8 June 2008
Ferry

Unreal Tournament 4 release expected alongside Unreal Engine 4.0 completion

Looking forward to the next next-gen (8th console generation) Unreal Engine 4.0 is expected to be released with Unreal Tournament 4 to show off its prowess, as with every new Unreal Engine comes a showpiece, usually an Unreal game. An example of this happened before the release of Unreal Engine 3, when Epic Games’ own projects — Gears of War and Unreal Tournament 2007 (later renamed to Unreal Tournament 3) — were touted as the company’s showcase titles for the latest Unreal technology.

Back in August 2005, Epic Games vice president Mark Rein revealed that the creators of the Unreal games and technology have already begun work [two years before in 2003] on what will eventually become Unreal Engine 4.

Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney, who’s been working on the Unreal Engine 4 core system design as the technical director, said in March 2008: “There is a long life ahead for Unreal Engine 3. [Unreal Engine] Version 4 will exclusively target the next console generation, Microsoft’s successor for the Xbox 360 [AKA Xbox 720], Sony’s successor for the PlayStation 3 [AKA PlayStation 4] - and if Nintendo ships a machine with similar hardware specs [AKA Wii 2], then that also. PCs will follow after that.” Mark Rein later clarified that Tim Sweeney meant that Unreal Engine 4 was coming to PC, and that “When Tim Sweeney was talking about Unreal Engine 4 … he mentioned something along the lines of it being exclusively for the next generation of consoles… what he meant was, it won’t run on this generation of consoles.”

For those interested, Unreal Engine 4 development will fully start sometime in 2008. With the next generation of consoles not expected to launch until around 2011-2012, it’ll be a while before you’ll be fragging photo-realistic enemies in Unreal Tournament 4.

References: Teamxbox, TGdaily & Wikipedia

4 August 2008 16:34
Daniel

SH*T! Epic sucks! i hate them now!

23 September 2008 08:13
vigo

I have bought every Unreal game so far but the consolish unfinished joke UT3 was has ended my fanboy status

no more money fro epic from me

24 October 2008 07:34
Isaac

unreal for life
unreal is epic
…unless that picture at top is actually wat its gonna b like…

28 October 2008 14:48
bill

the photo is from the movie judge dread….thats sylvester stallone.

9 December 2008 14:14
Adam

LMAO what a noob! “if thats what its going to be like…” OMG

I hope that Epic Games Pushes up the notch slightly and makes a full Unreal Tournament Game instead of one like UT3 cos there was a lot missing from that.

i cant wait to see the new engine and the new graphics though, as long as they stick to the original they wont have too much of a problem.

31 December 2008 13:47
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unreal tournament 3 was epic, hey i cant help it if u dont have a clue how 2 pay or have no friends or internet 2 play with.

3 January 2009 21:35
IITheMaNII

UT3 Sucked!! Im sorry but UT99 and 2004 where the best of the best! I still play UT99 and 2004. I think they need to keep unreal just like UT99 but with the Nice graphics. Also when they make UT4 they need the single player to continue from the UT in 1998. Yup unreal 3 engine killer but UT 3 Sucked!

7 January 2009 11:50
UKG+1

Is picture 4 an official image or a just a photo of Sylvester Stallone in a Thunderbirds outfit?

1 March 2009 15:32
dudu17

eu acho que eles deveriam fazer algo como soldados negs e o Malcolm resgatando o Reaper talvez essa traiçao no final do jogo seja um modo dele voltar a ativa e recuperar seu lugar de Deus na terra como dizem ele nao emporta quantos morram e sim que a terra esteja protegida e outra coisa devem colocar um pouco mais de irrealidade no jogo mas nao tanta como no 2004

16 March 2009 14:21
Xander

Unreal Tournament 3 had very juicy gameplay, but frankly not much better than UT2004, so no real applause there. im staggered that it was missing so much. Epic should really have included a lot more in terms of length and variety. I’m a big Epic Games fan, so I feel bad saying it - but it needed Bombing Run back, and it was lacking the classic UT elements. Because of the consumer demand for quality instead of quantity, there is a horrible tendacy in the development business to translate this into - “add more detail” and “improve graphics”, rather than taking a step-back and saying … im the consumer, what do i value most. The answer to that should be FUN.
Hats off to epic for the onslaught mode; at least their revamp of it, whilst not radically different was awesome enough to rightly make the centre-piece of their gameplay.
What I’d really love to see more than anything, is a return back to the original unreal games. Not UT, but the originals. I’d love for Epic to Design Unreal 3, where either we return to the poor guy/gal struggling to get off na-pali / or just take the story back to the planet itself. The Unreal 3 engine can create some beautful visuals, and Na-Pali is a much better place to show them off than the saminess of the Unreal Torunament world.
P.S. I’ll still loyally buy any Unreal product though. Im a die-hard fan, and whilst Epic are doing a good job at driving me away with their current console based strategy, Ill still purchase any PC release they offer.