Unreal Tournament III: Black Edition

Story

Unlike the previous Unreal Tournament games, the single-player campaign doesn't follow a storyline that revolves around the big tournament championship, and therefore several of the teams in Unreal Tournament 3 aren't tournament participants. The five playable factions are: Iron Guard, a team of human mercenaries led by former tournament champion Malcolm; the Ronin, a group of four survivors of a Skaarj attack on a human colony; Liandri, a set of advanced humanoid robots built or retooled specifically for combat; the Krall, a warlike race of aliens formerly under Skaarj leadership that have reemerged since their first appearance in the original Unreal; and the Necris, warriors who have undergone the eponymous process that makes them stronger but replaces their biological processes with "nanoblack," turning them into undead soldiers (hence the name Necris). In the campaign, players control members of the Ronin, and the Necris are the main opponents. In the game's story, set in 2307, a few years after the events of UT2004, a Necris attacks a colony on an unknown planet and unleashes armed Kralls on the humans. The colony is defenseless, but a group of Ronins show up and defend the survivors. Reaper, the leader of the group, advises his deputy warrior Othello and his sister Jester to destroy the orbital Necris blockade with a fighter, and orders Bishop, the team's sniper, to provide cover while he swarms out to save the colony. Suddenly, he is caught in the blast of an incoming missile and passes out, but not before seeing an unknown Necris woman shoot a soldier next to him. Reaper is rescued by Othello and Jester and wakes up in the base of the Izanagi, a guerrilla force fighting Necris and Axon. He meets with the leader, who turns out to be Malcolm, who also leads the Iron Guard as the Izanagi army. He explains that the Necris attack was controlled by Liandri, who also turns some of the Krall into Necris-controlled undead soldiers. The unknown woman Reaper saw turns out to be Akasha, the Necris agent who destroyed the colony and also leads the Necris troops. Reaper wants to kill her, but Malcolm tells him that he has to prove himself first.