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.












Even more amazing is how crappy is image viewing on thg site. Is it like that on purpose, to get more clicks?
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It's as good, if not better, than the Cryengine 3 snapshot images that we're shown a while back.
It's as good, if not better, than the Cryengine 3 snapshot images that we're shown a while back.
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....
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.
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.
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.
pls dont.. i dont want my child be a smoker
But yeah it always holds true - Pc always pushes the gfx to the next level and then the budget options follows in due time!
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.
smoking calms the brain...why not
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