Unreal Tournament 3 - Free on Steam This Weekend

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Ten years after the first Unreal, the Unreal series continues to be one of the biggest and most popular first-person shooters series out there. It's "Tournament" spin-offs revolutionalized the competitive PC gaming landscape, considered by many to introduce players to the "Arena FPS" sub-genre (beating Quake III Arena to the punch by mere days). In late 2007, Unreal Tournament 3 released to generally positive reviews, though its commercial success has been lagging somewhat compared to previous games in the series. Developer Epic Games released the "Titan Pack" expansion this week, featuring new content and several enhancements. In honor of the expansion pack, Valve's Steam service is offering UT3 with the Titan Pack for free this weekend to all Steam users. So if you haven't tried UT3 or any Unreal game, now is a good time to give it a go. And if you like it, it's only a mere $11.99 for the full game. For those that have played UT3, here is what the Titan Pack expansion features:

"Titan Pack" includes*:

• 16 environments — four Warfare, three vCTF, six Deathmatch, and three CTF maps — that are new to the PC and PS3 versions
• Three bonus pack maps, CTF-Face, CTF-Searchlight and DM-Morbias
• The namesake Titan mutator, which lets players overwhelm opponents as a 15 foot tall titan, or crush them as a 30 foot tall Behemoth
• Greed and Betrayal, two gametypes that breed new-found fervor throughout the competitive UT3 arena
• Two powerful weapons, the Stinger Turret and Eradicator Cannon artillery
• Two valuable deployables, the X-Ray Field and Link Station
• The Slow Field power-up, a portable version of the Slow Field deployable
• Stealthbender, a new vehicle that carries two spidermine trap deployables, one EMP mine, and one each of the new Link Station and X-Ray Field deployables
• Two new characters, Nova and Kana
• 57 awards attainable as Steam Achievements
• Significant AI enhancements, especially in vehicle gametypes; networking performance upgrades; greatly improved menu flow and UI usability; better mod support
• Client-side demo recording, highly improved Server Browser, a new maplist system, plus mid-game mutator and gametype voting functionality for PC

* details courtesy of steampowered.com @ http://store.steampowered.com/app/13210/

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d3bruts1d on March 7, 2009 03:54PM I guess I'll have to install Steam on my Windows system again... now, what did I do with it? :D reply to this

d3bruts1d on March 7, 2009 04:19PM Gah... it's only "play for free" this weekend. reply to this

ClayMeow on March 7, 2009 05:00PM Sorry to burst your bubble...I thought that was clear. lol reply to this

Waco on March 8, 2009 02:38PM It's only $12 for the game though! reply to this

ClayMeow on March 9, 2009 08:23AM By the time I finished the 8GB download (Steam's UT servers were having massive problems), the free weekend was over. I was so pissed. Maybe I'll get the download and play it a little, though that won't show me the new Titan Pack. reply to this

d3bruts1d on March 11, 2009 05:30AM They are having a 40% off sale for UTIII Black until March 22. - http://store.steampowered.com/news/2334/ reply to this

Highfive on March 14, 2009 07:34PM Downloaded all 8GB and I was asked for a CD key when I ran it, before the free weekend was over. Such a total gip. I'm giving up the PC scene for good. reply to this

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