Recently I have have been toying with the Unreal Editor, which at first seemed kind of daunting but actually once I sat down and watched the incredibly useful tutorials they provide I found that it was actually quite fun. The Unreal Engine is one of the engines I seem to notice more when I'm playing games at home with releases that use the engine such as the Gears of War series, Batman: Arkham Asylum and Splinter Cell: Conviction, Bioshock, Mass Effect 1 and 2. Each of those games is very different but uses the same engine which shows in my opinion that the Unreal Engine has a lot to offer companies in search of a good Engine.
Now don't get me wrong Unreal isn't the only Engine out there and some games just wouldn't run right on it, which is why there are probably about another 100+ for you to try. Now, I won't go through all of them, I'll just pick out a few that have made me go oooooh, ahhhh,GEEZUS!
Ok so one of the cool engines out there that has to be mentioned is the Source Engine. Games such as Portal, Half Life 2, Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead have all used this engine. Well the first thing we should notice is that all the games I just mentioned are all first person shooters, however they all awesome FPS's. The Source Engine seems to keep expanding its potential with each release of a new title on it. Well something that is very cool about the Engine is that it's run by Valve who with Steam can automatically distribute updates with new versions of the engine. This means that games will run smoother and faster and means people don't have to shell out a load of money for latest release of a new engine package.
Well Cry Engine 3 has been shown and it looks very impressive indeed. Not only does it make everything look 10 times better than in a lot of game engines, but the physics and attention to the interactivity in the world is astounding. Smoke looks and behaves realistically, Fire and Water and explosions have never looked better on screen in a game. From what I've seen it seems like one of the most powerful engines out there and I think Crysis 2 will definitely show us what it can do.
is getting excited about christmas and running around shopping for friends and family worrying about the fact that they might not be able to serve brussel sprouts that no one is going to eat because of this recent cold snap! Mean while back in my nice warm flat where I can ignore christmas and try and care that its my birthday soon while everyone else is shoveling a mince pie in their face; I'm looking more like an excited 4yr old due to the fact I have watched 35 seconds of the new Uncharted teaser trailer which lasts only 35 seconds long. This is the game I am most looking forward to playing next year and from the 5 images and 2 videos I have watched I feel like i'm liter
ally about
to explode in the wait for saturday when apparently a longer more juicy trailer will be released (I will post it as as soon as I get my hands on it). Basically Drake has nearly updated his wardrobe to match the desert Arabian Nights feel of the game and so far it looks like the story and background history in to the mythology
behind his epic adventures seems sound. IGN has done a break down of all the things in the 35 second teaser that hint to what's to come. So i'll just leave you with these images and a couple of videos distract you from what you really should be doing!