Unreal Engine Reviews - Page 2

Unreal Engine is a fantastic and beautiful game engine, and its clear Epic have taken huge steps into improving their engine from the days of Unreal Development Kit. There are two main things I like most about Unreal Engine. First is their visual scripting system known as Blueprints (previously known as Kismet in Unreal Development Kit). Blueprints allow users to create gameplay and scripting events...

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With all of the capability of Unreal Engine, ther main thing I like least about this software is its sheer learning curve. Unreal does have tools to build right out of the box - however, learning all of them takes a very long time, with the exception of Blueprints. It is not helped by a user interface that isn't particularly intuitive, unless you know the ins and outs of working with it, which can take a considerable amount of time. Again, their visual scripting system known as Blueprints is an exception to this. Each of its tools is complex and thus, can take time away from development. With that being said, there are countless tutorials and Epic has created a very helpful online manual for all of these tools but even then, in comparison to other engines, it can be intimidating.

Unreal Engine has grown over the years and it's now more friendly to single developers, indy movie produces and indy game studios as well. It has a robust toolset that allows you to create 3D games with one of the best engines for realistic looks, yet you can use models that fit your artistic vision, ex: stylized games. If you want an example of how small studios can make a good unreal game, look for...

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One of the downsides of Unreal is how complex it is when comparing it to Godot or Unity. The community for it, it's very small and a lot of the people who have knowledge on Unreal are tied behind studio contracts and maybe they're not allowed to share or help around in the web much, but when you look at Unity, there's dozens and dozens of websites, youtubers, courses and resources that you could basically build a game with no knowledge, but in Unreal it will take a lot of time and expertise on what you're doing. Also one last thing, you can build 2D games in Unreal, but you're better off using GameMaker or Unity for 2D Games. The community and engine support is just bigger and bettter.

Being based on an existing game, and evolving since the earlier ages of 3D games, Unreal3D is the perfect match for any Studio which doesn't want to build, maintain and optimize its own in-house Engine. The expertise of Epic, the number of users worldwide and the multiple layers of development allows many different users to access and create assets/features easily. The Engine comes up with a great...

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The Engine is heavy and demands a powerful computer. This is a mandatory investment if you want to push your project further. The Engine is also very fat and the bigger it grows, the more space it will take on your versioning software. Unreal3D also offers limited compatibility with git (our version software of choice).

Some of the features that are considered the best of Unreal Engine are:High-quality graphics: Unreal Engine offers some of the most realistic and high-quality graphics in the gaming industry thanks to its advanced graphics engine.Flexibility and customization: Unreal Engine is very flexible and can be customized to suit different developer needs and requirements.Active Community and Support: Unreal...

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Some of the things that can be considered the worst of Unreal Engine are:Steep Learning Curve: Unreal Engine has a steep learning curve due to the large number of advanced tools and features it offers, which can be challenging for beginners.Hardware Requirements: To use Unreal Engine effectively, you need a powerful computer with a dedicated graphics card and lots of RAM.File size – Unreal Engine project files can be very large, which can be challenging for developers who need to share files with other team members.

I love that UE is backed by amazing tutorials, keeps improving, has a lot of free assets, and is always very fun to jump right into using constantly along with the fact that it has the best Visual Scripting (Blueprints) toolset around to make it easy for anyone to make games or other various projects.

Programming can be frustrating at times, Customer Support is almost non-existent, and occasionally trying to learn how to do something in it can become a nuance. On top of that some of the plugins and tools from third-parties are extremely expensive and overpriced which can force hackney methods to problem-solve.

This engine is a shortcut to get an amazing final product in both aesthetics and code. The Blueprints system can do almost everything traditional code can. It's priceless to have a visual way to debug: you can see all the paths taken in the execution in real time. My favorite feature is the material creator (equivalent to shaders) based on graph nodes, which is becoming the standard nowadays, but since...

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For me the hardest fact to accept is that you can't run Unreal Engine 4 Editor in a "normal" specs laptop (they explicitly say it on the requirements page), but also your final products will have higher requirements, unless you spend lots of hours and effort in optimization like it was perfectly done with Sea of Thieves and Fortnite. I shared my 3rd person spaceship prototype game with some friends and they got around 10 fps on normal (kind of old) laptops. Nothing less than i5 could run it fluidly even with 4Gb ram.

The most prominent feature Unreal Engine offers you is its fantastic graphical prowess. Even without extensive work, you get AAA quality graphics setup ready for you to unleash your imagination on. The lighting, the shadows, the rendering, it just works. You get some beautiful visuals in your games if you spend a little time tinkering around, without much pain. And its Blueprints feature is the best in the industry, enabling you to get up and running very quickly to get started on creating prototypes and even full featured games. And both of these features eclipse any offering offered by any free to use game engines. If you need the best and the greatest, Unreal Engine is the way to go.

The learning curve could and should be improved for Unreal Engine. Even with previous knowledge of C++, learning the nuances and the ways of Unreal C++ was no easy task. And, Blueprints, although really easy once you get the hang of it, is kind of hard to get at first. To remedy this, Unreal must provide more resources and learning materials. Another of my major concern is that mobile game development seems like just an afterthought on this engine. The Console/PC development is the tops, but deploying to mobile is a hard task.

There's already a wide array of games available to run in the engine. Since its so widely deployed already, the array of available games for sampling and ideas are endless. I also like how they constantly provide updates and patches for bug fixes, sometimes multiple times a week. There really isnt any way to beat the pricing, unless a platform is going to pay you to use their engine ( LOL)

The editor is more complicated that Photoshop's tool set, if that's possible! So the learning curve is HUGE! There's a ton of options that are not relevant to current projects, so the tool set should be dynamic rather than static. For an engine this widely used, it's baffling that there is not a better online community for support, ideas, and think-tanking. If Epic can't develop their own, they should fund some 3rd party projects. Wish they had better 2d tools.

I absolutely love using Unreal Engine to learn how to make games! I love playing games that are made with this engine as well!

The only thing I can complain about is why they don't make even more games !!! they are awesome!

First of all its free. You need to pay after a million dollars. Can you believe it?Secondly its UI/UX. You can understand everything just by looking at them. They've designed the game engine like you wanted. Even from simplest thing to most complicated thing. You just need a couple of clicks.Third, coding and no-coding option. You can make games with no code.

Nothing, i really really do like everything about that.

You can use it from novice to expert, thanks to its user-friendly interface and extensive tool set. Compared to its rivals, it provides better visual technology and material editors that are extremely useful to game designers. Even if you've never coded before, Unreal Engine's visual scripting makes it simple to create a game.

Compared to Godot or Unity, Unreal is a more difficult platform to use. Because of the small size of the Unreal community and the restrictions imposed by studio contracts, many people with expertise in Unreal are restricted from freely sharing their knowledge online. In contrast, with Unity, there are literally thousands of websites, youtube channels, courses, and other resources available to anyone who wants to start making games from scratch. Finally, you can make 2D games in Unreal, but it's better to use GameMaker or Unity for 2D games. As a result, the community and engine support have grown and improved.

Unreal Engine is well designed to be intuitive and accessible. You don't have to be a programmer to be able to use it and get useful results with it.

Understandably, some of the features are difficult to learn, but that's expected for complex software. What's most difficult is figuring out the logic needed to use the Blueprints. Even as you don't need to know how to write code, you still need to know the "logic" that code writers use. So, you sort of need part of the coders knowledge. Learning program logic (I'm not talking about syntax here) is pretty difficult but not insurmountable. It just takes desire and time.

I like its simplicity and variety of product types and markets

It has optimisation issues and causes my pc to crash

Unreal Engine is the single best game development software. It provides high quality graphics and the most realistic lighting ever seen. The Unreal asset store is filled to the brim with the highest quality assets created by the users of Unreal Engine. Unreal Engine also has support for motion capture and VR making your workload less of a stress and more fun. Blueprints is Unreal Engine's easy way of coding for beginners, but you can always switch to C++ code if you are advanced enough. If you are stuck on a particular section of your project, there are many tutorials online that are very useful. Unreal Engine offers many different types of templates for games that you may want to develop, some include first person shooters, third person shoots, vr and many more.

I have yet to encounter anything wrong with Unreal Engine, there are monthly updates that fix bugs and add new features. I must recommend this to anyone looking to get into the game developing business as there are so many useful feature that Unreal Engine provides with each new update.

unreal is free for everybody. If you wanna work int the game industry or learn to do code C+++ this is the way to go. Alots of video games that are published by triple-A studio use Unreal Engine.

It could be overwhelming at first cause Unreal engine has a lot to offer to anyone wanting to build a level, import animation, etc.

I love that Epic Games, creator of Unreal Engine, has a pricing model which makes the full version of the product available for free to anyone, and only charges when creators make money from the content they produce.

There is a lack of broader support in Unreal for 3D assets made in other programs, with the only accepted filetype being .fbx . As it was, assets created by others frequently had to go through a 3D modeling program to export from their existing file type to fbx, often losing some aspects of the data (such as positional placement, scale, etc.) along the way. Overall, however, this is a very minor issue.

The engine is packed with useful features, but regularly gets major updates with significant performance increases and new features. This is thanks to Unreal Engine developers Epic Games still developing and releasing their own games, and feeding their fixes, features and improvements back into the engine.

Some rendering features that offer creative freedom have been deprecated in place of rendering features that allow more realism. This can be a pain to work around if an engine update comes out that deprecates something that you use, and you need to go back and adjust your project to suit the new rendering feature.

Unreal engine is one of the game engines that is setting the standard in todays video games industry. It is so powerful and it's games have such a high quality. For any programmer with a solid C++ knowledge beginning your experience with unreal programming shouldn't be much problem. Something that is a plus with this engine is how many tutorials online you can find, which is always a plus either when you are a begginer or when you want to go pro.

Even small games produced with Unreal engine are really heavy compared with other engines, however quality always comes at a price.

The software keeps getting updates to fix the the overall software as clean as possible and easy to use even for a newbie the graphics this thing provides is amazing the only thing is to enjoy all the fun you have to have a powerful system to handle the specs

The least thing I liked about the software was the price which could be little low but I understand there is a whole team behind working for hours making it better to use so it does make it up

The graphics and performance in Unreal Engine 5 are top-notch. The toolset is also very user-friendly and intuitive, making it easy to create high-quality content.

There is a bit of a learning curve to get started with Unreal Engine, but once you get the hang of it, it's worth it.

UE has everything needed for creation of games. Their advanced animation trees are an extremely useful resource that has never failed, be it with indie of AAA games.

To use UE is to put yourself through years of mastering details. The difficulty curve is steep and the advanced UI of the program doesn't make it much easier. It is but a tool for those who already posses knowledge on how to use it, but for small-time indie companies it's an investment of time and money trying to figure out how to achieve their goals.

There are numerous AAA games developed in the Unreal Engine, which only serves to further cement its reputation as a leading platform for the creation of video games. With Ue's multiplatform support, it's easy to bring a console game to a mobile device.

To use UE, you'll have to spend years mastering the tiniest of details. In spite of the program's advanced user interface, the learning curve remains steep. As a tool for those who already know how to use it, but as an investment of time and money for small-time indie companies, it is a waste of time and money.

With UE5 the next generation of games are going to be amazing. The fees are straightforward, the asset market place is great (plus Epic give you free assets each month), the tools are easy to use, there are many guides on YouTube if you're stuck (and a huge community), its easy to make games compatible on many devices, plugins are plentiful, the list goes on really...

The no code option is great but with each update, some bits get reworked and removed meaning that you'll need to use different blocks to do the same action. This can mess up certain mechanics and make doing some bits difficult (granted it would probably be easier if i learnt C++ better).