The ever-bullish Mark Rein, VP of Epic Games, has opened his mouth and the doors of controversy once again. This time he has said that Unreal Tournament 3 - which is currently out for the PC and PS3 and has an as yet undecided Xbox 360 release - has a better online offering than Microsoft's Halo 3.
"We've surpassed what Halo 3 offered"‡, said Rein told the BBC.
Rein also went on record recently to call his colleague, Gears of War creator Cliffy B (Bleszinski) an idiot. Responding to Bleszinski's comments that, "I think the PC is just in disarray"†, Rein said, "Oh he's an idiot"††.
He did, of course, go on to qualify that with, "No, he's a great guy. Cliff makes console games though, right? He's on a console team that makes what is primarily a console game."
Rein also recently put a starting price of $2 billion on Epic in response to predictions that the developer would be sold to Microsoft. That's more than EA offered to buy Take-Two for...
Source: ‡BBC, †MTV, ††Tom's Games,
"We've surpassed what Halo 3 offered"‡, said Rein told the BBC.
Rein also went on record recently to call his colleague, Gears of War creator Cliffy B (Bleszinski) an idiot. Responding to Bleszinski's comments that, "I think the PC is just in disarray"†, Rein said, "Oh he's an idiot"††.
He did, of course, go on to qualify that with, "No, he's a great guy. Cliff makes console games though, right? He's on a console team that makes what is primarily a console game."
Rein also recently put a starting price of $2 billion on Epic in response to predictions that the developer would be sold to Microsoft. That's more than EA offered to buy Take-Two for...
Source: ‡BBC, †MTV, ††Tom's Games,
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Absinthe-Review.net 25 Feb 2008 19:30
1/3
Cliffy was being honest. Rein was being an envious, console-bigoting ass. End of story.
romosexual 27 Feb 2008 02:49
2/3
ok it will never offer more than halo.....ever.
Z 21 Mar 2008 18:37
3/3
um...halo 3 is teh ghey...its a worthless flaming pile...so....have fun with that...