GDC08: Unreal Tournamennt III will get 'improvements'

by Andrew Yoon { Feb 20th 2008 at 9:05PM }

In spite of Microsoft's announcement of the XBL community arcade, there's apparently no progress on making Unreal Tournament III mods available on the Xbox 360. In an interview with Joystiq, Epic Games' VP Mark Rein noted that there's still no set release date for the 360 version.

More interesting than that bit of news comes from what Rein has to say about the PS3 version. He acknowledged the current mod system is "less than stellar." The cumbersome process of having to download files to a PC, properly format them on a Memory Stick, and transfer them to the PS3 is certainly an annoying one. Unfortunately, no specific details about what "improvements" will be made, or when they'll be available, have been announced yet. Considering how broken the current system is, we'd like to think that anything is going to be an improvement.

Tags: epic, epic-games, gdc08fanboy, mark-rein, mods, unreal-tournament, unreal-tournament-iii, ut3, utiii

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Kodros @ Feb 20th 2008 9:31PM

It's really not that bad of a system. If you have the card formated, you can download them directly to the card by using the PS3's browser. Then you just start up UT3 and import it.

buttsechz @ Feb 21st 2008 10:32AM

but are they even taking into account the fact that ut3 online is unplayable?

And it is unplayable. Don't say your connection is fine because then you are lucky as fck. It's laggy, slow, and terrible. I hate ut3.

Warhawk is better anyways...

Larry Clark @ Feb 21st 2008 10:13AM

Exactly, or better yet put up a PS3 formatted page to down from or create a lightweight app that will decompress the file and place it of you memory stick

wtangofoxtrot @ Feb 20th 2008 9:46PM

dint know this blog reported 360 specific news as well. but seriously while we are all discussing this who here would wanna play a slowed down version of a game meant for the PC on a console ? now gears 2, thats a game meant for consoles....

Dehshizknight @ Feb 20th 2008 9:51PM

At least we have a mod system. I mean, according to what Mark Rein said, it wasn't gonna be on the 360 if they released it at the same time as the PS3 because Microsoft wouldn't allow it.

John @ Feb 21st 2008 1:56AM

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Jason Rivera @ Feb 20th 2008 9:59PM

Why is this being reported here. This is not PS3 news. Oh I see with all the good 360 news being told today they needed to put something here.

Dahk @ Feb 20th 2008 10:07PM

Ah stop hating. If you read the Joystiq article, it states:

"Conversely, Rein did acknowledge the current PS3 mod system is less than stellar and told us to expect improvements coming soon."

i.e. there ARE improvements coming. It's just a matter of what and when.

That's news enough and it's PS3 related.

Andrew Yoon @ Feb 20th 2008 10:09PM

The improvements are coming. And they will be awesome. No more can be said.

Negativecool @ Feb 21st 2008 1:12AM

Yes, it is dumbass.

PS3 = Getting better mod system

360 = Not getting mods at all.

StevenRafael @ Feb 20th 2008 10:24PM

Didn't Rein promise to incorporate split screen? Or was it just an acknowledging of what a few fans want?

Maximilian Lockwood @ Feb 20th 2008 10:47PM

Unreal TOURNAMENT III, Yoon. No two Ns.

You know you love my anal retentiveness man.

kentuckyfried @ Feb 20th 2008 10:49PM

mod systems should be available to all platforms, and not be tied to the whole "PC-only" business.

That said, I'm kind of frustrated that I can't run the COD4 mod tools from my macbook b/c it doesn't have enough video card juice to even run a PC game. so I do need to upgrade to either a mac pro or macbook pro or invest in another PC box (only have the macbook right now).

In any case, unlikely to make the end of March deadline, even if I wanted to.

dartmerc @ Feb 21st 2008 1:56AM

Well thats what you get for wasting your money.

Organic_Shadow @ Feb 20th 2008 11:11PM

It's not THAT bad of a system, but the "one at a time" thing is SO ANNOYING.

But keep in mind, Epic said that this method would be the temporary way of doing it until their mod sharing system was up and running, so technically we are still waiting on that. Didn't they also give us a URL a long time ago for their own little site for it too, but it never materialized?

Julio @ Feb 21st 2008 12:30AM

I enjoy this game even with all its flaws, little improvements here and there will keep me playing for a long time

playcrackthesky @ Feb 21st 2008 1:05AM

hm, go back to your own site trolls.

as for the update, how about a patch to fix some of the issues UT3 has?

also ps3fanboy, you stated you will have a post outlining the best mod's out there. Where art thou? (you better include the mod of shipment from COD4) its, unreal. no pun intended.