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Unreal engine

The Unreal engine is one of the most popular game engines for action games. 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. It is developed by Epic Games.

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.

Unreal engine - 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 Inc.'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, Inc.'s 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, 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]:

Unreal engine - Unreal Engine 1

• Adventure Pinball: Forgotten Island — (2001) Digital Extremes
• Disney's Brother Bear — (2003) KnowWonder Digital Mediaworks
• 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 Sorcerer's Stone — (2001) KnowWonder Digital Mediaworks
• Mobile Forces — (2002) Rage Software
• Nerf Arena Blast — (1999) Visionary Media, Inc.
• 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
• The Wheel of Time — (1999) Legend Entertainment
• X-COM: Enforcer — (2001) MicroProse

Unreal engine - 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.

• Advent Rising — (2005) GlyphX Inc.
• 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 — (2004) NC Soft
• 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, Inc.
  • Postal²: Share the Pain — (2003) Running With Scissors, Inc.
  • Postal²: Apocalypse Weekend — (2005) Running With Scissors, Inc.
• Ragnarok Online 2 — (2006) Gravity Corporation
• Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 (2006) Tripwire Interactive
• 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
• The Chronicles of Spellborn — (2006) Spellborn International
• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield — (2003) Ubisoft
  • Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Athena Sword — (2004) Ubisoft
  • Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Iron Wrath — (2005) 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 - Unreal Engine 3

According to Epic Games, games based on Unreal Engine 3 can be expected around mid to late 2006. Initial games will be developed for the Xbox 360 and PC.

Games currently in development include:

• All Points Bulletin — Real Time Worlds
• America's Army — U.S. Army
• Endless Saga — Webzen Games Inc.
• Frame City Killer — Namco
• Gears of War — (2006) Epic Games
• Huxley — Webzen Games Inc.
• Lineage III — NC Soft
• Lost Odyssey — Mist Walker / Feel Plus
• Mass Effect — BioWare
• Project IM — (unknown) Zero Point Software
• Stranglehold — (2006) Midway Games
• Too Human — Silicon Knights
• Turok 4 (placeholder title) — Buena Vista Games
• Unreal Tournament 2007 (2006) Epic Games
• Unannounced titles — Atari Studios
• Unannounced title — BioWare
• Unannounced titles — Microsoft Game Studios
• Unannounced titles — Midway Games
• Unannounced title — Namco
• Unannounced titles — Sony Computer Entertainment
• Unannounced titles — TimeGate Studios
• Unannounced titles — VU Games

Unreal engine - Unreal Engine 4

Mark Rein (vice-president of Epic Games) revealed on August 18, 2005 that the company has been working on Unreal Engine 4 for the past two years⁽¹⁾. The engine targets the next generation of consoles after the coming generation, as well as the PC. The only person to work on the engine so far is Tim Sweeney, lead programmer at Epic⁽²⁾.

Unreal engine - Related topics

• Unreal
• UnrealScript
• game engine

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