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Re: Something I just realized: There's no Unreal 3!

#191381
From: Folk
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:32
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On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:12:40 -0800, "goPostal"
<agutgopostal@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>"Todd" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in message 
>news:l5vuh4h9tstfnbg7vc7edmqpgqa3sck2ss@4ax.com...
>> The first Unreal Engine was first used for Unreal, then they decided
>> to release the multiplayer as a stand alone, and Unreal Tournament was
>> born.
>>
>> For Unreal Engine 2, they released both the single player Unreal 2,
>> and the multiplayer 2003 pretty close together.  (I always said it was
>> one game for the price of two, and the fact that they added game types
>> and rereleased the game as 2004 proves that 2003 was only half a
>> game.)
>>
>> Now we're up to Unreal Engine 3, and we have Unreal Tournament 3, but
>> there's no single player game with the Unreal name.
>>
>> So, is there a game (other than UT3) that is the reason they built the
>> engine?
>>
>>
>
>In some ways UT3 is a showcase for the engine to be licensed by third 
>parties. I think they have seen that there is not a lot of money to be made 
>directly with a released game. 
>

" I think they have seen that there is not a lot of money to be made 
directly with a PC game."

Fixed.
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