Epic turned heads with its recent Samaritan demo for the Unreal Engine shown off at GDC. While this has led to speculation over a new IP from the company, Epic has confirmed that it was just a tech demo done by 12 men in three months.
“We have a character and we’ve got a set of animations we can hook him up with and move him around. But there’s not really any type of gameplay. It’s more a cinematic experience, said Senior technical artist and level designer Alan Willard. “He looks great. It was definitely a big win for us to do something a little different. Obviously he’s not a huge leap away from the design of some of the characters we’ve had in the past, but it was nice not to do a big space marine.”
When asked on whether Samaritan may ever form its own game, Willard responded, “It was what it was meant to be. [The message was:] Here’s our vision of what we can do by taking these designs and putting them together.”
Source: CVG
