Unreal Tournament 3 is “Gears on crack”
TeamXbox highlights some of the finer points from the newest issue of Official Xbox Magazine 6-page article on Unreal Tournament 3.
In the preview, Epic Games’ Steven Polge, the lead designer of Unreal Tournament 3, confirms that the Xbox 360 version of the game will support four-player co-op and two-player split-screen in the single-player campaign, which will let you take different paths depending on the decisions you take.
The preview also revealed that Unreal Tournament 3 will feature 18 vehicles and 5 types of turrets. Epic also promises “zero-time to spectacle” thanks to the hoverboard.
Regarding the controls, Polge revealed that they are so good that half the people who work on the game prefer to play the Xbox 360 version. Furthermore, the guy responsible for the controls has stepped in playtest sessions, where everyone was on keyboards, and with a controller he kicked everyone’s butt.
Now that Epic is known among Xbox gamers for Gears or War rather than its emblematic Unreal franchise, the comparison between the two series is inevitable.
Jerry O’Flaherty, the art director for both games, says that “Gears if a more confined game. UT is about big, huge distances. The speed of UT is so quick; it’s not a walking environment, it’s a running or flying environment.”
Finally, Polge chipped into the discussion saying: “It’s Gears on crack. Cover is for wimps!”
I actually can’t wait to play this, I am interested to see the Unreal Engine on an Unreal game for a change 
[OXM July issue | TeamXbox]
June 1st, 2007 at 2:45 am
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