I just got back from a short private briefing with Epic's Mark Rein detailing the ins and outs of Unreal Engine 3. I'll let you know some of the huge points that were hit on:
• Epic is working on something where they will be able to have support for mods on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
• The Unreal Engine 3 is not as expensive as what is being said. Mark said they will work with devs on something that would be financially viable for them.
• Mark said they pushed every corner of the 360 with Gears of War and that without the 512MB of RAM for details, a game like that would have never been on the console.
• Early on in the presentation they showed a new Unreal Engine 3 game that is coming out called Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia for the Xbox 360. They wanted to show the different kinds of things you can do with Unreal. The game was very cartoony and fun -- kind of like a kid's show Diablo.
• Epic will release all the tools necessary for Unreal mods and all changes can be made in real time. Overall, the tools looked far more simple and Mark expects a ton of mods to be created because of this. There will even be a book coming out to help makers -- will be available online as well. He said they will release video helpers as well.
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5:21 PM on 03.08.2007
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Umm my views on Unreal 3 Engine well it looks awesome and doesn't have that same UT2003-2004 engine feel where everything mod or game using it feels somewhat the same.
so you mean we cant get any better that gears, if it pushed the 360 to the limit?
To me this would be mean no matter the power of cell or its graphics card.. neither can be met if the memory system can't handle it. I know of 3 games that have been reviewed on PS3 that say frame rates were an issue in busy moments in the game in which the same game on 360 wasn't.
Graphics don't need to get alot better, but what needs to keep improving is game content.. and game playability.. so it doesnt get boring quickly.
Because they didn't want it to be in the PS3 price range. It just goes to show you how important RAM really is. I wonder if they could have made Gears look like that if it didn't use 512MB of shared RAM, and used split dedicated RAM like the PS3.
Would Gears have been possible on the PS3?