A few days ago at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference John Carmack from id Software has shown what he was doing for a last few years. As surprise to most gamers his latest gaming engine, id Tech 5, was running on a Macintosh. Video is available here as streaming video. If you would like to download it and check out the details he is describing in during the presentation download it from usual places.
To me, it still looks like Doom 3 engine but taken to a slightly higher level. Vehicles and structure have a distinctive look and feel from Doom 3. The same goes for characters as well. I don't know if this is due to textures used in the demo or specific result of the engine but gives strong resemblance to other id games.
id always had a very good technology and it was amazing what they could do with it. It gets even better when developer studios like Ravensoft take it over and push it even further.
This video could be a response to lot of media attention to other gaming engines. Hottest titles are Crysis, Unreal Tournament 3, Halo 3, Force Unleashed.
If I have to choose new gaming engines that are coming up my first choices are Crytec's CryEngine 2 engine and combination of Euphoria and MolecularMatter for Star Wars: Force Unleashed game.
I suspect that in next few months we will see more of videos of all of these engines. The battle for the king of next generation gaming is going to be very intersting one...
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