Unreal engine
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The Unreal engine is one of the more popular action video game engines. First illustrated in the 1998 first-person shooter computer game Unreal, it has been the basis of many such games since, including Unreal Tournament and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield.
The Unreal engine was seen as a major rival to id Software's Quake engine. The Unreal engine includes support for a scripting language called UnrealScript, which can be used to quickly modify many aspects of the game without having to delve into the C++ internals.
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Games using the Unreal engine
Many other software companies have licensed the Unreal engine in order to speed up development of their own titles. These include Star Trek Deep Space Nine: The Fallen and Ion Storm's Deus Ex. Newer versions of the engine (known as the Warfare engine or Unreal engine 2) are being used for PC games such as Running With Scissors' Postal², 3D Realms' Duke Nukem Forever, the U.S. Army's America's Army and Ion Storm's Deus Ex: Invisible War.
Versions of the Unreal engine are available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, Sony PlayStation 2, Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo GameCube and Sega Dreamcast.
Below is a comprehensive list of published video games utilising the Unreal engine [1] (http://www.unrealtechnology.com/html/powered/released.shtml):
Unreal engine 1
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- Adventure Pinball: Forgotten Island — (2001) Digital Extremes
- Clive Barker's Undying — (2001) Dreamworks Interactive
- Deus Ex — (2000) Ion Storm
- Dr. Brain's Thinking Games: Action/Reaction — (1999) Knowledge Adventure
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets — (2002) KnowWonder Digital Mediaworks
- Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone — (2001) KnowWonder Digital Mediaworks
- Mobile Forces — (2002) Rage Software
- Nerf Arena Blast — (1999) Visionary Media
- New Legends — (2002) Infinite Machine
- Rune — (2000) Human Head Studios
- Rune: Halls of Valhalla — (2001) Human Head Studios
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Fallen — (2000) The Collective
- Star Trek: The Next Generation: Klingon Honor Guard — (1998) MicroProse
- Tactical Ops: Assault on Terror — (2002) Kamehan Studios
- TNN Outdoors Pro Hunter — (1998) DreamForge Intertainment
- Twin Calibre — (2003) Rage Software
- Unreal — (1998) Epic Games
- Unreal Mission Pack 1: Return to Na Pali — (1999) Legend Entertainment
- Unreal Tournament — (1999) Epic Games
- Virtual Reality Notre Dame
- Wheel of Time, The — (1999) Legend Entertainment
- X-COM: Enforcer — (2001) MicroProse
Unreal engine 2
The second generation of the Unreal engine, sometimes referred to as the "Warfare engine". This list includes games using Unreal engine 2.5.
- America's Army — (2002) U.S. Army (The MOVES Institute)
- Brothers In Arms: Road to Hill 30 — (2005) Gearbox Software
- Combat: Task Force 121 — (2005) Direct Action Games
- Dead Man's Hand — (2004) Human Head Studios
- Desert Thunder — (2003) Brainbox Games
- Deus Ex: Invisible War — (2003) Ion Storm
- Devastation — (2003) Digitalo Studios
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban — (2004) KnowWonder Digital Mediaworks
- Lineage II: The Chaotic Chronicle — (2004) NCsoft
- Magic: The Gathering Battlegrounds — (2003) Atari
- Marine Heavy Gunner: Vietnam — (2004) Brainbox Games
- Men of Valor — (2004) 2015, Inc.
- Pariah — (2005) Digital Extremes
- Postal² — (2003) Running With Scissors
- Postal²: Share the Pain — (2003) Running With Scissors
- Postal²: Apocalypse Weekend — (2005) Running With Scissors
- Sephiroth — Imazic Entertainment
- Shadow Ops: Red Mercury — (2004) Zombie
- Star Wars: Republic Commando — (2005) LucasArts
- SWAT 4 — (2005) Irrational Games
- Thief: Deadly Shadows — (2004) Ion Storm
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield — (2003) Ubisoft
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Athena Sword — (2004) Ubisoft
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell — (2003) Ubisoft
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow — (2004) Ubisoft
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory — (2005) Ubisoft
- Tribes: Vengeance — (2004) Irrational Games
- Unreal II: The Awakening — (2003) Legend Entertainment
- Unreal II eXpanded MultiPlayer (XMP) — (2003) Legend Entertainment
- Unreal Tournament 2003 — (2002) Digital Extremes
- Unreal Tournament 2004 — (2004) Epic Games / Digital Extremes
- Unreal Championship — (2002) Digital Extremes
- Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict — (2005) Epic Games
- XIII — (2003) Ubisoft
Unreal engine 3
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According to Epic Games, games based on the Unreal 3 engine can be expected around 2006. So far two games using this engine have been revealed: Epic Games has created a new franchise (Gears of War) of which the first game will use Unreal Engine 3. They are also working on Unreal Tournament 2007, the 4th game in the Unreal Tournament series, and the first on Unreal Engine 3. BioWare has licensed the engine for a new, unannounced title. Midway Games and Microsoft Game Studios will also use Unreal Engine 3 for a number of projects. The U.S. Army announced on May 10, 2005 that it is expanding its technology agreement with Epic Games and will begin developing its next generation versions of America's Army on the Unreal Engine 3. Webzen, a Korean game studio, recently announced their upcoming next-gen MMORPG Huxley, which makes use of the Unreal 3 engine. Austin, TX based NCSoft Interactive has also licensed the Unreal Engine 3 for use in the next game of its Lineage series, Lineage III.
Related topics
External links
- The official Unreal Developer Network (http://udn.epicgames.com) documenting the Unreal engine
- Online community Unreal engine documentation (http://wiki.beyondunreal.com/)
- Unreal Technology (http://www.unrealtechnology.com/)
- Unreal Engine 3 Details (http://www.devmaster.net/engines/engine_details.php?id=25)