Rumor: UT3 on Xbox 360, 90% complete

What? Shooters have progressed? According to who?

We have Halo 3. Which is Halo 2. Which is Halo 1. Which is 1998.

We have COD 4.... nuff said.

We have BioShock... which was a great game, but not much of a shooter.

Team Fortress 2? Again, a great game, but I wouldn't call it a shooter.

UT3... in the same boat as Halo and COD... a refinement of an existing and great franchise. Something doesn't have to be all new to be great; just some tweaks, a new graphics engine, and tried-and-true gameplay. I fucking love this game.

I wouldn't lump CoD4 and TF2 into the 'same ol stuff' category. CoD mixed things up with its new online leveling and gameplay setups compared to any of the WW2 CoD games, and TF2 is only old if you compare it to, well, TFC, which was released almost 10 years ago.

Still, it's not so much that UT3 is still just an Unreal Tournament game which makes it boring, it's that UT3 is just UT2004 with new paint.

It's all a matter of opinion. I love the new coat of paint, the vehicles, warfare mode... the gameplay just feels weightier and better. If Epic had changed anything too much it wouldn't be UT, and that would suck.

Moreover, are you guys talking about the PC version? Because the console version is slowed down 20%, and has you dodge my jumping in a particular direction. You guys'll probably like that a lot more.

I don't envy anyone playing UT anything with a controller.


Halo it's not.

Neither do I, I'm just saying that there would be more people playing with X360 controllers than PS3 controllers.

Regardless KB&M Ftw.

Yes, is a very good language to shout in.

I would agree with you about Crysis. One of the best games ever. I also agree with all the "console- hugging retards". I mean i got a 360, but i also play tons of PC games. Its called balance my friends. Some games are amazing on PC while other are amazing on 360(not ps3).

I envy you. I was so close to buying a 360 during the Halo 3 blitz with Mass Effect around the corner. I don't have an HDTV though, and I've gotten too used to gaming at high resolutions to switch back to SD.

Crysis, hilariously enough, because everyone likes to say it is only a "graphical showpiece" or a "tech demo" has some of the most innovative shooter gameplay of the year. The weapon customization, while available elsewhere, is executed so flawlessly that it genuinely adds to the game. The suit is just perfect; particularly when I play half-life, I miss it. You really can approach any objective however the hell you want. Sniping one by one, going in Rambo-style.

And the story, while nothing groundbreaking, was done so professionally and cinematically that it neared perfection.

Meh, I get so pissed off when people put it down out of envy and spite.

Yeah, cloak -> run a short distance -> wait for cloak to recharge and repeat until you get near enemies is really innovative gameplay. The weapon customisation is nice, I will give you that. The first half of the game was fun, but from the alien section it descended into below mediocre gameplay conventions (an escort mission where the NPC gets stuck on pieces of debris? Come on Crytek, you're pissing all over me now - do some QA).

It's certainly not the revolutionary shooter everyone is pegging it to be. The storytelling in it is almost laughable (if i wanted to just shoot stuff, I'd play UT3/TF2). On that note, this accurately explains Crysis: http://www.dumdeedum.com/planetcrap/crysis.html

This is coming from a PC gamer whose last serious foray into consoles was close to a decade ago with the wonderful Nintendo 64.

Honestly, Steve, I felt the suit was very balanced. What difficulty were you playing at? I tweaked my AI so that I got Delta level difficulty, but I kept the suit powers from normal so that I wouldn't have to duck behind a crate to wait for them to recharge. =P

I liked the story in an action movie kinda way. It never seemed corny or forced to me, and I liked all the characters-- psycho is funny, and prophet is a badass.

Ive said this many times before, but Crysis is for creative people. From playing it, it becomes easy to see for an unimaginative and no-creative person, its probably average. If you just cloak from bush to bush, wow that sounds boring as hell. When the koreans look up and see a jeep 30 feet above their heads which eventually crushes them, or the grenade under the car which blows the car into the house killing everyone but you-thats where the fun is. The more ADHD 12 year old you have deep inside you, the better.

I was playing it on the hardest difficulty available (I will give them credit, making them speak in korean was clever). I'm not saying the game is bad, but it's just not worthy of the "ZOMG BEST GAME EVAR 99%" that all the braindead reviewers seem to be bestowing upon it - did they just get a copy with the first fun half of the game in it or something? Maybe Crytek paid off review sites like IO/Eidos did.

The AI was frustrating as well, come to think of it. Especially when it came to foliage. They, by some miraculous form of evolved sight, could shoot flawlessly through it while I usually ended up emptying a clip into a tree because I couldn't see a bloody thing. And the helicopters could see where you were the moment you decloaked - even if you were laid face down in a bush. Yeah, IR, I know, but it doesn't make it less frustrating.

Again, the story was just awful - it wasn't even 'good' in a way B-movie stories are. It's just bad. Epic sci-fi plot my ass.
And as an English guy, the generic "BLOODY HELL MATE WANKER" musings of Psycho got old fast (I can hear that by simply stepping outside my house).
I'd heard rumours/hearsay that they had rewritten it (the story) some time before release - makes me wonder what could have been worse than the current one.

I can wholeheartedly say I am not looking forward to another installment of fighting metal tentacle monsters. If I wanted to see those I'd go watch one of those hentai movie things.

tl;dr: Overrated game is overrated.

HDMI->DVI. Blam, PS3 on your monitor.


And I'm not totally sure how much £10 equals to in US dollars, but VGA cables from Microsoft here cost about $40.

yea dude seriously. thats not a good excuse not to buy a PS3, that just means you havent done your research lol. if the 360 can do HDMI to DVI then what makes you think the PS3 cant do it too? just head on over to http://www.newegg.com and you can buy some generic cables and they will work fine (my HDMI cable for my PS3 was like $5).

after just one glance at the site, i already see a HDMI to DVI cable for $8 and a DVI to VGA adapter also for $8. so $16 and your set.

I do like the choice of a VGA cable with the 360. I was shocked to find the PS3 has no such cable so I'm stuck with one playing it on composite. Or just not playing it at all which the case seems to be.

Oh and to balance it out - screw the Wii for no official VGA cable.

Unless they make big gameplay changes and enhancements, no, 360 owners are not getting a good game.

If you're refering to the 360 platform, don't automatically assume it won't have user created mods. Epic stated that they planned to discuss such an option with Microsoft when it came time to finishing UT3.

There's no technical reason why it's not possible. However it's up to Microsoft to allow such an option.

We do know that Epic does have a relationship with Microsoft, being the ones who convinced them to add additional memory to the 360 specification. And Epic was responsible for one of the biggest selling games on the 360, which was sold by Microsoft.

Perhaps in a way, offering such an option on the PS3 first was a way to test the waters.

It'll be interesting to see what happens.