re2's engine a modified quake engine?

[inlimbo]

i was rereading the quake engine wiki today and noticed resident evil 2 as a licensed game. is this correct or just wikipedia vandalism? if it's the former, is this newly unearthed information or common knowledge? i can find the game listed under giant bomb's entry for the engine as well, but not much else

 

[Brad Grenz]

Sounds like nonsense. I'm pretty sure RE1, RE2 and RE3 all used the same engine, with 3D characters superimposed on Pre-rendered 3D backdrops. I don't remember ever hearing about Capcom licensing the quake engine and that seems unlikely given the language barrier and the problems that would cause for support. I also think RE2's release predates the PSX versions of Quake and Quake II. Giant Bomb's entry is probably erroneous because of the error on Wikipedia.

 

[brain_stew]

Someone was discussing this on GAF the other day. Apparently Gearbox did the PC port and based it on a modified Quake engine rather than trying to port over the original PSX game engine. The DC port was a PC port, so it too was based on the Quake engine. No way I can verify that but it seems reasonale enough.

 

[inlimbo]

does sound pretty reasonable. i wonder if it was goldsrc, then, if that's possible given the time frame. their later port of nightfire was modified goldsrc (which i realize implicates nothing in this case)

edit: do you have a link to the gaf discussion? seems to be unsearchable based on what i've tried

 

[Commenter]

I think this is it?

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=22867406&postcount=69