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Rein: Unreal Tournament 3 PS3 delay means more maps photo

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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Alex's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/03/2007 00:06
Alex
w00t zero.

<3 UT .. will get it for the pc, since i want to pay 600€ for a graphic card and not for a gay-console ;)
Knives's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/03/2007 00:16
Knives
I'll get it for PC when it comes out and maybe on console if a lot of ppl get it (orange box kinda situation). I probably won't run it with everything on high, but it should be playable.
Drift64's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/03/2007 00:16
Drift64
Yea I believe most people will get UT3 for PC since thats where it is meant to be played at... Plus it is cheaper!
BluDesign's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/03/2007 00:21
BluDesign
Ugh, I bet this means the Mac and 360 versions are getting delayed as well.

...

UT3 better be the best thing in the world...
Hoygeit's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/03/2007 00:21
Hoygeit
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?
BluDesign's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/03/2007 00:31
BluDesign
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.
ajaxender's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/03/2007 00:55
ajaxender
sweet a demo
i didnt like ut2004 much, but being a graphics whore i think ill like this one no matter what... so pretty! :)
Kalmah's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/03/2007 01:42
Kalmah
Makes me happier about the Delay. :)
Cheeburga's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/03/2007 01:48
Cheeburga
I'll be getting it for PC, screw the PS3.
bipolar beers's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/03/2007 05:30
bipolar beers
i'll be getting it for ps3. screw buying all the peripherals needed to update my pc and play this game.
CaffeinePowered's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/03/2007 08:27
CaffeinePowered
Why would you want to play a UT game on anything other than a PC just baffles me.
AgentMOO's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/03/2007 09:38
AgentMOO
@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.
Dantes's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/03/2007 10:09
Dantes
Them. I love this game.
http://www.midway.com/rxpage/mpr_12152.html
bipolar beers's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/03/2007 10:23
bipolar beers
@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.
Punk0's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/03/2007 13:32
Punk0
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.
Bricfa's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/03/2007 15:41
Bricfa
@PunkO

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