E3 2007: Unreal Tournament III exclusive for PS3

PS3 News | At least, for this year... UPDATE: "console exclusive".

One of the first surprises at Sony's E3 press conference was a timed deal that will see Epic and Midway's upcoming multiplatform multiplayer fragathon Unreal Tournament III released first on PlayStation 3.

For the remainder of 2007, the PS3 will be the only place to play the new UT, with Xbox 360 fans having to wait until an unspecified time next year to experience the next iteration of the Unreal Engine.

On top of announcing exclusivity of the game, Sony touted another feature of the PS3 optimised version of UT3 that will allow mods created on a PC to be ported over and played on a PS3. However, such a feature could test players patience in waiting to try it out, as it was not revealed whether the PC version of UT3 will suffer the same delay as its Xbox 360 brethren.

UPDATE: Mark Rein, Epic's VP, has said at the Midway press conference that UT will be launching on PC at the same time. It appears that Sony meant to say that this game is a console exclusive.

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19 Comments

Karai Pantsu

4 years ago

If the PC version of UT3 is also a timed exclusive... heads will roll.
Awesome news about the mods though, makes getting a console version that little bit more appealing. Not enough to sway me, but it is an awesome feature for anyone who planned to get it on PS3 anyway.

A13x

4 years ago

As someone who is working on making a couple of mods for UT3, I'm excited that the PS3 will be able to play mods, but annoyed if its going to mean the PC version that we'll be making the mods with is also delayed.

ittekimasu

4 years ago

^well i'm hoping that this isn't the case, i don't think that it would include PC's since it would be like pissing off god. But in any case i'm glad that they include mod's i'm just wondering if this would be mod's that are created by pc users?

A13x

4 years ago

The conference said PC mods would work, so yes

Also read reports that it is a CONSOLE exclusive deal, not platform exclusive.

ittekimasu

4 years ago

guess this is sony's way of trying to stab the rival console, but glad it's not harming the gentle world of the pc gamer >.>

El Taco

4 years ago

Why do you say it's exclusive when the 360 version is getting pushed back?

killer1500

4 years ago

Wow, and here I was thinking Epic games had really close ties with Microsoft due to previous Gears of Wars and Unreal Tournament being exclusive.

Looks like Epic arent so close to Microsoft like there press conference suggests, with it being optimised for PS3, but also optmised for Games For Windows Live/Xbox Live....who is the Unreal engine really optimised for.

Not just that, Microsoft have been pushing this game, with videos and stuff up on marketplace recently.

This is definatly the biggest surprise that has come from all 3 big guys.

VashtheStampede

4 years ago

wait... what? unreal on a console first? blasphemy!

A13x

4 years ago

http://au.ps3.ign.com/articles/803/803723p1.html

E3 2007: UT3 NOT Exclusive to PS3
Looks like they meant "console exclusive."

US, July 11, 2007 - At this morning's press conference, Sony claimed Unreal Tournament would be launching as a PlayStation 3 exclusive this year, but this appears to have been misinformation. Mark Rein, Epic's VP, stated at Midway's conference that UT3 will actually be launching on the PC at the same time.

*HappyDance*

Crestfallen

4 years ago

You all see that EPIC are huge. Their past games, early work, support by the PC community and their always-been-licensed Unreal engines make EPIC nobody's bitch. They do what they want.

Of course this game was going to be on PC from day one, Epic were born in the PC community and they already copped enough crap for making an exclusive console game (GoW) instead of a PC one.

But Jack so should have had it tattooed on his arm.

diogenes92

4 years ago

That's good news for Sony...

Kaboth

4 years ago

So it does come to 360 but later right? If so it sounds like a HAZE move, releasing later to not get caught up with all the other huge games releasing on 360 this Christmas.

ugh the boot

4 years ago

This is the first Unreal Tournament game i've actually been interested in cuz although i've played the others and they're quite good games, this is the first one to actually have a proper single player campaign with a story instead of just arena battles....coupled with the awesome graphics it's a current must-have.

Crestfallen

4 years ago

The one thing I think is amazing is that the graphics of the PS3 version are identical to that of the PC version.

Passa

4 years ago

crestfallen wrote

The one thing I think is amazing is that the graphics of the PS3 version are identical to that of the PC version.

How could this development be suprising? There are not any PC games released at the moment for example that are the same graphical calibre as Gears of War.

Crestfallen

4 years ago

Passa wrote

crestfallen wrote

The one thing I think is amazing is that the graphics of the PS3 version are identical to that of the PC version.

How could this development be suprising? There are not any PC games released at the moment for example that are the same graphical calibre as Gears of War.

That's different altogether. This is a case of Epic, a very talented PC developing firm, getting the same results out of the PS3 as they are the PC.

Frozencry

4 years ago

As long as this comes out at the same time as PC, then I'm sweet. If not, I'm going to be f**k pissed. Been a UT player for a long time now and it's a PC game at its core. Don't want to have to wait an extra few months to play it on PC.

Passa

4 years ago

Frozencry wrote

I'm pretty sure someone went through this (crestfallen?) pretty much explaining that Epic are PC developers first and foremost. They would never ever delay the PC version over a console version, and its already been confirmed as coming to the PC at the same time.

EDIT: Yup

crestfallen wrote

You all see that EPIC are huge. Their past games, early work, support by the PC community and their always-been-licensed Unreal engines make EPIC nobody's b***h. They do what they want.

Of course this game was going to be on PC from day one, Epic were born in the PC community and they already copped enough crap for making an exclusive console game (GoW) instead of a PC one.

But Jack so should have had it tattooed on his arm.

Frozencry

4 years ago

^Yeah I read that, I was mainly stating that as long as they keep that promise, I'm cool.

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