Ladies and gentlemen, Unreal Tournament 3 has been released, and it is quite a fun title. Andrew Sega, Michiel Van Den Bos, Peter Hajba, Tero Kostermaa, Dan Gardopee and myself wrote music for the first Unreal Tournament. Since then there have been several sequels: UT2003, UT2004, Unreal Championship and Unreal Championship 2. Why this is called Unreal Tournament 3 I really don't know other than the fact that it is made with the Unreal 3 engine. Also that if they called it 2007 (as originally planned) it would look odd. Cliff's original plan was to release one every year as EA does with its sports franchises. However, discipline and original, new enjoyable ideas don't always mix.
A good chunk of music in UT3 is remixed versions of old scores done by myself and Michiel, as well as Mechanism 8 by Andy Sega. These can be heard on the website, but they can also be purchased.
Even better, at Gamestop if you purchase UT3 you can also get a free copy of Unreal Anthology. Even more folks to enjoy the original games as well as the bundled score. My congratulations and thanks to Epic and Midway for enlightening a whole new generation of players to these classics, in more ways than one. And last but not least thanks go to the composers that made for such great scores almost ten years ago.
I remember those days playing UT and listening to your guys unbelievable soundtrack. I was a hardcore gamer, and while many of my colleagues would turn off the music to hear "everything" (players footsteps), I kept the music on in its original glory since it was just too good and kept me IN the game.
Keep up the good work
Posted by: NomortaL | June 13, 2008 at 10:21 PM
I must say i strongly prefer UT2k4 to UTIII. They noobed (maybe "consolified" would be a better word) the playstyle up too much for my taste.
Posted by: Rhynri | August 10, 2008 at 12:42 PM