Unreal Engine 4 Achieves Photorealistic Graphics That Will Leave You Speechless

YouTube’s member ‘koooolalala’ has been experimenting with Epic’s Unreal Engine 4, and has released a number of videos showing off the incredible IQ that can be achieved with this engine.

[VaporCell]

I wish they would show us what it's possible to do in a game with all the AI and environmental components of a game, rather than a beauty tech demo. Lots of tech demos leave you wanting they would transition into a game but nope.

[Nitrowolf2]

There's tons of projects already showing it off (ganmes)

[PLASTICA-MAN]

Fable Legends, Dead Island 2, Hellbalde, Without a Memory on PS4 and Sony Cambridge secret game on PS4 all use UE4 hence the next-gen graphics. Many other games from indies use UE4 (full fledged games not 2D games).

Edit: there are many more impressive demos than the ones in the video, here is one (that you can download adn play with if you have a beefy PC): http://vimeo.com/93246664

[BISHOP-BRASIL]

@Plastica-man

Nope... That's just as static and artificial/indoors stuff with a controlled camera as the video here. That's the easy stuff, the brain can be easily fooled into seeing that kind of 3D render (with plenty of simetry, patterns and regular shaped familiar yet never seen objects) as real or photorealistic. But try a 3D model of a person, the best you could take out there, you can still spot it's a 3D render (even hollywoodian 3D renders are perfectly identifiable for what they are when not mixed in real photos and tons os post-processing and that doesn't even have fully computional animation as they touch each frame 'till perfection, now imagine where the tech stands with real time rendering on something as interactive as a game).

[PLASTICA-MAN]

@ BISHOP-BRASIL, Nope for what? About the games I mentionned they really use UE4 and they are very impressive.

About the demo I provided in vimeo link (which anyone can test by downloading it) it is just a render demo of a swedish house. No one was talking about charcters models.

I really don't know what you are talking about, if you think the swedish house and its objects are an illusion, you can download the PLAYABLE demo here: http://vimeo.com/98625270

There are two versions, one with high assets, the other with low ones. (BTW I am using UE4, so I know what is real and what is not in this UNREAL engine).

[b163o1]

Llf @816Finger

This could be the tech demo to GG next game, they've already came out saying they've reached photo realistic environments js...

[DevilOgreFish]

VaporCell -"I wish they would show us what it's possible to do in a game with all the AI and environmental components of a game, rather than a beauty tech demo. Lots of tech demos leave you wanting they would transition into a game but nope."

Games can take years to make. even longer if it's coming from a small indie team. this video was made by one person.

[mixolydian_id]

Throw in several 60,000 polygon character models...

Frame rate drops to 15fps

[UltimateMaster]

Now try having 30 enemies that combat each other in real time.

[Timesplitter14]

exactly, and it's also really really easy to make clean, empty indoor areas look realistic. Nature scenes, city streets, characters, etc are what I like to see from tech demos.

[Lennoxb63]

Beautiful. This just gets me pumped about what Gears 4 will look like.

[solar]

same can be said of the UC4 demo. and i agree with you, you can show off any engine with absolutely nothing going on and it looks fantastic.

[BallsEye]

How is he able to achieve it on gtx 670 is beyond me. I got a Titan and yet some games like to choke up a bit (sh!tty coding) but then, it's just a very simple scene with nothing going on. Unity engine demo looks amazing too, doesn't work all that great in a ready game. Still, mind blowing job considering beautiful GI and such low end card.

[THEDON82z1]

@VaporCell: Right...although I don't see it hardly as much as back in the day (playstation 1,nintendo 64 era). It still annoys me sometimes because as good as these engine's are its easy to crank the visual's to the max, without running AI,physic's,etc.I think the standard for showcasing an engine should be made to show when all assets are running..then we can see what the engine is capable of. Hell I remember when some developers had put three PS3 together and ran a ray tracing demo (but you never saw that in games)!

[BlackWolf12]

Increasing the graphical fidelity of environments is nothing compared to character models.

I am actually sick of all these engine renders, CryEngine 3 versions of this, Unreal 4 versions of that.

Who cares.

[frostypants]

Plus to even run this demo at a good framerate you'd need an absolute beast of a rig. Typical dsogaming article though.

[ape007]

unreal engine just amazes me (when it's used right) like in gears of war, bioshock, batman etc....

the latest Unreal engine 3.5 is gorgeous, gears of war 3 looks amazing and colorful and so is bioshock infinite (especially on PC)

cannot imagine how awesome UE4 us going to be

[imtheman2013]

The Batman Arkham Knight gameplay is testament to that. Easily one of the most gorgeous looking games I've seen...

[PLASTICA-MAN]

Look how Batman Arkham Knight could have been if they used UE4: http://vimeo.com/76320449 (made by a fan not a dev in one week-end).

[BlackWolf12]

Unreal 3 looked too plastic.

[XtraTrstrL]

Pretty cool. Fox Engine isn't that bad either, the P.T. teaser game is pretty damn photorealistic for realtime gameplay.

[imtheman2013]

I seriously just stood in P.T. and looked at the cigarettes and knickknacks on the dresser because it looked like I was just staring at a picture lol

[PLASTICA-MAN]

The Fox Engine has many features the UE4 lacks at this point but tries to add with each update or finds other ways to make sth similar to one feature.

[PsylentKiller]

I was just about to say the same thing. Pretty soon these bull shots will become an actual playable reality.

[frostypants]

Absolutely. It'll be a few more years though.

[ape007]

the bananas, the meds, the cockroaches, all look very real

[RevXM]

Yeah PT looks good, a great amount of work went in to it but it is appearantly not same level as a release game. some lower res textures, its jerking a little at times and aliasing.

BUT the lighting, and the details as you said... amazing!
I stood around looking at that banana thinking it was too real for like 5 minutes because lets be honest its the most lifelike banana in a game we have ever seen!

[starchild]

Yeah, it really is a great engine. The P.T. demo looks amazing, except for a bit of aliasing that takes me out of it somewhat. With some really good anti-aliasing such as SSAA or TXAA that demo could look almost photo realistic or like a movie.

[pwnsause_returns]

Yea...that was done on purpose apparently, to make it look like it was a "indie game" according to kojima apparently.

[XtraTrstrL]

The aliasing in it is weird though. Some things from far have aliasing that's a little noticeable. It's not at all visible when you're close to things, and that slight blur that happens when you hit R3 to zoom in on stuff is really nice. Cuz it doesn't make things all muddily blurred, it's like a half blur like your character is a little dazed or something.

I've yet to play for more than a few minutes, shit was too scary. I gotta play again, I played for the first time last night with the Gold Wireless Stereo Headset and downloaded the 'Horror' preset from the headphone app for it. I didn't even play long enough for that bathroom door to fully open, just a little crack. The story of the family is jacked up.

[WeAreLegion]

I can still talk, but it looks great!

[MariaN4G]

I think the engine in call of duty looks quite better than this in my opinion.

[cj1pate101]

"Call of Duty has been using the same game engine for over a decade-- in fact, it's been using the Quake 3 engine since before the current round of consoles even existed. Activision insists that if they used a new engine it would potentially cause them to miss a year, and since Activision doesn't want to explain to their investors why there is no Call of Duty for one year, that means not a whole lot changes in the franchise anymore, especially the engine."

[vanity29]

I know, I love Call of Duties engine and it def blows everything else away

[RyuCloudStrife]

Call of Duty has always blown me away with the graphics, glad others feel the same. Advance Warfare looks better than this tech demo, to me that is mind blowing but not surprising. Call of Duty makes so much money it allows the developer to take advantage of better resources for their games.

Its no wonder they used the same engine all last gen and still managed to blow us away with graphics and gameplay!

[SuperBlur]

Lmfao , did you compare NES Mario to COD? Cause thats the only time COD's graphic would blow someone away

[cj1pate101]

Talk about a sheep ^

[ShowGun901]

crap, somebody likes CoD, better say something bad about it because im cool!

[Agent_hitman]

Current generation engines like Frostbite 2, Cryengine 3, Unreal Engine 4 and also the Fox engine techs are very promising and I believe it using less resources, meaning it is now efficient and doesn't require high CPU to achieve beautiful graphics. Just look at current gen consoles, they have great games, with great graphics.. Much more on PC, we will able to see it's 100% endless potential

[GamingTruth]

much more on pc where?

[Elda]

It does look realistic,but will it still have that realism when you have a lot of actual things going at the same filling the environment.

[ravensly]

ps4 wont be able to run it at 1080p 60fps as you need gtx 670

[GamingTruth]

yeah no sucky developer would get it there

[HmongAmerican]

I think FoxEngine is currently the best game engine out there right now. Anyone who had play the Silent Hill teaser demo would agree.

[cj1pate101]

I like how you compare such an enclosed game demo with little going on to a game that has big outdoor environments and ect..

[2pacalypsenow]

But until a game can look like that its all pointless

[iceman600]

"Unreal Engine 4 Achieves Photorealistic Graphics That Will Leave You Speechless"

and all videogames died.

[user367272]

that is why I have a $1600 gaming rig...to be able to keep up with current technology standard that no console can match. The Witcher 3, Arkham Knight and GTAV should look glorious on my PC.

[ShowGun901]

thats what people tend to forget, though... if you wanna run everything at super-ultra-max settings, it takes over a grand to do it. you cant leave the money out of the equation.

wanna play next-gen for $400? get a ps4!
wanna play next-gen at the best possible settings, for $1,600? get a gaming rig!

they're not equal, in power or price... theres a 4X price difference... its like if people were racing their Ford Focus's and you pulled up in a Corvette...

if you wanna dump enough money into something, you can ALWAYS do better! LOL

my rig
i7 4770k
gtx 760
other stuff! LOL!

thats high end enough for me right now!

[BongSmack]

Nice graphics-very far from photo realistic that they were touted to be-but still nice.

[darthseth24]

TEKKEN7! TEKKEN7! TEKKEN7!

[HaMM4R]

I don't exactly think a room with slabs for walls, ceilings and floor is a good way to demonstrate 'photo realism' I want to see outdoor scenes. For me the outdoor environments are what I mostly measure graphics on.

[feraldrgn]

I don't know, it's photo realistic with mostly squares, but after playing PT I think I prefer the Fox Engine so far.
Will have to see more examples of this engine.

[Tedakin]

That's okay, but ultimately just a blocky hallway. how about something with detail?

[SpinalRemains138]

That is clearly the best lighting I have ever seen.

[Kidmyst]

Make a new Minecraft to look like this.

[solar]

please stop with all these sensationalism headlines. those pics and video are crap.

[Deeeeznuuuts]

So why did Daylight look like a piece of s#!t?

[tommygunzII]

I was expecting to be blown away by this, but I wasn't.

[1nsomniac]

Haha, no!

[SaveFerris]

I think the Fox Engine and Snowdrop both look great. I can't wait to see more games using them in the future.

[GeraltofRivia]

I have been blown away by graphics since 2007 when I purchased a mid-range gmaing laptop.

[listenkids]

And we have been blown away by UE tech demos before, like Samaritan. Theyve never transitioned into a game and likely won't for some time.