Epic Says This Is What Next-Gen Should Look Like ...

[kracken]

Epic Games isn't just showing off the latest improvements to the Unreal Engine 3 at GDC 2011. They're showing us what the next-generation of games should look like. Do the images hold up to the hype?

Considering the percentage of games released every year powered by the Unreal Engine 3, Epic might have a point. Upgraded features to UE3 don't just mean Epic will have prettier games. It means a major chunk of developers will suddenly gain access to these enhanced tools, rendering cigarettes so real I want to light up and robot monstrosities you can almost reach out and touch, which would likely be a bad idea.

These images are from a trailer being shown off at GDC this week, which should be dropping on the general public next week with the weight of a killer mech.

*Note : spoiler used because some images are large and screw up the screen layout

Spoiler:

[Lighty]

looks fantastic, will need a killer machine though to look like that, my quad core and GTX460 are gonna need replacing soon and i just cant bring myself to get rid of my trusty quad core Extreme

[lou3b]

get the new i7 they are awesome i have my i7 2600k running at 4.8ghz stable. hopefully my pc will be able to run these games, but the unreal engine has always been very well optimized unlike the first crysis. Screens look great by the way.

[ant3b]

looks amazing.. I7 and dual 580's anyone lol

[DJ OD]

Does look very good.

Although the "Shadowed Point Light Reflections" screen shot looks a bit shit. The St Pauls looking building in the background looks very 2D.


DJ OD

[kracken]

and here is the video of it and the HD version is well worth checking out

remember , this is tech demo of Unreal Engine 3 , running on 3x GTX580's SLI

[lou3b]

and here is the video of it and the HD version is well worth checking out

remember , this is tech demo of Unreal Engine 3 , running on 3x GTX580's SLI

Looking awesome!! only need another 2 more 580's for my pc to get it looking like that.

[EvilBoB]

Looks sick :-O Now THAT is next gen graphics. Someone should show Nintendo lol