In recent days, major game manufacturers and new game makers at home and abroad have announced that they will use Unreal Engine 5 (hereinafter referred to as Unreal Engine 5 or UE5). Since its debut in May 2020, Unreal 5 has attracted the attention of the entertainment industry such as games, film and television.
On the evening of April 5, Epic Games held an online live launch called "State of Unreal", at which Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney announced the official launch of Unreal Engine 5. This means that more game studios and manufacturers will use Unreal Engine 5 to develop games.
If you have demonstrated Through Fortnite and The Matrix Awakening: Unreal Engine 5 Experience, you must have seen the power of Unreal Engine 5.
At the Unreal 5 live event on the night of April 5, Crystal Power announced that it was using Unreal Engine 5 to develop a new game in the Tomb Raider series. "Crystal Power is proud to be part of the release of Unreal Engine 5, a new engine that takes storytelling to the next level of gameplay," the official said. That's why we're excited to announce today that we've started working on our next Tomb Raider game using Unreal Engine 5. ”
The Witcher's new role in Unreal 5, CDPR chief technology officer Pavel Zawodny said that the UE5 engine update has helped the development of its open-world game, which is also a big selling point for the studio. "This opens a new chapter for us, and we really want to see how our experience of creating open-world games combines with Epic's engineering capabilities," Says Zawodny. ”
The next day, Xbox officially showed a new demo of Unreal Engine 5 brought by The Coalition Studios, a film technology test that showed players the cinematic texture of how tens of millions of polygons can be rendered in real time, making a hundredfold leap in detail.
Ark 2 will be built using Unreal Engine 5, and Studio Wildcard says it will soon share more information about the game. Ark 2 is a new work in the Ark series produced and released by Studio Wildcard. The console version will be exclusive to Xbox Series X|S and is scheduled to launch in 2022.
In addition to the above games, there are many domestic game manufacturers who will also develop new unreal 5. In addition to PS, Xbox, Remedy and other familiar AAA game manufacturers, there are five Chinese manufacturers: Zulong Entertainment, Perfect World, Game Science, HoYoverse, and Tencent.
The promotional video of Zulong Entertainment's "Dragon Country Story", which has just been launched, is very beautiful, and presumably it should also be a movie-level game video implemented in Unreal 5.
Qingdao Magic Entertainment Studio, the developer of the "Trick Woman" series, announced on Weibo that its new work "Trick Woman: East Sea Palace" will be fully migrated to the unreal 5 engine development, and released several real machine pictures inside the engine.
It's no secret that game companies have chosen UE5 development products, and game projects have been exposed early. For example, in August last year, the game science's "Black Myth: Wukong" UE5 live machine demo shined, surprising many players.
The official release of Unreal Engine 5 announces that the next generation of games is really here this time. There may be more and more games with cinematic quality levels in the future. Of course, Unreal Engine is still a tool after all, and good games still need good developers to create, so let's wait and see!
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