WTF? GTA3 will have multiplayer, Unreal 2 won't

[BrunoPuntzJones]

How bizzare is that?

Anyways meant to post this last night. Was reading PC Gamer and came across their snippet on GTA3 and it says it'll feature 16 player multiplayer games
How freakin cool is that? Really hope that it does have multi, there are soooo many slick game types. Could do like a CTF but instead do capture the car, where you have to steal one from an enemy bidness and drive it back to yours. Races from point A to B. Man, just tons cool optoins, really hope they deliver.

Homelanfed reports in an interview with the folks at Epic that Unreal 2 never promised multiplayer, and won't be featured in the final game. Tell you that if you want multi you'll need UT2 (suprise...). Oh well I'll be buying both anyway

Both stores can be found over at Voodooextreme.

 

[Nemesis77]

Epic has a separate multiplayer-game in the works called Unreal Warfare. It has all the multiplayer you could want!

 

[Bignate603]

Unreal 2 will have multiplayer

Their FAQ

4th question



<< Q. Is Unreal II a multiplayer-only game, like Unreal Tournament?

A. No--Unreal II will feature a strong single player story-based game, as well as several multiplayer game types. >>

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

<< HomeLAN - There has been some speculation that Unreal 2 will no longer have a multiplayer mode because of the release of UT 2. What can you tell us at this point? >>



<< Mark Rein - Unreal Tournament 2 was not anticipated at any time during the design of Unreal2 nor during much of the development. Now that we have UT2 clearly in the picture, and ready to go before Unreal 2, it doesn't make a lot of sense for the dev team to expend their time and energy polishing multiplayer when they can use that time to polish an exceptional single player experience. The market has proven that this approach makes more sense and I don't think anyone will be disappointed by this once they've had a chance to play it. So to answer the question multiplayer will disappear from Unreal 2 in exchange for it being a bigger, better and more focused single player game. What will happen to the multiplayer assets already developed for Unreal2 is still a question. If players want the ultimate multiplayer-oriented game, Unreal Tournament 2 will already be available on store shelves before Unreal 2 ships. >>



Mark is the VP of Epic, and that interview was a couple of days ago...

 

[isildur]

wow, somebody needs to get their sh!t together over there...

 

[Bignate603]

Hmm, well I guess the faq is outdated, I haven't even knew about UT2 till now. Darn, that means I need to buy both games. Epic sure knows how to shake the money out of me...

 

[BeauJangles]

imagine 16 player GTA3 carnage

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I can't wait

 

[Soulflare]

I hope that GTA3 (PC) will have co-op modes, that way you could have "Gone In Sixty Seconds"-type
missions where your group has to collect 60 particular cars or have 16 heavily armed guys head into
Chinatown to wipe out the Triads once and for all.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Soulfalre, I think you nailed it with the Gone in 60 seconds thing. Surely this will be a game-type, it's so obviously cool!

 

[Rent]

GTA3 has so many multiplayer possibilities... they could put in a destruction derby, a militia game where you go and wipe out all the cops, ect... MUST BUY!

 

[Spike]

oh man, GTA3 multi.... sounds awesome. You could play the "who can hit the most pedestrians in the least amount of time" game

 

[halik]

I-CANT-WAIT for gta 3 on halo for pc

 

[XZeroII]

There will most likely be something like an Unreal Tournament II. As for GTA3, that sounds great.

 

[DAWeinG]

Pedestrians eh? *neurotic laughter follows*

 

[Maverick]

GTA3 will have multiplayer!!! YES!! This is the best news I've heard all day.

I just wanna be able to hunt people down and run them over like in GTA2. Or do drive-bys with the Uzi when someone least expects it...*drool*

 

[StageLeft]

GTA3 rox. With multi it will 0WN

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

<< There will most likely be something like an Unreal Tournament II. As for GTA3, that sounds great. >>

...read the quote UT2 comes out in June.

 

[Rent]

A pedestrian killer game would be awesome too... given a certain time limit, see how many people you can take out... and at the end, you get points for the type of people they were, like hookers, police officers, ect...

 

[Maverick]

I hope they make the SDK available for GTA3 if it goes multiplayer. Imagine the cool mods that would come out. Anything the developers don't do could probably be done later on in a mod.

 

[MustPost]

bawhahahaha

 

[DanFungus]

*quivers* neeeeeeeed GTA3 *quivers*