Tim Sweeney, Epic Games' Founder and Technical Director, commented on when gamers can expect the next installment in the Unreal series. In a recent interview concerning the Dark Corners DLC for Gears of War 2, Sweeney let loose that a major release in the Unreal Tournament series won't be seen for "several years."
This should not really come as too much of a shocker given that Cliff Bleszinski made vague mentions of this a while back. Remember, this isn't a permanent "goodbye" to the Unreal series, this is simply a "until we meet again."
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"Unreal Tournament is certainly a major long-term priority but we’re planning not to release a major retail game in the series for several years. So we have that effort somewhat on hold while we work on a few other initiatives.
"The really interesting thing about Unreal Tournament is that once we’ve defined the game in this generation the community takes it and runs with it. So you’ve seen the community create this massive set of maps and mods that go far beyond anything we could ever do. We almost solve the Unreal Tournament 4 and 5 problem ourselves by just making this toolset available because the community has done more than we could have ever hoped to do internally."
"The really interesting thing about Unreal Tournament is that once we’ve defined the game in this generation the community takes it and runs with it. So you’ve seen the community create this massive set of maps and mods that go far beyond anything we could ever do. We almost solve the Unreal Tournament 4 and 5 problem ourselves by just making this toolset available because the community has done more than we could have ever hoped to do internally."
This should not really come as too much of a shocker given that Cliff Bleszinski made vague mentions of this a while back. Remember, this isn't a permanent "goodbye" to the Unreal series, this is simply a "until we meet again."
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