UT3: Revisited (Titan Pack Sweetness)

Mar 5, 2009 at 4:53 PM

Well I haven't seen Anne all week, so no news on the coffee front.
But today was pretty good, because one of my favorite games got a major overhaul for the better.

If you haven't played it, check out Unreal Tournament III. It's a little over a year old now, STEAM has a try it free all weekend promo going on, and for those who don't mind making a frugal purchase will find it for $13 at Gamestop

Epic released a new patch, as well as their new Titan pack for the PC, and PS3 versions. (360 fans will get it late depending on whether or not Epic can work something out with Microsoft over a file size conflict on their LIVE service)

In any event the patch, and pack fix a variety of performance issues, and give a lot of new maps, and modes to the game. Even ordinarily "Big whoop" things an average person may not think much of, have gotten some royal polish.

Newsplash

The Splash screen features a dark background now (Used to be white, with less characters)

Newtitle

The title screen is new, and now features crisp 2d sprites of characters that are randomly displayed at bootup.

FixedUI

PC Gamers got their wish when Epic added a more traditional set of tweakable settings every UT game up until the initial Holiday 2007 launch of UT3 had had. Now we can mess with settings without having to code our own tweaker, or hack apart a document file!

Achievements

Because it's all the rage in gaming these days, Now UT3 has achievements to chase after. The only one I care about is Goop God being a Bio Rifle fan, and all.

Titanmutator

Epic's Titan Mutator is awesome. With this enabled players can turn into Godzilla sized versions of themselves after scoring a certain number of kills. And in the code of fairness, anyone can do it. Some matches may feature a good 24 giants! But you can still take them out. Plus it's a limited time thing, so it's tough to stay a movie monster. But it's a blast, and everyone should try it.

I haven't had time to check out every new mode or map just yet, but the performance difference is unbelievable, and that alone was worth the download. I'm having a lot of fun with it, and I think anyone who stumbles upon this will too.