While being a solid game the lack of Australian servers makes Epics Game's latest title hard to recommend
User Rating: 7.5 | Unreal Tournament III X360
Now if you are new to the unreal series then you proberly havent played epic games long lineof fast past gore first person shooters known as the"Unreal" series.it started as unreal back in 90s but i dident take of until Unreal Tournament came out in 1999. it was rated Game Of The Year by many and many people still play it today online.UT2004 was realieased in 2004 it was good but the many complaints were the that face that it was now slower then before and many people like the original for its crazy fast past FPS. whill still being able to game of the year by some it just missed the fomular that made UT great. now where in 2008 and Epic Games have finaly made the Xbox version of UT3 the game actuly came out last yea but being one of the guys who dosent have the super computer to play all next-gen titles who'd rather play his next-gen on a console i waited a bit. and as i waited i was pleased to find out about the new content being added it made me fell speical about buying the later version. now onto the game itself. i played a bit of the single player and it first impresions were good. Fast,Violent, and lots of guns to choose from, AND THE IMPACT HAMMER IS BACK!! :D lol back to the review.but evetualy the Single player gets old and you'd proeblerly wanna start playing real people who dont get stuck behind leges and stay there. But you would proberly watch the the Gears Of War 2 content but i would know that if you a late buyer if this game on 360 you woulove already seen it on youtube. i liked the vid how it actauly showed you game play and the maps. i will give it a review when it hit stores in November. Now heres the part that brings the game right down from my original 9.5. When i first found out that i can bowse for servers i was pleased. it ment i could try and find the server with the best connection. but heres where it started to get bad. the fact that theres no idication on the ping of each server and it dosent help the fact that im a Australian gammer and this game is only in a few stores at the moment. but it once you choose a server its good until you have to shoot some one. i found i had to shoot early in order to compeat with the online 1 second lag and boy it failed heaps. the only gun that was actauly usable agaist the lag was the impact hammer but i stil felt some how cut down as i could even snip some ones head off. Graphics are very impressive not the kind of Crysis graphics but still vry impressive with good lighting and shadows.
So in discription
UT3 is a game that has potential but Australian gammer will find it very frusterating with its online play but if you live in American i highly recormend playing it or UK cuase the game has costom servers for you. i might change my score if some aussie severs opend up but till then i gotta start firing now so i hopefully hit that Brittish kids head