EA signs Unreal 3 Engine for games

[mzkhadir]

EA signs Unreal Engine 3 for next-gen games
Electronic Arts has inked a deal with Epic Games to use the developer's game engine for several upcoming game titles.

By Andrew Park, GameSpot
Posted Aug 18, 2006 9:14 pm PT

The increasingly ubiquitous Unreal Engine has added another name to its lengthy list of publisher licensees. Electronic Arts and game-and-technology developer Epic Games today announced a licensing agreement to use Epic's Unreal Engine 3 technology to power a number of next-generation games. The publisher will add the engine, along with its own internal tools, to the production process of game projects that are currently in development.

The technology is already confirmed to power such highly anticipated next-gen games on both the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 consoles as BioWare's Mass Effect, Silicon Knights' Too Human (a game which, as GameSpot's Rumor Control recently confirmed, is continuing to use the engine despite rumors to the contrary), and Epic's own Unreal Tournament 2007 and Gears of War.

EA studios president Paul Lee remarked that that the deal is part of EA's strategy to "license cutting edge tools like the Unreal Engine 3 and combine them with [EA's] own systems to create state-of-the-art development technology." Epic vice president Mark Rein added that his company is "obviously thrilled to license Unreal Engine 3 to EA, the world leader in our industry." Neither company has named any games that will make use of the technology going forward. GameSpot News will provide further updates when they become available.

gamespot.com

 

[Kromis]

I say use the Unreal Engine 3 to make Command & Conquer: Renegade 2!!!

(KIDDING!)

 

[FallenHero]

so EA is gonna use a good engine to make crappy games. Good + crappy = average?

 

[Lonyo]

Damn, I wonder if Epic have their second money room built yet.

 

[blurredvision]

Originally posted by: FallenHero
so EA is gonna use a good engine to make crappy games. Good + crappy = average?

EA makes great games, it's just that their quality checking and attention to what the customer wants sucks ass.

 

[mAdMaLuDaWg]

And can we finally say that iD is irrelevant and should die. They don't know how to make games OR engines anymore

I'm still pissed at having shelled out $50 for the craptacular monstrosity of a game that was Doom 3

 

[n7]

Hmm, this is good news.

EA = crap
Epic = teh awesome

So as the earlier poster mentioned, maybe the results will be average instead of BF2 etc, errr, crap.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Originally posted by: mAdMaLuDaWg
And can we finally say that iD is irrelevant and should die. They don't know how to make games OR engines anymore

I'm still pissed at having shelled out $50 for the craptacular monstrosity of a game that was Doom 3

Someone is afraid of the dark. Flashlight mods for the win. (although I'd agree, the game is way too dark its just unrealistic - any scientist working on mars for more than a week with that lighting would commit suicide)

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

Originally posted by: blurredvision

Originally posted by: FallenHero
so EA is gonna use a good engine to make crappy games. Good + crappy = average?

EA makes great games, it's just that their quality checking and attention to what the customer wants sucks ass.

Lies, EA ruined the C&C series. ****** EA.

 

[XZeroII]

Originally posted by: Kromis
I say use the Unreal Engine 3 to make Command & Conquer: Renegade 2!!!

(KIDDING!)

They are going to make Madden '08 using this engine. Can you imagine it?

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: mAdMaLuDaWg
And can we finally say that iD is irrelevant and should die. They don't know how to make games OR engines anymore

I'm still pissed at having shelled out $50 for the craptacular monstrosity of a game that was Doom 3

ET: Quake Wars looks like it could be good, but iD's latest engine doesnt seem to have sold well, unlike Unreal Engine 3 with (from counting Wikipedia) 125+ games being made, and according to another source, over 300 titles in the works.

 

[Stuxnet]

Originally posted by: FallenHero
so EA is gonna use a good engine to make crappy games. Good + crappy = average?

Hey, for EA progress is progress...

 

[Stuxnet]

Originally posted by: blurredvision

Originally posted by: FallenHero
so EA is gonna use a good engine to make crappy games. Good + crappy = average?

EA makes great games, it's just that their quality checking and attention to what the customer wants sucks ass.

There's an oxymoron if I've ever seen one. You can't say "it's a good game except for the fact that it's incomplete, buggy as hell, and not what the customers asked for".

What's left?

 

[0roo0roo]

i'm sure they know their customers just love logo screens they can't easily skip each time they start a game.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: jbourne77

Originally posted by: blurredvision

Originally posted by: FallenHero
so EA is gonna use a good engine to make crappy games. Good + crappy = average?

EA makes great games, it's just that their quality checking and attention to what the customer wants sucks ass.

There's an oxymoron if I've ever seen one. You can't say "it's a good game except for the fact that it's incomplete, buggy as hell, and not what the customers asked for".

What's left?

the graphics

:roll:

with the U3 engine they can have purty pics on the box and people will flock to buy garbage.

 

[Stuxnet]

Originally posted by: apoppin

Originally posted by: jbourne77

Originally posted by: blurredvision

Originally posted by: FallenHero
so EA is gonna use a good engine to make crappy games. Good + crappy = average?

EA makes great games, it's just that their quality checking and attention to what the customer wants sucks ass.

There's an oxymoron if I've ever seen one. You can't say "it's a good game except for the fact that it's incomplete, buggy as hell, and not what the customers asked for".

What's left?

the graphics

:roll:

with the U3 engine they can have purty pics on the box and people will flock to buy garbage.

Nah... the average Joe doesn't even know what a game engine is, let alone who provided the one in any given game. At most, this buys EA a second chance with some of the more hardcore gamers.

They better use that chance wisely.

 

[apoppin]

that's WHY they have purty pictures on the box.

:roll:

 

[Regs]

Well, at least apoppin, we will see some games that actual use the engine instead of just licensing it or talking about it. Right; Right?

 

[blurredvision]

Originally posted by: jbourne77

Originally posted by: blurredvision

Originally posted by: FallenHero
so EA is gonna use a good engine to make crappy games. Good + crappy = average?

EA makes great games, it's just that their quality checking and attention to what the customer wants sucks ass.

There's an oxymoron if I've ever seen one. You can't say "it's a good game except for the fact that it's incomplete, buggy as hell, and not what the customers asked for".

What's left?

Not quite an oxymoron, but thanks for trying. I didn't say anything about "incomplete" game, or "buggy as hell" games. Besides, who's to say a game is incomplete?

Games can still be great fun despite irritating bugs and things left out that the customer wants. Take BF2, for example. It's a great game, but it's stupid little things like the red tag over friendly heads that take forever to fix (among other things), and not listening to the players when they scream and yell for things, like nerfing particular areas of the game, etc.

There's a difference between a frustration over features/bugs and a game being just plain crappy.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: mAdMaLuDaWg
And can we finally say that iD is irrelevant and should die. They don't know how to make games OR engines anymore

I'm still pissed at having shelled out $50 for the craptacular monstrosity of a game that was Doom 3

Actually the Doom3 engine is really well done.It has really good lighting effects and shadowing. It runs pretty flawlessly on most hardware too.

The only thing I'm wondering is why there hasn't been any releases based on the Source Engine worth mentioning. The source engine is supurb and extremely fast on a variety of hardware and it still has some of the best looking water I've seen. I wish someone would use the engine for a stand alone project (unless there's a reason they can't and if so please elaborate).

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: bunnyfubbles

Originally posted by: mAdMaLuDaWg
And can we finally say that iD is irrelevant and should die. They don't know how to make games OR engines anymore

I'm still pissed at having shelled out $50 for the craptacular monstrosity of a game that was Doom 3

Someone is afraid of the dark. Flashlight mods for the win. (although I'd agree, the game is way too dark its just unrealistic - any scientist working on mars for more than a week with that lighting would commit suicide)

Perhaps you missed the part when there's a hostile takeover and whatnot right? There's limited power and things aren't right.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: Regs
Well, at least apoppin, we will see some games that actual use the engine instead of just licensing it or talking about it. Right; Right?

wasn't the first U3 game due this year . . . isn't it out by now?

and . . . guess What>

they are ALREADY working on Unreal 4 . . .
:Q

actually since 2003!
:shocked:

Unreal 3 is old news
{actually it is expected to be used till 2010}



!


Oh yeah .. . . RoboBlitz is Unreal 3

RB demo U3 engine - intel only

 

[Stuxnet]

Originally posted by: blurredvision

Originally posted by: jbourne77

Originally posted by: blurredvision

Originally posted by: FallenHero
so EA is gonna use a good engine to make crappy games. Good + crappy = average?

EA makes great games, it's just that their quality checking and attention to what the customer wants sucks ass.

There's an oxymoron if I've ever seen one. You can't say "it's a good game except for the fact that it's incomplete, buggy as hell, and not what the customers asked for".

What's left?

There's a difference between a frustration over features/bugs and a game being just plain crappy.

I guess the difference between you and I is that I think most of the games that come from EA are, in fact, crappy.