NCSoft licenses Unreal Engine 3 for two MMOs

by Ludwig Kietzmann { Mar 25th 2008 at 6:00PM }

Mo' MMO news now, with Guild Wars publisher NCSoft announcing its licensing of Epic's Unreal Engine 3 for use in two upcoming, still unannounced massively multiplayer titles. The company previously incorporated Unreal technology into Lineage II and giant-mech shooter, Exteel. Much like the rest of us, it seems the folks at NCSoft simply can't resist a well structured rendering pipeline.

"Unreal Engine 3 has a well structured rendering pipeline, and its graphical quality is superb thanks to advanced lighting and shadowing systems," said Young-muk Choi, lead programmer for NCsoft's Development Unit. "Tools within the Unreal Editor empower us to instantly produce and optimize our outputs, and we especially love how the engine enables designers to easily prototype concepts without the need for programming." Jay Wilbur, VP of Epic Games, returned the press release back patting by saying, "We expect to be completely wowed by what they do with our latest technology."

So do we, Mr. Wilbur. In fact, it'll take a lot to wow the millions who've already been thoroughly WoW'ed.

Tags: Epic, Epic-Games, NCSoft, Unreal, Unreal-Engine-3, unrealengine3

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Jeff @ Mar 25th 2008 6:04PM

Good choice. Unreal Engine 3 looks good and performs well on PC.

UE3 likes to "fake" a lot of the lighting and shadow effects, meaning similar graphics with better performance.

sifer2400 @ Mar 25th 2008 6:11PM

Neebs @ Mar 25th 2008 7:25PM

licenses engines and doesnt afraid of anythign?

J.Goodwin @ Mar 25th 2008 6:15PM

Hope they're not using it on their PS3 exclusive projects. Otherwise, Sony only console owning MMO fans are going to be waiting a long time.

All three of them.

Kodros @ Mar 25th 2008 11:20PM

"Hope they're not using it on their PS3 exclusive projects. Otherwise, PS3 owners are going to be waiting a long time."

Fixed so you don't sound as retarded.

J.Goodwin @ Mar 25th 2008 11:22PM

Yeah, it was pretty bad.

But, I own a PS3, and I have no interest in their PS3 projects.

Sir Fidlious Wong (Zeon Defense Force) @ Mar 25th 2008 11:40PM

How do you know? I mean, so far there is NCSoft Project 1, NCSoft Project 2, NCSoft Project 3, and NCSoft project 4....

Kinda hard to base an opinion of a game entirely off a project number, isn't it? Oh wait, internet. Keep forgeting. Intelligince here is about as welcome as HIV to a mormon family....