http://au.pc.ign.com/articles/100/1003725p1.htmlPlease note the absence of the GameBryo engine.
My comments:
1. RAGE engine - I am pretty impressed by the graphics in Red Dead Revolver. I would count them as better than the graphics in GTA IV even though it uses the same engine.
2. CryEngine - Yeah ok well, it's the thing that runs Crysis, so no surprise that it looks good. I have heard that in Crysis Warhead they got it looking good and running pretty well, so it's good that this kind of quality can be delivered in a more readily-enjoyable package.
3. The Naughty Dog engine - This one is a bit of a surprise for me, because I hadn't really been looking at the Uncharted series. I would rank it as looking ok, but in some of the action scenes it looks a lot better.
4. The Dead engine - This was not a very good trailer to show off the engine. I couldn't really see much. I have seen some of Deadspace though and really liked what I saw there.
5. Unreal engine - If you have seen my previous comments about the Unreal engine you might be surprised by me saying that it actually looks kind of ok in Gears of War 2. Normally Unreal games look shiny and horrible (Bioshock especially was a shiny piece of shit) but somehow (perhaps the sunlight?) the clips I saw from GoW2 looked alright by comparison.
6. Avalanche engine - This engine, even in the original Just Cause was a really gorgeous engine that could handle wide open spaces very very well. Its main failing in my opinion is the lack of detail in character models. If they found a way to bump the detail up on models when you were close to them, then turn it back down when you're in action mode it would be far more impressive than it already is.
7. IW engine - I honestly hadn't seen this one before due to not playing the kind of games that use it. It looks ok I guess? I dunno. I would definitely get a better feel for it if I played a game that used it, but even though it was kind of technically good it felt bland. The lighting wasn't used very well in the clip they linked to, so everything seemed pretty generic.
8. Anvil Engine - I can see why people laud Assassin's Creed as being a beautiful game. The engine at least looks pretty cool in the Assassin's Creed 2 clip they show here.
9. EGO engine - It's a car racing engine. Whatever, right? Yeah but it looks pretty good. One thing that car games have got to do right is physics and landscapes, and this engine looks to do landscapes at least rather well.
10. Geo-mod engine - The graphics in this clip are pretty boring. The physics are a step forward I guess, but the explosions/demolitions look like a lego building being blown up. They're not natural. It blows into little pre-defined regular pieces instead of being randomly blown to fucking shit. A for effort, but the execution sucks.