<cite>Unreal Tournament 3</cite> Hindered By Deadlines, Console Port

Epic Games feels that one of the biggest issues with the recently released Unreal Tournament 3 is that due to the inclusion of console-friendly features (necessary for the title’s PlayStation 3 version), the game lacks a lot of necessary polish. Not only did UT3 Senior Producer Jeff Morris point to the obvious UI issues — […]

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Epic Games feels that one of the biggest issues with the recently released Unreal Tournament 3
is that due to the inclusion of console-friendly features (necessary for the title's PlayStation 3 version), the game lacks a lot of necessary polish.

Not only did UT3 Senior Producer Jeff Morris point to the obvious UI issues -- which Epic's
President Mike Capps described simply as "fucked" -- but he also revealed that a lot of the polish the company wanted to put into the title was simply not possible thanks to the constricting deadlines they had created for themselves by opting for a planned simultaneous PC and PS3 release.

Thankfully, Morris added, the issue doesn't affect the most important aspect of the game, the blazingly fast weapons-based combat, but after hyping new additions such as the title's plot and the character customization only to have those features revealed to be quite underwhelming, let's just hope UT3 isn't considered a misstep in 5 years.