VG Aficionado
03-08-2007, 12:08 PM
GDC 2007: Unreal Tournament 3 Progress Report (http://ps3.ign.com/articles/771/771340p1.html)
Epic Games gives a quick glimpse of UT3 on PS3.
by Charles Onyett
March 7, 2007 - At an Epic Games Unreal Engine 3 demonstration today, we were given a brief glimpse of Unreal Tournament 3 running on a PS3. The demo took place on a map lined with metallic walls, littered with jump pads, corridors, and a few rooms with tall vertical spaces. A handful of bots were running around, but the demo was really too short to get a sense of how intelligently they were behaving.
The demo character cycled through a few classic UT weapons, including the rocket launcher, bio rifle, shock rifle, link gun, minigun, and flak cannon. All seemed to behave as they have in previous versions of UT. The link gun, for instance, fired out energy bursts for its primary fire, and a constant stream of plasma as its secondary. For its secondary function, the shock rifle unleashed a slow moving energy sphere that if penetrated by the same weapon's primary laser blast, caused a sizable explosion.
Though the game showed off some very crisp graphics, it was running at an inconsistent frame rate. Epic Games was quick to point out the stutters would eventually be ironed out, citing their development studio had been busy finishing Gears of War, and would from here on out work to polish the PS3 version of UT3 before its release sometime this summer.
Epic Games gives a quick glimpse of UT3 on PS3.
by Charles Onyett
March 7, 2007 - At an Epic Games Unreal Engine 3 demonstration today, we were given a brief glimpse of Unreal Tournament 3 running on a PS3. The demo took place on a map lined with metallic walls, littered with jump pads, corridors, and a few rooms with tall vertical spaces. A handful of bots were running around, but the demo was really too short to get a sense of how intelligently they were behaving.
The demo character cycled through a few classic UT weapons, including the rocket launcher, bio rifle, shock rifle, link gun, minigun, and flak cannon. All seemed to behave as they have in previous versions of UT. The link gun, for instance, fired out energy bursts for its primary fire, and a constant stream of plasma as its secondary. For its secondary function, the shock rifle unleashed a slow moving energy sphere that if penetrated by the same weapon's primary laser blast, caused a sizable explosion.
Though the game showed off some very crisp graphics, it was running at an inconsistent frame rate. Epic Games was quick to point out the stutters would eventually be ironed out, citing their development studio had been busy finishing Gears of War, and would from here on out work to polish the PS3 version of UT3 before its release sometime this summer.