unreal engine 3 revealed. (update: hi-res screens. wow)

Well Doom III got revealed over two years ago, and looked amazing and still does today. We get to see an Unreal 3 engine tech demo... I'll guess it'll be at least a year till we see a game that uses it on store shelves. I remember how long it took for the Unreal Warfare engine to get used in a game (I think it became UT2K3).

Regardless of all that, yes it looks insanely good.

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Originally Posted by Ammadeau

Hopefully not by the same people who made Unreal 2.

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U2 sucked because Legend was barely holding on while finishing it up. They closed up shop right after U2 XMP was released to the net.

Epic said in that video that Unreal 3 will be based on it, as will some secret unnamed project of their's that will surface in 12-18 months.

Did they really say Unreal 3 would be based on it? I thought they were just calling it the 3rd iteration of the Unreal engine, that's all.

But yes, all those character models are for that unannounced game.

I'm interested to see if ATi shows something this cool when they unveil their new cards formally in four days.

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Originally Posted by Riptwo

Haven't Epic signed on with Microsoft's XNA initiative? If so, is this the graphical quality we should be expecting in early Xbox 2 titles? If so, I'm sold.

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No way. We're not worthy!

Duke Nukem has broken off of the Unreal tech, so no delay because of that ;o

linko brokeo

OMFG EPIC! I guess this is what they were doing when they were making half-assed UT2003-04.

Tim Sweeney has pretty much optimized this for 64 bit CPUs and for later generations of video cards. Apparently this will be used in 2005-06.

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Originally Posted by Riptwo

Haven't Epic signed on with Microsoft's XNA initiative? If so, is this the graphical quality we should be expecting in early Xbox 2 titles? If so, I'm sold.

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Indeed they did. Also, all their games after UT2004 will be published by Microsoft. I assume they now have access to more crazy shit.

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Originally Posted by BoBVila

Duke Nukem has broken off of the Unreal tech, so no delay because of that ;o

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Not that I care about this one really, but where did you read that? I've thought it was still using the Unreal engine? I mean, if the game actually existed and all ;)

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Originally Posted by Kidnemo

linko brokeo

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i guess i can host it for a bit.

right click + save as, please: unreal3_0002.wmv

I think they are using the older (not really old, but not this) tech, and are now building their own engine code. Like Half-Life. So basically none of the features being put in the Unreal engine are in the DNF engine. I read it a few days ago, can't find the link.