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Eurogamer: Epic Games' Mark Rein Interview

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Eurogamer writes: When we booked our GDC interview slot with Mark Rein, Gears of War 2 was just an inevitability. By the time we sat down with him on the Thursday, Cliff Bleszinski had carved up the stage with a Lancer chainsaw bayonet and we knew it would be "more badass". With that in mind, we tried to prise some more details out of Mark and also talked about the new technology Tim Sweeney demonstrated for Unreal Engine 3 on 360, Unreal Tournament III's reception and Epic's future plans, and what exactly the PC Gaming Alliance - of which Epic is a member - is going to do for PC gamers.

Eurogamer: Indulge me, because the last few times I've seen you I have asked if you're doing Gears of War 2 and you've had to say that you can't say anything. So, Mark, are you doing Gears of War 2?

Mark Rein: Yes, we're doing Gears of War 2! Did you ever doubt that? It's been in development since before Gears of War 1 shipped.

Eurogamer: So are you making Gears of War 3 as well?

Mark Rein: No. I mean...you never know. No! No. No.

Eurogamer: Last time we spoke we also talked about UT3. Congratulations, by the way - Unreal Tournament 3 has now shipped in Europe for PS3.

Mark Rein: Yahoo! The European one is actually a slightly newer version and we're going to have a patch to the US one to match it.
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Published: 671 days 23 hours ago | Interview | GDC 2008 | PlayStation 3 | Xbox 360 | Gaming | PC
 
 

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CaliGamer - 671 days 22 hours ago
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Eurogamer: Will the PS3 tech take a while to catch up?

Mark Rein: No, it's all the same tech. If it's in the engine, it's in the engine.

Hahahaha.. Ain't 3rd party developers great? Nice to see GoW2 coming along, can't wait for EPIC's next PS3 project, should look just as good if not better than what GoW2 looks like. ROFL. Nice read.
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Animal Mutha 76 - 671 days 20 hours ago
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3 - Devs being Devs
I wouldn't read too much into what features you will see on PS3/360.

It's obvious that these guys are really sensible in ensuring that new features just migrate into the engine meaning that they will then appear on whatever platform has the next UE based game. Gears will no doubt(and should) be better than its predecessor but that doesn't mean it won't get suppased by whichever game comes out next using the engine regardless of platform.

I'm more interested to see how much more performance sucessive generations of games can gain on the 360 hardware. I think its triple core 6 thread cpu still has some to give if the devs optimise their multi threaded code. The PS3 too has much more to give from the cell which should more than make up for its slightly weaker GPU.
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Some_One_Plays - 671 days 19 hours ago
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3.1 - PlayStation 3
You do know the Cell (CPU) can create graphics as well so that adds to the GPU's power. Have you ever heard of "Real-Time Ray-Tracing"?
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Kain81 - 671 days 19 hours ago
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3.2 - And i herad that this is only possible
with PS3, it runs 10 times faster or so than a PC or was it a 360?
i have read this here on N4G
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beavis4play - 671 days 20 hours ago
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i'm curious as to how gears 2 looks and plays as compared to ids' new game: RAGE.
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PirateThom - 671 days 19 hours ago
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The engine is id Tech 5, hopefully it can kick ass as well. Only because I don't like Unreal Engine 3. Too many people use it.

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Some_One_Plays - 671 days 19 hours ago
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4.2 - The Engine
They are still using the Unreal Engine 3 they just keep upgrading it, I don't know where you got "RAGE" from. It must have been some kind of technique but the engine is still Unreal Engine 3, lol.
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PS3forTheLose - 671 days 20 hours ago
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Mark Rein, why couldn't you have put Gears 2 on the PS3?
If he took the 360 out, then we would have better graphics thanks to the cell. My, the 360 feels like a leech when we are given crappy ports. Actually, I don't care about Gears, I'm playing Killzone 2 and Resistance 2.
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CaliGamer - 671 days 18 hours ago
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5.1 - I believe...
MS owns the rights to Gears, at least up until part 2. Really whatever you see on Gears 2 will happen on the PS3 in some form or another. The sad part is that MS has to rely on 3rd party developers for their killer apps where Sony has a large stable of developers ready to give support.

Think about it, 1st party devs for Sony make games that arguably look better than anything a third party dev has done on the system, i.e. Heavenly Sword, Uncharted, R&C, while studios that were the equivalent for MS i.e. Bungie made Halo 3, which was a good game but nowhere near the technical achievement that was Gears of War almost a year earlier from Bungie who arguably had all the developmental assistance they needed from MS.

I just think its interesting that all the technology that will go into one of MS's most touted games will be available for the PS3 in the future from a company that has stated that they like the PS3. EPIC also likes what the PS3 has to offer, and as such the PS3 will have all the advantages of Gears 2 along with its 1st and 2nd party devs. I think this is a fact that many fanboys overlook when examining the long term performance of these console manufacturers.
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