Huge Mods to Come to Unreal Tournament III

Unreal Tournament III is set to get some bigger modifications on the PlayStation 3 soon. Developers behind Tactical Ops (classic Unreal Tournament mod) want to bring Tactical Ops 3 the consoles. The team doesn't thing that their first release of Tactial Ops 3 will support consoles, but they are hoping to do it for future releases.

"This modification of Unreal Tournament III will focus on capturing the original Tactical Ops feel, with all the updated goodies v has to offer. The Tactical Ops series focuses on fast, action-packed gameplay, pitting terrorists against Special Forces in the most deadly scenarios."

Lets hope we can see this on the system.

[Huge UT III mod whets PS3 appetites]

Old Snake in Unreal Tournament III: The Video

Old Snake is finally up for download for Unreal Tournament III on the PlayStatioin 3. The new video featured above shows him in action. For those of you who want to give this Old (new) Snake a download, visit the link below.

[Epic Forums Old Snake Download]

Unreal Tournament III 2D Mod Is Mario With Guns

What 2D Game do we know and love that features an Italian plumber that involves finding the flag at the end? We all know what I'm talking about. A new modification for Unreal Tournament III makes the game just that, a 2D version of it. Take a look at the video above, and hit the link for the mod download.

[Game Type - UT2D]

Old Snake on His Way to Unreal Tournament III

A skilled modeler at the Epic Community is working on a model of Old Snake from Kojima's Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots for Epic's Unreal Tournament III. The model isn't quite complete yet, but it is coming along very nice and smoothly. We look forward to its finish.

[MGS4 Old Snake]

Image Metrics Reveals Facial Capture in Grand Theft Auto IV, Metal Gear Solid 4, More

Image Metrics has revealed today their new facial capture technology. They show in a video of how the tecnology works in games such as Grand Theft Auto IV, KILLZONE 2, Metal Gear Solid 4, LAIR, and Unreal Tournament III. The brief KILLZONE 2 footage they show seems to be new, and looks the best of all the games demoed.

"Image Metrics has bridged the Uncanny Valley, developing a superior facial capture and animation system that creates facial animation with far greater accuracy, as much as seven times faster than key framing, and they only need video files and a facial rig and 3D model to get started."

Check it out at the link.

[CGSociety - Image Metrics]

EA Developing More Than 5 Unreal Engine 3 Games

Electronic Arts and Epic Games have announced today that that they have expanded their license agreement for the Unreal Engine 3. Electronic Arts have announced they currently have more than five titles under development using the engine. No details were revealed, however.

They will be shown at later date.

[EA has more than 5 Unreal Engine 3 games in development]

Solid Snake Coming to Unreal Tournament III

It seems a user on the Epic Forums is working on his own Solid Snake model from the Metal Gear Solid series for Epic's Unreal Tournament III. The model is not quiet complete, they still need to make it work with the game, but it looks fantastic. Yes, you gotta love mods.

[Solid Snake (Model)]

Samus Aran Joins Unreal Tournament III

In a world where other console's video game characters come to another, Samus Aran from the Metroid series has joined the team of Unreal Tournament III in a new character modification. Samus comes loaded with an alternate armor set, maskless face, and a Gun-Arm. Get Samus at the link below.

[Character - Samus Aran]

Microsoft Fine With Master Chief on PlayStation 3's Unreal Tournament III

Buisness Week spoke with Microsoft in regards to the new Master Cheif character modification for Unreal Tournament III for the PlayStation 3. Microsoft attorney Don McGowan had this to say about the situation.

"Actually it's nothing more than the Game Content Usage Rules...in action. When these were developed, people all thought they were focused on machinima. The truth is that while they do address machinima they also allow for a lot of other things. Mods like this are one of them."

He continues on, getting more personal.

The developers aren't selling the mod, they're not monetizing Microsoft's IP, they're just creating something to share their love of the Master Chief on a new platform...And no one is taking characters from PlayStation games (do they even have any games?) and putting them on our platform...

"Oh no he didn't!". Come on Sony, lets here a good comeback for the guys at Microsoft. Perhaps nobody is taking characters from PlayStation games and putting it on the Xbox 360 because they don't allow community modifications.

[Microsoft Fine WIth User-Generated Master Chief on PS3]

Unreal Tournament III: Master Chief, Cloud, Marcus Fenix, etc.

The recently released patch for Epic Games' Unreal Tournament III came with the ability to import custom characters for your online experience. Who came as these custom characters? None other than the likes of Master Chief, Marcus Fenix, Cloud Strife, Locust, Spawn, and more. They are really worth checking out at the link below.

[UT.PS3 Full Characters]

Unreal Tournament III Patch v1.10 Released

Midway has released the Unreal Tournament III version 1.10 patch in the US and EU. We are not sure if it is the big patch scheduled for March 27, 2008 although, as it is only 44MB in size, and would be out seven days beforehand.

Either way, get on the network and download the patch.

Update: It seems it is the big patch.

Huge Unreal Tournament III Coming March 27, 2008

Today, Epic Games' Jeff Morris revealed a new patch coming to the PlayStation 3 version of Unreal Tournament III, along with a list of fixes and features. Lets take a look.

U.S. Only

• Made compatible with Euro version (both are patched to the same level)
• Fixed reversed ping sorting in server browser
• Fixed some rare crashes (shutting down, saving with low HD space, AI, etc)
• Fixed a client crash while connecting to server while server it switching maps
• Minor rewordings of various messages
• Fixed mutator mods to not be always loaded, only load mutators when needed
• Added mod import verification for inter-mod package name conflicts
• Fixed weapon/effect sorting in DM-Gateway snow
• Fixed extraneous "Player" entries in campaign scoreboard
• Fixed some getting stuck and outside the world bugs
• No longer display "Player is on red/blue" messages in campaign
• Fixed a Torlan bot pathing bug
• Fix for too many custom characters causing texture corruption
• Keyboard jump now does Smart Jump
• Fix for tilt controlling player sometimes
• Removed Warfare Score Limit of 0 in UI
• Disabled 3d sound positioning on mission briefing sounds
• Fixed exploits with ViewNextPlayer in rare cases
• Fixed some HUD positioning bugs
• Fixed a Darkwalker AI bug
• Fixed some teleporter timing bugs
• Fixed low-bandwidth, large player count connectivity

Europe & U.S.

• Mods now on root of memory device, can download easier from PS3 web browser
• Fixed VOIP quality issues
• Fixed some headset connection issues
• Added support for full character mods (heads/premade whole characters)
• No longer need to reboot after importing a character mod to see it in menus
• DLC no longer acts like a user mod (being listed in MyContent and causing disable mod crash dialog)
• Fix for bootup and import slowdown with many mods installed
• Add a VOIP icon when VOIP is active (button held down)
• Fixes for corrupted the auto-mod-download cache
• Fix for flickering auto-download text
• Fix for getting stuck in multiplayer menu if you get in before gamespy connects
• Fixed a mod problem with switching between mod and shipping maps with clients teleporting randomly
• Fixed a mod problem with multiple gametype mods installed, only first one imported would work
• Fixed Leviathan deploy icon
• Bots now respect players feigning death (depending on bot skill level)
• Bots now respect sandstorm "blindness"
• Fix for bots picking linkgun mode

Just to make it clear that the US isn't getting extra things with the US Only section, Morris said "The US version has more fixes included in this patch. This is because later release date of the European version allowed us to include them on the disc." All in all, this new patch is looking great, and I cannot wait to try out some full character models, and actually talk to people.

[Unreal Tournament 3 PS3 Patch Approaches]

Unreal Engine 4 Targeting Consoles

The Unreal Engine began as a cutting-edge PC graphics tech, great for PC developers. The future is now though, and now is nex-generation (weird how that works, right?). Unreal Engine 4 will be aimed towards consoles, not the PC, according to Epic boss Tim Sweeny.

"There is a long life ahead for Unreal Engine 3. Version 4 will exclusively target the next console generation, Microsoft's successor for the Xbox 360, Sony's successor for the Playstation 3 - and if Nintendo ships a machine with similar hardware specs, then that also. PCs will follow after that."

Epic seems to have gone crazy with console fever. I guess that just means more good out of it for us.

[Unreal Engine 4 Targeting Consoles, Not PCs]

Unreal Tournament III Lego Mod for EU: Fully Destructible Environments

Those of you in Europe may want to check out this new map for Epic's Unreal Tournament III. This is called the LEGO Map with fully destructible environments. You can watch it in action in the video above or download it at the link below. Really, give it a watch!

[Unreal Tournament 3 Mods for EU PS3] [Download US] [Download EU]

PLAYSTATION 3 Needs Their Own Epic Exclusive

Well, the Game Developers Conference for 2008 has been going on this week, and Microsoft announced Gears of War 2 with Cliffy B. running out on the end with the chainsaw gun screaming November 2008.

Now, your obviously on onAXIS because your a PLAYSTATION 3 fan, but you got to admit, Gears of War was one hell of game that I'm sure any of us would greatly welcome to our consoles. We have Resistance 2 to go up against Gears of War 2, but even though Insomniac is going to develop one hell of a game that may be better than Gears 2, it's hype is not in tact with that of Gears 2. Meaning Gears 2 will most likely move more consoles than Resistance 2.

We know from the success of Unreal Tournament III that Epic Games and Sony have a tight relationship. Sony should use that relationship to their advantage by getting their own 3rd person action title out of Epic exclusively for the PLAYSTATION 3. I'm sure Mark Rein would love to work on a project such as that.

Those are just my two cents on my own argument. Yeah, I know... weird.

Unreal Tournament III Coming to Europe February 22, 2008

For all the Europeans, we got good news. In just a few days, you'll be able to get your hands on Epic's Unreal Tournament III. On February 22, 2008, thats your day to pick it up. The game has already sold 1.2 million in the areas it is available in, and it's just going to rise.

Get your reserves down.

Unreal Tournament III Gets European Release Date

Midway Games today confirmed that Unreal Tournament III will be released on the PLAYSTATION 3 in Europe on February 22, 2008.

This time around, the release will be ready for the mods. So, my European friends, start picking out your favorite mods because Unreal Tournament III is just a few weeks away for you guys.

[Midway concretes UT3 PS3 date]

Halo Map Wizard Arrives to Unreal Tournament III

Quick, quick! Get this map before Microsoft calls their lawyers! Zubren of the official Epic Forums has remade a map called Wizard from Halo in Unreal Tournament III form.

You can download the map here, or take a look at some of the screenshots of this baby at the link below.

[Via Epic Forums]

Unreal Tournament III: Importing Mods, Keyboard & Mouse Support In Video

The guys over at Epileptic Gaming have made two videos showing how easy it is to import modifications for Unreal Tournament III from your computer to your PLAYSTATION 3. They also tell you how to enable keyboard and mouse support in the second video. Enjoy!

Unreal Tournament III PS3 Mods Start Coming In

If the PLAYSTATION 3 version of Fall's Action Cam v1.0 wasn't enough for you, fear not, as more mods have arrived, and more mods are on the way for Unreal Tournament III.

Modders recently released new maps such as DM-Bathroom, DM-DomeOfMud, and VCTF-FeelGoodInc. Keep an eye on the Unreal Tournament III mod community for more releases.

[Via GT Forums]