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Playing the latest Epic Unreal Tournament 4 sometimes makes me think of those meta-moments in cartoons where the characters come out of their animated reality and are suddenly standing in an expanse of white nothingness. Here I am firing shots from a beautifully rendered pistol, dodging and sliding and following my enemies by the sound of their footsteps, all on a gray box map, bleached geometric bones of what might look like ancient ruins or a lunar outpost. The shape of a map is there, but none of the textures that give it life. Twenty-eight months in, Unreal Tournament 4 is the most overtly unfinished game I've ever played. Epic announced plans to revive the series and develop it openly with the community on May 2014, and for the past two years, it has been doing that quietly unreal game . The team added weapons and worked on the move from the beginning, giving players the opportunity to jump on bare and unfinished maps. There are modes and features that are missing, regular a...