UT3 delayed until 2008 News
PC
Xbox 360
PlayStation 3
News
by
Ellie Gibson
Epic Games boss Mark Rein has said the studio is still working hard to get Unreal Tournament 3 finished in time for Christmas - even though Midway reckons it won't be out till next year.
UT3 was originally due out this November on PC and PS3, with an Xbox 360 version to follow next year. But, as reported by GamesIndustry.biz, Midway's latest financial report says we won't see any versions of the game before 2008.
Blacksite: Area 51 has also been delayed, according to Midway. Like UT3, it's now set to arrive some time between January and March next year.
However, Rein reckons UT3 might make 2007 after all with a bit of luck. "As a public company, Midway felt an obligation to its shareholders to let them know about the possibility of a delay," he wrote on the Epic forums.
"But our goal is still to get the PS3 version of UT3 in stores before the end of 2007."
There are no guarantees though. "We will only ship it once it's ready and is the best game we can deliver," said Rein.
Are you excited about Blacksite: Area 51 on PC/Xbox 360/PlayStation 3?
View Eurogamer readers most anticipated games
Related Games
Unreal Tournament 3
Blacksite: Area 51
Latest Features
-
Unreal Tournament 3 Review [76]
-
Unreal Tournament 3 Interview [104]
-
Unreal Tournament 3 Hands On [24]
-
Unreal Tournament 3 Interview [29]
-
Unreal Tournament 3 Review [228]
Latest Videos
Unreal Tournament 3 - Titan pack [2] 20 March, 2009
Unreal Tournament 3 - Make something unreal mod contest [3] 19 February, 2009
Latest News
-
Play UT3 Black for free this weekend [12]
-
Make Something Unreal winners revealed [2]
-
UT3 Black free on Steam this weekend [9]
-
COD5 XP boost, UT3 Black free weekend [17]
-
Epic hands out prizes for best UT3 mods [8]
Latest Screenshots
13 July, 2007 [10]
Want to comment on this article? Log in, or register!
Comments: 1-34 of 34 in total
|
hammerstein07
03/10/07 @ 08:13
0
At the rate it's going, it'll probably end up 3 months later than the 360 version like all the other cross-platforms
|
|
JohnnyWashnGo
03/10/07 @ 08:22
0
Eurogamer guys: Your RSS feed still have the link to the previous UT3 article which is no longer available on your site.
|
|
0
according to gamespot
"The warning comes in spite of a statement from Rein late Tuesday saying that the studio is still toiling to get the PS3 UT3 completed by year's end. However, Midway president and CEO David Zucker said in an investor conference call that any delay will not affect the PC edition, which is still set to release in early November" Cool, this means the PC version will be out this year. |
|
Artemis_Matsas
03/10/07 @ 08:52
0
I agree with mazzl on his last comment.
Better to have a finished as-good-as-it-can-get game, than a rushed one. |
|
barnard666
03/10/07 @ 08:55
0
I am really interested in the single player portion, it always sucked in the past because there were so many team battles, you could only have a limited impact on the final outcome...
only ratchet and clank left for me this year on my PS3 then....oh and wipeout... |
|
0
EG, EG, EG... How you've gone down in my books after sending me spam about Stranglehold...
Linky to Marks comment for anyone interested: http://utforums.epicgames.com/showthread... |
|
0
Quality > Delay, For Fuck Sacke, PS3-only fellows, how long are you going to eat bullshit and say: "thank you Mr Sony, your so da cool!"
I don't know, maybe you guys just want to "hear" about the oh so many great games PS3 has (Lair; Heavnly Something; The Shinny Jungle Thing), actually playing games is so passé.
Edited 1 times,
most recently on 03/10/07 @ 10:14
|
|
captainrentboy
03/10/07 @ 10:41
0
Hmmm, I reckon there wont be such a huge gap between the PS3 and 360 versions now after all. Sony really need to pull their finger out of their collective asses, I'm not sure how they can help out the various developers out there, better tools I guess, but they need to do it soon, because even general, common or garden, gamers (Not us lot of sad geeks :)) are getting fucked off with delays.
I work for glorious GAME, and I can tell quite a few of our regulars are getting miffed with the continuous PS3 no shows come their supposed release date.
Edited 1 times,
most recently on 03/10/07 @ 11:42
|
|
0
"Hm, didn't sony buy initial exclusivity on this? Meaning that it had to come out on PS3 before anything else? "
No 360 version was delayed because of "mod" problems with Live and Epic wanted to clear that up first before finishing it (and ofc they do not really want to go up against Halo 3 and TF2). |
|
MasterGrief
03/10/07 @ 13:43
0
Mr Bill Gates - ''It's perfect,' Gates says, radiant with bloodlust. 'The day Sony launches PS3, and they walk right into Halo 3' Whatever came of that eh ?
List of delayed 360 games Halo 3 Mass Effect Alan Wake DOA4 GTA4 Assassins Creed PGR4 Resident Evil 5 Too Human - lol Looks like devs are having some real trouble getting games to work on the poor-mans PC |
|
0
That was just an off-the-cuff remark by Gates, it was never M$'s plan.
PGR4 was only ever going to be released when it was ready, so a delay of less than a month is nothing. GTa4: You're blaming the wrong console mate. As for all the other delayed games, as others have already said, I'd far rather that they be delayed and released finished than rushed out and be all the worse off for it. And finally, you're listing just 360 exclusives there, the PS3 devs are struggling with what should be relatively simple cross-platform releases. Edited for PS3 bias.
Edited 2 times,
most recently on 03/10/07 @ 15:40
|
|
captainrentboy
03/10/07 @ 18:46
0
Mastergrief, the big difference being that the 360 will always have some other nice titles to be getting on with should another get delayed.
The PS3 on the otherhand is severely lacking anything that can truely set it apart from the 360, so when something like this gets delayed, which would have undoubtedly been a big hitter this side of Chrimbo and a nice lil 'exclusive' for Sony to have for a few months, it's all the more dissapointing....For PS3 owners. And the thing is it's not so much this as it is all the Multi-platform ones that keep getting delayed on Sony's machine but make it out on time for the others. |
|
Triggerhappytel
04/10/07 @ 09:52
0
So, how will this affect Sony's 2007 exclusive on UT3? Will it be a cross-platform launch after all...?!
|
Comments: 1-34 of 34 in total
Want to comment on this article? Log in, or register!
