It's like Unreal 2002.9

Unreal Championship is a console port (Xbox) of Unreal Tournament 2003. They pretend it's a different game, but it's the exact same thing basically.

Now say you haven't played either, let me do a run down of the basics.

GAMEPLAY (7/10): By now you should have played a first person shooter before. The rundown is the same as Unreal Tournament, Quake, Halo, etc.. You are in first person of a soldier/alien/robot who is in possession of heavy weaponry. The goal of this game is usually to kill everyone, in the most violent way possible. You could do it quickly with a high-powered sniper gun too, it's your choice. Some gameplay modes have goals such as keeping a point under control by your team, stealing flags, and a football-like game, but you still get to blow people up.

Single Player, (you go solo against computer controlled opponents) isn't fun like it was with Quake 1, Quake 2, and Halo etc.. Instead of a story game, this is for training your skills in deathmatch battle. All the game modes are present, as well as various skills, but this will die out in fun quickly. This game is not worth buying if you only plan on playing this.

Multi Player is a blast, especially since you can hook up your X-Boxes together using CAT-5 and a hub. Up to 16 people can go at it this way.

This game also has X-Box Live, but I have yet to try this feature for any game, and cannot provide coverage. I am sure this game's replay would raise a point or two if you have access to XBL.


STORY (2/10): No. This game is about blowing your friends and enemies to hell, and any small amount of story they give you, is just to make the rhyme to your bullet case spilling, and ozone-layer destruction seem a little more pointful.

GRAPHICS (8/10): The newest Unreal (Championship/2003) has very beautiful graphics, but I'm afraid the Xbox version got the smaller end of the stick. The PC version offers wide controls over it's graphics, to run anywhere from a low end computer, to a powerful machine, which surpasses the X-Boxes capabilities, and looks better then this version. It is still very fluent when not having FPS drop problems.

SOUND (8/10): There are some bad*** tracks that play, but also some lame ones. The sound effects are realistic and nice.

CONTROL (5/10): Not having a keyboard and mouse hurts this game alot. Ontop of that, many buttons can be pressed, so get used to memorizing the controller. Nowhere near the PC version.

REPLAY (6/10): Multiplayer is fun, but without friends, this game will not last. X-Box Live is probably a blast, but sadly, I have no way of playing it. The mutators (mods) are a nice touch, giving you varieties of gameplay.

OVERALL (3/5): It's a great game to own if you have the friends and don't own the PC version. If you own a PC, just buy the real one, don't waste your money.