How good is Frosbite 2?

I didn't play Battlefield 2, but it seems Frostbite 2 will start to be used in a lot of different games (I guess Need for Speed already used it, right?). I mean, Generals 2 will use it and there are rumors DA3 (or parts of it) will use it as well.
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So, how good is it? it seems great in the videos I saw from BF3... but can it be the unreal engine for the next generation?

Well EA is only allowing it to be used in their titles, so i doubt that it will become the UE of the next gen. And we really have no idea how easily it can be adopted and used by various devs, or if DICE is even willing to give large scale support for various developersferret-gamer

If the are, they won't be game developers for a while.

I didn't play Battlefield 2, but it seems Frostbite 2 will start to be used in a lot of different games (I guess Need for Speed already used it, right?). I mean, Generals 2 will use it and there are rumors DA3 (or parts of it) will use it as well.
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So, how good is it? it seems great in the videos I saw from BF3... but can it be the unreal engine for the next generation?

padaporra

As for how good it is visually, there's no doubt as to its prowess. It won't however, become the next Unreal Engine for two reasons: Firstly, EA will never license it as someone above this post mentioned; secondly, there's this situation right here. If Frostbite 2 is as hard to develop for (Also cited by DICE as to why there won't be any mod support for Battlefield 3) as it seems to be the case, then it can never replace UE3.

The reason so many devs support Unreal Engine is because of its accessiblity and ease of use. That being said, I'm sure some devs would like to get their hands on it.

I don't think anyone here is really in position to discuss it unless he or she actually had or has direct experience with (and/or knowledge of) the engine. That said, as with every engine it's more a matter how talented the devs are than how advanced the engine is. Good devs will make miracles with an average engine while bad devs will make a poor job even with the best tech possible.

I don't think anyone here is really in position to discuss it unless he or she actually had or has direct experience with (and/or knowledge of) the engine. That said, as with every engine it's more a matter how talented the devs are than how advanced the engine is. Good devs will make miracles with an average engine while bad devs will make a poor job even with the best tech possible.

nameless12345

I think it's terrible looking. 001011000101101

This. Although it does look pretty nice at times it feels as if somethings missing. I can't quite put my finger on it but something just makes it look horrible.

Argueably the best engine out there.

[QUOTE="001011000101101"]I think it's terrible looking. Biohazard93

This. Although it does look pretty nice at times it feels as if somethings missing. I can't quite put my finger on it but something just makes it look horrible.

Is that even logic? There's no such thing as "The engine looks horrible".

How good is it? At what?
I don't know.

Ask repi. DICE has worked with an older 07-08 version of UE3, so they can contrast against that, for whatever good that'd do.

http://repi.blogspot.com/

good enough.

I didn't play Battlefield 2, but it seems Frostbite 2 will start to be used in a lot of different games (I guess Need for Speed already used it, right?). I mean, Generals 2 will use it and there are rumors DA3 (or parts of it) will use it as well.
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So, how good is it? it seems great in the videos I saw from BF3... but can it be the unreal engine for the next generation?

padaporra

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/4948-Battlefield-3

The best way I can think to put it.