"Best Game Engines"

[olee12343]

IGN recently did an article that features the top 10 game engines ever made and I thought you guys would like to look at it.

Spoiler: Link

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/100/1003728p3.html

While I normally take everything that IGN says with a grain of salt, I actually agree with the majority of the choices, particularly the IW engine and the extremely popular Unreal engine. Although I don't like some of the games that uses these engines (Gears of War), the engine themselves are probably one the best.

 

[MR T3D]

i duno, here is something about unreal3's bump mapping that i simply don't like.
noticed in gears, UT3, AND AA3
Cryengine3 seems interesting, curious how it will look on consoles...

 

[Kuchinawa212]

Oh shoot what was the one Half Life uses?
Havok right? I like tha one the best

 

[Baby Tea]

CryEngine seems to be amazing right now.
We have to reserve real comment until we see it, and play it, on consoles, but it looks absolutely stunning.

 

[The AI]

Oh shoot what was the one Half Life uses?
Havok right? I like tha one the best

I thought they used the Source engine?

Yeah, it used Source. Havok is the physics engine.

 

[Zani]

CryEngine seems to be amazing right now.
We have to reserve real comment until we see it, and play it, on consoles, but it looks absolutely stunning.

The CryEngine 2 still looks amazing, but the new one CryEngine 3 (made for the consoles) looks borderline terrible in some places, there's a comparison on youtube somewhere if I want to have a look at it.

 

[Lono Shrugged]

Even though it had it's flaws, the Original Operation Flashpoint engine was pretty groundbreaking. The new one used for Arma is..... well it still has flaws.

 

[Anachronism]

Feh. The Quake III engine was the best FPS engine ever. Yes, yes, I know it's not technically "this generation", but Quake Live is and it uses the same engine! Haha, bet you didn't see that one coming, did you? Anyway: it looked good, the requirements weren't ridiculously high, it ran fantastically, and loads of great games were built on it. Take a look at the list and judge for yourself.

American McGee's Alice.
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault.
Jedi Outcast.
Call of Duty.
Star Trek: Elite Force.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein.

To name but a few. How many other engines have had so many good games built on them? Apart from the fact that the engine plays brilliantly, this is a pretty clear indication, to me at least, that the Q3 engine was the best.

 

[Kuchinawa212]

Oh shoot what was the one Half Life uses?
Havok right? I like tha one the best

I thought they used the Source engine?

Yeah, it used Source. Havok is the physics engine.

Whoops sorry guys. Thanks for clearing that one up

 

[skcseth]

I like the Unreal and Havok engines. They make for some great ragdoll physics fun. The EGO engine in the Colin McRae games is a favorite of mine too. I've never seen prettier dirt.
And last, but not least is the Geo-Mod engine. You can actually blow up buildings, not just a little hole in a wall (BF: BC). They should combine Geo-Mod with Geo Eye (as seen in H.A.W.X, I know it's not an engine)for the next H.A.W.X. game. Maybe your stray missiles will actually count for something while flying over Sao Paulo, Brazil (hehe).

 

[Baby Tea]

CryEngine seems to be amazing right now.
We have to reserve real comment until we see it, and play it, on consoles, but it looks absolutely stunning.

The CryEngine 2 still looks amazing, but the new one CryEngine 3 (made for the consoles) looks borderline terrible in some places, there's a comparison on youtube somewhere if I want to have a look at it.

OK, so I just watched the comparison video in HD on Youtube.

Yes, Cry2 (As I'll call it for the sake of this post) does look better in certain areas.
However, I think they were made for different reasons.
Cry2 was made for, and pushes, the PC.
Whereas Cry3 was made for, and pushes, the consoles.

Let's be perfectly honest here: neither the 360 or the PS3 would be able to crank out the Cry2 engine as well as a good gaming rig. Hence the 'why' with Cry 3. It was made to bring Cry2-like looks to the consoles, which would normally not be able to really push it out as well as it should be.

And as an ex-hardcore PC gamer, and current console gamer, that's good news to me.
Because Cry3 still looks very very pretty.