Burgess
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Location: Almost Heaven WV, USA
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Fri Jul 02, 2004 4:07 pm |
The second part of Eurogamer's interview has been posted. We have already learned that the next Unreal game to use the 3rd Unreal Engine will be the next installment of the tournament and that Epic will begin working on a new franchise. This interview gives us a little more information such as the next gen console they are working with is of course the Next box (Xbox 2).
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Eurogamer: What you've spoken about so far regarding Unreal Engine 3 is very PC focused, but how portable is the Unreal Engine 3 to next generation consoles?
Tim Sweeney: It's PC focused because PCs are known and announced. There's only an amount we can say about next generation consoles but we've really put a tremendous amount of thought into how to be able to scale to different levels of memory, how to load textures and all sorts of gameplay resources - dynamically - so we can make the most of a system that has a relatively low amount of memory compared to a high end PC, and all the other various trade offs. It's really been a big consideration for us from the very beginning. Epic's next major Unreal Engine 3-based game is going to ship on a next generation console...
Mark Rein: Wait! Is it Microsoft? [Scratches chin]
Tim Sweeney: No points for guessing which platform we're going to ship on! [Laughs] |
Epic also talks about their competition and offers ID and Valve the option of using their next generation technology.
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| Tim Sweeney: What's the Doom 4 technology and what's the Half Life 3 technology going to be... Rein: They should license our technology! |
I doubt they will accept but you never know. So what do you think about the recent developments? Are you excited about Epic's new franchise? Just hit that comment button at the bottom of this post and let us know. Now I am going to get back to some good ole UT2K4 LAN action. |
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