No Unreal Tournament 3 PS3 demo, says Rein
- Posted August 28th, 2007 at 13:42 EDT by Mike Harradence
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Epic Games boss Mark Rein has stated that the company is unlikely to issue a demo of the PlayStation 3 version of Unreal Tourament 3, despite plans to release one for the PC.
Speaking to Eurogamer at the recent Leipzig Games Convention, Rein stated, "We'll have a PC demo for UT, [but] I don't think we'll have a PS3 demo before the game ships.”
Logistically, Rein explained that any time spent on focusing on a demo release would inevitably draw attention away from the final version of the game. As an example, he drew similarities with last year’s Xbox 360 title Gears of War, stating, "What we told Microsoft last year - they wanted a demo for Gears of War and we said 'you've got a choice - you can have the demo this year or the game this year'."
"We're not a big huge company with the resources to do that, and all the time we're testing that demo we're not testing our full game, which we need to be doing constantly," explained Rein.
For the PC, however, the process is fundamentally a different task in which any demo would effectively play a similar role to that of a beta version, allowing the developer to refine certain elements as they see fit.
Unreal Tournament 3 is scheduled for release on PlayStation 3 and PC this November. An Xbox 360 version will arrive in 2008.
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ZeRoAc1dKo0L |
ZeRoAciDKooL- 2:04pm BST - August 28th, 2007
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aww thats sucks... oh well just like Madjakkal said "It will just make me crave the game even more when it comes out"...
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truesoldier87
- 3:55pm BST - August 28th, 2007
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dammit lol o well makes me wanna have the game more so its not big deal
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Alpha2
- 7:43pm BST - August 28th, 2007
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The problem with demos is that you can't always just hand off a peice of the game and expect it to work properly. if they just chop out a level and hand it to you as a demo, it runs the rick of crashing randomly in spots that would render the game either useless or destroy the intent of the demo, to give you an appealing case to buy the full version.
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D3v1lwqer23 |
ExPresident- 11:17pm BST - August 28th, 2007
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What a bunch of crap. I like Unreal period, so im not complaining, but there are people on the fence about this game and a demo could help them seal the deal with more sales.
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The Cleaner
- 6:54am BST - August 30th, 2007
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I'm tempted to get this on PC. I like mods, and a keyboard and mouse set up for this game. Its a little difficult trying to work that combo on the PS3 with the keyboard balanced on my lap in front of the television...
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