Today Midway announced that the Xbox 360 version of Unreal Tournament 3 will hit stores July 7. The Xbox 360 version comes with some pretty nifty exclusive features, including: five maps, two new characters, previously-released DLC and a “never before seen” video preview of Gears of War 2.
Sounds pretty cool, but seeing this game come out so late begs the question, “Do multi-platform games have to be released at the same time to stay relevant?” Feel free to leave a comment with your thoughts.
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Epic head honcho Mark Rein announced via the Unreal Tournament 3 forums that the anticipated next step for the series will have a beta demo available for PC users as early as this week. From the post:
Folks,
Just wanted to give you a heads’ up that we’re getting pretty close to releasing the Unreal Tournament 3 Beta Demo for Windows. The Beta Demo will allow instant action play against bots as well as online multiplayer. The purpose of the Beta Demo is to test the game on a large variety of hardware configurations and get gameplay feedback from the community. The development team feels they’re pretty close to being ready to release this so it could come out this week but for safety sake I’d say it should be out within two weeks.
We have a few fan sites in tomorrow to play the full game and I’m sure they’ll be sharing their comments pretty soon afterward.
Since the PlayStation 3 version of Unreal Tournament 3 has been delayed, your only chance to get your UT fix this fall will be on the PC. Take a look at the system specs that were just released for it:
Minimum System Requirements
* Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista
* 2.0+ GHZ Single Core Processor
* 512 Mbytes of System RAM
* NVIDIA 6200+ or ATI Radeon 9600+ Video Card
* 8 GB of Free Hard Drive Space
Recommended System Requirements
* 2.4+ GHZ Dual Core Processor
* 1 GBytes of System RAM
* NVIDIA 7800GTX+ or ATI x1300+ Video Card
* 8 GB of Free Hard Drive Space
Bad news PlayStation 3 fans: Midway has confirmed today that Unreal Tournament 3 for the PlayStation 3 would be delayed for release until the first quarter of 2008. Sadly, if you wanted to play the console version of the latest Unreal, looks like you’ll have to wait until next year. Boooo!
Yeah yeah, Bioshock and Halo 3, blah blah blah. The game I was waiting for all year was John Woo Presents Stranglehold, the TPS based on Hard Boiled, the greatest motion picture ever made.
But Chow Yun-Fat wants a lot of real estate. Stranglehold for PC, due out next Tuesday, is a 50 GB install on your poor, beleaguered hard drive. Continued…
While our own Carmac gave his thoughts on Unreal Tournament 3 vs Team Fortress 2, GGL’s ClanBase took a look at just what exactly this anticipated next step in the UT franchise has to offer. Take a gander at the main piece or the highlights after the jump.
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Update: The delay of Stranglehold PS3 is for the European version only. The U.S version is still on track for a Sep. 17 release.
The horrible experience of using Unreal Engine 3 continues for developers and publishers as Midway has come out and said that the PlayStation 3 version of Stranglehold is now on hold for an unknown amount of time. The PC and Xbox 360 version drops on Aug. 27.
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