Cliff Bleszinski Discusses New "Unreal," "Unreal Tournament" Games

Could they happen? Maybe.

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Epic Games' Cliff Bleszinski is currently neck-deep in questions from fans over at reddit, but he's already answered what's probably the most important one: when are we going to see new Unreal and Unreal Tournament games?

Bleszinski took the time to formulate a long, thoughtful answer: "I was quoted recently on a Fortnite panel about the first Unreal and what a reboot might look like. Having really grown into a big Bethesda fan lately (Skyrim rocked my world) I couldn't help but wonder what a reboot of Unreal would be like if it was more 'SciFi-Rim.' Sure, there would be shooting involved, but exploration would almost be more important. Get back to that sense of wonder that the first game had. (Caves and castles and crashed ships are basically your dungeon instances, whereas the 'overworld' is less intense.) Put it on a high end PC and prepare yourself for amazing visuals never before seen in real time.

"As far as a new UT, it's hard to say. Shooters and their sequels are a tricky beast. Often you wind up upsetting your core whenever you make a sequel because sometimes you change things the users didn't want changed, or the users are so very in love with their memory of the original game that there's nothing you can do to live up to the first game. This happened with Counterstrike: Source, Quake 2, Unreal Tournament 2003, heck, even Halo 2.

"So if, when? I don't know, honestly. We're understaffed right now for all of the projects we've got going on so I can't say if or when it may happen. I do love that IP and do hope to return to Na Pali some day."

Would you like to see a new game in either franchise, or would you rather Epic continue with Gears of War, Fortnite and any other new projects they're working on?

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