Epic Games hosted a small showcase at today’s Game Developers Conference called State of Unreal.Designed as a way to keep everyone make The latest game about what’s in store for the industry-dominant Unreal Engine, highlights include: play games too.
Both Epic and several outside studios got the chance to show off some of the things they’ve been working on with Unreal Engine 5. The shortest and probably the most impressive video is this clip from Ninja Theory. Saga of Senua: Hellblade IIhighlighting some incredible facial animation features (using Metahuman, previously wrote):
still can’t see realthere’s something about the exaggerated lips and her teeth that I can’t quite explain, but it’s still visible wonderful.
Another theme of the technical showcase was action RPG Lord of the Fallenfor a more general view of how games are created using engines:
Here’s a demo of this gameplay infinitesimalbackyard bug gameI’m sure e was first announced Year It used to be, but it’s still in development. This clip is a bit more developer-focused, but gives us a look at how Unreal Engine 5 handles scale for large open worlds.
And finally got this driving video. This is an ad for his Quixel for Unreal Engine and Epic, as well as EV company Rivian (their car dash screens run on his Unreal Engine). It shows off some beautiful foliage and some impressive driving physics (especially how the car hits a small rock and flies away):
Expect to take everything presented in these presentations with a grain of salt, but 3 out of 4 Click here for video It was about an actual game currently in development. That means you don’t need the “well, your real game can’t look this good” warning that these posts usually require. very here as needed.
