The reason for my excitement is that, as much as Riyad tries to insist that I am too young to know what real gaming is, I grew up playing the original Unreal Tournament and can unreservedly say that, Counter-Strike aside, I cannot think of a game to which I have devoted quite so much time. In fact, thinking about it, UT even had a rival to Counter-Strike in the form of a mod called Tactical Ops, which was, in many ways a more enjoyable game. But I digress; my point is that I am as qualified as anyone to be quivering with excitement over the chance to play UT3.

As you should know, the Unreal franchise started back in 1998 (just months apart from Half-Life) with a single player game by the same name - receiving praise for the graphics, gameplay and (at the time) brilliant AI. While this was all well and good, the real popularity came with the subsequent release of Unreal Tournament.

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