Play UT3 Black for free this weekend News

Your link is broken, by the way.

you see, THIS is how online game purchasing should work! Decent discounts on decent games regularly. Xbox live and PSN should take a leaf out of their book. There are some older games on live that are STILL the same price as when they came out, what kind of business model is that? Answer: A greedy and short-sighted one.

The worst thing is when a digital download game costs MORE than its physical counterpart and the distributor's excuse is, "But you don't have to drive down to the gamestore, you should pay premium for that". That drives me nuts.

percent is one word, unless your trying to say US customers save 60cents

why this weekend? So many other games have been released this week it seems insane to do it why not last week?

@Raajaa:

There are often deals on XBLA content if you're a Gold member. Half price arcade games are normally quite a good deal, and I am a big fan of Steam on weekends. This sort of deal gets my impulse buying instincts on fire, which normally happens when I find something on sale in an actual shop. Definitely like to see more of it across the electronic stores.

Toothball, your 'trick' of including a named anchor link pointing to the post that you're replying to is simply genius. I've always felt Eurogamer's comments lacked the ability to quote someone, but this almost makes up for that :-) So simple yet so effective.

Unreal Tournament 3 is a great, and unfairly overlooked, game! Why do PC owners slam it for being too "console-ised"?

I like it, anyway! Well worth it, IMHO.....

@ cianchristopher

UT99 got me into PC gaming and UT2004 was so much fun to play. UT3 looks good and brings back some of the elements of UT99's gameplay and movement BUT it's nowhere near as much fun to play as previous versions (including the "ugly sibling" UT2003) which is a shame. Another annoyance was that the story isn't about a tournament either and is a glorified training exercise for the online portion of the game.

Plus it was a rushed release (thanks to Midway) and came out at a very busy time of the year and it got overshadowed by many other AAA releases, including the ever so popular COD4.

UT3 is an ok game but Epic's focus was on Gears 2 (hence no Cliff Bleszinski as game designer) which they announced a few months (February 2008, not at E3 as many people state) after the PC release.

I'd say it's worth checking out at such a low price but if you loved the previous versions (especially the stoylines) this falls short of the mark.

My tastes totally disagree with chessboxer. I did love UT 1 to the max, but I can't stand UT 2003+2004, not a bit. And UT 3 for me is a grand upgrade of the original UT 1, I feel it's just perfect. By the way I own it on PC.

I don't know what price it has on Steam, I got my physical copy from Play with about 11€ including delivery so I'm happy as a fish.

why have you said $1.99 EUROgamer?
Steam have a European currency store for a reason!

@chessboxer
You actually took notice of the storylines in UT games?
It's always been about multiplayer surely.