The name "Unreal Episode 2" is just something that we, Legend, Epic, Infogrames, have been discu ing internally. We haven't come to a decision and are still split on it; some of the guys love it and some of the guys hate it. What does everyone here think?
The motivating factor for a name change would be to reduce the confusion we've created by having several Unreal games in development.
For now, though, the name is still "Unreal 2".
The new name for "Unreal Tournament 2003" is official. But the idea of to releasing a new one every year is just another concept we've been debating internally. If that were seriously considered, we would have to avoid splitting the community every year.
The next-generation Unreal engine's network code and file formats are stable enough that we could potentially ship UT(year x) and include the maps from UT(year x-1) and maintain backwards compatibility with existing servers. This obviously couldn't go on forever, but could a ure a lifetime similar to UT. Remember, in over 2 years of UT, we only broke network compatibility once.
Anyway, ongoing Unreal Tournament releases aren't an actual plan, just an idea we've been to ing around.
-TimNog een intere ant feitje dat door deze post van Tim boven komt drijven is de mogelijkheid van backwardse compatibliteit van de UT reeks wanneer deze een jaarlijkse release zou krijgen. Maar voordat alles gaan we in juni eerst maar eens genieten van UT2003.