Epic Shows Off Mind Blowing Next-Gen Graphics
The Game Developer Conference is going on right now, and Epic Games just showed something behind closed doors that will blow your mind.
Epic Games is now more than just a games developer – it's an engine technology maker that licenses its software to other developers to help designers make the games rather than the tools. Now at GDC, Epic is showing off the most bleeding-edge version of Unreal Engine 3.
Judging by where everyone's jaws have dropped, it's odd that Epic isn't calling this Unreal Engine 4, but Epic's Mark Rein did say that if he had to assign it a version number, this would be Unreal 3.975.
Keep in mind that all the images that you see here, as close to CG as they are, run off of three GeForce GTX 580 GPUs – so the hardware to run these sort of graphics are available off the shelf today.
Of course, not everyone has trio of GTX 580 cards sitting around, but Rein did clarify that this engine is scalable all the way up from an iPhone 3GS, with all the details dialed down to the minimum, of course.
“Another thing that’s awesome is that the engine now scales all the way from an iPhone 3GS up to next-generation hardware. That means you could theoretically make a game that’d run on every single one of these devices. Mobile phones to tablets to set top boxes,” said Rein.
We want a game to play that looks like this right now, but the purpose of this tech demo isn't to show off Gears of War 4. Epic made this to tell hardware makers of what kind of targets developers will be aiming at in the next-generation.
“The whole idea behind this is to tell the hardware manufacturers that this is what you should be doing down the road,” Rein explained.
While we already have desktop GPUs that can do the stunning things seen in the screenshots, it would be a shame if the next-generation consoles wouldn't be able to handle at least this.
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Wow this is amazing!
It's as good, if not better, than the Cryengine 3 snapshot images that we're shown a while back.
It's amazing.
Even more amazing is how crappy is image viewing on thg site. Is it like that on purpose, to get more clicks?
It's amazing.Even more amazing is how crappy is image viewing on thg site. Is it like that on purpose, to get more clicks?
Yeah just like the rating system has been disabled so that the SPAM comments don't instantly get rated down to -4 and dissapear!
Tom's is making money off the spammers without us realizing...
What other excuse is there for the broken rating system? it works in the forums, not in the news articles....
Looks great.
I wonder why the CryEngine 3 tech demo hasn't been posted on any website except for gametrailers, that one looked stunning and way better than any crysis 2 video they have shown.
not mindblowing to me this is whot dx11 is all about and when this form of dx 11 is rdy to shipp ima getting me a hig end dx 11 card. whot is interesting tho is how much this will take to get running smooth unreal is one of my top engiens for grapics in the world, so i think its not gonna be to bloody power hungry eather.
Epic is promoting smoking. Nice.
not mindblowing to me this is whot dx11 is all about and when this form of dx 11 is rdy to shipp ima getting me a hig end dx 11 card. whot is interesting tho is how much this will take to get running smooth unreal is one of my top engiens for grapics in the world, so i think its not gonna be to bloody power hungry eather.
the game is sadly already out on torrent. hope they whont rage like last time on pc. beside whot i haw tested its nothing special in the grapics department crysis 1 is still way more compelling. and the game play is alot more leanier no real open world. but stearing and controling in the fps is way better and its not as power hungry seens all the physics of the plants is gone.
Tom's not here anymore.
What sucks... No gears of War 2, 3 or 4 for PC.
UT3 sucked balls because of BAD level design (5 playable maps out of 33) and disabled the ability ZOOM in/out of your vehicles like in UT2004 - which may game play UNFUN. Empty servers for a 2 year old game.
Epic is promoting smoking. Nice.
pls dont.. i dont want my child be a smoker
Nice to see some dev who actually bother using what DX11 have been providing for some time now - Pretty much a feast in graphic possibility's yet underutilized due to lack of hardware (mostly consoles fault especially the old dx9 based xbox 360 that should be replaced by a DX11 capable one if MS truly cares about the future of gaming).
But yeah it always holds true - Pc always pushes the gfx to the next level and then the budget options follows in due time!
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Unreal 3 look close to CGI in screenshots too. UT3 looked A LOT different in action. After all these years of gaming and ultra pretty screenshots I'm jaded.
elcentral,
is that even english? that said, did you not read the part about these images taking THREE gtx580 cards to process? as of this moment the technology does scale down, but don't expect top tier graphics.
belardo,
i've played on every single UT3 map. some are a bit cramped but none are unplayable. what made the game not as fun as previous versions was the change from brightly colored foes (which were easy to see) in a reflex-clicking shoot-em-up into a semi-realistic setting where enemy foes blend in with the surroundings more. I have to give epic props for the visuals but the gameplay is what truley counts.
rantoc,
i agree that it will take a long time for this to trickle down to what we actually see... what with all the console porting lately. all companies in the market care about the future of gaming, console porting is just the most viable option right now. why develop soley for a pc platform when it will just be torrented? i've said it once and i'll say it again.. torrents have ruined the industry.
GODDAAAAMN, i got to get me a pair of 580s...
Even if it can run on a triple 580 setting, it would be good to be able to run this with only one single gpu graphic card costing less than an arm and a leg.
I don't care about how good they can make the graphics, I care about what they do with it. Cookie-cutter console FPS crap doesn't interest me no matter how awesome the graphics are.
consoles are weak...PC gaming is cumming back
....i for one, can't stand consoles
pls dont.. i dont want my child be a smoker
smoking calms the brain...why not
its coments liek the smoking ones that make me want to start smoking... i wouldn't ... but the only thing more annoying than having wo wade through smoke is the people yellign and bitching about the person smoking...
anyway like the escreenshots it looks excellent wonde rhow the scaling will go and if it'll be able to justify an upgrade from my 2x gts 450's ... maybe to a pair of 570's
Why is the image system still broken(I dont call clicking an image 4 times for articles like these with many images). Why isn't the concerned department doing anything - its been this way since forever, man cheapo sites have better interfaces than this; nd now the rating systems broken since more than a month now? Common toms u were better than this; the articles r mostly gud, but th website interface stinks.
Perhaps because cigarettes smoke stink... pollute our clothes and our lungs. The issue is the smoke from a cigarette INVADES the space of others. Otherwise, I don't have anything against it. Its the persons problems to burn up $100~200 a month.
Bitching about it in the game... goofy. Its a game.
pls dont.. i dont want my child be a smoker
Then perhaps you could take the time and explain to them what video game pixel world is about, also, should a child be playing such a game to begin with? Sure they're capable, but that doesn't mean they should.
Also, I'd love to see an XBAWX try and do this, though supposedly an iPhone can, but I'm certain we'll know what it'll look like.
Dang, I remember my LAN party days we'd run Unreal Tournament GOTY with a ton of mods. Miss those days ):
belardo,i've played on every single UT3 map. some are a bit cramped but none are unplayable. what made the game not as fun as previous versions was the change from brightly colored foes (which were easy to see) in a reflex-clicking shoot-em-up into a semi-realistic setting where enemy foes blend in with the surroundings more. I have to give epic props for the visuals but the gameplay is what truley counts.
Hmmm... let me put it this way about "playable" - in that its ENJOYABLE. In that you don't have a server with 24+ people on a damn ONS/WAR map for 2 hours trying to score. With people screaming "LET THE OThER SIDE WIN! Don'T KILL the Flag carrier!" and people leave the server because they are BORED to death.
Game play (in general) was quite good, the character movement and weapons are quite good. But the lack of VEC Zoom is 100% pure bullcrap on Epics part... and the CODE is in the game. A 16k MOD file re-activates the ability. Its a pure bitch trying to SHOOT someone below you when HALF your screen is sucked up by Cicada or Raptor. Or how about the COOL feature of pulling team-mates with VECs. Wow, it would be GREAT if you could ZOOM out to see if you have TEAM-MATES hanging on. DUH.
Most of the MAPs sucked. They even threw in some BEAUTIFUL remake maps from UT99 & UT2004 classics... but they were not the same. So again... out of 33 total maps of the standard UT3... about 3 or so maps per type (okay, 9 total) are enjoyable. And what happens? The players play the SAME bloody map over and over and over again until everyone is BORED and goes home.
Go ahead... load up UT3, how many active servers are there with REAL humans? Besides the totally Fubars the humans/bots so you may THINK there are humans on the server. So guess what... I play UT2004 more than UT3 because there are PEOPLE playing and the maps are fun... even if the technology is 8 years old!
I stuck with it as much as I can. Added all the patches that eventually made the menu GUI not so much pure console garbage. I've downloaded and converted over 100 UT3 maps (including the titan pack) to my map lists... pretty much ALL of them are easily better than the garbage that came in the box. Some of them are BEAUTIFUL and fun. Like the resort on an island that looks rather Appleseed-ish.
But... there are very very rare active custom-map servers. What is up... the usual standard UT3 crap-map pack. Boring. UT3 is completely and easily fixable. First, fix the problems I outlined. VEC-ZOOM should be on by default, go ahead and put an option to turn it off, nobody would do that.
Get 125~150 of the best custom maps out there and included it on the DVD(s) with the game so people can have fun and get their friends to join, etc. This is how Epic fixed the FAILURE of UT2003. It had bugs, about 35~40 maps and handled rather crappy. Only a few people liked it. When UT2004 came out... WOW, I retired UT99 overnight.
The last time I played UT3 was Dec 2009... it was pretty dead then, and I'm betting its even worse now.
They won't be able to on that quality setting that is shown within the screenshots. There is a reason why consoles are generally cheaper than a high end PC and that is due to the cheaper hardware they put in it.
Let's not forget both Microsoft and Sony (and Sony only up until recently)
were making a loss with each console made even if it sold. The PS3 had quite a insane price to the consumer even then yet even day 1 it could not hold up against a decent PC.
So unless they make the next generation of consoles either insanely priced to the point no normal household can afford one or take a major hit with each console sale which is extremely dangerous for them to do
if by any chance they flop like Sega did in the past. Consoles start off a few steps behind a decent PC at the time of the consoles release farther than what this will require.
Smoking?? Really????? Your kid is playing a game where he/she shoots/stabs/kills other people and you are more worried about them picking up smoking. If your children can't separate reality from the game, they shouldn't be playing it, and to be honest I'd rather have them pick up smoking then hear about them in the news going on a shooting rampage.
Lets face it, they are going to be exposed to smoking and drugs weather you like it or not. The things you teach them how to handle it is up to you.
Epic is promoting smoking. Nice.
So does Futurama, everytime Bender gets his groove on.
rantoc,i agree that it will take a long time for this to trickle down to what we actually see... what with all the console porting lately. all companies in the market care about the future of gaming, console porting is just the most viable option right now. why develop soley for a pc platform when it will just be torrented? i've said it once and i'll say it again.. torrents have ruined the industry.
Looking at the numbers in the news earlier this week it seems the PC entertainment industry is very much alive and kicking even thoo it seems some media/devs is trying to discredit it as a viable option.
The pirating is defiantly hurting the sales which is sad but considering the numbers of customers you reach i think there is plenty of money to be made on quality titles.
If most pirates started to actually purchase the titles they pirated or at least the ones they liked the PC platform would for sure be the number one choice for devs. Its a shame some pirates seems think the developers get food beamed to their tables from outer space, i for one couldn't deny hard working people their food!
They'll scale it down to make it run on 360 & PS3..We PC gamers are gonna get the same shit.
Is that supposed to be a future madison wi? is that the madison capitol building in the background?
Perhaps because cigarettes smoke stink... pollute our clothes and our lungs. The issue is the smoke from a cigarette INVADES the space of others. Otherwise, I don't have anything against it. Its the persons problems to burn up $100~200 a month.Bitching about it in the game... goofy. Its a game.
Who are you to claim the air around you? why don't you complain about cars (that smoke is way worst then cigarettes) or the multitude of other polluants that that are in the air and also very cancerous.
i should complain about ur cell phone emitting radiation around me
btw stink is a big word, back in the 70s' everybody liked it