Unreal Tournament 3 review PS3

The Unreal Tournament series has always been massive among PC gamers, and now it makes its debut on the PS3 with the release of Unreal Tournament 3. If you're a console-gamer through and through, you'll find UT3 a bit of a culture-shock, as it stays true to its PC roots, but stick with it and you'll be rewarded with one of the biggest, brashest kill or be killed games out there, particularly when you discover the endless entertainment offered by the multiplayer game. Find out all about Unreal Tournament 3 in our massive review now!

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Unreal Tournament 3 review PS3

For console gamers used to their story-driven first-person shooters, Unreal Tournament 3 may be something of a curiosity. A PC series born and bred, you can forget about niceties such as story or intelligence, Unreal has always been about relentless carnage in huge arenas filled with enemies carrying unfeasibly large weapons. Kill, kill, kill. Pick up an even more outlandish weapon then kill, kill, kill some more. It's not clever, but it is big among the PC crowd and now Unreal Tournament 3 is aiming to convert the joypad-wielding majority.

First impressions aren't too promising. It looks like a PC game, it moves like a PC game, it *is* a PC game and unless you've been raised on this kind of thing you'll be reaching for the aspirin and a wet flannel after five minutes. There's just so much death being unleashed so quickly it's difficult to even process what's happening, never mind take control of it. Persistence pays off though, and once you begin to adjust to the pace of the game and the sheer eye-boggling level of chaos that unfolds every minute, Unreal Tournament 3 reveals itself to be an absolute blast.

There are a few concessions that have to be made if you're going to enjoy UT3, however. The so-called single-player campaign, designed to lure in unsuspecting console gamers with claims of ‘plot' and ‘depth', is actually nothing of the sort. A series of arena battles tied together with pretty cut scenes and some sci-fi gubbins involving evil aliens the Necris, if you're expecting an adventure to compare with Halo or Half-Life you won't just be disappointed, you'll be suicidal.