Today, Epic Games released a video showing off some early footage of the latest Unreal Tournament

The video, which features Gameplay Programmer Joe Wilcox along with others, gives us a brief look at the early building stages of the game. Although they don't go into detail about weapons and levels, fans of the series will be able to spot various well known weapons from the franchise as play tests are shown throughout the first look. Towards the end, we also see how testing improves the game, with the developers calling out improvements that can be made during their daily in-house play tests. The brief blog post also provides information on how to join in on the early version of the game, if you wish to help them with testing and feedback.As IGN reported earlier in the year , this version of Unreal Tournament will be a free release and have heavy community involvement.

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