Yesterday, as you may well know, we revealed the first information on Unreal 3. It has spread to sites like

and even

It is with pride, then, that we at BeyondUnreal present a first look at what appears to be an exciting new addition to the Unreal Universe.

Last night, after we

I decided to call up Biff and Co. and try to pry some info from them. Biff met me at a Local bar, "Rory O'Shea's" and we proceeded to do a Drinking contest. I lost, but awoke this morning back in BU HQ with a videotape of Unreal 3 footage. And a wicked hangover, but that's another story...

After successful completion of the game, a Bonus Game, Unreal III: Side Story - The Adventures of Mr. Crow will be unlocked. In this game, you play as Mr. Crow, and you walk around freeing rabbits in places that are hard for Ne'ban to reach, but easy for you. And then you go back to your lair and sit in your room for about 10 or 15 hours, occasionally cackling and sometimes sharpening your blades. You know, bad guy stuff. Then... THE BIG FIGHT! Ne'ban slithers in and it's your job to take your trusty Salad Shooter and fire extra-salty potato chips at him at a deadly rate of 300 Rounds Per Minute. Succeed and you get to have a fine meal with that hot babe Medusa, fail and... well, you got your ass kicked by a slug. Sell your computer, dude.

U3:SS-TAoNB will also feature several Multiplayer modes, with a good amount of characters. You will be able to choose from four different Ne'bans and four different Mr. Crows, plus supposedly some secret fifth "Schoolgirl" outfits. You can play exciting gametypes like "Pet the Bunny" where you must hold and cuddle a pair of rabbits for 10 seconds to score, "Egg Hunt" where the team of Ne'bans must horde eggs and the team of Mr. Crows must eat them, and the exciting "Stampede" mode, where Ne'bans must try to save thousands of Nali Rabbits after Mr.Crows let loose a herd of Nali Cows! The Multiplayer looks to be pretty fun stuff, and as always with Unreal Engine 3, is absolutely gorgeous. In Stampede, for example, you can often see pancaked rabbit guts in loving detail, right down to sunlight reflecting off fresh, wet blood. In Egg Hunt, you can often find bits of Yolk here and there, and in "Pet the Bunny" on one map, "PTB-DeadSea" it was fun watching the team of Ne'bans trying to get to the island with the second Rabbit, as they kept dissolving.

"Egg Hunt" is also very interesting. First, there's the regular eggs, which are, well, regular eggs. Then there's Ostrich Eggs. Eating one takes three times as long for Mr. Crow, but he gains Abilities similar to Ne'ban's SlugFart(tm) called SilentButDeadly(tm). Needless to say, one of these will instantly incinerate Ne'ban into a crisp. Assuming he gets out of direct blast radius range, the cloud of amorphous debris will render him, depending on distance, Melting like he was immersed in salt, to merely choking. Sometimes he dies even if not in there, just to keep things fresh.

And then there's the "Holy Habanero Halitosis" eggs. These do nothing at first... but wait till tomorrow.

Finally, "Stampede" mode. In this mode, the two teams switch sides a la Assault. The Mr. Crows start with releasing the Nali Cows and the Ne'bans must keep them from running them over. This usually results in either a loss for Ne'bans due to excessive Rabbit stomping, or a loss for Ne'bans due to being run over, or a loss for Ne'bans due to SlugFart(tm) immediately exploding all of the cows, killing them, the Ne'bans, AND the rabbits (For which the announcer gives a Darwin Award.) Then the teams switch. This usually results in a win for the Mr. Crows due to Excessive rabbit sacrifice, Rabbit Pancakes, or merely all the Ne'bans die and the Cows lick up what's left for the Salt content.

All in all, U3:SS-TAoNB is shaping up to be a very interesting addition to the Unreal Franchise. We will be sure to keep tabs on it as more info is released. As always, feel free to

on this info.