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Since HL2 just came out we need a little vote..
Which game engine is the best according to you?
(Please dont flame other engines, just say what you like about your favorite)

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Dom

HL2; because of its interactivity, pyhsics, and it'll have many mods.

Sandok

Cuz it runs the best except for the stutters... That sorta ruins it

No_Style

If it's just engines.. then I'm going for OpenGL and the Doom 3 engine. Because RTCW2 will be used for it along with Quake 4.

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Dom

Party pooper.

davidnsibs

Far cry becuase the draw distance is mind boggling, and the foliage (grass, trees, plants etc) looks so nice (better than HL2 imho). Plus it was published, purchaced and completed about half a year ago

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No_Style

That's the way I feel about Far Cry, the more and more I see other games AFTER Far Cry come out, the more I give credit to Crytek and their engine. At first I thought HL2 would be greatly superior, but it's more like "meh" now. Far Cry was unfashionably early to the party

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pr0digal jenius

haven't even played HL2, but it gets my vote cuz i HATED botht the other 2 engines.

Far Cry was an amazing game..but a pretty poorly written engine. Doom 3 sucked, engine included


so HL2 wins by default

Zardon

Dude........ we need a talk........ **hands PJ an EE instead of those duallie xeons***

pr0digal jenius

yea yea...lol

I simply meant that that game requires such massive amounts of hardware to run it nicely that it's kind of rediculous...same with doom 3

it looks AMAZING when ti works, but it takes a SERIOUS investment to get it workign that way

Zardon

Its a close call really. Doom3 was such a hideous game its hard to look past the total boredom I feel when I load it now to benchmark some cards but it is an impressive engine, hopefully it can be used for more than darkly lit corridoors and brain dead zombies.

Farcry, has a wonderful engine which as PJ has indirectly stated needs quite a bit of firepower to run properly, but its silky smooth has great draw distance and handles vegetation better than either Doom3s or Half life 2's.

Half life 2 however has wonderful physics and has a powerful visual style to me, almost a surreal cinematic concept which works so well in execution, it also seems to me to be the smoothest on the most hardware so for that side of things it wins.

Im going to be totally lame and say all three, each have strengths and weaknesses, and I hope to see all three engines with further improvements in future games.

Dom

Ran fine on my 2500+ and 9700Pro (may she rest in peace).

pr0digal jenius

I think once Quake 4 comes around we can all more happily pass judgement on the doom 3 engine

dsdsdk

I'm totally Source engine! Textures are really really nice. Havok Engine used to the limit..
Runs well on almost any rig (sweet on mine!)

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Senor_Mota

I'll scream HL2's superiority forever...until they come out with something better.

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