such as Rainbow Six Vegas that were on the Unreal 3 engine and that's what really kicked it off. So much in fact that the boxart for UT3 on the consoles had the logo "From the creators of Gears Of War" which demonstrates just how popular GoW was to where it unfortunately dwarfed the Unreal franchise in popularity, well for the console twats at the very least.
True. And let's not forget how Tim Sweeny, the lead engine designer, would trumpet how consoles would be the future, pissing off alot of pc gamers. All because of lot computers were running on low end intel on board video cards and they didn't want optimize their code on these devices.
Fast forward to 2018, Unreal Engine 4 is running on low powered smart phones.
The graphics in this game are amazing. Now every game is extremely colorful and obnoxious to look at.
The darkwalker always looked scary when the other team had it!
Amazing to see I wasn't the only one thinking exactly the same as you
It still enjoyable game for me and far superior to some of the oferings we have today. It lacks content but it still a lot.
UT99 : the maps, the AI, the weapons, multiplayer, the late 90s house / electronic music soundtrack. No debate on the best UT of all time
The thing I missed most was the ability to pick what specific bots you fought against. I remember in the previous UTs I loved to play Assault mode with bots that fit the story (like an all robot team at the Robot Factory).
You can still do that, just set the enemy team and add bots from the faction set as enemy
Can you please review Toxikk? More people must know about it!
I loved this game when I was younger
Onslaught was a gimmicky tangent that didn't add vehicles to the finely tuned dance of death so much as it completely replaced traditional UT gameplay with vehicle gameplay. Warfare is very slightly better because it has more level segments where vehicles are impractical so the normal infantry gameplay can shine a little more (also vehicles feel better than in Onslaught thanks to smoother physics) but it's still a gimmicky tangent, imo.
Deathmatch, CTF, etc. however work great in UT3. Weapon balance is tight and the game feels great to play, imo. Personally, I like it better than the original, though not quite as much as UT2004.
This is actually my first and only unreal tournament game, played it a few years ago on my ps3.
Considering the attempted focus on story, this should've been called Unreal Championship 3 instead of Unreal Tournament 3.
Titan mutator is kinda fun.
I was watching a video with the history of ID, especially the quake series, and the guy mentioned that the publishers weren't happy with them releasing Quake 3 arena that required a 3d graphics card when the first unreal tournament didn't need a graphics card (and therefore was more compatible with more systems on the market at the time of release).
UT3 was an amazing game, people didn't appreciate it enough, instead were playing other games that were not nearly as good, because most "gamers" are casuals and would rather play 5-10 minutes of brainless COD or Gears, than put tine into playing an Arena shooter which was much more demanding. UT became the most evolved game in Arena shooters, having not only the classic death match modes and CTF, but adding vehicles and becoming something more. I mean its the same today, people showed no interest in UT4, instead Fornite blew up and Pubg, two games you play twice and already know the whole game, Epic realized nobody cared about arena shooters anymore and for this reason UT4 was cancelled. I really dont understand the complaint against vehicles in UT04 and UT3, they were in separate modes from classic, how is that a con? Anyways, to me, it wasn't Epic that gave up on the genre and the franchise, it was "gamers." Same shit heads today playing boring crap like Destiny or Overwatch, I guess the only true gaming community left is Halo and single player. I'll be waiting for Halo 5 and Ghost of Tsushima.
Kinda fully agree with you. I mean, people still trash talk on UT3 for a lot of stupid reasons, and while I'm not defending Epic (since they later basically admitted that they could - and should - have made way more with this game) I kinda understand their point. I mean, why invest in a new Unreal game if at each new installment people prefer to bitch about it than play it? And since they left the channel open for the "community" for suggestions on UT4, they couldn't satisfy everyone and obviously they abandoned the project.
The new unreal is in alpha and you can download it for free from the unreal site. Its very playable.
It is pretty crazy how much better this game looks, than a new Doom multiplayer :)
An i7 + GTX1060 runs UT3 @ 4K resolution over 100 fps max details. Looks better than any "modern" game @ 1080p.
Now you need to do a review of the awesome Unreal Championship game for the Xbox. That game was crazy fun!!!
Back then:
Wow a new unreal tournament...
A few hours later i was playing UT 2004 lol.
You shit on bombing run in your ut2004 video review but here you say it was one of the preferred game modes of that game, which one is it?
Whoever is reviewing the game must have got clapped online 24/7 this game was outstanding.
One cool Thing about this Game is that it supportet Mouse&Keyboard on the Ps3 and u could also choose if u wannted to play on Servers with Mouse&Keyboard only/Controller only or mixed Servers .
I remember trying it out and then going back to UT2004