Frostbite Is Quickly Replacing Unreal Engine Starting With BioWare

Good news, Unreal Engine is way too overused and generic these days. We need less monkeys pumping out cheap Unreal Engine games and more creativity and open world freedom which Frostbite 2 provides.

An engine can't be overused and generic. Just lazy developers and uninspired "creativity".

Gears of War 3 is one of the best looking games of the generation.

Unreal is a clunky but versatile engine; Frostbite is simply bloatware with DRM-syndrome

Let's see how good Frostbite looks after Unreal 4 comes out next year....

I like BF3 and its implementation of frostbite 2.0. Could use a bit better destructibility

Need for speed the Run was good to once they patched the fps cap out.

I was thinking about picking that up today (NFS: The Run), since I saw it on sale. Wasn't sure if it was worth it.

Not worth the full price. I gave it an 8/10 on my site. Just worth a rental. Very repetitive, but the idea was novel. Too bad they didn't build up on it more.

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Its worth it if its on sale. Ive finished it multiple times. My roommates and I really enjoyed it.

Not a huge surprise that EA wants to push studios to use its proprietary engine.

No issues with UE3, though. Dishonored, Borderlands 2, X-COM, Hawken, Arkham City were all Unreal, and they had fairly diverse / distinct art styles (though all fairly physics light).

I'm with LawnGnome, though. I think UE4 eats unannounced Frostbite 3's lunch from a development / performance standpoint.

Most developers use UE3 as a cop out thinking they don't have to do anything with the engine. They just try to let the engine do the work for them. Most UE3 games these days look like complete crap. Arkham City uses UE3 as a base with a lot of custom tools thrown in, that is why it looks so damn good in DX11.

Well it looked good after it took them two months tho fix it on the computer.

I think I care less about the engine and more about the creative side of development. I'm willing to forgive some breaks for physics, lighting, and framerate issues if the story is solid, the graphical style fits the narrative (and is appealing), and the game is playable and enjoyable without too much frustration.

It's not the tools that matters but the person behind the tools.

Battlefield 3 was the best first person shooter when compared to Halo 4 and CoD (everything) because it allowed much larger environments with vehicles and wide scale combat. The only reason I like CoD is because the character models are higher res and more animated. What we really need is more powerful consoles.

Maybe on the consoles it looked that way, but the Call of Duty engine is really dated. BF3 uses DX11 which is leaps and bounds over any Call of Duty game.

Hitman: Absolution looked really nice with the Glacier 2 engine, I wonder if it will catch on.

Well the first thing I think of when I hear Frostbite, is of course the environmental destruction of course. I mean it's one of Frostbite's most heaily touted features, and rightfully so, it does great destruction. So if this means I can now Biotic push or throw someone throw a concrete wall, then I'm on board!! :)

Well the first thing I think of when I hear Frostbite, is of course the environmental destruction of course. I mean it's one of Frostbite's most heaily touted features, and rightfully so, it does great destruction. So if this means I can now Biotic push or throw someone throw a concrete wall, then I'm on board!! :)