Unreal Engine

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 . 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.

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 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' Postal, 3D Realms' Duke Nukem Forever, the U.S. Army's America's Army and Ion Storm's . 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 http://www.unrealtechnology.com/html/powered/released.shtml:

Unreal engine 1

Unreal engine 2

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

Unreal engine 3

According to Epic Games, games based on the Unreal 3 engine can be expected around 2006. So far two games using this engine were confirmed: Epic Games itself is developing a new franchise of which the first game will use the Unreal 3 engine, and BioWare has licensed the engine for a new game. Also Midway Games and Microsoft Game Studios will use Unreal Engine 3.

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