Unreal Tournament (upcoming video game)
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Logo of Unreal Tournament
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| Developer(s) | Epic Games |
| Publisher(s) | Epic Games |
| Producer(s) | Zack Estep |
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| Series | Unreal |
| Engine | Unreal Engine 4 |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux |
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Pre-alpha
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| Genre(s) | First-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Unreal Tournament is an upcoming first-person shooter video game developed by Epic Games. It is the ninth installment in the Unreal franchise, and the first main entry in the series since Unreal Tournament 3 (2007). The game utilizes Epic's Unreal Engine 4 and will be released for free on Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux.
Unreal Tournament's development is crowdsourced and open to contribution from anyone. Epic Games has been using forums for discussions and Twitch livestreams for regular updates. The source code of the game is published on GitHub and available for everyone.
Gameplay will remain largely unchanged from past iterations of the Unreal Tournament series. So far, the confirmed gametypes are:
Other gametypes expected to return are:
At least two species have been confirmed to return; the Skaarj, an imperial reptilian race which debuted in Unreal, and the Necris, created by the Phayder Corporation.
Unreal Tournament was first teased on May 2, 2014, when Mark Rein, vice president and co-founder of Epic Games, tweeted about a possible reboot, "I love Unreal Tournament - So excited for the comeback! More next week!," resulting in a positive response from the gaming community, specifically the PC gaming demographic that largely grew up playing the previous games. Paul Meegan, vice president of product development at Epic, followed Rein's tweet with information about the future of Unreal Tournament. The game was announced by Epic in a Twitch livestream on May 8, 2014. During the livestream, senior programmer and project lead Steve Polge said that there had been demand for a reboot of the Unreal Tournament and that the release of the Unreal Engine 4, made this the ideal time to do so. He said, "For years, we’ve wanted to reboot Unreal Tournament, but we knew we had to do it in concert with developers and the mod community, and in an environment that sets them up with the proper tools to make it happen. Given the recent launch of UE4, we think this is the right time to move forward." These statements are in contrast to what Tim Sweeney said during the Game Developers Conference in March 2014. "We're not [planning on] shipping an Unreal Tournament game," CEO and founder of Epic Games said. "We have a lot of nostalgia for the game but we're actually not developing anything in the Unreal game universe at all at the moment," he further added. But this might have been an attempt to keep the project a secret and "keep people off the trail", suggested Forbes.
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