After several years as a trusted corporate bodyguard, Samael took a bullet to prevent the assassination of a ranking Phayder executive. His wounds were mortal, but the Phayder Corporation rewarded his faithful service by granting him another chance at life through Necrification. For years, the guys and gals at Epic and Digital Extremes had cast envious yet respectful gazes up at their id idols, hoping to one day emulate the legendary developer's success.
They got off to a solid enough start with 's visually impressive single-player FPS Unreal, which shipped with a handful of as it turned out, unusable multiplayer options. We started working on one with Digital Extremes and called it The Bot Pack" explains Cliff Bleszinski, co-designer and lead level designer on the game. Epic's idea was simple; make a great multiplayer game in collaboration with Canadian development team Digital Extremes, full of different game modes, levels, mutators, weapons and some smart Al.
Of course, one massive obstacle stood in the team's way - the feverishly anticipated multiplayer titan. The scene was set for perhaps the biggest face-off in PC shooter history, a battle of David vs Goliath proportions that would see the gaming public's loyalties divided like never before. A lot of people didn't even have UT on their radar, recalls James Schmalz, Unreal Tournament's co-designer and weapons designer.
A lot of people were looking forward to Quake III, and most had dismissed Unreal Tournament as we'd onginally announced it as an add-on pack. I think that all changed when the demo came out. People saw the cool stuff that we were doing with it and it really brought a lot of fans onboard and got a lot of people excited about the project.
As for the rivalry, we just hoped enough people would like UT. Unlike the majority of game development projects. UT was to prove one of the smoothest projects that either Digital Extremes, responsible mainly for the artistic side of development , or Epic who provided the engine, Al and level design had ever worked on.
It was one of the smoothest developments we ever had, remembers Schmalz, of Digital Extremes' dealings with the project. However, things weren't quite so straightforward for the Epic team. To be honest, the development of Unreal Tournament was immensely easy, but only once we'd sorted out our new offices, recalls Cliff Bleszinski.
So we had to develop the game amid this immensely bizarre situation where we were relocating 15 people and trying to find them houses. Enter Steve Polge, the man whose input would ultimately not only bring stability to the Epic team, but more importantly, set Unreal Tournament apart as unarguably the most lifelike shooter of its generation. Steve spent a long time figuring out how to get office space for us in Raleigh and finding everyone houses, instead of working on the Al.
But he got around to doing it eventually, and it was amazing, recalls Cliff. Given the short timespan and the constant distractions of relocating a man team, it's perhaps even more impressive that Polge managed to create bots that could barely be distinguished from human players. Steve Polge had written the original bots for Quake says Bleszinski. He took the work that he'd done there and applied it to Unreal Tournament. Our goal was always to make bots that would play like real people.
It's easy to make bots that can kick your ass, but it's hard to make Al that's entertaining and interesting. We did put a lot of tweaking into the levels. We had constant passes where we'd follow the bots around the levels to make sure that they picked up all of the items. Ultimately, Steve wound up making very, very compelling artificial intelligence opponents.
The millennium was coming to a close and the stage was set for the multiplayer shooter face-off of the century. Unreal Tournament shipped first - but only just - storming to the top of the PC gaming charts and enthralling gamers the world over with its eclectic mix of frenetic deathmatching and bright, ingeniously-designed levels. Critics were united in their praise, hailing it as one of the highlights of 20th century online FPS gaming. It was a triumph that neither Epic, nor Digital Extremes had been expecting.
I think both us and Epic were surprised," explains James Schmalz. We worked very hard on the game and were hoping for the best, but we were surprised by how well received it was. A little over a month later. Quake III showed up, its stunningly energetic deathmatch-based gameplay racking up equal amounts of praise and almost identical sales figures to its less fashionable rival.
From this point onwards, the balance of power would start to be more evenly distributed between the two huge franchises. In most cases, preference came down to each gamer's personal likes and dislikes rather than any real brand superiority. UT undoubtedly shipped with a more diverse selection of gaming modes and multiple mutators, but for many, Quake Ill's reflexheavy gameplay was the ultimate deathmatch experience.
It was a Coke versus Pepsi situation," says Bleszinski of the rivalry between the two games, one that he personally believes Unreal Tournament won.
This is what the heart of capitalism and American consumerism is all about. If you don't have a choice you may as well be living in Soviet Russia. I think we may have capped out with slightly higher review scores and shifted more units.
It was great to win that round, especially as id had already had the Doom and Quake games, which were all immense multimillion-selling titles.
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