Epic Shows off Unreal Engine 3 Running on iPhone
Could you imagine exploring Rapture or scoring multi-kills in an iPhone game?
The Unreal Engine has successfully cracked into the console space in a big way. Now the games engine, once exclusively a PC-based engine, is powering many blockbuster titles on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Now the Unreal Engine 3 has made its way to the iPhone.
Our friends at AnandTech visited their local Epic Games studios and grabbed a sneak peek at Unreal Engine running on an iPod Touch third-gen, which means it will also run similarly on an iPhone 3GS.
Epic said that the demo doesn't mean that it, or its licensing partners, are breaking into iPhone game development, but it does show off what is possible on the little pocketable device.
Epic also said that it will be demonstrating the Unreal Engine on another mobile platform at CES, so stay tuned!
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I expected the video to be a demo of what the article was talking about.
It's an AT&T ad?
wrong video. They need a video edit button
Can i hear an Android? Hopefully?
wrong video
Ok so my question is why is there a AT&T ad in this article when that has nothing to do with it..
For a moment I thought youtube was using ads in their video's...
What a lame article, AT&T sucks anyways!
wow....guys....
wrong link....can you plz get the next one right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzts8tsKuHs
that looks pretty amazing
And here comes the AT&T and Iphone Bashers....come on let it out you know you want to...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzt [...] r_embedded
Well, Soldier37, since you asked so nicely:
I guess the postcards symbolize whatever is left of Luke Wilson's career, as he throws it away...
(though frankly I couldn't care less about AT&T as I don't live in the US)
if it will run on the iphone, then it will run on the palm pre. they run on the same hardware under the shiny cases.
LOL I have to join many others by saying I can't believe how many video links have been bad lately.
I'd rather see it on Android. Wonder if that is in the future?
I imagine the next iphone due out next year will have better hardware and be able to run it pretty smooth.
As for at&t I hope Verizon carries the iphone by then.
Controls look similar to the COD Zombies that's out for Iphone.
Well, the video was pretty Epic fail
I hope the new platform they show the unreal engine on is the psp. If the ipod touch can do then the psp should definitely be able to
Can i hear an Android? Hopefully?
the droid has the same setup as the iPhone apparently, should be easy to put it on that. if its got a c++ api...
Surely it would take decades to port a whole engine to java? not to mention all the game developers would die a bit inside.
if it will run on the iphone, then it will run on the palm pre. they run on the same hardware under the shiny cases.
doesn't it use some sort of web api? like java script or something? I'm sure game devs would quit before trying to port to that...
FPS on a phone - fail, no interest whatsoever.
Anyone surprised? You shouldn't be. I don't know how you can possibly make a post and not even glance at it once to make sure it was done correctly. You don't even have to read it, just look at the video screen cap and you can clearly see that it doesn't jive with what you just wrote.
I mean honestly, this is your job here, do you not care?
putting games on a system which shuns a decent control system is sacrilege to gaming. this has just reinforced my boycott on Epic.
Doesn't this just prove that the engine was lame to start with and was never fully developed for decent hardware even for the time? I mean come on, a mobile phone is supposed to have the same power as a gaming PC thats a few years old? Even at lower resolutions that doesn't stand up.
The so called death of PC gaming isn't anything to do with piracy, just look at the success of WoW and Steam... No it is developers who produce mediocre releases because they are too busy trying to just cash in rather than concentrate on quality.
Here's the Anand Article. Looks great and plays smooth.
http://www.anandtech.com/gadgets/showdoc.aspx?i=3695
Video embed code fixed.
Happy hols.
Thats crap! You have to use your thumb for both turning and firing at the same time?!! Plus, you can't fire and turn at the same time. wth?!
The split second it takes to move your thumb from turning to the fire button is an eternity if FPS.
I hope the new platform they show the unreal engine on is the psp. If the ipod touch can do then the psp should definitely be able to
Actually this couldn't be done on PSP because PSP doesn't have pixel shaders. Just the same reason Epic said it couldn't be done on the Wii. Plus the PSP is very limited in memory 32MB vs 256MB in the 3GS/3rd Gen Touch.
Thats crap! You have to use your thumb for both turning and firing at the same time?!! Plus, you can't fire and turn at the same time. wth?!The split second it takes to move your thumb from turning to the fire button is an eternity if FPS.
Actually see NOVA... you hold your thumb down and can still move it around to aim.
They should stick to making phones that are capable of making phone calls instead.
iphone/ipod is a crappy platform for FPS gaming. The touchscreen controls or accelometer just don't work. Speaking from experience here.
I guess their iphone version of their engine is now going to be licensable soon.
Epic=Mo' money Mo' money Mo' money...