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Eurogamer: Unreal Tournament 3 Interview

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It may have been out on PC and PS3 for a while now, but the Xbox 360 release of Unreal Tournament 3 is still in development at Epic Games, and at publisher Midway's recent Gamers Day ubiquitous vice president Mark Rein was in attendance helping people get to grips. Eurogamer sat down with him to talk about the 360 version and what Epic's up to in general.

Eurogamer: Why didn't you do a 360 version of UT3 in the first place?

Mark Rein: We chose the PS3 first because Sony was really going to play ball with us on the freedom to do the mods the way we wanted to do them: completely user-exchanged mods that you can download off the Internet, just like you do on the PC. It's a very open system. They've got a web browser on, you can actually go get the mods, stick them on a memory card, use them on a web browser in the PS3, so it just felt that that was the right thing to do.

And obviously it's good for our engine to have the game ship as early as possible on PS3.
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thereapersson - 85 days 3 hours ago
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1 - Interesting quote coming from the developers...
"Eurogamer: Why haven't you chosen to do a follow-up to Unreal 2 to date?

Mark Rein: I think we've been really happy with the multiplayer-oriented Unreal Tournament. Despite what people feel, people get this crazy idea that if you don't sell five million units it isn't a success, but we heard today that we've shipped over 1.2 million units of UT3, not even including the Xbox 360 yet. We make good money on Unreal Tournament, and it's a good game that we love to make, and it's not a five-year-long production and it's a great test-bed for lots of cool things that we want to do. We like making this type of game, and we have Gears of War as our kind of vanguard, single-player graphic showcase type of game."

***Despite what people feel, people get this crazy idea that if you don't sell five million units it isn't a success, but we heard today that we've shipped over 1.2 million units of UT3, not even including the Xbox 360 yet.***

^^^ It looks like, at least in the eyes of the developers, that this game isn't a "flop" like some fanboys would have everyone believe.
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kewlkat007 - 84 days 23 hours ago
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2 - "we've shipped over 1.2 million units of UT3"
I don't know but with PC Piracy not helping the game and Ps3 gamers playing COD4, which is about to take a back seat to GTA4 and MGS, you really think UT3 on Ps3 is somehow gonna magically start selling?

The genre has to sell where it is popular first. Shooters should sell well in NA/Europe and looking at other shooters this game is doing very poor.

What dev would come out and say their game flopped? when they still have another platform release to go....duurh
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