most influential Gaming Engines

[Soviet Heavy]

What do you think is one of the gaming engines that revolutionized games as a whole?

I find that the Unreal Engine is one, consistently cranking out top range graphics and performance.

The Source Engine is definitely influential, given the massive popularity of the Half Life Series, as well as the ease of moddability.

I'd also mention Warscape. The engine that Empire Total War and Napoleon Total War runs on. Unfortunately, neither of these games are living up to the engine's potential. It has the capacity to run battles with tens of thousands of highly detailed units, but it is being squandered.

So, what gaming engines do you think revolutionized games?

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

I'd say Mode 7. But its not really an engine...

 

[Jandau]

Infinity Engine. The best game ever was made in it, as well as several of the best RPGs of all time.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

Quake engine. Obscure game series like Half-Life and Call of Duty are based on it.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

I'd say Mode 7. But its not really an engine...

Been watching Unskippable lately?

I'd also say the Warcraft 3 engine. Its been used in god knows how many rts's

 

[Jack and Calumon]

Havok. Because EVERYONE wants to use Havok nowadays. To name a few...

Just Cause 2, Bioshock (Series), Fallout 3, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Half Life 2 (Series), HAZE, Farcry 2, Mercenaries 2, Motorstorm: Pacific Rift, Assassin's Creed (Series)...

Calumon: Ummm, he's gonna be a while. He doesn't stop once you get him like this unless I get him some milk.

 

[Sacman]

The Quake Engine!!!

 

[tmujir955]

Unreal, Quake, or Havok.

 

[kduff51]

For adventure game fans, its probably the SCUMM engine

 

[David_G]

Unreal engine? I don't know if this counts though, since there are so many variations of it; from Unreal to Mass Effect 2

 

[DeadlyYellow]

Havok. Because EVERYONE wants to use Havok nowadays. To name a few...

Just Cause 2, Bioshock (Series), Fallout 3, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Half Life 2 (Series), HAZE, Farcry 2, Mercenaries 2, Motorstorm: Pacific Rift, Assassin's Creed (Series)..

I thought Havok was just a physics engine used in conjunction with the game engine. But hey if it counts, then I'm throwing in Euphoria for the novelty.

 

[CoverYourHead]

Havok. Because EVERYONE wants to use Havok nowadays. To name a few...

Just Cause 2, Bioshock (Series), Fallout 3, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Half Life 2 (Series), HAZE, Farcry 2, Mercenaries 2, Motorstorm: Pacific Rift, Assassin's Creed (Series)...

Calumon: Ummm, he's gonna be a while. He doesn't stop once you get him like this unless I get him some milk.

For god's sake Calumon, hurry!

Also, as I understand it, Havok is mostly just the bare-bottom of it, most people build their own on top of it. I believe that's what Valve did with Half-Life.

I'm going to vote Unreal. It seems like everything uses that these days.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

For adventure game fans, its probably the SCUMM engine

And Z-machine.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Unreal, Quake, Havoc, and Source engines.

 

[scnj]

Unreal engine for definite I'd say.

 

[Rathy]

I'd say a mix of Havok and Source right now. Havok for its game list, and Source for all of its modding potential bringing new ideas to light.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Odyssey engine, for bringing the glory that is Knights of the Old Republic Mods

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

Cry Engine (Crysis) and The Unreal Engine (If I said each game, I would die)

 

[[McS]Boris 2 Times]

Definitely the Unreal Engine

 

[Arachon]

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Unreal and what not for older games.

Older games? Ever heard of UE3?

OT: SCUMM, Quake, possibly CryEngine as well with all that advancement in real-time graphics and whatnot.

Havok. Because EVERYONE wants to use Havok nowadays. To name a few...

Just Cause 2, Bioshock (Series), Fallout 3, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Half Life 2 (Series), HAZE, Farcry 2, Mercenaries 2, Motorstorm: Pacific Rift, Assassin's Creed (Series)...

Well... technically, it's a physics engine, that is designed to be used in conjunction with a "proper" game engine, seeing as a game engine needs to include things such as AI, scripting, rendering, input/output, audio etc. etc. Havok does naught of that.