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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 45810

1UP has conducted an interview with Epic Games VP Mark Rein, talking about (what else?) Unreal Tournament 2007's release date:

Rein went straight to the point. "Do you when the PS3 launch is? Neither do we," he says. "But we know when UT2007 will be done: WHEN IT'S DONE! So the que

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v1m · Junior Member Joined: 10 Jun 2004 Posts: 194

The "when it's done, when it's done" boilerplate might have made sense back in the day when id software alone had the balls to stiff nosy fanboys with it. Now, it's just a tired cliche. Why report it? Everybody says it. The only real news would be a developer saying, "When is it going to be done? Right now! We're going to ship this game today in a half-assed state that reflects exactly where we ran out of funding, patience and cocaine. It's going to be freezing at key points, lagging like hell online, missing vital game assets, featuring sfx duped from a library record called 'Scary Sounds,' and containing hidden nude code that not only will give your parents heart attacks but will you, too, because it's your nude parents you'll be playing as."

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Jelster · Junior Member Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 115

I've found Epic to be even more vacuous than id when it comes to selling their engines. I mean Unreal 2 was pretty poor and UT2004 is just eyecandy on eyecandy.

For some reason their last interation of engines seem to be comitted to running on treacle power. Every game seems soggy.

As for its done when its done. Yeah the joke has kind of worn off and it would be refreshing to hear. Well finish in march because we're not incompetant cowboys. Afterall builders etc say ahh well it'll be done when its done wasn't funny when it started. Now the builders and the software developers are talking shite and then making it I think they need to whistle a new tune.

xxxx · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 8:45 pm Post subject:

what the hell are you talking about Jelster? Epic is one of the best software/gaming companies out there. Excellent games, excellent support and amazing SDK. More than I can say for that POS called Half-life and to think at one time I thought highly of HL.. Never gonna touch that cheat infested poorly supported hunk of crap ever again. iD went downhill as soon as they released Quake 3. All Carmack is to iD is a figurehead now. Too busy spending his million in the hope he can go to space. I just hope Carmack stays in space cuz he can't do shit in software anymore. I personally think people flock to HL not cuz it's a good game but because EVERYONE knows you can cheat your arse off. UT has always had both internally and through modders excellent security mods making it enormously difficult to cheat on.

devilhood · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:58 am Post subject:

UT2004 is great, I still play the original UT myself anyways, and as for Unreal 2.. it brought us U2XMP which was quite simply the best multiplayer experience out of every Unreal game I have personally played.
Such a shame it wasn't integrated for the original release of Unreal 2, it would have been worth the wait for the publisher.