This is an early version of the Unreal Tournament experience, featuring new content and returning classics. There’s still a lot of work to be done, but you’re able to participate, today, and earn in-game rewards available only to Pre-Alpha participants.

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1. 6/12/08 12:01 AM. This video series shows you the basics of how to use the level editor in Unreal Tournament 3. Starting with an intro, first level, viewports, BSP brushes, level design, static meshes - inner and outer, basic textures, lighting and ending with a conclusion.
2. Unreal Tournament® 3 unleashes the full power of Unreal Engine 3, taking graphics, gameplay, and challenge to a whole new level. Players engage in intense battles with other human players online, or against Unreal artificial intelligence that sets the industry standard.

Gulpinc Down a cherry vanilla Dr Pepper I snaffled from the gigantic fridge in the Epic common room, 1 temporarily forget the taste of fizzy Benylin while chatting to producer Jeff Morris.'Favourite vehicle and weapon? Recently it's been the Axon Hellbender because of the instant shock combo weapon the driver has. It's pretty addictive spewing out this string of shock balls that you can trigger one after another like firecrackers, obliterating any pedestrians in the way!

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When you chat to everyone at Epic involved with Unreal Tournament III, one thing is apparent - apart fromtheir love of fizzy American pop - their passion and belief in the game they're making. While I'm here to play the latest build of UT3, it's clear that the development team are working like Tarydium miners to get the game done as soon as possible - and while as we go to press this looks like being November, Epic's ebullient vice president Mark Rein reiterated to me once again that it'll only be released 'when it's done.'

Necris Rising

Unreal Tournament 3 is set on the planet Taryd, a distant planet from Earth ruled by three competing corporations: the cyberpunk Liandri, who actually created the tournament; the military Axon who specialize in beefy hardware; and the oriental Izanagi, who nab bits of technology from the Axon to continue their war effort.In the new single-player Campaign mode, you start out playing on behalf of the latter, along with three AI-controlled team-mates (or co-op with a multiplayer drop in/drop out ability) to take revenge on the person/s who killed your dear old dad.

You use a cool 3D globe map to choose which branching missions you take on next, a la Command & Conquer, and your choices will affect how the story arc progresses.

'Your choices can have huge ramifications down the line in who and where your future fights take place,' says Morris. 'The special abilities bestowed by completing optional objectives really helps flesh out the universe, and it's great fun to pull these rule breakers out when confronted with near impossible odds.' So, for example, you could find yourself taking part in a mission to steal a rival faction's vehicle - if you succeed, that vehicle will be unlocked for future missions.

Partway through the campaign, the game's fourth faction - the' alien Necris - invade the planet, intent on stealing precious Tarydium, infecting everywhere with the goopy nanoblack substance that runs through their veins, unleashing the reptilian race the Krall, and basically turning the human race into an exciting new kind of pie filling. This is where the choices really do have a major impact - do you stem the Necris invasion, or perhaps use it as an opportunity to increase your faction's territory at the expense Of the others?

Kill Or Be Killed

These Machiavellian machinations are all well and good, but let's face it however good the single-player mode is, UT has always been about the multiplayer - the first time I sniped someone's face off and heard the guttural tones of 'Headshot!', accompanied by a screen awash with bloody bouncing gibs back in 1999,I was hooked. UT3 has six types of slaughter: Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture The Flag, Vehicle CTF, Duel (one on one!), and Warfare: the brand new mode that's a hectic mix of Onslaught and Assault.

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I immediately hurled myself into a Deathmatch against five other bots on Average difficulty - one up from easy and five away from the frightening Inhuman setting - on an Izanagi Corporation map known as Shangri La, complete with pagodas, statues, lanterns, waterfalls and atmospheric cobwebs strewn across indoor levels.While Morris assured me that there was still balancing to do on the bots, the first match resulted in an artificial intelligence 10-kill win in under two minutes, with me languishing in fourth place. Programming legend Steve Polge, he of the Quake 'Reaperbot' back in the mid-90s, is again the man behind the bot tech in UT3 and it really shows - these are some of the best, most realistic Al opponents I've fought.

In one memorable encounter, I was about to gain a point from a sneaky 'from behind' frag of a weak opponent, when a rival bot came from a side corridor and blatantly stole my kill.In team games, you can also issue voice commands to bots using a microphone headset which means that the more socially-inept can still enjoy pure multiplayer deathmatches without having to interact with other humans.

Other levels I briefly skirmished included an ice level called Biohazard, a classic UT indoor techno level named Sentinel packed with industrial pipes and enclosed spaces screaming forthe Flak Cannon, and a level set on the Necris home planet of Absalom, with ominous religious buildings and nanoblack pumping through the outskirts.

On the larger levels, the newly-added hoverboard (yes that's right - bits of UT3 have been inspired by Back to the Future II!) becomes essential to zip about when there are no vehicles to commandeer, although it's worth remembering that you can't fire weapons while riding, and you take considerable damage if hit.

'Things like the hoverboard and the Necris Darkwalker really shook up our vehicle-focused gametypes,' chips in Morris, as I hitch my hoverboard onto a fast-moving Manta hover-vehicle, 'which is precisely what we wanted to do.'

The huge variety of vehicles in UT3 is staggering - every time I get hands-on with a new build of the game, I manage to get behind the wheel of something new, alien and very, very dangerous.

This time I managed to have a blast with the Scavenger - a spider vehicle that can roll itself into a ball, or spin its razor-sharp legs around dicing any nearby enemies into thin moussakastyle slices - and the Nightshade, a cloaking mini-tank with a link beam weapon.

You'll have heard about the Necris Dark Walker before - a terrifying War of the Worlds tripod that fires a devastating death ray that incinerates all in its path - but another equally awesome vehicle is the Axon Leviathan, a monster tank that can actually hold up to five players, with each on a different weapon, or when deployed, launch a very powerful cannon blast that can destroy other vehicles with one hit.

War At The Mall

Suddenly, a gaggle of games testers (or is that a geek of games testers?) pours into the Epic games room and I'm joined for an Unreal Tournament III multiplayer session with the new Warfare mode on the Market District map, made up of tight urban areas, multi-leveled walkways and wide-open areas ideal for sniping.Warfare involves two teams battling for the domination of a number of nodes on a map, by either destroying them or by grabbing and delivering a glowing orb into their shimmering faces. Link a few nodes together and you can then destroy the enemy's core, winning the match.

With two nodes active at any time, the result is a fast and incredibly frantic team game, with action concentrated around certain areas, and blood, gibs, plasma and body parts scattering in every direction.

As a new multiplayer mode, Warfare works incredibly well - the balancing of the weapons and vehicles makes for some tight matches, and there are tons of useful tips that you discover as you play, such as the fact you can heal your team's nodes with the Link Gun's alternate fire. If the timer ticks down to zero and no-one has destroyed the other team's core, the game goes into Overtime, and it becomes a tense fight to the death - with much angry smashing of a mouse into the desk if you're eliminated (or maybe that's just me...)

We can't be more excited about Unreal Tournament III - there really isn't any other shooter on the radar that has the game's breadth and depth of weapons, vehicles and level design, all enveloped in truly mesmerizing 60fps graphics that ache to be displayed on a giant monitor.

If Epic's long-awaited new formula Unreal Tournament continues to fizz and delight the tastebuds (unlike the new Dr Pepper) as much as this playtest, we're all in for a rather satisfying and loud gaming burp.

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