Unreal Tournament III for Xbox 360 Reviews by Gamers

My major complaints revolve around the controller set-up and the inconsistency of the boards and A.I. in them. The single player campaign allows you to play with up to four friends, but it is really just a formal string of death match boards that prepare you for multiplayer as any human will quickly tire of the incredibly bi-polar A.I. that can't decide whether to execute the mission flawlessly (often without you on the easier modes) or hop in a vehicle and drive over and over again into a wall while the enemy A.I. becomes absolutely ruthless and effecient bordering on "cheating" on anything above normal. The control set-up is remarkably bad for a FPS, even containing a feign death button that actively hates your existence. It is definitely a PC port that they did not seem to care to fit to an Xbox controller quite right. More appropriately, the testers are probably so good, minor control issues may not come up and never even get addressed.

It's important to remember, however, that a 6 is above average. That is a good description of this game. It's faster paced than CoD4 and the weapons are crazier than most shooters and create lots of cool looking deaths from body chunks flying thru the air to skeletons lying on the ground. The Unreal engine creates very good looking enviornments and characters, but the experience of running around boards too big for only 8 players and boards too small for 6 just doesn't quite live up to the looks. At least there is no crazy melee staff from an earlier incarnation. This time they kept it a shooter and a fast one it is. I'm glad I rented it as it doesn't have the lasting value others have, but is fun for a day or two.