OK Here is my review of Unreal tournament III, I will start out by saying I don't give games very high reviews but this game has impressed me a lot. To start out the graphics are amazing, and the game runs very smooth. The biggest plus of this game is the amount of options given to the player. You have 16 multiplayer maps and 6 different game modes. The game modes are Deathmatch, TDM, CTF, Vehicle CTF, Warefare, and Duel,, plus all of these modes can be tweaked with options when you host a match to further change them. My favorite is Warefare which is a great team based mode where teams battle over what is called Nodes and when one team has control of all the nodes they can attack the other teams core and destroy it for the win. There is even strat to it but thats the short version of it. Warefare was meant to be played by clans, and thats all there is to it ! You can also run a dedicated server if you wish. I have yet to have any lag online even on UK servers. Midway has taken 360's and made gold accounts so thats there are dedicated servers for both the US east and west coast, the west coast servers are in San Diego California and the east coast are located in Chicago IL you'll see these on all the game modes listed as Midway servers on the server list. One other great thing is the splitscreen online. With the graphics quality being so high , I had wondered how well this would work. It works amazing, I have noticed a once in a while studder but on very rare occasions where 16 people are all on the screen, but it is not anything that would hinder your gameplay. If you can,,,,, Go get this game. Ebgames and Gamestop both have great trade in deals right now where you get a extra $10 for 2 games traded in. Now one very important thing is make sure to take some time and play with your controller settings before you jump online. They have both a controller sensitivity setting and Turn acceleration setting, you will want to blend the two of these settings till you get your prefered speed and smoothness set. I settled on a 11 sensitivity setting and 9 on the turn setting. This gives me the ability to smoothly scroll the crosshairs around the turns so I'm ready for the kill and yet have fast turn around speed also. The next thing you need to change is the vehicle controls. At default they are set up so that the vehicles handle like the warthog in halo 3 and well that SUCKS ASS !! This was one of the main **** in a lot of the reviews, but they must not have tried changing the setting to fix this. Make sure you have the vehicle controls set to DIRECT. This will enable you to steer with the left stick and aim with the right stick. Closing thoughts: This is one of the best option filled FPS games on the 360. It has a wonderful amount of modes and maps that will keep you coming back for a very long time. Yes it is very fast pace but playing some of the larger team based maps slows it down enough that even players that don't like games this fast paced, will enjoy the strategie and team gameplay. In my book there is no such game that deserves a 10 but this game gets a big FAT 9.25 from this old stingy gamer ! Take Care, Desode
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