Following a dinner with some media this evening, Epic's Mark Rein stood up from his table and announced that he had to get going ... he was going to go home and post on the Epic forums about an Unreal Tournament III demo. Midway PR and other Epic employees shot him the hairy eyeball, as if to say "Are we supposed to be talking about that yet?".
But Mark is unstoppable, and he wasn't kidding:
Just wanted to give you a heads' up that we're getting pretty close to releasing the Unreal Tournament 3 Beta Demo for Windows. The Beta Demo will allow instant action play against bots as well as online multiplayer. The purpose of the Beta Demo is to test the game on a large variety of hardware configurations and get gameplay feedback from the community. The development team feels they're pretty close to being ready to release this so it could come out this week but for safety sake I'd say it should be out within two weeks.
I'll be rolling out of bed tomorrow, and heading on over to Epic's offices to get some hands-on time with this supposed demo. I'm also told we might get a little peek at the mysterious single-player campaign, which is said to be Epic's most ambitious Unreal single-player experience to date (four-player co-op, baby!).
Be sure to check back later in the week for my full impressions, and reports on how poorly my Unreal Tournament III-related s**t talking to Epic employees turned out.
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11:24 PM on 10.08.2007
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And as for the min specs for the game, they're actually on par with those of Unreal Tournament 2004 (or so I was told this evening -- you can do a search for the specs on Dtoid; they were announced a few days ago).
Although, that is not where the next 2-3 years of my life are going to be spent...it's all about the DM!
Wonder why that could possibly be...
The dudes may not be as visibly jacked as the Gears squad, but the over-sized armor certainly appears similar to that of the Locusts.
Don't kid yourselves, Gears played off Unreal and now Unreal is paying back the favor. I'm not complaining, simply stating.
When Epic creates a game that doesn't involve aliens and big guns and over the top meat heads THAT'S when I'll be impressed. Their games are fun, they are just a little bit derivative is all. Nothing wrong with it, but don't deny it.
This will be a good chance to see how well my box handles it.
But yes! a demo with bots! i love you epic!
Dude, common. That picture looks like the Gears guys with new armor. They even have that same huge boot thing. It even has that washed out color Gears has.
Fucking Marcus swapped armor with the Locust.
You know how I said if I didn't know any better? I asked someone who doesn't. His answer? "Is that Gears of War 2?"
And that's not saying anything bad, man. Gears still impresses me, but a little change in scenery would of been cute, no?
I want my UT3 Fix
DToid 4 Life
Oh em gee
DO WANT!!
Unfortunately I can't remember its name, but there's a new mode in UTIII that looks really awesome.
Also, Do want!
Unreal Tournament has used large, futuristic, armor suits since 1999... (UT)
If anything, the Gears look was pulled from a gritty version of Unreal Tournament. Now that the new UT is coming out using the same engine(note that it's the UNREAL ENGINE), it makes sense that the models will look alike.
If your gonna complain about anything, complain that Gears ripped off UT, this has been the Unreal Tournament style and look since long before Gears was even conceived. I would be pissed if they took it any other way...
Anyway, UT won't be just limited to musclehead humans in ridiculous amounts of armor. You should expect members from a slew of different races-- robots, aliens, humans, the Necris, maybe even some furry things if they kept all the races from 2004. As for the demo, I'm not sure, as the UT2004 demo only had 4 player models, all human.