Op Ed Piece: The Biggest Blunder of the Next-Gen

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super_etecoon said:

Interesting read...My only concern is that I don't want to see replicates of games...The repetiton of genre (WWII shooter, Sand Box GTA) is already bad enough.  Perhaps I don't completely understand the way an engine functions, but I don't know how happy I would feel if every game was just a skin on another.

Engines are nothing like a skin... Think of it as all illustrators, graphic designers, and photo retouchers using Photoshop to create their work... It doesn't mean that the results will be anywhere near the same.

Take a look at just a few games created using the U3 Engine.

Aliens — (2009) Gearbox Software
• America's Army 3.0 — (2007) US Army
• APB — (2008) Webzen
• Black Powder Red Earth - (2007) Echelon Studios
• Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway — (2007) Gearbox Software[33]
• BioShock - (2007) Irrational Games
• BlackSite: Area 51 — (2007) Midway Austin
• Elveon — (2007) 10tacle Studios[34]
• Fatal Inertia — (2007) Koei[35]
• Frontlines: Fuel of War — (2008) Kaos Studios
• Gears of War — (2006) Epic Games
• Halo Wars — (TBA) Ensemble Studios
• Huxley — (2007) Webzen Games[36]
• The Last Remnant — (2008) Square Enix
• Lineage III — (TBA) NCsoft[37]
• Lost Odyssey — (2007) Mistwalker[38]
• Mass Effect — (2007) BioWare[39]
• Medal of Honor: Airborne — (2007) Electronic Arts[40]
• Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia — (2007) Artificial Studios[41]
• RoboBlitz — (2006) Naked Sky Entertainment[42]
• Rogue Warrior: Black Razor - (2007) Bethesda Softworks
• Stargate Worlds — (2007) Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment[43]
• Stranglehold — (2007) Midway Chicago[44]
• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas — (2006) Ubisoft
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction - (2007) Ubisoft
• Too Human — (2007) Silicon Knights[45]
• Turok — (2007) Propaganda Games
• Unreal Tournament 3 — (2007) Epic Games
• Upcoming Mortal Kombat Game — (Unknown) Midway Games
• The Wheelman — (2007) Midway Games
• HEI$T — (2007) InXile Entertainment
• Condemned 2: Bloodshot — (2008) Sega