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Unreal Engine 3 up and running (and shooting) on iPhone

by Randy Nelson on Dec 22nd 2009 6:30PM

[AnandTech]

Epic Games has again shown itself a practitioner of the dark magicks by porting its powerhouse Unreal Engine 3 to iPhone. AnandTech got a peak at a playable tech demo, featuring a weapon and architecture from the Unreal Tournament series. Although, the site says it was told this shouldn't be taken as a sign that Epic is getting into iPhone game development.

The demo evidently ran quite smoothly, but the engine requires Open GL ES 2.0, meaning that it will only run on the iPhone 3GS or the third-generation iPod Touch. Check out a quick -- we're talking 15 seconds -- video of the demo, made by AnandTeach, after the break.

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Tags: Apple, epic, epic-games, iphone-3gs, iPod, iPod-Touch, unreal, unreal-engine, unreal-engine-3

Reader Comments (44)

pretty awesome

So does this justify Telltale's comments that the iPhone is more powerful than the Wii?

SNES > WII

Electric Totthbrush>Wii

*Toothbrush

Q-tip > WII

Dead Space Girl > Wii

Pterodactyl > Wii

Awesome comment threads like this > Wii

Running naked through 8 lanes of rush hour traffic and falling off an overpass onto a truckbed of glass > Wii.

wow, must feel a little bad to be a wii owner

i'd still like a controller to shoot instead of touch screen.

I agree. What I cant understand is that why apple cant release a Bluetooth controller or for that matter even a simple port connecting controller. It would sell a lot and really help standardize a button controller.

Oh my Days!

My curiosity is peaked!

LOL.

This comment certainly piqued my interest!

I think he's saying he can't get anymore excited. Somebody throw him some porn! Maybe he'll explode!

You could've credited your darling cousins over on Download Squad, you know :P

Wow, that looks terrific. And yes, iPhone graphics are better than Wii graphics. Go iPhone!

remember though, that this is by a developer that puts time into their products, something the wii has too few of to be a viable hardcore gaming console. I mean, sheesh, even nintendo hasn't put out very many decent hardcore games recently- it's all Wii Fit Plus and stuff. still fun, but exceedingly casual.

When the iphone can produce something that looks like Mario Galaxy, please let me know.

lol yeah that's why the Iphone versions of Monkey Ball (very literally) look like N64 games compared to the Wii version. Cuz the Iphone is just better like that.

Like Macabrearts said, it's all in the group behind the graphics. If companies aren't willing to put in time on the Wii to make things look good then they won't. That doesn't speak to the performance of the console.

True, but all that speculation is worthless in the face of tangible demonstrations like the one we see here. Talking specs is great, but useless if you never see it perform.

Honestly when I saw that header image I thought it was a Wii game. I can't wait to try that out! But the question remains, will you be able to get through a match before your battery is completely drained??

APPLE NEEDS TO MAKE A GAME CONSOLE NEXT GEN!!

Yeah I think Apple would do a really good console, but it would most likely be all digital download games considering their current business model and so they wouldn't get any support from games retailers.

Good Point.... Hmm, I Wonder If They Can Pull It Off Though.... Only Time Will Tell...

Uh please, the Apple vs Microsoft is bad enough. We do not need to add a console in there, plus it would cost like $1000.

Screw the Apple vs. Microsoft debate, I'm more concerned about the potential four consoles vs. my wallet battle that would bring. Apple would never create a gaming system though, not again anyways. We're lucky they tolerate the iPhone/iPod Touch's status as a gaming platform.

They have, It was called the Apple Bandai Pippin and it failed miserably. I doubt they would make the same mistakes again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Bandai_Pippin

apple would make a terrible console with no buttons, charge up the ass for 'style' and put constant firmware patches to fix simple problems only to create more simple problems.

Yea, because when I think gaming, apple is the first company that comes to mind.

@Brian: Yeah its really quite disappointing that Epic went so far to fit the UE3 for the iPhone and not the Wii.

Although they did say that the UE3 engine is only for "next-gen, high-definition" and they don't have time to run it on portables too.

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2007/02/interview_epics/

So maybe the Wii is weaker than the iPhone. Oh well.

Well This Whole Thing Would Get Better If Nintendo Sat Next Gen Out, or Maybe Sony.

The Wii is NOT weaker than the iphone...epic just doesn't wan't to waste their time on it, so they made up some bs that UE3 can't run on the Wii, which, obviously, isn't true.

obviously you know what you're talking about.. made up some BS? unlikely.

That's just an amazing control scheme.

I'd like to see an iphone fps with the fire button mapped to the physical volume up button, so both thumbs could still be used for dual analog control.

Im not too fond of macs because theyre just too overpriced but if Apple actually designed a handheld designed for gaming from the ground up, i think it would be untouchable.

on the contrary... I think it'd be very touchable.. =P

The Wii's problem may be with memory. The iPhone 3GS has 256, while the Wii has what, 48? 64? not enough for UE3 probably, graphics prowess aside.

That's pretty impressive. I don't think anyone really doubts the iphones processing power. The real problem is still the same with all iphone games. The controls for an FPS are awful.

As Saneless said, the iphone has more memory than the wii, which probably has more to do with it not running than the processing power. According to wikipedia the wii has 88 MB main memory and 64 MB for the gpu. Not a lot to work with. The iphone 3GS on the other hand has 256mb of memory. You also have to consider the iphone only has to render the game at half the resolution of the Wii.

We all know the iPhone isn't more powerful than the Wii. Anyone who says so is a fucking retard. It doesn't take long to see the differences in Wii and iPhone games. iPhone can not keep up, nor will it.

And wtf does Telltale's know anyways, none of there games even use half of the power of the systems they are on. pfft

Let Ubsoft, Capcom, or shit even EA make a comment like that. Then I may take it as truth.

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