The Best Current-Gen Gaming Engines

CrippleH - 249 days 11 hours ago

How can you rate CryEngine 3 when it's not even completed yet.

It hasn't even been put in a game yet.

Crysis Warhead is using CryEngine 2 not 3 so far.

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KenAdamsNSA - 249 days 11 hours ago

It's referring to CryEngine in general. CryEngine 3 is just the picture I used.

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Slinger420 - 249 days ago

are Killzone 2 and Modern Warfare/World at War

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KionicWarlord222 - 249 days ago

the unreal and the source engines are really good. i cant wait to see cry engines should be pretty big.

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Reibooi - 249 days ago

Putting the Unreal Engine on there loses alot of credibility in my opinion. Sure the engine worked great for some games but it has also been the sole reason other games failed(The Last Remnant) and it is common knowledge that the engine has horrible technical problems such as slowdown and collision detection. Which in turn lead to massive amounts of glitches even in games made by Epic themselves.

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Tomonobu Itagaki - 249 days ago

"Current-Gen engines" > "Source"
Fail.
First because it's an old-gen engine, but also because the only thing that engine shows is that we can make ugly games full of aliasing even with an engine that has been over-exploited since 5 years.
Left4Dead or Team Fortress 2 are maybe good games, but it's not thanks to their engine but more on their concept.

And how about the deferred rendering engine?

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marcindpol - 249 days ago

stupid article!

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BlackPrince 42 - 249 days ago

Well not completely. The CryEngines and UE3 deserve to be there. But omitting the KZ2 engine, the COD engine, the MGS4 engine, the Dunia, and the Uncharted engine from this list, and still including the Source, is just plain ignorant.

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dirthurts - 249 days ago

Euphoria engine is sooo overlooked. In a game I would rather see things move and react in a realistic way than having outrageous graphics that do nothing for the game.
Sure, Killzone is nice looking and all, but other than that, the game has no real meat to it.
Physics make a game interesting to play,not just to look at.
The Cryengine is also pretty impressive. If you have it running on a good rig, it can do some amazing things with Physics and graphics. Probably the most impressive engine, but also the hardest to run.

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GiantEnemyFlop - 249 days ago

where the hell is noughty dog engin

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TABSF - 248 days 23 hours ago

lol

cryengine 2 at medium to high nevermind very high, mods or warhead owns Killzone 2 static light shafts lol
source engine owns cant believe how crazy some people are just look at left 4 dead and HL2 E2 but then again if your playing on console why do you expect anything more than sh!t.
UE3 just fails. only good game is bioshock
havok has nothing on cryengine 2, has anybody see the in game 5,000 barrels and hurricanes & Euphoria has the best human physics but nothing on environment imo to cryengine

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poeo - 248 days 23 hours ago

i have a thing for Ubisoft's engines... the Scimitar engine used for Assassin's Creed was amazing. also the Dunia engine powering Far Cry 2... really impressive.

Ubisoft teams need to work on AI though, lol.

edit: KZ2's engine is the winner still, i think.

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astronautbread - 248 days 22 hours ago

and still not a single mention of gamebryo?
oblivion, fallout... really?

to get such huge worlds to look that good, it's impressive tech.

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GameScrubs - 248 days 22 hours ago

Not sure why people are adding engines that are not sold to third parties. What is the point on bringing the Killzone or Uncharted engines into the mix if they where originally made for one purpose and that is to serve THEIR needs.

Some people pointed out some interesting points about the current engines. But I don't understand the hate on the Unreal Engine. Tons of games use it because it's proven to be good.

If you remove your personal bias against EPIC, and look into the UE for what it has done and how it has helped developers you might get a better view.

BTW if a game fails in a certain engine doesn't mean the engine sucks. It is still up to the developers and designers to take full advantage of the system.

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Argento-Nox - 248 days 22 hours ago

The cryengine is great for PC games, but I'll reserve judgment on it being a great engine for console games when it finally puts something out. Until then, the best engine is the KZ engine, that is, until GOW, Heavy Rain and Uncharted 2 arrive to challenge it for graphical supremacy.

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Digital Commando - 248 days 19 hours ago

That engine looks promising to me, but it's not out yet

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pixelsword - 248 days 17 hours ago

And that's the CRY engine;

- UT 3's engine isn't the best by far, seeing that every game that spawns from that engine is buggy. A lawsuit from Silicon Knights spawned from using that engine and buggy games like The Last Remnant are still being pumped-out from that engine. Pretty? Yes. BEST? No.
*REPLACEMENT ENGINE: Edge engine.
*GAME: Killzone 2

- Although the writer did mention the physics engine having "a different objective", physics engines aren't game engines. I can't take Havok and make a game entirely within Havok, so therefore Havok and NaturalMotion are not "true" game engines by definition and therefore off.
*REPLACEMENT ENGINE: Any engine from which games can be created in.
Game: Any game that derives from an actual game engine.

- The Source Engine *was* great, but *now* it's outdated, and outclassed by many engines out there. For the "Source is one of the few engines that is (as far as I know) the only used by the developer that created it" comment, off of the top of my head I can name a few that makes their own engines solely for themselves:

-Ninteno
-Factor 5
-Naughty Dog
-Sucker Punch
-Bungie
-Evolution
-Ninja Theory
-Konami (specifically, Kojima's crew)
-Tecmo (specifically, Itagaki's Ninja Gaiden engine)
-Square Enix's White Engine
-Sega
-Sony

There are obviously others, but this is just off of the top of my head. :)

*REPLACEMENT ENGINE: Many, but specifically The Naughty Dog Game Engine 2.0
GAME: Uncharted

I did enjoy the writing in the article, though.

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Wiimaniac - 249 days ago

I can't believe that there is an engine that it's called "Source". What an original name! /sarcasm

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xaviertooth - 248 days 23 hours ago

stup*d article written by stup*d people.

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