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Titanic update to Unreal Tournament 3 coming on March 5th
Midway and Epic took a break from dealing with financial ruin and counting Gears of War money, respectively, to announce some details about the massive update to Unreal Tournament 3, dubbed the "Titan Pack", for the PC and Playstation 3 versions of the game.
How much would you pay for 11 brand-new multiplayer maps (with an additional eight maps previously unavailable to PS3 owners)? But that's not all. How about two new game modes? One of the criticisms of Unreal Tournament 3 was that it was lacking the variety of game modes in the previous versions. Here come new game types called Greed (described as a "tug-of-war-style kill points battle") and Betrayal ("cutthroat style of play where alliance and teams can shift fluidly"). Now how much would you pay?
But wait, there's more! A couple of the vehicles in the game could drop deployable items. Now there's a new stealth vehicle that can drop X-Ray fields to make enemies more vulnerable to damage, and a Link Station to automatically repair vehicles. Two new defensive turrets include a long range artillery piece that can attack all the way across the map, and a powerful new gun that knocks back targets. How much would you pay for all this?
But before you answer, there's one more thing. I'll just quote the press release, which has the appropriate amount of enthusiasm:The Unreal Tournament 3 Titan Pack also features the new Titan mutator where fragging enough enemies turns you into the almighty Titan, a 15-foot tall maestro of wholesale carnage that has the effects of every Power Up in the game... ALL AT ONCE!!!
Now how much would you pay?
Whatever you said, it's too much. One of the trademarks of the Unreal Tournament series is free content. The Titan Pack is no exception. On March 5th, it'll be available as a free download for the PC and Playstation 3. It won't be available for the Xbox 360, probably since Microsoft is notoriously uncool about free content.
(For another hint of the sort of free content you get with Unreal Tournament, check out the winners of the first round of this year's "Make Something Unreal" contest.)
By Luis Arana at 10:52 AM ON 02/20/09
Can't Wait!
By Luis Arana at 10:53 AM ON 02/20/09
Can't Wait!
By R3MY at 11:27 AM ON 02/20/09
Yes, but can you wait?
I'm all over this download. Nice.
By Chijts at 1:34 PM ON 02/20/09
Wow, so companies do still give out free DLC? Good job Epic/Midway!
By Arcturian at 2:10 PM ON 02/21/09
Sounds amazing, but is there splitscreen on PS3? :o
By Pogo at 9:22 PM ON 02/21/09
The 360 doesn't like allowing free DLC?
By Aeon221 at 11:27 AM ON 02/22/09
So I went to my xbox and asked why it doesn't like giving out free DLC and it was like "wzzt brr click". How profound!
By chrisgoat at 5:19 AM ON 03/03/09
I bought UT3 for PC when it was released, I have a rig that can more then supports it. This game sucks a.., I sold my copy on ebay for about $10 less then what I paid for it and felt lucky to get that.
Face it UT3 flopped and is by far one of the worst FPS games ever released.
I have been a loyal UT fan since day one and I have loved the series but this was a big disappointment.
What made me mad was the lies and disrespect they have shown there customers and supporters.
This Titanic pack is a way for them to try and make up there losses and as far as I am concerned they can take it a shove it.
I just purchased F.E.A.R 2 and yes it did have some problems but this game signal or MP is by far much better then UT3.
My advise to anyone looking to purchase UT3 because of there Epic's Deming attempt to apologize with this so called "Titan Pack" forget it.
chrisgoat:
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