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10:42 AM on 11.09.2007, Jim Sterling

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UT3 looks better than Gears (with extra bonus PS3 love) photo

#Epic Games #Mark Rein #PS3 #Unreal Tournament III

To say that Epic's Mark Rein may be proud of Unreal Tournament 3 is something of an understatement. Just watch our exclusive chat with the man to find that out. Lately, he's been bigging up the graphical power of the game, claiming it to be better looking than Gears of War. Ouch, Gears fans. Ouch.

Rein also continued Epic's latest trend of saying really, really nice things about the PlayStation 3.

"It's a really high end experience that pushes the graphics bar up even higher than Gears of War. There's more polygons, there's more stuff going on, there's more explosions and there's more things happening, so we're just really pleased with the way the game runs on the PS3."

Claiming that the PS3 version of UT3 is "something special," Rein praised how "right" it felt to play the game with a controller -- surely blasphemy to the weird and unsavory PC obsessives out there. Rein also went on to say that there were no greater difficulties developing for the PS3 than any other console, despite what some devs have claimed.

Mark Rein hearts the PlayStation 3, I think.

[Thanks to Action Bastard]

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36 comments | showing # 1 to 36

Snaileb

So how many polygons does the chainsaw gun use in this game?

oooooh, right..

Joe Burling

I would expect Rein to say nothing but good things, considering the lawsuits against them for the UE3 engine and the PS3 UE3 engine issues that devs have been so vocal about.

ShadowXOR

This game plays exactly like the last Unreal Tournament. I have no interest in it and I enjoyed Gears a lot more because it was something new and fresh.

Crunshii

I wonder...

hexfix93

Unreal 3, drake's, cod4, killzone, haze, timeshift, PS3 is FPS heaven, plus we get great platformers to boot, oh and grand turismo.. ahahaha i'm so stoked..

hexfix93

Unreal 3, drake's, cod4, killzone, haze, timeshift, PS3 is FPS heaven, plus we get great platformers to boot, oh and grand turismo.. ahahaha i'm so stoked..

Jim Sterling

Hexfix is brilliant.

hexfix93

why thank you jim, i enjoy your posts, more than the rest usually FYI. keep up the good work. i think you are why i come back and read this place often.. danke..

Upgrayedd

@ShadowXOR: Actually, I though the demo felt more like UT '99 than the more recent ones.

You can still double jump and there are the vehicles, but the actual shooting and fighting felt closer to the original (which is a good thing, in my opinion).

brad drac

It's being released a whole year later than gears, one should bloody well hope it looks better. As for his comments about the PS3 version, I couldn't really imagine electing to play this game with a PS controller. Even the 360 controller, which feels about as ideal as a console pad can be for FPSes, I just think PC FPS series' are better on the PC.

king3vbo

ZOMG HEXFIX! YAAAAAAAAAY! Moar inane fanboyism plz kk thx bai.

Yah well fuck using a controller for UT. UT is meant to be played on a mouse and keyboard and as such, I will be playing it on my PC

Video Cognito

I can't play FPS without keyboard and mouse.

monosylabik

good thing the ps3 supports keyboard and mouse aye.

hexfix93

You can play unreal 3 with a keyboard and mouse on the ps3, you don't even need a pc for that control scheme anymore. unreal is the first game to support that on the ps3.. FYI king.

Snaileb

Jim please don't encourage the community trolls. You kill a Wiisucks every time you do.

FuriousGeorge

well its about time thy got the hype trail rollin on this bad boy! gears of war cameout over 1 year ago unreal better fucking look better!

with games like call of duty 4 lookin as good as they do without the unreal engine, I dont know what the hype is about, drab and dark?

wonky360

hype.
I;ll wait for the review. The cover system is Gears is the star, not the graphics. Its all in how it plays out. Unreal games have been fairy shitty of recent years, much like the Need for Speed games, every version promises much but fails to really deliver. Hope this is not a lesson in green and purple lighting in space.

decoyb

Maybe this will make it out before christmas. It'll be good to have a console FPS that acutally has bots to play against.

pwfd

hell yeah! sweet keyboard and mouse experience on my ps3 is coming! =D

brainderailment

I will enjoy using my g5 mouse & keyboard on this game without having to install it on my $2500 pc.

AngelsDontBurn

I want UT3 now.

DrXym

I've never seen any FPS work better with a controller and I doubt I ever will. Anyone who claims different is lying or overly defensive. Therefore it's good the UT3 offers both on the PS3.

xlockstockx

brad and furiousgeorge have the right idea...for someone to claim that a second gen game would look better than a first gen game is expected...theyd be idiots if they released epics flagship game and have it look WORSE than gears. and like wonky said...gears of war was fun because it was a good game PLUS added some eye candy to boot. i expect unreal to be great...although i will be playing it on 360. i also wonder if huxley will bite into Unreals crowd at all, if it ever comes out

Fading Star

"Who needs Gears?" This is coming from Jim? Our Jim??

UT3 sounds cool. Let's see how it turns out.

WoYaoXiaojie

in my opinion gears is a better game than UT, plays alot better than UT, and I also think that having a controller is much better than mouse + keyboard... as a matter of fact the last couple of months i've seen alot more people in internet cafes playing with the xbox 360 controller via the wireless adpater for windows (and i live in beijing), it was surprising to see alot of people playing with a controller games like CS and ultimately HL...just a little piece of detail

hexfix93

i'm a good boy now. i will stop bashing the things i don't like, and prasing the things i do, i will stay out of the wii and 360 threads. and only post in the places where i belong.. no more flaming for me..

Sharpless

I will never understand what the fuck you people are talking about when you say that a keyboard and mouse are better. Sure, the accuracy improves, in fact it becomes downright easy enough for a small child to get headshots, but I see no other pluses. It's just clunky and unnatural. Consoles 4 lyfe.

Anyway, yeah, the game looks sweet. Looks like the PS3 may finally have a good, quality FPS, because Killzone sure as hell isn't going to be it.

timmet

OMG! Polygons! Explosions! STUFF!!! THINGS!!!!!!!!!

HawtPawkitHero

If I were in a room full of you people, right about now I'd be screaming STFU.

Anemone

@Videocognito
You can play it on PS3 with kb/mouse.

Chromer

I love how everyone is trying to play the internet tough guy and go, "UT3? Pssh. It sucks."

The reason everyone keeps comparing new games to Gears is because IMO Gears was truly the first next gen title to look well...next gen. Halo 3 pales in comparison to Gears graphics which is why Rein is so keen to compare UT3 to it. I'm a Sonyfag so I really could care less about 360 but to say that UT3 is better than Gears is almost a compliment to 360 users.

Necros

Wow, it does look better than Gears. However, it still looks like Gears. I know Unreal has been around before Gears, but the art style looks exactly the same.

Crunshii

honestly, its pretty hard to top Gears in looks cuz, well, thats this gen's limit I think. What could possibly be better looking than gears?

I suave more to sony & nintendo but you cant lie about the game, look and feel. The only thing UT3 can offer than GoW cant and will not in this gen of consoles, its the amount of things going on at once. Like heavenly Sword has 100+ enemies roaming all around you at full 60fps with no lag and no loss in quality. This can of whoop ass carnage is what I expect to see in UT3 and not in GoW.

cainball

Good boy, hex, good boy. We might just get along yet.

Video Cognito

@Anemone

I know, but that involves purchasing extra stuff. :/

amerijapoxicano

I don't care what anyone says. When it comes to FPS, Unreal is the Holy Grail. Nothing has ever come very close to topping it (although I haven't played COD4 yet...damn you Japan). I can't wait to get my hands on UT3. I'm buying a new PS3 when I go back to America to ignore the family during Christmas. Damn you dysfunctional family!

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