Bij het verschijnen van Unreal Tournament 2003 maakte Epic bekend, dat zij van plan was (vrijwel) ieder jaar een Unreal Tournament uit te geven. Met de 2004-versie werd dat ook echt duidelijk.
Eergisteren begonnen de geruchten, dat UT2005 ook zou verschijnen. Reden daarvoor was een post van Angel Munoz, baas van de CPL, op de cached.net forums:
- People wondering why we did not pick UT 2004. First realize that Epic is a huge supporter of CPL. The CEO Mark Rein is a friend of mine and Cliffy B is on our advisory board.
A wide range of aspects were taken into consideration, including publisher/developer support for the entire tour. Unfortunately, Epic is transitioning to a new publisher and it was not expected that their current publisher would help us in marketing the game/tour through the end 2005. Additionally, there is a new UT in the works, but it was not going to be available in the time frame we needed.
Mark and I are still in conversations about the 2006 World Tour.
Iedereen was daardoor in rep en roer, want een game die voor de 2006 World Tour gebruikt zou worden, zou in 2005 af moeten zjin. BeyondUnreal hield het hoofd echter koel en vroeg Epic om opheldering. Die kwam er ook:
- BeyondUnreal has learned that these rumors are false. While it’s common knowledge that Epic plans to release an Unreal Engine 3 powered UT sometime in the future, Epic’s Mark Rein has informed us that the developer’s next PC title (the elusive ‘Next Big Thing’) may not be appearing until Q1 2006. Understandably, this means we can rule out any new installments to the Unreal Tournament series between now and then.
Nu kunnen we nog even wat langer teren op en genieten van de zeer goede Unreal Tournament 2004, wat echt geen ramp is.