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Unreal Tournament III having a 360-degree summer

Midway's popular sci-fi shooter will finally arrive on Microsoft's console in a few months with split-screen play, three new maps, two revamped maps, and three new characters.

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Fifteen months ago, Midway Games announced its competitive shooter Unreal Tournament III would be headed to the Xbox 360. The news came as a bit of a shock, as the game had previously been touted as a possible PlayStation 3 launch title and was the console's answer to Gears of War, Epic's wildly popular 360 shooter. (Both games are also available for the PC.)

Later that year at the E3 Media & Business Summit, some ruffled feathers at Sony were smoothed by the news that UTIII would have timed PS3 exclusivity on consoles, with the 360 version not arriving until sometime in 2008.

For the next nine months, the 360 UTIII hung in limbo as its PS3 iteration narrowly made its fourth quarter 2007 release target. Today, though, Midway and Epic announced that owners of Microsoft's console would finally get their hands on the highly rated action game "this summer."

Though far from a definite lockdown date, the announcement means the game will most likely arrive between late June and early September. The Xbox 360 version offers everything released for the PC and PS3 editions, including all updates and patches, plus the split-screen play, three entirely new maps, two revamped maps, and three brand-new player characters.

For more information on Unreal Tournament III on consoles, check out GameSpot's brand-new preview of the 360 version or the full review of the PS3 edition.

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WHAT THE **** Why don't ps3 owners get split-screen? This is garbage. I thought you were better than this Epic.

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im guessing no user content for 360

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The game was not to good.

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Its about time. to be honest I didn't know it had come out on the PS3 until I saw it at the gamestop I work at I didn't hear any hype about it or anything for the PS3!

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Why the PS3 got the game first is beyond dumb from a sales figure point of view. I guess Epic and Midway don't really like money like most gaming company's? Releasing the game on the 360 first would have been the best decision. I guess better late than never huh?

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i cant w8 till it comes out

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360 version will have mods, i just posted a thread in SW on it << LINK REMOVED >>

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This should be sweet

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no mods = fail ut was built on mods

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it should have come out the same time as the PS3 version because that was a time when it actually would have mattered!

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finally this game will get the sales it deserves. releasing PS3 version first = lol at sales

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wonder how many people will download master chief mods?

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about time! Finally they can sell a million copy's... Bad sales for Unreal3 will stop once it hits 360

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Wow, lots of games to look forward too this summer I need a job /=

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EXxile, i own both PS3 and 360, and i also waited for the 360 version. My PS3 is for exclusives, real exclusives.

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What about the ability to use mods?

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Yeah baby!! split screen! i like split screen, but no good online games have it, except for gears of war and halo.

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PS3 cheated out of what? Yeah its really cool 360 gets a few xtra maps, but if you look at the 100 mods I have for UT3 for my PS3 (all for free), it doesn't matter. 360 has some goodness and PS3 has mod goodness. Both good but to say the PS3 got the shaft, is a gross overstatement. I have Halo maps, Battlefield maps, Lego maps and the list keeps growing, all for free. And don't give me this mods are coming from XNA, is XNA an Unreal tool, I don't think so. And trust me microsoft will make EPIC charge for maps.

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Good thing I waited for the 360 version.

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wicked!

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Cool, mods plz mods plz.

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360 gamers get the long straw again. lol

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there better not be host advantage, quitters, glitchers, and a complete lack of support for the game as Epic did with Gears

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360 mods will be possible via XNA but there is still little info on this.

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Are the 360 users going to be included on the PC and PS3 servers with the rest of us?

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WOOP! WOOP! WOOP!

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sharing is always a nice sign of caring...

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i wonder if they'll have mod support...

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I wish they would fix the issues on PC version first... or even care about the PC version... because I know I'm never buying another UT game unless Epic pulls their inflated head out of their butt and come back down to earth because the way they are choosing to do business now is going to heart them in the long run...

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Have it on the PS3, stopped playing it ages ago, hope its better on the 360

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I guess I won't be playing UT3. Split screen was what I was looking for so I can play with friends when they're over, and I won't play the 360 version because they insist I have to pay subscriptions fees to play 100% of my games. I guess I'll keep playing COD4 until Haze comes out.

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Can't wait to play this over xboxlive btw when this is released for 360 all its updates, maps extra etc will be available for PC and PS3 gamers as well

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360 supiorority!

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Wow. Bonus.

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There will be Mods just to it will be distributed through DLC and XNA

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ONCE AGAIN PS3 CHEATED OUT ON!!!! GRRR

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I guess when the guys aren't focused on doing the game for 2 platforms at the same time and learn from the problems of the original releases only benefits the 360 version. Too bad the original releases only pissed off the UT community no one will care to about this version. Save your money and wait for UT4 if Epic even bothers to continue with the series.

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I can rpgfreak15 its simple in order for the graphics to have no hit in splitscreen it takes more developement time to do it theres your answer. In other words if they wanted to add splitscreen they would've had to take just as much time on ps3 and delay it.

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And no MODS. Doesn't that ruin the point?

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No one cares about this game anymore, leave it on the PS3. I'll wait for Gears of War 2.

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What the F? How does this make any sense. The 360 version has SPLITSCREEN while the PS3 version doesn't? Can anyone please fill me in on this...i havent played UT III in like months after i got COD4 & Burnout Paradise. It seems like Epic is clearly favouring MS.

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The 360 finally gets a game later than everyone else with exclusive content

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Mods!!!!! I highly doubt you would be able to download mods willy-nilly. What i think is going to happen is that MS is going to allow Epic to "publish" good mods for the X360. Atleast, that is what i hope they are going to do.

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Are there support for mods on the 360?

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You forgot to mention that it will also be coming with new features aswell as something like 6 new maps etc.. :) It only sold 400k on PS3 i wonder if they now regret that seeing as fps games generally do quite well sales wise on 360?

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