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Epic's Sweeney: Unreal Tournament on Hiatus
by Nick Breckon, Jul 24, 2009 1:03pm PDTEpic Games founder Tim Sweeney says that his company will not release a full retail version of Unreal Tournament in the next "several years," a break from the studio's steady series of UT releases between 1999 and 2007.
"Unreal Tournament is certainly a major long-term priority, but we're planning not to release a major retail game in the series for several years," said Sweeney in a G4 interview transcribed by BigDownload. "So we have that effort somewhat on hold while we work on a few other initiatives."
"Sometimes it's okay to let people miss a property," said Epic's Cliff Bleszinski in a separate G4TV interview, noting the successful return of Fallout.
Sweeney did add that Epic will continue to support Unreal Tournament 3 modding efforts, and is planning to "open up the engine to more people to use freely" sometime in the future.
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You know what game series I really DO miss though? something that's begging for a remake?
Tribes. Yea. You heard me.
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What needs a rest is not the UT franchise. What needs a rest is CliffyB. And a long one. How I wish we could miss him for some years, or rather, decades...
I hope this doesn't mean that they're taking a hiatus from PC games. They're obviously not wanting to port Gears of War 2 to the PC ( http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/55003 ), but hopefully that doesn't rule out other properties.
One question I have: does it have to be Unreal Tournament? There are probably ideas that can stem from the original Unreal IP that could be cultivated into a full-featured game that isn't dependent on a multiplayer focus.
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This hiatus is a good idea.
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I bet when they come back to it, I'll probably be still playing 2K4, - even offline it's one of the best games I know.
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Firstly, the game itself was worse than 2004.
Secondly, it was horrifically built considering it was a PC-first release. Horrible menu etc.
Thirdly then engine itself was ugly and 1/10th of what we expected from the UEngine 3 tech demo video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbhjmh8UGc8. It's the UT2004 engine + normal maps.
Just go to Epic's forums and check the mapping section to see some of the ugliest maps ever.
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What you're actually seeing is a games company giving up on it's core franchise because it knows it has lost touch with real gaming and doesn't know how to make anything good any more so will just not try and opt for churning out throw away console titles.
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Its an OK game. Its just UT... with a 3 on the end. It doesn't add anything relatively new and they took out a bunch of game modes that people liked.
Same weapons, same tactics, same people who use nothing but shock rifle combos that get on my very last nerve.
Some of the level design though is just out of this world, absolutely incredible job! I haven't seen custom maps as they're too big for me to download on the connection I'm on.
Now if only there were more online players...
In the off chance you're reading these comments, can we get a 10-year anniversary re-release of UT99? Preferably free a la QuakeLive? It would really give the unwashed masses a look at a game that still looks wonderful today and is one of the best FPS's ever made. Thanks.
UT99 Forever
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