Unreal Tournament III on Xbox 360 is just a few months away now, as Mark Rein was on hand to confirm at Midway's recent Gamer's Day event in Las Vegas.
CVG was on site to sample the late-arriving conversion, and grabbed a very busy Rein for a chat about the Epic boys' work and all things gaming.
As usual, Rein was more than willing to voice his views on the current state of the gaming market, as well as the future of PC gaming, and cleared up some misconceptions over Unreal Engine 4.
Opinion is divided on this one for sure! Is motion blur good for gaming? Why do developers include it?
I hate any game that has motion blur and the first thing I do is switch off the motion blur in games. It just makes me nauseous.
I agree with Alex here, many implementations are terrible but when it is done right it improves the experience.
Alex from GamersFTW writes:
“In all seriousness though, I feel like DOOM’s success will be measured by how much the game has to offer. Graphically it’s looking spectacular, and I’m sure the latest multiplayer trailer caught all of our attention. Personally, the game is beginning to remind me of those late nights playing Unreal Tournament 3, which is totally a good thing. This, in addition to the promise of user-generated content, is making DOOM look like the best first-person shooter I’ve seen in ages.”
The campaign looks brilliant, like a true nostalgia trip to the original DOOM titles of old! The multiplayer equally looks like a trip down memory lane to fast-paced and frantic arena games a-la Quake, and honestly the MP REALLY makes me want to the get game at launch to capitalise on the hype. Problem is I'm not overly fussed with multiplayer typically in games, they can get weary after a while, and buying a game solely for its MP is risky - especially on console - as it's heavily dependant on the community!
Rock to my left, hard place to my right..
EDIT: On the MP note, does anyone know if it'll have bots available, similar to Unreal Tournament 3? I still give that a quick play time to time with bots (and all the mad mutators).
I’m exactly the same, usually multiplayer games are of no interest to me. But DOOM has sparked my curiosity, especially as someone who used to enjoy multiplayer first person shooters like Quake/Unreal. Totally understand your concerns about it being heavily dependant on the community, too. Which is just another reason they should include bots, in case the numbers need to be made up. I’m hoping the community will be good, considering the creative freedoms they’re handing over with the SnapMap thing.
Its basically a "console" ahead, in terms of graphics, of another shooter called Homefront thats getting ready to release. LOL
Great selections as always and they are...
Final Fantasy
Metal Gear Solid
Super Smash Bros.
Crypt of the Necrodancer
Unreal Tournament
Advance Wars
Payday 2
This guy! he's all about the money and plays all the fanboys like a fiddle. fake a*@!
"We want this version to be as good as the PS3 version. The optimisations are mostly based around making sure we can get decent performance with split-screen."
"We heard from our PS3 players that they were not happy about not having split-screen so we made sure that, on this version, because we might not have the same kind of mod support, at least we have split-screen."
big difference from what Jason 360 and his witless army were saying just last week...sounds like they gave a missing PS3 feature to make up for the fact that it has gimped buy-off-xbl mods, of which only Epic decides what gets submitted...
wating over half a year, still having gimped mod support, only to get Halo 1 like splitscreen support, doesn't sound anything like the 'superior version' to me...at least on this planet...
UT3 is gay as hell!
What a waste of money and I can't believe that I picked this game over COD4 for my PS3.
I dont care anymore I'm gonna buy the COD4 Special Edition Pack tomorrow.
Sweet!
Love Gears of War can't play to play 1 & 2 on my Apple Mac Book soon.