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Unreal Engine Q&A

by Maarten Goldstein, Mar 07, 2005 4:48am PST

Related Topics – Unreal Engine 3

Computer Games Magazine has a brief Q&A with Mark Rein of Epic, who talks about the latest version of the Unreal Engine. New Unreal Engine 3 features are being shown at this week's Game Developers Conference. Update: another Mark Rein interview can be found at GamesIndustry.biz.

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GI: Is Unreal Engine 3 purely for next-gen consoles and high end PCs, or will you back-port the functionality to existing platforms?

MR: No, we don't work that way. Epic's always been about bleeding edge. So, no. We have Unreal Engine 2 for that, and you'll see a bunch of great games coming out with our current engine - there's Star Wars: Republic Commando, there's Pariah, there's Unreal Championship 2, there's SWAT 4, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory...There's also another really big game coming out that's never announced that it uses our engine but it does, and I think it could be a major success.

OMG DNF?!

Mar 07, 2005 10:55am PST

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PS: GI: Is Unreal Engine 3 purely for next-gen consoles and high end PCs, or will you back-port the fu : rorshack
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  I don't think DNF qualifies as "never announced" : FlatlineDixay
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    There's also another really big game coming out that's never announced that it uses our engine but it d... : esecasco
    - i think he really means that the game itself is announced, but just not that they are using the unreal en... : neo69
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      Yeah, I misread the quote. But I do think they've said that DNF uses a custom engine... : FlatlineDixay
      
      they also said DNF was using the Q2 engine. : Turd Ferguson

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Engine hype is such bullshit. Any engine is only as good as the game you're playing it on.

Mar 07, 2005 12:13pm PST

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Engine hype is such bullshit. Any engine is only as good as the game you're playing it on. : Cygnus X-1
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- you're a gamer talking obviously, not a developer ;) : flasher 907
- ease of modibility and programmibility are high up on the value of an engine. oh, and portability. : esecasco

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I think Carmacs new engine will look better, tools though I give to Epic

Mar 07, 2005 10:43am PST

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I think Carmacs new engine will look better, tools though I give to Epic : shack_konto
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- Don't forget Reality Engine... : SlamDunk
- well carmacks new engine will be released after Unreal Engine 3, so theres that. Nothing against id soft... : Turd Ferguson

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rock on.... this other interview is the shit.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=7189'

very good reading. i'm excited :)

Mar 07, 2005 11:39am PST

rock on.... this other interview is the shit. http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=7189' ... : SlamDunk

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Mark "graphics is gameplay" Rein. I think I'll pass.

I could use a new Tim Sweeney or CliffyB interview anytime though.

Mar 07, 2005 9:33am PST

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Mark "graphics is gameplay" Rein. I think I'll pass. I could use a new Tim Sweeney or CliffyB intervie... : rorshack
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- I take back my words - the GamesIndustry.biz Q&A is pretty cool, and pretty lenghty. I'd stil prefer a... : rorshack

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Second interview is much better. The Kismet tools sound nuts. I love FPSs to death, but the gameplay in them gets old after a while. The idea that you cana walk into an area and suddenly you're in a DDR style game or a side view fighting game, almost like walking into a zone with a gravity variable set differently.

On the other hand... you can walk into an area and suddenly you're in a DDR style game... I can see lots of half assed uses for this, millions of mini games 'because they can' and not because they truly make the game better.

But I can also see some really awesome levels and game modes coming out of the mod community with tools like that.

I am turgid with anticipation.

Mar 07, 2005 10:51am PST

Second interview is much better. The Kismet tools sound nuts. I love FPSs to death, but the gameplay in t... : Dynotaku

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Hope this engine feels different but better. Unreal engine games have always had this special feeling to them and I can feel Unreal 1 vibes in the UT2004 engine, to make an extreme example :/

Mar 07, 2005 6:37am PST

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Hope this engine feels different but better. Unreal engine games have always had this special feeling to ... : MrLonghair
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  i think that the same thing could be said about Quake games, though Quake was very diferent from Quake2/3... : ElQue
  - I'd be all in for that, as long as it's something done well and remotely original and lemony fresh feelin... : MrLonghair

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True...but UT2K4 is hella better then the earlier ones IMO.

I always thought it was just near impossible to get the same feeling as an id software engine, but the guys with half-life source seemed to do it. Although maybe they just based their player control off the old quake1/2 code. <end rambling>

Mar 07, 2005 7:39am PST

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True...but UT2K4 is hella better then the earlier ones IMO. I always thought it was just near impossib... : flasher 907
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- errps...in reply to #1 : flasher 907