U3 engine.. just realised something

NathanE · 15 Dec 2006 at 18:59

http://www.unrealtechnology.com/screens/EmbryHigh.jpg
http://www.unrealtechnology.com/screens/character_creation3.jpg

These two screenshots from about 2-3 years ago were the demonstration of what the Unreal 3 engine could do.

Now having just completed Gears of War I think both those screenshots look very similar to GOW

Interesting is all

Mr_White · 15 Dec 2006 at 19:00

That'll be because Gears of War is made by EPIC and is using the U3 engine

Yewen · 15 Dec 2006 at 19:00

What is GoW running on?

NathanE · 15 Dec 2006 at 19:01

Mr_White said:
That'll be because Gears of War is made by EPIC and is using the U3 engine

Yeah I know, just interesting that Epic published "real" content all those years ago whilst everyone was oblivious

PS Yewen it uses the U3 engine. Have you not played it? I would have thought it'd been obvious

Andr3w · 15 Dec 2006 at 19:02

maby they started making it three years ago

MikGriff · 15 Dec 2006 at 19:06

Very Good.. Sneaky Gits ! :eek:

Alrik · 15 Dec 2006 at 19:09

Thats because Gears of War started out as a tech-demo to show what the engine can do then it developed into the game we have now. (or so I read)

Robert · 15 Dec 2006 at 19:15

They first demo'ed the UE3 engine on the 6800 line/X800XT kit.

Tobes · 15 Dec 2006 at 19:29

Anyone else noticed the shadow problem with the U3 engine? You can notice it in SP

A and GoW. The shadows sometimes get very pixelated.

gord · 15 Dec 2006 at 19:39

NathanE said:
Yeah I know, just interesting that Epic published "real" content all those years ago whilst everyone was oblivious

PS Yewen it uses the U3 engine. Have you not played it? I would have thought it'd been obvious

I wasnt oblivious.. PCzone did an article on it several years ago when the first demo vids came out with the big monsters. They asked Epic if the demo content was for anything and Epic said "We dont make content we arnt going to use, what you see here will be in a new game that i cannot discuss"..

So nerrrr!

fergie666 · 15 Dec 2006 at 19:39

isnt the second pic one of the locust drones from gears of war ?

if not, it's their twin

Psyk · 15 Dec 2006 at 19:40

What's the U3 engine? I know what UE3 is though

Gerard · 15 Dec 2006 at 20:58

fergie666 said:
isnt the second pic one of the locust drones from gears of war ?

if not, it's their twin

Yup its a locust, they also showed some wretches i believe and that big hefer from gow:

this git http://static.flickr.com/21/34378999_ede9973e30_m.jpg

Mr.Orb · 15 Dec 2006 at 21:30

lol, i thought it was general knowledge that those concepts shots were GoW :confused:

Hedge · 15 Dec 2006 at 21:34

I made a post like this when gow came out. damn you!

gord · 15 Dec 2006 at 22:02

Mr.Orb said:
lol, i thought it was general knowledge that those concepts shots were GoW

No.. the underbosses are just slow..

pinkacidbootson · 15 Dec 2006 at 22:21

Tob3z said:
Anyone else noticed the shadow problem with the U3 engine? You can notice it in SPA and GoW. The shadows sometimes get very pixelated.

Double Agent only uses Unreal 2(.5), the next splinter cell will be U3. Am i pedantic? Yes!

NathanE · 15 Dec 2006 at 23:11

gord said:
No.. the underbosses are just slow..

BoomAM · 16 Dec 2006 at 00:08

I dont quite see how they look like GOW.
Those first two posted in this thread have more detail in the texture mapping. Not the textures themselves, the actual mapping (whatever theyre using now). And they look v.high res.

wedgie · 16 Dec 2006 at 00:32

fergie666 said:
isnt the second pic one of the locust drones from gears of war ?