E3 - Metal Gears, Jungle Beats, Unreal Tech?

Thanks to continuing coverage of the E3 Expo show from GameSpot, from 1UP, from GameDaily, and many other sources - highlights for the second day included Eurogamer's detailed write-up of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, apparently "an overwhelming spectacle" in both positive and other ways, GameSpot's first images of Unreal Engine 3.0, a "complete game development framework for next-generation consoles and DirectX9-equipped PCs", IGN Cube's hands-on impressions of DK Jungle Beat, allegedly "the sleeper hit of the show", 1UP's musings on The Lord Of The Rings: The Third Age, an "attempt to make a Japanese-style turn-based console RPG in America", and even GameSpot's brief impressions of a mobile phone-embedded Turrican, as the Factor 5 classic returns "pre-loaded on Siemens 65 Series phones."

Comments

Unreal 3 Engine Video

[rmathew]

...is here:

http://germanjulian.com/open/unreal3_0002.wmv

It really is quite awesome.

Re:Unreal 3 Engine Video

[rmathew]

Sorry, that link is not working any more - try this one instead:

http://download.beyondunreal.com/fileworks.php/dem os/unreal3_0002.wmv

Re:Unreal 3 Engine Video

[junkgrep]

It really is. But then, at this point, I'm not sure who to credit: the engine makers, or the people who make DirectX and write the drivers for video cards. I mean, so much of the WOW power of these next-next gen games comes from using what are pretty standard and well known shaders and effects. Sure, it takes work to program it all into an engine, but provided you are willing to spend the money and target a certain level of hardware, it just doesn't seem as ingenious or a singular an achievement anymore. I mean, the engine looks incredible... but they are running it and targeting it on tip top hardware. Of course it looks better than stuff out today. And anyone else that targets the same specs is probably going to be able to do all the same things. I think it's really coming down, these days, less to the engine and more to the talent of the game designers and artists.

What sucks about MGS3

[Pluvius]

...is that it's not a remake of the real Metal Gear 2 (as opposed to the poor substitute that America originally got, Snake's Revenge). Should be interesting to see a story about another Snake, though, even if it is as clogged with narrative as MGS2 was.

Rob

Re:Unreal engine 3

[ChibiLZ]

Per the Unreal Technology site, Unreal Engine 3 is completed and ready to be licensed. As to when we will see games on it, I think it would be safe to say no sooner than mid next-year for PC games. Hopefully UT2k5 will be on this engine. For console gaming, wait for the next generation, about 2006 or so. This just announced: The Duke Nukem Forever team has announced that they are switching engines to the Unreal Engine 3! They apologize, but this will unfortunately add another year or 2 delay. :)

Re:DX 9?

[tc]

Because DX 10 hasn't been released yet? Wouldn't it be nice to have something you can actually start using right now?

Re:DX 9?

[MachDelta]

You might be interested to know that DirectX 9 is deemed the MINIMUM spec for Unreal Engine 3. If and when DX10 is released, i'm sure the engine will be ready to take full advantage of it. But we probably won't see UE3 until 2006 at the earliest.

unreal engine 3

[WormholeFiend]

right now just one person can make a custom character, and a team can manage a total conversion mod.

with all the detail that one can put in a custom character, will its creation require a whole team?