Epic hands out prizes for best UT3 mods

By Robert Purchese Published 18 February, 2009

Lists them for handy consumption.

Epic Games has picked and listed the best user-created pieces of content for Unreal Tournament 3.

This concludes the second phase of the Make Something Unreal Tournament, and will share a pool of USD 70,000 among the star finishers.

The winning entries will be showcased at the Game Developers Conference in late March. Or you can download them now, by clicking on the various links below. We organised them for you, that's very nice of us.

Phase 3 begins in April and the entry deadline is 15th May. Participation in previous phases is not necessary.

The Make Something Unreal competition will eventually hand out USD 1 million in prizes, ranging from computer components up to a licence for Unreal Engine 3 - undoubtedly the engine-star of this generation.

More importantly the competition unearths some serious talent, most of which has been snapped up by Epic over the years.

Last year Tripwire won with World War II shooter Red Orchestra, which can be snapped up on Steam now.

The full list of phase 2 winners follows:

Best Game Mod

  1. Prometheus
  2. The Haunted
  3. The Ball
  4. Angels Fall First: Planetstorm
  5. Snowreal

Best New Character or Customization Pack

  1. Xeno
  2. Egyption Warlord Amenophis
  3. The Haunted
  4. RuneStorm Crusader
  5. RuneStorm Skeleton Minion Characters

Best New Vechicle

  1. XS Harpy
  2. Dispatcher
  3. Sturm Gunship (ULA)
  4. Coda Horse
  5. Lav III

Best New Vehicle CTF Level

  1. Apex
  2. TrainCrossing
  3. Defection_SE
  4. FrozenTomb
  5. Kelahf

Best New Deathmatch

  1. SteamTemple
  2. Arean
  3. Thor
  4. Worm
  5. Dreary3

Best New Warfare Level

  1. Flare
  2. Tropico
  3. Meditation
  4. RealGar
  5. TanksForPlaying

Best Graphics

  1. Tropico
  2. Worm
  3. Krodan
  4. SteamTemple
  5. Arean

Best Use of Physics

  1. The Ball
  2. Cubes of Serenity
  3. CaptainSnarf's Modded Vehicles
  4. XS Harpy
  5. Unreal Demolition 2

Best Machinima

  1. DoubleKill - Episode 1
  2. Rebirth
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Comments (8) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • chessboxer #1 3 years ago

    Unreal Tournament is nothing without user generated maps and mods. I just wish UT3 was awesome as UT2004.

  • Eraysor #2 3 years ago

    I can remember spending hours waiting for maps to download for the original UT on dialup. Those were good times. I'm waiting for the Steamworks update for UT3, it might make it worth playing again.

  • steviepunk #3 3 years ago

    Some of them sound good, shame they are all hosted on Fileplanet... what's a wrong with a torrent?
    With any luck I'll get a hold of them eventually.

    Not played UT3 in a while, hopefully I'll be able to get back into it again :)

  • FixedInfinity #4 3 years ago

    Well done Planetstorm team!

  • Valver #5 3 years ago

    Xeno link is FUBAR...

  • Mox #6 3 years ago

    Anyone remember Unreal 2 XMP?

  • cw- #7 3 years ago

    Well that's a bit shit, where are the screenshots?

    And "Red Orchestra" only won last 'year'? That's been out aaagggeeeeeeeesssssss! Was released on Steam in 2005, so erm yeah, surely that didn't win "last year"?

  • chessboxer #8 3 years ago

    Red Orchestra was a mod for UT2004. It won the first MSU contest, then it come out as a stand alone on Steam after they won the contest and the money to make the mod a proper game.

    @ Mox

    I remember XMP. It was great fun. I never tried UTXMP though, not sure how many people still play it.

    I hope Epic make Unreal 3 at some point, or at least make a proper single player campaign for UT3 DLC 'cos the current one sucks. UT99/2003/2004 all had deep and very long (none of this "complete the game in 4hrs on first go, normal difficulty" crap - I'm looking at you COD4) single player story which revolved around an actual Tournament.