who needs xbox 360/wii when you got ps3 :D
//End fanboyism

very cool stuff. i'll hold out for snake in ut3 though

Awesome. Too bad I traded my copy of UT3 yesterday.

With the proportions necessary for the UTIII skins, that would be one heck of a stretched out Mario. It would probably give me nightmares like a stretched out pikachu.

My link didn't work quite right. Here you go, dang it.

[kotaku.com]

Cloud looks way too "white-boy" for my tastes. He's missing the whole pouty face thing he had going for him in Advent Children. The other models look nice though. Hopefully the respective companies don't come on them like Marvel did on NCsoft.

This sounds interesting to say the least. I wonder what other kind of iconic characters they can do? At least people can now fire upon Halo, Gears of War, and other possible characters to their hearts content using other characters from different franchises. The Smash Bros. of shooting games now possible? Sweet.

And yet, as amazing as the Cloud models that people make are (and I've seen enough of them to clog up the internets for a few good weeks), the creators always (always) fuck up the hair in some way.

I got this working this morning, really cool stuff, works flawlessly, played a few rounds as the Crysis nanosuit and my girlfriend as Master Chief. Its great i can do stuff like this with my PS3 so easily, its a shame that there won't be this level of customisation with the 360 version /if/ it gets a release.

Ooh, the Spawn one is awesome.

I think that the Locust looks outstanding personally... Overall though, cool mods.

These are amazing! Now if they come up with Miyamoto, The Regginator and Kaz, it'd be one hell of a frag-fest...

You know who they need to make?
Ratchet & Clank.
Those two belong in the UT world despite their apperances.

Nice job giving credit to the random site that cooked the models rather than the actual model-makers. I expect that crap from Joystiq, but you guys? I hold you in higher esteem.

Thank you, Evilengine, for these great models that have been on PC for a few months now.

@FIRST!!!: I don't know. Ratchet may not look right with the UT3 Engine. He wouldn't look right at all. Now maybe Nathen Drake or something. Altair is who i'm waiting for though. That would make me buy the game.

@Harmatia: Exactly the mods are still made on PCs a fact not too many seem to recognize...

This indeed is awesome.

I still gotta buy a better K/M for my PS3 to play UT3 on.

Uh... Thank god I clicked on the Article and notice Cloud. Cole's right arm looked like a cannon as a thumbnail so I assumed he was Barret. Cloud doesn't look like... Cloud. He looks like a cosplayer. Sorry =/ Everybody else looks great, though. Spawn. Wow, never saw you so UT3ie.

Yeah, PS3 rocks baby. Is anyone playing halo 3 maybe few now?

I might UTIII for the mods. Lego Mods, playing as Master Chief.. the list goes on. Who needs an Xbox anyway? J/K we all know we have xboxes for x-box live! right? I need an xbox >.>

Thats pretty cool right there.

MY LIST:
Jack Thompson
Predator
Alien
Alf
Ghostbusters
MrT

Someone with skill make them

This could rip the fabric of time!! Master Chief on the PS3 could have permanent consequences!!

OO, OO..... Big Bird

Cloud looks like crap. Everyone else = whoa.

I'm just wondering. Can Microsoft sue someone over this? Not that I think they would but what would happen if they just didn't want their main mascot to be on the arch rival's system? Do they have any legal grounds here? Who would they sue? I'm just kinda curious.

@Balance_In_Life (PSN): I doubt it, since epic didnt create the models themselves.

Sides this kinda shit is nothing new, its been going on for years on the PC modding scene anyways.

Just becuase its on a console doesnt make it any "newer".

@Witzbold:
While not newer its still of interest to any gamer, its another sort of "Branching" between all the forms of games as we know it, in this case, PC & Console gaming, we close the gaps, we unify the systems and the games and it works out better for all of us, people don't miss out on cool features just because of the platform they chose.

I still have my Spawn model for the original UT. Even has a kick-ass flowing cape.

Im tempted to buy UTIII for the PS3 now instead of the eventual 360 release just because of the mods made on the PS3 version like this and the lego one

Hmm cloud looks really weird, even the non advent children version of him only has one shoulder protector so he gets the full range of motion when swinging his sword, right now he looks almost like a dbz reject wearing that weird armor that freeza and his men wear.

Wow, I have to say I am not interested in UT anymore like I used to be (kind of loss interest in time, same thing happened with me and Quake... never played Quake 4 but I played at least 1,000+ of Quake 1 if you include Team Fortress), but these models are damn impressive. I would seriously buy UT3 if a SMBB mod could be created (would probably suffer from less lag too). Although I'm sure Nintendo wouldn't sit on it.

I love that anything *could* go on in UT3... Someone could make Halo DM if they wanted and ps3 owners could see what the fuss is about, someone could make a Ps3 version of Smash Brothers if they really put their minds to it. Annoyingly its up to the people, and people are lazy... they just want the things..

I'm a big fan of Halo 3, I'm putting this on my PS3 right now.

I really wonder what the possible copyright infringement issues are with this. Bungie and Microsoft have the copyrights to master Chief and the ability to create, duplicate, and broadcast his likeness. So, Epic might be liable if they don't stop people from creating copyrighted mod characters. Or, it might be more like a Napster/Kazaa situation where Bungie would have to target the users that were doing it with lawsuits. In any case, they would have a strong case in court that this has a financial harm to them (because PS3 users don't need to buy their product to play their character) and I think this story will get a lot more heated in the next few weeks once these mods gain popularity.

Sack of awesome for the sole reason that these are extra models that actually look good, instead of some nasty texture job.

@Thassodar: Maybe I just have a dirty mind, but reading the last sentence of your comment made me giggle ;)

@ryivanV2: hopefully, seeing how well the PS3 UT3 mods have gone for Sony, PR-wise, will persuade MS to loosen the reins a bit for Epic, who after all they owe big time for Gears of War, IMO.

@dexterr: Actually, there were 198k people playing Team Swat in Halo 3 when I logged in Friday Night, there are still a few who play Halo.

@pot3ntial2suck: Knowing Bungie and their reputation with their fans (Red Vs. Blue, anyone?), I'm pretty sure they'd let it slide.

Microsoft...depends on how the rights situation for Halo was worked out between Bungie and M$oft. Since no profit is being made off the mods, they probably won't care much either.

Epic won't care about the GoW mods since GoW is another Epic title. That is, unless they decide to release their own GoW mods, and charge for them.

All in all, I don't think anyone is going to care, really.

Just what I needed... another reason to play more UTIII on the PS3.

Damn game has sucked up enough of my time without getting to grief all the other kiddies by looking like Master Chief as I frag them. :D

Now, if I can just get Epic to update the code so that 3rd party maps can download to other player's client machines, we'll be in business. Gettin' kinda worn out on the same dozen DM maps, and buggy voice chat / lack of clan support is killing motivation to play team modes... come to think of it, Epic can fix that too.

But past that, quite happy to see mod support slowly moving forward like this. Can't wait to see how time rolls on... could end up being quite cool if fan-made total conversions are possible.

AWSOME!!!
CAN I DOWNLOAD THIS STUFF?

Played Warhawk and UTIII all day yesterday. Mostly UTIII for the mods. Thanks again to Neil for sending me the message about these. Can't wait until someone makes Samus with various suits for UTIII. How about a remake of The Temple or the Facility from Goldeneye, Facing Worlds from UT99 would be awesome for classic CTF matches.

Has anyone beening DLing the fan mod stages? There's a C&C Tiberium stage that's awesome, Downpour has got to be one of the best DM/TDM stages I've ever played bar none, Fragpipe 2k8 is a great update to the Quake II map and Flatmap(?) is sniper's heaven. I've heard that Orbital Deconstruct is awesome but for some odd reason it gets stuck in the load sequence as does Tokay(?) Towers.

@pot3ntial2suck: I hear what you're saying but, this has been going on since the QuakeII-QuakeIII days. It's not going to stop. I remember Quake II had some of the best mods you could get. I've played matches that had Papa Smurf, Yoshi, Darth Vadar, Optimus Prime (that actually transformed and had his sound effects) it goes on and on.

This is great stuff and I've seen at least one CoD4 map remake as well as some UT99 and QuakeII maps. It makes the 360/PS3 mappack releases for other games look silly by comparison in many ways. Fans can get a full complement of maps right now, free for download as well as mutators, character mods, vehicle mods and weapon and armor mods. If this isn't great fan support I don't know what is.

@Striderhayasa - Phillyyakk on PSN and Live.: I take that back. I just found a UTIII remake of the Temple from Perfect Dark. Downloading it now.

Seems like Halo & Gears of War are so great they need to be seen on the PS3, even tho it is on a FPS that can't compete.

@Collapse The Control: Hey, uh, I dunno how to tell you this, but...your fanboy is showing.

Super Saiyan 30k Goku with Scouter and Uber gelled hair plz

kthnxbye

and Charles Barkley :P

@LordChris915: Not up yet, but check here:

[www.ut3mod.com]

They tend to do a decent job of collecting all the PS3 mods in one place.

Very cool. I can't wait to see what other stuff shows up for UT3. Me being totally artistically deficient, will have to rely on others to make something cool to see.

Ha ha, they are now relying on Master Chief to save the day.

Good models, I was excited for the 360 release but I am less excited after the poor reviews and sales it got on PC and PS3. I doubt it will ever release for 360 anyway, hurry up GoW2.

do people still like/read Spawn?

they shouldnt have removed game modes which were perfectly good in the first place, plus is there really anything new besides the shiny graphics and the $1000 hardware to run on it?

Gotta love the Mod community.

@Eon.: Look at it this way...I just played a game of Deathmatch on UTIII on PS3 with Master Chief from Halo, Spawn and Marcus from Gears of War, on a remake of the Shipment map from CoD4. It all ran without a hitch and it was all free top quality mods. I can add the 3rd person camera mutator so I can play UTIII re4/GoW style from behind the back. How is that not seven shades of awesome? The best maps from CoD4 and Halo3 I can either wait for the fan mod or build it myself. Even the weapons and models from CoD4 and Halo3 can be added. It's limitless. But this is all old hat to anyone that's been playing the PC versions of UT and Quake. I'm excited because I can get the best of the PC world on my console and don't have to worry about upgrading the CPU or the GPU or RAM.

Now...Modders...can forget Cloud, I never like that bastard anyways...Can I get Samus? Can metroid fans get some UTIII love?

Master Chief PS3>Master Chief 360 LOL

@WordMan: God I hope not. I assumed they grew out of it years ago, but perhaps there are still some fans here and there...

On Topic: Not that I'm asking about these specific mods, I understand why they're not directly linked, but where do people go for just the PC version of UT3 mods? I used to go get them from PlanetUnreal for UT99 and 2004, but they don't seem to be the best place anymore. Just curious.

This + the created a character mode on WWE = I get to finally play as Robocop in all the ways I've ever wanted! *_*

@Collapse The Control:

Those models look better than Halo 3 and has about the same amount of storyline...(ie none)

i would say your welcome for the tip but i'm sure many people said something about this...very exciting stuff indeed.
now we just need a helghast character model. would be bad-ass.

@enewtabie: Not sure which Halo you've been playing, but I consider the Halo series to be quite up there in the storyline universe. Just because it's popular doesn't mean it doesn't have its merits; story's one of them.