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"Gears of War and the Doom 3 engine"

If you've never seen footage from Gears of War before and you mix gameplay from both games, you'd probably think they were the same game. I was watching a movie from Gamespot that mixed trailers from Quake 4, Gears of War and other games, and had trouble telling which was Quake 4 and which was GoW. I had to lock on to the character designs to see. Not bad for a 2-3 year old id engine, don't you think? I suppose the only thing GoW will have over the tweaked Doom 3 engine (Quake 4), is that it can do uber massive areas, whereas Quake 4 can only do massive areas. I was also thinking while watching GoW that all its technology seemed to be in making things look detailed on a texture level only. But hell, it still kind of looks the same as the 2 year old Doom 3 game.

If you've never seen footage from Gears of War before and you mix gameplay from both games, you'd probably think they were the same game. I was watching a movie from Gamespot that mixed trailers from Quake 4, Gears of War and other games, and had trouble telling which was Quake 4 and which was GoW. I had to lock on to the character designs to see. Not bad for a 2-3 year old id engine, don't you think? I suppose the only thing GoW will have over the tweaked Doom 3 engine (Quake 4), is that it can do uber massive areas, whereas Quake 4 can only do massive areas. I was also thinking while watching GoW that all its technology seemed to be in making things look detailed on a texture level only. But hell, it still kind of looks the same as the 2 year old Doom 3 game.

The same Doom 3 that was released in August last year?

You know, the one that still can create almost photorealistic enviroments?

Gears of War uses the Unreal Engine 3.

WickedWare wrote:
> I had to lock on to the character designs to see.

And who says kids play too many war games these days?

Pandaemonium wrote:
> The same Doom 3 that was released in August last year?

Oh, my mistake. But I still stick with both games looking similar, and one being old-ish.

WickedWare wrote:
> Oh, my mistake. But I still stick with both games looking similar,
> and one being old-ish.

Quake 4 looks like it's going to suck IMHO. While the Doom3 engine is untouchable for rendering indoor areas, it struggles immensly with lighted outdoor areas.

I've never been less excited by a Quake game than from the demos I've seen. Why is everything so....rigid? Those walking robots look crap. Bring back the Shamblers, says I!

monkey_man wrote:
>Bring back the Shamblers, says I!

The 'Shamblers universe' was ace, I admit. Better than the second universe id created.

Pandaemonium wrote:
> it struggles immensly with
> lighted outdoor areas.

That's because id are the masters at BSPs which are amazing for indoor arenas, but useless for wide open spaces.

I preffered the outdoor areas in RTCW to the indoor ones.

Hedfix wrote:
> I preffered the outdoor areas in RTCW to the indoor ones.

That didn't use the Doom3 engine though.