In an interview with some videogame Web site we’ve never heard of called Joystiq (just kidding, fellas — we love you!), Epic’s Mark Rein effortlessly crushes Chad Warden’s modding dreams. It appears that that while the PlayStation 3 version of Unreal Tournament 3 will fully support mods, creating them will require the full version of the PC game, which will ship with a full editor.
“The editor is one of the selling points of the PC version. PS3 owners will need to buy the PC version as well, if they want to make mods. Not if they want to play mods. But, they would anyway because that’s where the content is. Are we going to release the whole game for free? You need it for the content. Well, you don’t need it if you’re going to make 100% new content, but no mod does that.”
In the same interview, Rein addresses the PS3 versions max resolution (720p), frame rate (“..it was running at least 30fps when I last saw it.), questionable mod content, and more.
Mark Rein always has a lot to say (a lot of which we can’t legally print most of the time), so this interview is definitely worth checking out.
