Play UT3 Black for free this weekend

By Ellie Gibson Published 18 September, 2009

Then buy it for 60 per cent less than usual.

Epic is letting everyone play Unreal Tournament 3 for free this weekend, to mark ten years since the original UT demo was released.

You can download UT3 Black via Steam. The Black bundle includes the game, the free Titan pack, a bonus pack with new enhancements and environments, the Titan mutator, the Greed and Betrayal gametypes, the Stealthbender vehicle plus weapons, deployables, characters and more.

Buy the regular UT3 in the shops and you'll get a key so you can update via Steam and get all the Black goodies for free.

Or just buy the lot online - there's 60 per cent off Unreal Tournament 3 Black until 27th September, and the same discount is available on the Unreal Deal Pack. To top it all off, the original Unreal Tournament will be priced at just $1.99.

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About Ellie Gibson

Since joining Eurogamer in the mid 2000s, Ellie has written about subjects as diverse as the fall of Gizmondo, the rise of Hollyoaks actresses in Red Alert games and the noise a bear makes under NSFW circumstances.

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Comments (11) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • MENTAL1ST Verified Senior Software Engineer, Picsel UK Ltd. #1 2 years ago

    Your link is broken, by the way.

  • mkreku #2 2 years ago

    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.

  • GamesProgrammer Verified Games Team Programmer, Eutechnyx Ltd. #3 2 years ago

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

  • dsmx #4 2 years ago

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

  • Toothball #5 2 years ago

    @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.

  • Eraser #6 2 years ago

    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.

  • cianchristopher #7 2 years ago

    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.....

  • chessboxer #8 2 years ago

    @ 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.

  • the_mtfr #9 2 years ago

    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.

  • CARL05 #10 2 years ago

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

  • bodypopper #11 2 years ago

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