Unreal Engine 3.0 demo wows GDC

Well I thought the greenish horribly crappy shaky-cam shots looked pretty cool. Can't wait to see the real thing. 8)

 

More importantly, the best graphics performance available today can only be had by two GeForce 6800 Ultras in SLI mode.

 

As usual this is impressive stuff. I really liked demo 4 when they showed the bell tower with the sun glaring off the water. That looked rather nice!

 

I'd like to see Sims on that engine ..

 

The Unreal 2 eXpanded MultiPlayer is the best team-based multiplayer game I have ever played(including UT2k4).
From the shutdown of Legend, it's not supported anymore

Althogh somebody is working on a UTXMP Port, but it is not the same anymore(Legend's Per Particle Damage system is gone).

The net code of U2XMP is semi-broken. But its gameplay is still the best.

I actually would like a single-player story based Unreal game, then an expanded multiplayer game.

 

Me too, just one that didn't suck as bad as Unreal2 did. :?

 

Just announce Epic's next game instead of pimping the engine!!

 

Haha. Well, personally, I feel it's a good move on Epic's part. Specifically, game engines are going to get much more lucrative as it gets harder and harder to write them. They're really designing this iteration of the engine around developers, at least from everything they're talking about at these events. It seems to me that they've seen the need for more people to license engines instead of make their own, and thus a way for them to capitalize on a burgeoning market.

As for announcing a game, well, it rather makes sense, too, as I'm sure they don't want to get hit with the Daikatana or DNF syndrome (not talking about the final product that was Daikatana.....just the hype). I'm sure the hype will start coming around when they feel they're within, oh, six months of release. Which probably means it'll be out a year after they start the game hype

 

Epic no longer need to pimp and hype UE3 at shows.

 

If they didn't, somebody else would. Epic obviously can't have that.

 

Engine licenses probably represent the larger part of their revenue, too. Why not pimp your major product as much as possible?

 

And that would simply be a "We're using the UE3 engine. For more info, please ask Epic." Nothing more than that.

They can, because they know what licensees can say. Based on what licensees know.

 

There are other engine developers than Epic.

 

To put things in perspective, can you name them?

 

Maybe out of context, but there are id, Valve, Croteam, Lithtech...

 

True. Epic should release a high quality video. No need to go on shows pimping the engine ever anymore after that 8)

 

Don't forget Crytek! They're amazing...

 

hmmm , no one listed Source, steam/valve gizmo's .

 

Is GarageGames' Torque considered a player?

 

gee i wonder why