Unreal Engine 4 Revealed

**mankind** · 06-08-2012

Epic have finally given gamers their first look at the long-awaited Unreal Engine 4. The tech demo centres around a huge, armoured, flaming skeleton, with Epic fitting everything they possibly could into the two-and-a-half minute long demo. Flames, lava, crumbling structures, mountains, and even snow were featured, and visuals are among the crispest gamers have ever seen.
Not surprisingly, Epic President Mike Capps stated that the company is currently developing a "couple" of next-gen games, and has a PC exclusive also in the works.
Gamers will be further intrigued to know that the demo was apparently only running on a personal computer with a single graphics card - could UE4 possess the potential to produce even better graphics and technical prowess than what we saw in the demo?

http://360.mmgn.com/News/Unreal-Engine-4-Revealed

**Fon** · 06-08-2012

I wonder if actual gameplay will look and perform like that. If so, damn!. If next gen game consoles can run the engine just imagine what Naughty Dog will forge with their own engine. I'm also thinking about the future of gaming a few years later during next generation and how vastly superior games will perform.

**Kuro** · 06-08-2012

Wow..looks cool.

**Blacksite** · 06-08-2012

I'm not really that impressed with it, to be honest. The particle effects and lighting look nice but that's about it. And it's not as exciting as their Unreal Engine 3 "Samaritan" tech demo.

**Rapture** · 06-08-2012

Originally Posted by Blacksite

I'm not really that impressed with it, to be honest. The particle effects and lighting look nice but that's about it. And it's not as exciting as their Unreal Engine 3 "Samaritan" tech demo.

Well, not only was the Samaritan tech demo mostly in the dark, but it was smaller in general scope than this. This tech demo also has fluids and some insane real-time particle effects moving around in the environment. It didn't really have the 'wow' factor that Samaritan did, but I think that ultimately it's more impressive on the technical front.

**Thorzilla** · 06-08-2012

Fuck me running man, that was awesome! Now, that's an engine I wouldn't mind to see being overused next gen.

**Blacksite** · 06-08-2012

Originally Posted by Thorzilla

Fuck me running man, that was awesome! Now, that's an engine I wouldn't mind to see being overused next gen.

Eh... I'll give it 4 years max before people start voicing the same complaints.

**Sub-stance1** · 06-08-2012

Quite impressive.

**Blacksite** · 06-08-2012

Originally Posted by Rapture

Well, not only was the Samaritan tech demo mostly in the dark, but it was smaller in general scope than this. This tech demo also has fluids and some insane real-time particle effects moving around in the environment. It didn't really have the 'wow' factor that Samaritan did, but I think that ultimately it's more impressive on the technical front.

I forgot to mention the fluids. Those were nice too.

**Fon** · 06-08-2012

I'm more impressed with this then the Samaritan demo. Maybe it's because I noticed a lot more the engine can offer compared to the beefed up, Unreal Engine 3.

**Vulgotha** · 06-08-2012

Originally Posted by Blacksite

I'm not really that impressed with it, to be honest. The particle effects and lighting look nice but that's about it. And it's not as exciting as their Unreal Engine 3 "Samaritan" tech demo.

Yea, I wasn't blown away by this either. I've been more impressed with the CryEngine 3.0 demos than this.

**Two4DaMoney** · 06-09-2012

I'd love for Sony to have tech in the ps4 that runs all the bells and whistles from this engine. That would only mean Sony's 1st party studios custom engines would run even better.

**claud3** · 06-10-2012

It looks nice. But that demo looks like a intro to a pc rts game and that
is a bad thing. Because it is not show its full engine

**itachi73378** · 06-12-2012

I'm not a hater as I like Unreal engine, but this has NOTHING over this

**Rapture** · 06-12-2012

To be fair, not only has Square not stated what hardware their tech demo is running on, they're also known to... well... lie about these things. I agree that it looks better, but we should try to evaluate the two a bit better.

**itachi73378** · 06-12-2012

Most sources state that it was either running on a 6990 or GTX680.
Either way what difference does it make in the end, since both are intended for next gen, and the luminous engine so far is more impressive for me.

**Rapture** · 06-12-2012

I think there's an issue if you can't compare software to its respective hardware first. Square hasn't release official information concerning the engine and hardware yet, have they?

**itachi73378** · 06-12-2012

No they haven't. All they said is that "its running on a high end PC with off the shelf parts"

**keefy** · 06-12-2012

the Unreal techdemo is aimed more towards developers the Square one is more for gamers.
Lets be real here Epic are going to license the shit out of Unreal 4.