{"id":1348936,"date":"2025-10-06T21:29:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T21:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ziaMhKG9oFtL8HCjGi3rB8"},"modified":"2025-10-06T21:29:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T21:29:36","slug":"unreal-mastermind-cliff-bleszinski-really-likes-this-fan-made-redux-remaster-time-for-a-new-generation-to-learn-that-unreal-isnt-just-an-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/unreal-mastermind-cliff-bleszinski-really-likes-this-fan-made-redux-remaster-time-for-a-new-generation-to-learn-that-unreal-isnt-just-an-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Unreal mastermind Cliff Bleszinski really likes this fan-made Redux remaster: ‘Time for a new generation to learn that Unreal isn’t just an engine’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Unreal Redux, an in-development remake of the classic FPS Unreal, is not an official Epic Games project, but it does have the official thumbs-up from one very important person: Original Unreal designer Cliff Bleszinski, who said on X<\/u><\/a> that it “looks SO COOL.”<\/p>\n

(We don’t normally do the all-caps thing, but Cliff’s enthusiasm is contagious.)<\/p>\n

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My last words when I left Epic were “Please remaster the original Unreal” and, well, the fans are doing it.Looks SO COOL. Time for a new generation to learn that Unreal isn’t just an engine. Worked my butt off on this game.https:\/\/t.co\/kMFFFy77q2October 5, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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“My last words when I left Epic were “Please remaster the original Unreal” and, well, the fans are doing it,” Bleszinski wrote in reaction to the new Unreal Redux autumn 2025 trailer. “Looks SO COOL. Time for a new generation to learn that Unreal isn’t just an engine. Worked my butt off on this game.”<\/p>\n

That’s a fair point: For a lot of gamers, the word “Unreal” is invariably followed by “Tournament,” which collectively gives us the title of one of the most popular and influential multiplayer shooters of all time. But Unreal Tournament didn’t come out until a year after Unreal, which it quickly overshadowed\u2014largely because Unreal, while an impressive technological showcase and very pretty for its time, really wasn’t a great game: Levels were too large and sparsely populated, weapons were unimpressive, and the enemies and story entirely forgettable. (Sorry, Cliff.)<\/p>\n

Epic produced one proper Unreal sequel, which was even less great\u2014Bleszinski, who served as executive producer on the game, said in a reply tweet<\/u><\/a> that he “mismanaged it as a producer and it felt like a generic sci-fi shooter”\u2014but the focus has otherwise been entirely on the Unreal Tournament series, which somewhat ironically served as a showcase for new iterations of the Unreal Engine all the way through Unreal Engine 4 in 2014. Plans for a new UT were abandoned, though, so Epic could focus its efforts on Fortnite<\/a> and the Epic Games Store.<\/p>\n

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