Unreal engine

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The Unreal engine is one of the more popular action video game engines. 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.

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.

1 Games using the Unreal engine
2 Related topics
3 External links

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'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' 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 X, GNU/Linux, Sony PlayStation 2, Microsoft Xbox and Nintendo GameCube.

Below is a comprehensive list of published video games utilising the Unreal engine [1]:

Unreal engine 1

Screenshot from Unreal

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

Unreal engine 2

Screenshot from the Onslaught game mode in Unreal Tournament 2004

The second generation of the Unreal engine, sometimes referred to as the "Warfare engine". This list includes games using Unreal engine 2.5.

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: The Chaotic Chronicle — (2004) NCsoft
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
- Postal²: Share the Pain — (2003) Running With Scissors
- Postal²: Apocalypse Weekend — (2005) Running With Scissors
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
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield — (2003) Ubisoft
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Athena Sword — (2004) 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 3

Berserker from Unreal 3 technology demo – a detailed model, bump-mapping, and real-time soft self-shadowing

According to Epic Games, games based on the Unreal 3 engine can be expected around 2006. So far two games using this engine have been revealed: Epic Games has created a new franchise (Gears of War) of which the first game will use Unreal Engine 3. They are also working on Unreal Tournament 2007, the 4th game in the Unreal Tournament series, and the first on Unreal Engine 3. BioWare has licensed the engine for a new, unannounced title. Midway Games and Microsoft Game Studios will also use Unreal Engine 3 for a number of projects.