Both Gears were pretty high budget and this demo destroys both graphically. And CryEngine 3 will ship with the same development tools as UE3. And for developers to use an engine the company that originally developed the engine must sell licenses, which neither of the three you mentioned does.

@Garnett

So Epic can't get the best out of their own engine? O_o

I prefer the fluid look of IdTech5, but it does look really nice!

Glad that they figured out the Cell though... the bit at the end made it sound like it runs really well on the PS3... as a PS3 owner I hope developers start using this engine!

The only reason UE is used so much is because it can be leased out from EPIC to smaller devs not willing to build their own engine. And UE is dynamic and relatively inexpensive.

I've always found the UE3 hideous, the best it got to show for it is Gears, and that's nothing more than a lot of textures, bleh....

I love Epic but no, no it doesnt. Only Epic engine that could compare is UE4 which hasn't been revealed.

Couple things here...

1) Video looks awesome, the video's they've shown before have looked pretty much identical between PS3 and 360, so while I know this is in the Sony forum, 360 owners should be pumped as well.

2) Why are we comparing a tech video, that has admittedly been optimized for effect (he says that numerous times in the video) against an older version of an actual UE3 game? and why does it have to "destroy!!" it? I've never understood the extreme competition...I mean honestly, are we still in kindergarten? My dad can beat your dad up!!

@Ultima; budget for Gears 2 was estimated at 12 million - not high budget at all.

You gotta be kidding me... judging a HD engine from a CAMERA video at youtube in SD resolution??

Seriously? There haven't been any big budget games that use Unreal Engine 3?

I think I can name a few.......

Yes, that is high-budget, seeing as the studio didn't spend anything on the engine. That's where a big chunk of the budget goes in the first place.