In the first part of the article, we talked about the history of game engines and their importance in the game world and told you how they work. We also introduced you the 2 biggest game engines in the world, Unreal Engine and Unity. In this part of the article, we intend to introduce you to three popular and powerful game engines and explain the advantages of each. So stay with us in this exogamy article.
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You must have seen famous games that have the word Cry in their name. Far Cry or Crisis franchise. The powerful Crytek studio, which is headquartered in Frankford, Germany, used this engine in the first version of the Far Cry game and showed off the graphic power of its game engine to its competitors. Cry Engine is used in games created under the supervision of this studio, except for the games made by Cry Tech Studio.
Games like Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 and Snow. “Warehouse” studio uses a modified version of Cry Engine for its role-playing games. And also the basic and basic version of this powerful game engine is used by Ubisoft named “Dunia Engine”.
In 2015, there was a rumor that the license of this game engine was sold to Amazon for 50-70 million dollars. And the following year, Amazon introduced a game engine called “Amazon Lumberyard”.
At first, Cry Engine was only used for Far Cry and Crysis games, but with the use of the third versions and later, dozens of game titles from different studios showed interest in using this game engine.
About the advantages of this engine, it should be said that when the work is finished, when you put the game made with Cry Engine on the bottom of the scale with other games, you will see that as a result, the product of Cry Engine has a stunning effect and game engines Others have less power to compete with this powerful engine in the field of visual beauty.
And as for the disadvantages, although it is not impossible to use Cry Engine for beginners and it does not seem so difficult, the process of doing things in Cry Engine is so different from other game engines that it confuses those who have worked with other engines and also The burden that Cry Enjin puts on your dear PC is so much that you might stop using it.
The games that use this heavy and powerful game engine tend to slow down the movements a bit, which is the opposite of the Unreal Engine game engine that we discussed in the previous article.
Frostbite Engine
The DCIE game development studio in Stockholm, Sweden, introduced a game engine called Frostbite for the seventh generation games, which was originally created for the design of the Battlefield game and was suitable for first-person shooter games. This engine was exclusively purchased by EA Games. All the games of this company use this game engine in all recent versions. All the important games of the BioWare studio, namely Dragon Age, Copper Effect and Star Wars, have benefited from Frostbite.
Along with making every game, EA Games company has put upgrading and fixing the problems of Frostbite on the agenda of the programmers.
Frostbite is specially designed for first-person shooter games, but considering that high-quality racing games like Need for Speed and Dragon Age role-playing games are also made with this engine, we conclude that Frostbite is very flexible and practical. .
Since this game engine is exclusively owned by EA Games, no one can see the space of this game engine on their computer, either free or paid. And its advantages and disadvantages are covered by everyone. But the beauty as a result of the work and the power of this game engine is obvious from the works left behind.
Source Engine
Since 1998, Valve Studio has been using a game engine called Gold SRC. But for Counter Strike Source game, in 2004, an alternative engine called Source was used. The features of this game engine were also used to some extent for the games of Haflife 2. Unlike other engines, Source Engine did not have a plan for version 1, 2, 3, and with the same name and base work, only updates were made available until 2015. But in 2015, a new version named Source 2 was released.
Source Engine works great in game physics and has a high standard in the field of game physics and animation. We can come to this conclusion from the creations of this game engine, such as Titanfall and Portal. The result of the game designed with this engine looks good even on low-end PCs with the lowest performance.
In terms of visual beauty, Source game engine is not comparable with Cray Engine and Unreal Engine, and many people believe that this engine is only suitable for Valve Studio’s own games, and maybe there are less games made by competitors using Source Engine.
Thank you very much for being with us in this article, in the next parts of the article, we will tell you about other game engines and the properties of each one.
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Unreal Engine
<<Unreal Engine>> is one of the most famous and powerful game engine. This complex software is designed and developed by the creative studio “Epic games”. Unreal Engine was first used in 1998 to make the game <<Unreal Tournament>>. With its successive successes, it was able to become one of the most popular game engines. Unreal Engine is mostly intended for making first-person, third-person, stealth action and role-playing games. This engine is more exclusive to making 3D games, it is rare to make 2D games with it. Games like: Gear of War, Unreal Tournament is one of the main titles of Unreal Engine, which was created by its designer, Epic Games. With the popularity of Unreal Engine, most companies turned to this engine and good games such as: Batman Arkham series, Dishonerd, Gear of War, Mortal Kombat and other titles that I don’t remember have been made. Well, of course, a good game engine must have a variety of outputs, fortunately Unreal Engine 3 supports outputs such as Pc, linux, ios, Ps3, xb360, but Epic Games has also thought about independent game developers, UDK The game making engine is much more limited than Unreal Engine, which can be used to make good games. It is better to give an example in our country, the first-person action game of extraterrestrial armies is being made with UDK.
Unity
Unity is one of the big game engines. The popularity of Unity made many game makers, especially independent game makers, turn to it. Also, the reasonable price of Unity has made it popular in Iran. It is interesting to know that Unity has millions of users. Working with Unity is easier than Unreal Engine and Cry Engine, because most of the work like Game Maker is possible without coding, but if you are a professional game maker, writing code is definitely better than ready-made instructions. Unity supports two programming languages, C# and Java. Unity is often used to make small games for tablets and smartphones, but it also supports more outputs, including PC. The Unity user environment is mostly intended for making 3D games, but it is also possible to make 2D games. The popularity of Unity led to big game companies including SQUARE ENIX releasing the famous and beautiful game Deus Ex: The Fall for Ios, Android, PC.
Game Maker
Gamemaker is dedicated to making 2D games. This game engine is currently developed and provided by YoyoGames. Game Maker 8 is the latest version of this software and allows its users to easily create 2D games, because a large part of this software is made up of ready-made commands. Most interestingly, Game Maker also supports its own language, <<GML>>, and it is simpler than other languages. But the evolution that took place in the name of Game Maker was when a new version was designed and developed separately from it. Game Maker Studio <<Game Make Studio>> is one of the best 2D game engines, of course you can make 3D and 2D games with GameMaker, but for this it is better to refer to Unity. Among the good features of Game Maker Studio, we can mention the output: Android, Ios, PC, Linux, Windows Phone. Also, Game Maker Studio is more affordable than other engines, but it is rare for big game companies to go to Game Maker. In the past few years, Game Maker and Game Maker Studio have achieved great success. Titles such as Hotline Miami, Stealth Beard made it gain a large audience.
Id Tech
But the last engine in this list belongs to <<id Tech>> game engine. This software was designed by Id Software and is one of the oldest game engines. Quake, wolfenishtain 3D, Doom are the main titles of Id Tech. A few years ago Rage game was made by its fifth version, after Zenimax bought this engine (Id Tech 5) and made it a monopoly, in fact this engine is not available to the public like other engines. Id Tech is specialized in making 3D games and 90 percent of the games made with it have action style. ID tech 5 has made more improvements compared to version 4, including the addition and improvement of Motion Blur, pixel shader, shadow technology, so far 6 versions of ID TECH have been developed.
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