Half life 2 vs doom 3 vs halo 2

[Blade]

I wonder if duke nukem forever will ever be released at the rate they're going.

[GrrrArg]

Doom 3 sub-par???

 

Its near photograph quality, the engine won't be sub-par. The game may be, I don't know but the engine definately looks good, and has Duke switched to the UT '03 engine, last I heard it was using the original unreal tournament engine ( a suped up version anyway)?

[Warp Spider]

Doom 3 sub-par???

 

Its near photograph quality, the engine won't be sub-par.

 

No offense, but they say exactly that every time a new engine comes out. Look at the screenshot and then look out your window. The graphics in the real world are just a bit better.

The game may be, I don't know but the engine definately looks good, and has Duke switched to the UT '03 engine, last I heard it was using the original unreal tournament engine ( a suped up version anyway)?

 

It's the same engine, really.. the Unreal Engine is constantly updated as new graphics technology becomes availible, and developers that license the engine have access to whatever the latest version is. They call it a new "generation" whenever it has accumulated sufficient new functionality to justify it.

[GrrrArg]

They rewroye the engine from the ground up for the latest build. Theres only so far the tech can go before everything needs to start over, although HL 1 used the quake 2 engine..and was then added to for condition zero which looks ok given the age of the underlying code.

 

Doom 3 won't actually be photo quality but you can tell from the screenshots that its pretty near. PC Gamer (UK) printed a D3 screenshot onto photopaper and it looked really good. Fingers crossed anyway but I still think HL2 is going to be the best of the buch.