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Rein: Unreal Tournament 3 PS3 delay means more maps

12:07 AM on 10.03.2007, Nick Chester 21 comments

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Heartbroken by the delay of the PlayStation 3 version of Unreal Tournament 3, I fired an e-mail over to Epic's Mark Rein to see just what was up. Not long after I hit send, Rein replied, partially with the "As a public company..." spiel he dropped on the Epic forums earlier today. But there's sunshine through the rain says, uh ... Rein.

"In addition, there is some good news," he says, "as a little extra time in development means now the PS3 version will have all of the same maps as the PC version, whereas we previous expected to ship fewer maps on [the] console."

Well that is good news, isn't it? And for those of you with PCs powerful enough to launch nuclear missiles and run Unreal Tournament 3, Rein says a downloadable PC demo will be available before retail release (which still stands for November).

I'll be heading to Epic next week to get my hands dirty with both versions of the game, so I'll see if I can't dig up any more information ... or at least take a lot of pictures of Mark Rein doing stuff. I feel like I'm doing a Google image search for him way too often.


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Drift64 at 10/03/2007 00:16
Yea I believe most people will get UT3 for PC since thats where it is meant to be played at... Plus it is cheaper!
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BluDesign at 10/03/2007 00:21
Ugh, I bet this means the Mac and 360 versions are getting delayed as well.

...

UT3 better be the best thing in the world...
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Hoygeit at 10/03/2007 00:21
Sorry to be negative here, (I'm happy they're trying to give the PS3 version as much attention needed to polish the game) but couldn't they just have easily released the remaining maps as download-able content as the PS3 version can easily incorporate new updates and mods?

I would think it would be nice if they could add something unique to the PS3 version to compensate for the wait rather then simply bringing it to par of the PC map wise?
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BluDesign at 10/03/2007 00:31
Let me amend my quote, AB.

UT better be the best thing in the world, because Halo 3 is doing a damn good job in it's absence.
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ajaxender at 10/03/2007 00:55
sweet a demo
i didnt like ut2004 much, but being a graphics whore i think ill like this one no matter what... so pretty! :)
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Kalmah at 10/03/2007 01:42
Makes me happier about the Delay. :)
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Cheeburga at 10/03/2007 01:48
I'll be getting it for PC, screw the PS3.
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bipolar beers at 10/03/2007 05:30
i'll be getting it for ps3. screw buying all the peripherals needed to update my pc and play this game.
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CaffeinePowered at 10/03/2007 08:27
Why would you want to play a UT game on anything other than a PC just baffles me.
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AgentMOO at 10/03/2007 09:38
@Caffienepowered

Because the ps3 version will have mouse & keyboard controls and the game is optimized for the system. No Tweaking, hardware upgrades necessary to get the game up and running smoothly. Granted the ps3 is relatively expensive, but $500 is still a good deal less than a gaming rig.
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Dantes at 10/03/2007 10:09
Them. I love this game.
http://www.midway.com/rxpage/mpr_12152.html
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bipolar beers at 10/03/2007 10:23
@caffeine what agent says plus playing it on my hd tv is gonna be awesome. anyway play it on yr pc have a blast. who the hell cares what i play it on.
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Punk0 at 10/03/2007 13:32
Why would the PS3 version have been made with less maps than the PC version to begin with? I think that's just damage control. With everything turned up all the way, the PC will probably have better graphics than the PS3. Have they made the rig that will do that yet though? I'm really interested in seeing how the PS3 and 360 versions compare though. Hopefully MS can see the advantage the PS3 will have with user created dlc and allow it because it's a much bigger deal than they would like to admit.
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Bricfa at 10/03/2007 15:41
@PunkO

They said that it would have a few less maps. that's why.
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Necros at 10/03/2007 16:15
Delayed games will eventually be good, but rushed games are bad forever.
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Samit Sarkar at 10/03/2007 16:39
@Necros: Thanks, Miyamoto-san.

I don’t know...I suppose this is good news. But as far as I’m concerned, they shouldn’t have been thinking of shipping the console version with less maps in the first place. As a PS3 owner, I’m tired of getting shafted when compared to the 360 versions of games (ex: delayed releases for skate and Stranglehold ; worse graphics/frame rate in EA Sports titles)...and this, while they’re taking time to remedy the situation, shouldn’t have been an issue in the first place.
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