Dec 15, 2008

Unreal Tournament 3 is a first person shooter game (planned to be) released in 2007 and part of the Unreal Tournament Series. Is has been created by Epic Games and published by Midway Games, for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux.and Xbox 360. The number ’3′ in the games title may be confusing, because it is the 4th game in the Unreal Tournament or ‘UT’ series, after the original UT, UT2003 and UT2004. It is said that UT3 does use the number 3 because it uses the Unreal Engine version 3 as graphics engine.

Beta Demo

A Beta Demo of UT3 was released in the beginning of October 2007. It included to deatchmatch maps and one Team Capture the flag map with vehicles. A Multipayer as well as a Singleplayer mode was included and several cheats worked.

Game Technology

As all Unreal games, Unreal Tournament 3 uses the Unreal Engine in version 3 as 3D engine.

The following is a list of cheats for Unreal Tournament 3. They are working for the UT3 Demo as well. To type in the code, you need to open the console which is usually done by pressing the TAB key in the game. Note that most of these cheat codes only work in single player mode.

Dec 15, 2008

BioShock is a first person game released in 2007 for PC and XBox 360, and was developed by 2K Boston/2K Australia, previously known as Irrational Games and published by 2K Games. The game is set in 1960 and takes place in an under water city named Rapture. The game is has no multiplayer mode because the developers wanted to focus on a high quality single player experience. The game is described to be the spiritual successor of the game System Shock 2.

Game Technology

Bioshock uses the Unreal Engine 3 as primary middleware. Originally, Bioshock was planned to use a modified version of the Unreal Engine 2, which is called Vengeance Engine and has been used by Irrational for previous games such as Tribes: Vengeance and SWAT 4, but later they switched to Unreal 3. BioShock utilizes Direct3D 10 functionality when available, but runs perfectly with DirectX 9 as well. For physics, Bioshock uses the Havok Physics engine.