Unreal Tournament 3 Black: Free Weekend
Posted by Derek Robbins on 09.17.2009
Epic Games is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the original Unreal Tournament demo with a weekend that allows anyone with Valve's steam client to download and play the game for free.
Thursday September 17th is the 10-year anniversary of the original Unreal Tournament demo release. Epic is celebrating this by allowing anyone with the steam client (www.steamgames.com) to download Unreal Tournament 3 Black and play the game through the weekend, free of charge. Preload for the free weekend started on Wednesday.
Adding onto this, the original Unreal Tournament will be on sale through the steam store for $1.99 and both Unreal Tournament 3 Black and the Unreal Deal Pack will be available for 60% off through September 27th.
Unreal Tournament 3 Black combines UT3 with the Titan Pack, a massive bonus pack with several enhancements and new environments, the Titan Mutator, the Greed and Betrayal game types, the Stealthbender vehicle, weapons, deployables, characters, and more. UT3 Black also includes over 50 Steamworks Achievements.
If you purchased UT3 at retail, you can type in your product key on the "Activate a Steam Product" feature in the steam client. Steam will update UT3 for free.
In addition, several mod authors have created new levels, characters, weapons, vehicles and total conversions for the game as part of the $1 Million Intel Make Something Unreal Contest (www.makesomethingunreal.com). Phase 4 submissions are being judged now, and notable entries include:
∙ The Haunted (www.moddb.com/mods/the-haunted)
∙ Prometheus (www.moddb.com/mods/prometheus)
∙ The Ball (http://theball.toltecstudios.com/)
∙ Angels Fall First: Planetstorm (www.affuniverse.com/)
∙ Sanctum (blog.sanctum-game.com/)
∙ UT2D Killing Time (www.game-wizards.com/about_game.php?gameid=11)
∙ Steam Racers (www.steamracers.net/)
More is available at www.makesomethingunreal.com and www.fileplanet.com/unreal.
