The folks over at 1UP have posted yet another preview of Unreal Tournament 3. The short preview doesn't include a whole lot of new information, but does includes some comment on the enhanced single player experience that UT3 may provide. The final details may well change, but it's looking pretty good so far, especially with the confirmed inclusion of co-op play for UT3.

Your character also now takes on more of a set personality, and your team consists of the same three guys, who you build relationships with, instead of choosing free agents to fill out the positions like the general manager of a football team. Beyond that, we don't know much, to some degree because not all the details have been locked down. For instance, plenty remains to be determined about exactly whom you play as. We know that he's part of a military force for the mining clan on the planet Taryd, and that an invasion by the Necris (another alien race in the Unreal universe) has disrupted the corporations who are vying for the natural resources (along with the very Tournament itself). Beyond that, though, the rest is conjecture. What we can imagine is a combination of large outdoor maps, akin to the old Onslaught mode, that in turn lead to more intimate maps more along the lines of Assault games. And, certainly, nothing says they have to keep lines between the two. There's every reason to expect that mission objectives could span both wide-open environments and tight corridors.