Favorite graphics engine?

Quake 3 engine (what did they rename it to ... idTech 3 ?) - Lots of great games on it like Quake 3, RTCW, MoHaa, CoD.
Source engine - although it's showing it's age in texture quality it's still a great engine.
Unreal engine 2 - same as Quake 3 engine, lots of great games on it.

To be honest - none

I don't know anything about them and I have no interest to find out

Source Engine. Now, if Halo 3 goes to PC, with higher res and 16xAA, that would be a sight to behold :DFrozenLiquid

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But MS will make it Vista/W7 only, witch will kill any sales potential like they did with Halo 2 (on top of low res textures and low poly models).

[QUOTE="FrozenLiquid"]Source Engine. Now, if Halo 3 goes to PC, with higher res and 16xAA, that would be a sight to behold :DDOF_power

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But MS will make it Vista/W7 only, witch will kill any sales potential like they did with Halo 2 (on top of low res textures and low poly models).

id Tech 5. . . . Rage is my most anticipated game looks amazing graphically :D Also whatever engine Alan Wake is running on is very impressive aswell.Timbury

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Nope. Acording to Carmack, Rage on PC won't look/deliver that much better graphically vs. consoles, and will go back to use shadow maps instead of the much superior unified lighting-shadows system used in Doom III (or the DX10 equivalent used by STALKER CS).

It's sad when a 2009 game will be inferior in lighting-shadows to a 2004 title due to the consoles.

cry engine 2 and idtech5

Also i really anticipate the new source engine from valve

[QUOTE="Timbury"]id Tech 5. . . . Rage is my most anticipated game looks amazing graphically :D Also whatever engine Alan Wake is running on is very impressive aswell.DOF_power

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Nope. Acording to Carmack, Rage on PC won't look/deliver that much better graphically vs. consoles, and will go back to use shadow maps instead of the much superior unified lighting-shadows system used in Doom III (or the DX10 equivalent used by STALKER CS).

It's sad when a 2009 game will be inferior in lighting-shadows to a 2004 title due to the consoles.

Uncharted Engine (Uncharted: Drake's Fortune) or Unreal Engine (Gears of War)?tmacscores91

[QUOTE="tmacscores91"]Uncharted Engine (Uncharted: Drake's Fortune) or Unreal Engine (Gears of War)?lusitanogamer

Source. I just think it's got a real natural look to it that's aged well. Only real complaint I have about it is vegetation and things like that look blehDivergeUnify

To be honest - none

I don't know anything about them and I have no interest to find out

[QUOTE="DivergeUnify"]Source. I just think it's got a real natural look to it that's aged well. Only real complaint I have about it is vegetation and things like that look blehFunky_Llama

well, the ue3 engine is very nice and highly customizable, unfortunately it doesn't look organic. every thing looks too shiny and plasticy. the source engine doesn't have as much as ue3 in terms of graphics, due to it's heavy focus on physics, but the color and characters look more natural. cry engine 2 combine both but requires a lot of horse power to fully utilize it. i don't have a favorite but i'm leaning more towards the ue3 because of it's versatility...and because i'm a graphics whore.

hopefully the offset engine is better than cry engine2 and runs smoothly with less requirements.

a couple of pics of the offset engin:

Note: images resized