I Win At Unreal Tournament 3
The final level of the single player game involves chasing Akasha, the Necris High Inquisitor, around a small cathedral until one of you gets twenty kills. It’s a duel to the death in a playing field designed by MC Escher. I hate to say it, but Akasha took me behind the woodshed repeatedly. I finally dropped the difficulty level from “moderate” to “casual”, which made all the difference. She seemed to stop dodging altogether at that point, so the win was almost too easy.
After being pounded so many times to begin with, I did learn a few things from her. As you close in on an opponent, be sure to switch from long-range to short-range weapons as appropriate. You can’t use the rocket launcher in every situation. Second, run away when she fires the shock rifle alternate fire, since her favorite trick is to ignite it right afterwards; anything in the vicinity will be vaporized. And lastly, find a good place to hide when she picks up the quad-damage powerup. It seemed like the only way that I knew that the U-Damage was available was when she was using it against me.
There’s some canned dialog that pops up after so many kills by either opponent, so the story still progresses during the final fight. The single player storyline was actually very interesting, and the ending was only slightly unexpected. The ending cinematic was very good (all of them were, it was like playing a Blizzard game back when they made something other than WoW). So Akasha bit the dust, but they still managed to leave the game wide open for another sequel. Roll credits.
Then the “Gears of War” credits appeared. Both games close with a series of photos of the developers and each one has a cute little quote next to it. Apparently, the two games share many of the same staff, because I had already seen a significant number of the portraits and quotes about a month ago. Many of them were even wearing their COG baseball caps. I almost felt cheated that they didn’t play the “Cole Train Remix” as did the Gears credits. I love that song.
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