Unreal Engine Technology 2009 Features Trailer: What Can Epic Games Do For You?

G4TV writes: "Nearly every gamer on the planet has experienced some type of game that was created using Epic's Unreal Engine. Looking to continue their industry popularity with game developers Epic unleashed a slew of new features to their Unreal Engine 3. To illustrate the engine's details in slick Epic Game fashion is a new trailer highlighting all the powerful new tools in action.

From the dynamic global illumnation tool Lightmass, to PS3 downloadable content support be sure to check the official features listing."

[KingKionic]

thats some nice tools.

[Vortigaunt]

As usual, Unreal Engine 3 looking badass.

[Montrealien]

impressive, this could o a long way for user created content. Gj epic, supporting the modding community like champs, as always.

[osamaq]

This is not even can be compared to cryengine 3, cryengine 3 looks really like next gen not a peace of crap like this.

[ITA_Mafia_Boy]

where they say .. NO TEXTURE POP IN.
Or maybe not ...

[SonySoldierEternaL]

epic

FAIL

[snaz27]

man they gave us free stuff for the ps3 version of unreal tornament they didnt have to do that they could have done the same as capcom and tried to squeeze a few extra quid out of us with bs dlc but instead they gave us trophies (even though the game had been out ages) they gave us new maps vehicle characters and the mod system all for free!! i love epic for that they are awesome in my book... ok devs using there engine all the time and getting the games looking all shiny and the same is down to the devs not epic mate... i look forward and will support any project they do next as i know they look after and support us too

[STONEY4]

The best part of the video was the song.

[Arsenic13]

Im honestly tired of the Unreal Engine. These are some nice additions but all the games looks similar and its annoying. Laminated metallic stuff.

[TheHater]

This suppose to be the big game announcement tonight? If it is, this is pretty fricken lame

[fire23]

Impressive, both the multi-computer speed-up for lighting and the improved browsing will help dramatically. Lighting upgrades are pretty nice as well, however it might take a little bit before we see those upgrades.

[ToastyMcNibbles]

unreal engine is great but i think its definitely showing its age...every game that uses it looks the same...army of two looks like gears of war looks like unreal tournament 3 looks like blacksite area 51 looks like batman arkham asylum looks like 50 cent blood on the sand looks like turok looks like x-men origins wolverine etc etc...not knocking the unreal engine or these games...okay maybe some but you get the point...everything kinda has this same look to it...nothing is unique

[KingKionic]

no gears look better because mark rains with epic. its the devs basicly.

[jkhan]

You can't blame the engine for it. Mirror's Edge, BioShock & MassEffect all had there unique art style & looks. It's all upto the devs. The devs are lazy and have been over crowding the shooter genre with lame titles. Consider this for example Ratchet & Resistance both run on the same engine, both are developed by the same devs and I am pretty sure the Art teams is the same as well but the look completely different. Why? Because Insomniac is not some lazy developer.

[II Necroplasm II]

BioShock was build on 2.5 and Bioshock is amazing looking.

[rbluetank]

if you seen one UT3 game you have seen them All!!! good comment above!

[outlawlife]

right because mirrors edge looks just like gears of war

the look of the game comes down to the developer, not the engine

[jkhan]

I agree with the loading and texture streaming issue, but the bugs and glitches are not engines fault it is the devs fault. As far as streaming texture goes they really need to fix that, it was way too bad for a game of Gears 2 quality, even after you install the game on 360 hard drive.

[JD_Shadow]

Just make it so it plays nice with the PS3. Hell, if EA and Dice could make it work, so can the rest of the F'N dev world. That way, it would take away another lame reason for the "PS3 is hard to develop for" BS.

[OlvaR]

OMG! they added global illumination! (if you happen to be a 3d artist, you already know this is a big deal!)

[Raf1k1]

the global illumination part of the vid makes me wana see what a developer could do with a Thief style game :D

[Bob Dole]

That looks complicated.

[Kurylo3d]

Anyone who insults the unreal 3 engine or cryengine dont know what they are talkn about... lets just leave it at that. Any professional knows you mold the engine to what you want it to look like... an engine is only a good amount of tools and features. And another thing the texture loading thing ... isnt a bug... it just streaming textures... which is it really a big deal if u see it load up textures in the beginning of the level for 1 second? i mean seriously... They made it like that so the levels could be bigger and to make hte most of what the consoles can do graphically... so u dont have to load everything in from the start... they stream em. SMART MOVE. means more detail

[MegaMohsi]

Bioshock was developed using a heavily modified UE 2.5 with some UE 3 features and it looks better than almost every UE 3 game out there that isn't developed by Epic themselves. Can't wait for Bioshock 2!

[bob saget remix]

It also makes everything way to shiny.

[All-3]

You DO realize that the LOOK of a game is determined by the --> GAME developers <-- and not the Game engine - don't you?

Hail to the Chimp used the Unreal Engine 3.0

http://www.gametrailers.com...

Seropian also talks about Hail to the Chimp using the Unreal Engine 3 and his experience with the controversial engine. He says it's a "great toolset, it's a great engine, and you have to be a little careful about what you want to do with it." He says the engine was designed to make Gears of War, so it's been a challenge getting it to work, but that's it's been "really good" for them.

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Games that LOOK similar are due to the fact that the game developers are using pre-determined game assets and not original ones.

[xg-ei8ht]

http://www.gametrailers.com...