Your top 5 video game engines?

1. CryEngine 2 (Crytek)

2. Essence (Relic)

3. Source (Valve)

Don't flame me for putting Essence above Source, please.

1.Cryengine 2

2.Dunia

3.EGO

4.Unreal Engine 3

5.Source

1. CryEngine 2 (Crytek)

2. Essence (Relic)

3. Source (Valve)

Don't flame me for putting Essence above Source, please.

aliblabla2007

ditto, but I would add the engine that Medieval total War 2 use

3) Steam

R4gn4r0k

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3) Steam

Doom_HellKnight

lollll

CryEngine 2

Unreal Engine 3

Source Engine

CryEngine 2

Source Engine

Due to what CDProjekt did to it, BioWare's Aurora engine

Essense Engine from Relic

X-Ray engine from GSC

1. CryEngine 2 (Sanbox puts it over the edge)

2. Source

3. Creative Assembly's Total War Engine

4. Starbreeze Engine (Escape from Butcher Bay)

5. Essence Engine

1. Source

2.Cryengine2

3.Dunia

4.Unreal

5. Essence

I look at engines from the view of the games that were made with them, not the technical capabilites of the engines themselves. So with that in mind...

1. id tech 3 (quake 3) - there were so many great titles developed on this engine, including Jedi Outcast, Return To Castle Wolfenstein, Call Of Duty, American McGee's Alice, Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault, Soldier Of Fortune II, etc.
2. Unreal - some really good games were made using this tech, including Deus Ex, Rune, Wheel Of Time, Unreal, Unreal Tournament, Clive Barker's Undying, etc.
3. Lithtech - powered all of the Monolith games, including the NOLF series, Tron 2, Aliens v Predator 2, and others...
4. Aurora - which powers NWN and it's expansions and modules, and underpins The Witcher and NWN2.
5. Source - a good engine that is slowly gaining popularity, and apart from the Half-Life 2 games has been used for Dark Messiah, Vampire Masquerade: Bloodlines, Portal, and is being used for The Crossing and Zeno Clash.

A special mention goes to the Gamebryo engine, which powers hundreds of games across all genres and platforms, and includes the likes of Morrowind and Oblivion.

1. Source

2. X-ray

3. Essence

4. Unreal 3

5. Cryengine 2

5. Source - a good engine that is slowly gaining popularity, and apart from the Half-Life 2 games has been used for Dark Messiah, Vampire Masquerade: Bloodlines, Portal, and is being used for The Crossing and Zeno Clash.

RobertBowen

1. Scimitar "Assasssins Creed"

2.Source .... 2 words "its VALVE"

3.Unreal3 so many games :D

4.Essence CoH & soon DoW2 :D

5.SAGE ... C&C generals , Battle For Middle eArht , Tiberium Wars & soon Red Alert 3 ! So old but so good looking !

1. Cryengine 2

2. Source

3. Unreal 3

4. Gamebryo

5. Essence

1) Crytek engine

2) Essence engine

3) Unreal engie

if your going by graphics I would say: (no particular order)

Unreal 3/4

Source

Offset

Cryengine 2

idTech 4

if your going by engines used to make games I enjoy(ed) playing:

Source

Aurora (Odyssey/Electron Engine)

Infinity

idTech 3

Unreal

Essence

Gamebryo

just wait until Frostbite comes out, here is a gameplay video too...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=24WAQ-OhXHo

Argh I hate the doom 3 engine. Everything looks all plasticy, said this when it came out to haha. Although Prey looked awesome.SimpJee

True. On top of that, the shadow effects are way too over-exaggerated.

FlatOut Engine, so much potential. Could be used to create a kick ass Carmageddon 4 game.

Unreal (all of them)

Source

I don't actually know much about engines so (in no particular order)

Source

Whatever Company of Heroes used (Essence)

BF2 engine

SAGE

Whatever World in Conflict used.

I know you guys are talking about engines with the best graphics but I just have to put in the Infinity Engine (Baldur's Gate 1 & 2)Taloskai

that was on my list :) I love the BG/Icewind Dale games.

1. CryEngine 2 (Crytek)

2. Essence (Relic)

3. Source (Valve)

Don't flame me for putting Essence above Source, please.

aliblabla2007

I agree with him Lol

RAGE in my opinion is one the best ever. Toriko42

its pretty impossible to judge how good the rage engine will be from a couple of game clips. Wouldnt you say?

1. CryEngine 2 (Crytek)

2. Essence (Relic)

3. Source (Valve)

Don't flame me for putting Essence above Source, please.

aliblabla2007

What? Did i see someone type Aurora? Madness... That engine is incredibly poor. NWN used Aurora, and NWN2 uses a heftily updated version now called the Electron engine, and from my experience they're both awful. As Gamespot said themselves " Steep system requirements for a game that doesn't look particularly good."

It's got to be Unreal 3 and the new engine from Crytek for me. UT3 and Crysis exhibit probably the best graphics I've seen this year so far, though the Unreal engine performed flawlessly and provided me with beautiful visuals with no loading delay. Where as Crysis stuttered massively whilst loading.

However, Source looks good from what I've seen so far, I have to say.

Source Engine.

Max FX Engine.

Company of Heroes one - not sure of the name. Someone help me.

Unreal 3 Engine.

Company of Heroes one - not sure of the name. Someone help me.

biggest_loser

Essence.

1. Glacier Engine.

2. Unreal 2

3. Cod 1-2 engine don't know the name :D

i think most games with ue3 looks sucky. i guess devs didn't learn to use it properly yet.

Source Engine (HL2, CSS, DOD:S, etc)

Essence Engine (DOW, COH)

Refractor 2 (BF1942, BFV, BF2, BF2142, BF Heroes)