It all started with a phone call from Derrick. He was his standard calm and collected self “Dude Have you played UT 3 Yet! It’s awesome! I mean…” Like I said calm and collected. So anyway about three minutes into the conversation (the part where I actually got to talk) I tell him how I feel about first person shooters.

So we spend the next several minutes with him attempting to convince me to play, and finally I agree having no actual plan to ever play the game. I hung up the phone and proceeded to forget about the talk I had with Derrick until a half hour later I spot him pulling into my driveway.

Now normally I really dig seeing Derrick, however one look at the tower in one arm and the mysterious white bag in the other and I had a sinking feeling that he had not forgotten that I had agreed to play. However I was not about to give in to his bold manipulations and greeted him at the door trying to play the “oh I forgot” card. He didn’t buy it a bit and started to move all his LAN gear into my house.

Seeing that things were getting desperate, I told him I didn’t have a copy of the game. He smiled widely and handed me the mysterious white package as he began hooking everything up. With a sinking heart I opened the package and inside was a brand new unopened copy of Unreal Tournament 3. I glared at an obviously pleased Derrick, trundled over to my computer, turned it on and with a deep breath resigned myself to Derrick whooping my butt at yet another boring FPS.

So okay, I tried to hate this game. I really did. I did everything I could think of. I made fun of the name, I complained about the system requirements, but none of this did any good once The game started.

Alls I can say is I was floored, from the opening scene through the absolutely stunning graphics (even running them at a lower mode, they still rocked!) through the game play, I could not believe how awesome this game was. I am not just talking about I didn’t mind getting my butt kicked by Derrick awesome, I mean balls to the wall, blow it all up, winner take all, type of awesome. I have NEVER liked a first person shooter this much.

I can’t really tell you what exactly about the game that has blown me away so much. I mean yeah the graphics rock, but that is almost common place. The game play was really good, but still I am the guy who never likes these games. Hell I didn’t even mind the fact the story was the usual shallow story. I have honestly never had so much fun blowing stuff up and getting blown up in my life. I even continued to play the game long after Derrick had left me alone.

So there you have it, my review for UT3, I realize that I didn’t get much into the hard stuff, but trust me that doesn’t matter when I am willing to give a an FPS 9.5 out of ten. Sorry it deserves a ten but I just can’t bring myself to give a first person shooter that high of a score.

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