Activision licenses Unreal Engine 3

"No further details were disclosed, but the possibilities have our spider-sense tingling..."

So why would you anticipate a bad thing?

!Yeah baby Gears of Duty 4...

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ROFLMAO

Is anyone keeping count of how many licensees Epic have?

I love the Unreal3 engine and all, but anyone worried that it could make every game end up looking 80% alike?

We need engine diversity. Serious, ID, Renderware, Crysis, Source... who else? Catch up with these guys and start licensing your engine! Just compete on price and features - not so difficult...

Hmmm let see:
1-Activision (..?)
2-Ubisoft (Fuel of War)
3-EA...?
4-Gearbox (Brothers in Arm Hell Highway)
5-from the developer`s of Bioshock
6-from the developer`s of Mass Effect
7-from the developer`s of Too Human
8-from the developer`s of hell gate London
9-...?

Epic must be laughing all the way to the bank.

It's never too early to start bidding on Unreal Engine 4!

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The unreal engine seems to be highly customizable though, as much as the developer wants to take it. The new mmorpg, Vanguard, is run on the unreal 2 engine..that looks nothing like ut2k4. Aside from that, the engine is amazing. It looks good and plays great, evne on an old crappy computer. But ofcourse is able to look even better on a high end system

hhmmm. well here is a problem. alot of companies like epic liscense their engine to make money. while the devs that dont want to make their own engine take the easy way out by just buying someone elses engine. then other companies like to hold on to their engines cause they are highly customized and they want to protect their hard work. so idk. i would definitally like to see games running on some new engines.

u can totally creat a new game but using a familiar engine makes it feel a little, too familiar. thus destroying any potential for genuine originality.

I don't know that using the Epic engine will make games look and play the same as one another. All released UE3 games that I know of are shooters. I don't see them being any more similar to one another than they are to typical non-UE3 shooters. Gears and R6V look quite a bit different. Vegas has some color and Gears is absolutely saturated with colors. They play very different as well, though they both use cover and some 3rd person, with Gears being all third person.

I actually really, really like what I've seen come out on UE3 so far, so it is difficult for me to say more of it is bad. that may change after the 20th UE3 game though.

I am curious to see if you can make a good racing, platform, or other type of game using UE3.

Oh Jake, there is a 3rd Unreal 3 engine game out.. that looks completely different.. and plays completely different.

RObo-Blitz...

So you guys still worried?

Badly lighted, dwippy stock photos!

rainbow six vegas uses it.