We've just confirmed with Midway that Unreal Tournament III for Xbox 360 will hit the console on July 7. The Xbox 360 version will feature five "exclusive" maps, split-screen capabilities, two new characters and the all-new Warfare mode. Of course, the online fragfest will also feature all the benefits of Xbox Live.
A funny thing happened on the way to Unreal Tournament 3 coming to Xbox 360: It seems that Sony took a bigger liking to the game and managed to get Midway and Epic to okay having the PS3 be its exclusive console home for a while. However, the proverb "Good things come to those who wait" seems to have some validity here, because the Xbox 360 version will come with some additional content that wasn't originally going to be in the box.
"How did the modding situation with Microsoft work out?
Yeah. Well, we're still working on it, so I'm cautiously optimistic right now based on some conversations I had with John Shafner last week. Regardless, we know some of these great mods are going to play a role on Xbox 360, even if we have to get some people and bring them over ourselves. We'll figure it out. I don't think we're going to have user exchanged mods in the shipping version of the game because that's coming pretty soon.
IGN reports that the Xbox 360 version of UT3 will have five new "exclusive" maps, two new characters and includes two-player splitscreen. It will also contain the free maps available as DLC for the PS3 and PC versions of the game.
Jeff Morris, senior producer at Epic, tells the site he believes UT3 will be a reprieve for those with "tactical shooter fatigue." He stands by the game being an "unabashedly twitch" title.
This is a pretty delayed version of a game that already didn't get a huge amount of buzz after its release on the PS3. At least with Army of Two, the buyers don't know what they are getting into yet =). I think Army of Two stocks are on the high side as well.
i kind of don't doubt that it will sell a million though. the 360's gamers tend to buy every game that comes out (grossly simplified statement). and this selling a million isn't out of the question if a game like army of two is going to sell 1.4mil (according to at-time-of-post TSE numbers)
Our prediction to mods on the Xbox 360 version of Unreal Tournament 3: not so good. In an interview with Joystiq, Epic Games' VP Mark Rein told us that there is no progress with Microsoft on making UT3 mods work with Xbox Live. One would think Microsoft would be more open to community content given the recent Xbox Live Community announcement, but Rein noted that the system is different.
Almost three months since its initial release in North America, Sony's popular timed exclusive, Unreal Tournament 3 for the PlayStation 3, is making its way down under. Unlike the current trend towards simulation shooters such as Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Unreal Tournament 3 delivers high speed, ultra-violent action that the franchise has become famous for.
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