Project Sword Is Epic’s First Unreal Engine iPhone Game

Gears of War and Unreal Tournament creators Epic Games will bring competitive multiplayer sword-based combat, powered by its Unreal Engine, to the iPhone later this year with slash-em-up Project Sword.

Epic’s Mike Capps and Donald Mustard – he of Shadow Complex development fame – showed off the first-person and third-person slasher at Apple’s event in San Francisco this morning, demonstrating how players can meet up in multiplayer sessions via the iPhone’s Game centre matchmaking service.

Mustard explored a colourful medieval world, showcasing its impressive graphical detail before engaging in battle with Capps. The game looked sharp, smooth and playable with nothing more than a few swipes of the screen. Game Center-powered achievements popped onscreen as the Epic Games’ developers battled. It looked good.

Project Sword is due to hit the iPhone sometime around Christmas.

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    doubleDizz

    Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 11:24 AM

    are they releasing this tech to Android as well?? The Samsung Galaxy S GPU is 250+% more powerful than the iPhone4 FFS!!

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      Jayson Solis

      Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 11:45 AM

      but the iPhone user base is much larger :(

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        volkan ongun

        Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 5:59 PM

        i agree doubleDizz. i own a nexus one with android 2.2. snap dragon can run U3E with more FPS

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    Leigh Kennedy

    Monday, September 6, 2010 at 10:34 PM

    Excited to know that I have such a great game to look forward to. There is definitely no reason why Android should miss out; unless of course it just doesn’t seem to attract to attract the attention of Epic Games.

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