PlayStation Universe has an article that attempts to resolve an age-old question - which developer's engine is better? In the Red Corner, we have Crytek's CryEngine 3, and in the Blue Corner, we have Epic Games' Unreal Engine 3.
CryEngine 3 VS. Unreal Engine 3
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Both have their perks and their downers.
If you want gritty urban dirt style go with UE3
If you want the best looking vegetation and jungles go with Cryengine.
If you want gritty urban dirt style go with UE3
If you want the best looking vegetation and jungles go with Cryengine.
I hate to say it, but those by those screenshots I'd say Cryengine looks better in most categories.
As proven by Mirror's Edge.
The amount of grit and color palette has nothing to with engine choice.
i think that neither of these engines will turn out to be the dominant lisenced engine in the long run. i have a feeling that id Tech 5 will come out on top. i have not seen id advertise their new technology like this before. showing the engine/ Rage running on almost every platform. i think that texture stamping is going to be a god send for artists in combination with megatextures for terrain (which i think will be much better than ETQW) will allow a lot more control.
id seems to finially be focusing on a better UI for their tools and better tools themselves. i've always fealt that engines from id Software were a bit more solid for lack of a better term, that my video card wasn't screaming in pain. DOOm 3 was able to run on surprisingly low hardware requirements and look really good for its time, and the game still looks good of course. Crytek seems to operate with no regard for what hardware people have in their PC. CryEngine 2 is amazing don't get me wrong but the game ran poorly on two highend previous generation cards in SLI which i think should never be the case. you should aim for that previous generation so that people who just upgraded aren't the only ones enjoying high framerates. i had two 7900 GTX 512mb cards btw when Crysis was released.
one of the reasons i think id Software will beat out EPIC is mainly because every engine they leapfrog each other. they've been doing it for a decade. i could be completely wrong but considering how much time has gone by the levels in hell in DOOM 3 are not far from waht EPIC was showing in the Hollow in Gears 2. maybe it was the platform EPIC chose, I'm not sure but I don't see that huge lead EPIC had with Unreal Engine 2 over the Quake III Arena engine.
just my opinion, pretty much based on my own speculation.
the great thing is there will be no shortage of options for developers to choose from and i'm sure there will be many cases of this engine si better for game A over game B which means better games as a result.
id seems to finially be focusing on a better UI for their tools and better tools themselves. i've always fealt that engines from id Software were a bit more solid for lack of a better term, that my video card wasn't screaming in pain. DOOm 3 was able to run on surprisingly low hardware requirements and look really good for its time, and the game still looks good of course. Crytek seems to operate with no regard for what hardware people have in their PC. CryEngine 2 is amazing don't get me wrong but the game ran poorly on two highend previous generation cards in SLI which i think should never be the case. you should aim for that previous generation so that people who just upgraded aren't the only ones enjoying high framerates. i had two 7900 GTX 512mb cards btw when Crysis was released.
one of the reasons i think id Software will beat out EPIC is mainly because every engine they leapfrog each other. they've been doing it for a decade. i could be completely wrong but considering how much time has gone by the levels in hell in DOOM 3 are not far from waht EPIC was showing in the Hollow in Gears 2. maybe it was the platform EPIC chose, I'm not sure but I don't see that huge lead EPIC had with Unreal Engine 2 over the Quake III Arena engine.
just my opinion, pretty much based on my own speculation.
the great thing is there will be no shortage of options for developers to choose from and i'm sure there will be many cases of this engine si better for game A over game B which means better games as a result.
So, they're comparing an engine with 3 years of commercial success (85 titles released and/or announced), with one that's not even out yet?!
It gets worse.. This is a quote from the news link:
Yes, because the ENGINE is surely responsible for the resolution and smoothness of textures used in a game, right?
The amount of idiocy in the comments there is downright staggering.
The first image shows CE3's hdr/eye adjusting in a tropic env VS a ... generically lighted tropic env?
The CE3 picture of a castle'esque building up close with water in front is compared to a... bridge with background buildings?
The CE3 outside picture of a building and backdrop is compared to.. An inside view of an open atrium? (the CE3 picture here looks HORRIBLE btw, imho)
The CE3 picture of face models on green back is compared to... the flyby cutscene in GoW's intro?
The CE3 picture of gravel/ground is compared to a... GoW MG?
Seriously, these comparisons are ****.
I'll give you two guesses as to which company pumped money up PSUniverse's keister in return for obvious bull****ty marketing.
It gets worse.. This is a quote from the news link:
Yes, because the ENGINE is surely responsible for the resolution and smoothness of textures used in a game, right?
The amount of idiocy in the comments there is downright staggering.
Possibly because the images they use of the UE3 are lackluster.
The first image shows CE3's hdr/eye adjusting in a tropic env VS a ... generically lighted tropic env?
The CE3 picture of a castle'esque building up close with water in front is compared to a... bridge with background buildings?
The CE3 outside picture of a building and backdrop is compared to.. An inside view of an open atrium? (the CE3 picture here looks HORRIBLE btw, imho)
The CE3 picture of face models on green back is compared to... the flyby cutscene in GoW's intro?
The CE3 picture of gravel/ground is compared to a... GoW MG?
Seriously, these comparisons are ****.
I'll give you two guesses as to which company pumped money up PSUniverse's keister in return for obvious bull****ty marketing.
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Armagon917: don't know about that. Both idTech 3 and 4 haven't been very successful w.r.t. licensing to 3rd parties.
idTech 4: only 1 3rd party game: Prey
idTech 3: not more than 15
Maybe idTech5 will change that.
Also the difference between Doom 3 and GoW1 is quite large. But yes, id and epic seem to alternate in engine generations. UE3 is getting mature, and the new kid on the block will be idTech5. But right now, there is no idTech5 to be licensed, and UE3 is here to be used. I don't know how well idTech5 will cater the next generation of console hardware. But by the time idTech5 is released the next generation of consoles will be in development, and so will UE4.
idTech 4: only 1 3rd party game: Prey
idTech 3: not more than 15
Maybe idTech5 will change that.
Also the difference between Doom 3 and GoW1 is quite large. But yes, id and epic seem to alternate in engine generations. UE3 is getting mature, and the new kid on the block will be idTech5. But right now, there is no idTech5 to be licensed, and UE3 is here to be used. I don't know how well idTech5 will cater the next generation of console hardware. But by the time idTech5 is released the next generation of consoles will be in development, and so will UE4.
Who cares about this comparison. At least I can run UE3 games on my PC very well and that's enough.
Have you people not watched the CryEngine 3 trailer? It's not that pretty, and doesn't actually offer anything that UE3 doesn't already
Perhaps not but that doesn't mean either engine can even do half of those things on consoles with decent frame rates We know Unreal can't and the cry engine just might be able to Not counting on it though.
Also the pictures on the site are a tad unfair... Most of the cry engine screenshots are from tech demos, of course they are going to look better.
We know Unreal can't and the cry engine just might be able to Not counting on it though.Also the pictures on the site are a tad unfair... Most of the cry engine screenshots are from tech demos, of course they are going to look better.
Have you people not watched the CryEngine 3 trailer? It's not that pretty, and doesn't actually offer anything that UE3 doesn't already
fully dynamic environments?
