UE3 and Frostbite to power Medal of Honor |
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| BY Sebastian Nordlund Jan. 25th, 2010 | More on: |
Twitter is arguably a nice hangout depending on who you ask. We’re there, so it must be cool. But it’s also a resource for getting in the know of things. If you happen to be following EA’s Assistant Producer & Community Manager Matthiew Pruitt, the official Twitter of Medal of Honor, Rendering Architect at DICE Johan Andersson, and well, a bunch of others working at EA and/or DICE, you might already be aware of the unofficial announcement that the rebirth iteration of Medal of Honor, hitting this fall, will be using a heavily-modified Unreal Engine 3 for the single-player campaign, whereas the multiplayer will be powered by DICE’s Frostbite engine.
“As many of you may have read, we are using a heavily-modified Unreal 3 Engine for Medal of Honor’s single-player campaign” and “I guess the cat’s out of the bag. Medal of Honor’s multiplayer will be using the Frostbite engine” were the tweets that unloaded the news. Whether they will seemingly be forged together to deliver a gameplay never before experienced, or eventually break one of the most anticipated games of the year - which happens to be the “get-out-of-the-way-Modern-Warfare” game - remains to be seen.
Oh, and in case you’re wondering what engine was used for the debut trailer, it was the Unreal Engine 3.
January 25th, 2010
at 2:02 pm
UE 3 is outdated. This game is gonna suck, graphically, against Crysis 2
January 25th, 2010
at 2:22 pm
Please Drake you don’t know what your talking about.
January 25th, 2010
at 2:46 pm
have to agree with BigKev there.
looking forward to see how the two marry and the difference in the modes.
i for one would like a range of larger more open multiplayer maps over confined tight ones that causes very fast rotation on team spawning that id prefure slower personally.
just hoping for some freshness
January 25th, 2010
at 6:09 pm
two different engines for sp and mp?
may b weird,.
to use UE3 now is just a joke. y use last gen engines?? step ur game up devs!
January 25th, 2010
at 6:22 pm
UE3 sucks man!
I hate it now.
I just hate the realtime pre-rendering, so damn annoying!
Everything from polygons, textures etc should be loaded first in the Loading screen! Not after!
January 25th, 2010
at 6:44 pm
to be fair, they do say modified UE3
January 25th, 2010
at 7:15 pm
UE3 powered Gears of war and batman arkham asylum. Also, many devs use more than one engine. UE3 is a single player heavy engine(AI and textures etc) while frostbite is a destructive engine for multiplayer.
January 25th, 2010
at 7:37 pm
lol, nothing beats cryengine. sorry guys, but if you think unreal engine, even heavily modified, it’s not gonna be better than cryengine.
January 25th, 2010
at 8:50 pm
xino, I really hope you are making a joke..
And while I agree cry-engine looks better, we’ve never seen any console games use it so we can’t really argue about performance. Besides, UE3 is still a great looking engine. It is better than the modern warfare engine, visually and many other engines. Not every game has to strive to look the best. It just has to look good.
January 25th, 2010
at 9:09 pm
@ wicko, but how do you medal of honor will look good?
unreal engine 3 is already maxed out on the 360, and have you ever played GoW 2?
the texture popping is the worst I’ve ever seen in any game - 10 - 15 seconds in the game and still textures are loading slow like a turtle
January 25th, 2010
at 9:14 pm
Here’s the in-game reveal trailer of the single-player portion of the game, looks pretty satisfactory to me, even though not all THAT much can be told due to the rapid scene changes.
January 26th, 2010
at 4:19 am
why not use the frostbite engine for the SP?
i mean come on that is one of the best multiplayer engines, the destruction they have in there is brilliant.
and the graphics are nothing to scoff at!
im just sick of the UE3 every single freaking MP game uses it enough is enough some variety here please people!
just because its using the UE3 does not mean its going to be a bad game, or crappy graphics just look at ME2 or batman AA.
though to be fair it is running off UE 3.5.
no wonder epic have been milking it so much i mean jesus tap dancing christ imagine how much money there making licensing it off to other developers.
hopefully crytek take the hood of the cryengine 3 and encourage other developers to use that, once crysis 2 is out.
interesting to see what developers can do with the tech since UE is not going to be wowing us any time soon.
January 26th, 2010
at 5:50 am
The CryEngine is quite a marvel of an engine, indeed. But just as true is the fact that it has not been used on any console games yet. So until I play a game using it, I won’t comment further on it. What’s more, Medal of Honor is, in all fairness as TED said, using a “heavily-modified” version of UE3, so we don’t actually know for sure what they mean by this.
@ name - DICE is very proud of their engine, as they should be. But that is probably why they rather keep it for themselves than license it to other devs. If you ask me, I’d too rather have DICE keep it in-house, it’ll always make their games special and “unique.” But being the Swede that I am, I might be a bit biased! ;)
And my two cents as far as graphics go, we’ve already been proven over and over again that games can look unbelievably good. I would rather see games - in this case, Medal of Honor - with improved gameplay features than having devs compete about who’s got the best-looking game, honestly.
January 26th, 2010
at 6:58 am
its gona suck, bad tech,
if we were in 1999 and this game came out yeh….ok
but it still doesnt match kilzone 2. let alone killzone 3 engine.
have you seen sony first party engines, vroom vroom,
i heard namco are hard at work with acecombat 7 exclusive. with a new engine.
god of war engine, naughty dog engine 2.0, kilzone 3 engine….last guardian engine…o dere
the original people from unreal engine and epics engine have all left…ages ago….
some are making rage engine …..rest have left////suck it. unreal engine 3 is for students to learn on. as shown with modernwarefare 2..nothing to shout about…..
i respect the frostbite engine….nice one ea, …
and yeh to be fair they did say heavily modded….but so was mwf2, and look how that turned out., nothing more than a pretty sky.
January 26th, 2010
at 7:26 am
MW2 is using their own in-house engine alex, not UE3.
January 26th, 2010
at 12:09 pm
I really don’t know why people thinks its a bad thing, or why things are being compared with the new engine from crytech.
you can already see it beats most games in it’s bracket visually. just from a small clip
February 8th, 2010
at 2:47 am
Actually UE3 is still a good engine, is it the best? no. the game should use frostbite for everything(im a bad company 1 and 2 freak hehehe) but call of duty 4,world at war, modern 2 (notice the graphics jump from cod 3 to modern warfare) is actually made with the id tech 4 engine made by ID software. I heard that the id tech 5 engine the brand spankin new one which is awesome and i do feel can compete with cryengine 2 is being used on rage and doom 4. Now i bet since dice is an amazing and innovative developer they are lending a hand on this heavy modded UE3 engine and that should make you all happy. OOO on a different note i think they should have tried to use that new naughty dog 2.0 engine for single player because uncharted 2 looked,played amazing. and on a side note despite me being bored of mw1 and mw2 you cant deny that it does look very good,plays good, is compared to all new fps released and being released and since we are all spoiled we tend to forget that and should be so lucky to have the works of art released to us. cant wait for bad company 2 WOOOOOOHOOOOO
February 26th, 2010
at 5:32 am
come on now, u dont know if it will suck. it isn’t even out yet. heavil modified means they did some serious work to it. unlike mw2, this game is based on real things and is an overated piece of crap.