This was also the first time that people could get their hands on and control the demo of the Unreal Engine 3 tech running on PS3. Although this was just a tech demo and not a game, we did play around with it quite a bit, shooting objects and testing out some of the ragdoll physics. The video is perhaps a brief taste of what to expect when Unreal Tournament 2007 hits the PS3 next year.

After getting the initial partnership announcements out of the way, Epic's Alan Willard demonstrated early versions of Gears of War on the Xbox 360 and Unreal Tournament 2007 on the PlayStation 3. Mark Rein prefaced the Unreal Tournament 2007 demonstration with an explanation that the early build didn't yet have full multithreaded support and the demo level was built in only a week. Frame rates seemed fine, and the high-resolution graphics looked great running on the PlayStation 3 development hardware.