Epic Forms Seattle Studio

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Epic Games announces the formation of a new Seattle studio to focus on their upcoming Unreal Engine 4:

Epic Games, Inc. announces the establishment of a new Seattle studio, which will be initially focused on engineering efforts for its award-winning Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) technology. As of today, Epic is recruiting developers to work on its latest technological projects.

Epic is searching for exceptional programmers and support staff to collaborate with its engineering group, which maintains a median industry experience of 12 years. Epic is especially looking to hire senior-level talent specializing in online game services and the infrastructure to support them. Job listings for Epic’s Seattle office can be found at http://www.epicgames.com/careers/seattle.

“The proximity to key partners, the density of world-class talent and all the factors that make Seattle an attractive place to live convinced us that it is the perfect locale for Epic’s West Coast operation,” said Epic Games President Dr. Michael Capps. “We are looking to hire even more of the best engineers around to contribute to Unreal Engine 4, which we believe is set to change the way we all make games.”

The Unreal Engine, which has been commercially available and continually evolving since the mid-1990s, has been licensed for hundreds of popular games. Unreal Engine 3 (UE3), which operates on nine platforms, has been licensed to develop more than 300 games since 2006, when Epic shipped the original “Gears of War” game. UE4, revealed earlier this year, recently won IGN’s “Coolest Tech” Best of E3 2012 award, Game Informer’s “Best Tech” E3 2012 award and GamesRadar’s “Best Taste of Next Gen” E3 award.

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Re: Unreal II is a great game.

Sep 7, 2012, 16:18

vacs

hb3d wrote on Sep 7, 2012, 10:21: Unreal II didn't have the ground-breaking visuals, multiplayer, and moddability of the original Unreal, but it's still a great game, and it is a better single-player game than the original Unreal if you value story and dialog. I agree with everything you said above (even the unquoted part) but Unreal 2 was missing the one thing which made Unreal 1 very special for me: The feeling of being stranded on a alien planet, exploring strange locations and technologies, discovering an unique world. Unreal 2 might have the better story, or weapons, or combat, or enemies but it completely lacks the special feeling like the first time you escape the spaceship in the beginning, hearing the MOD soundfile and being amazed by the landscape and the beautiful waterfal. I remember the first time I dived into a river in Unreal, being completely overwhelmed of the watereffects, the fishes, the "unreal" world you just happen to experience. None of this was offered Unreal 2. It's the same complaint I have to make against Half-Life 2 eventhough by its standard it was also a great FPS... but again, it completely lacked the feeling Half-Life 1 had to offer.

Unreal II is a great game.

Sep 7, 2012, 10:21

hb3d

vacs wrote on Sep 7, 2012, 07:09: (I'm still trying to erase Unreal 2 from my memory) Unreal II is a great story-driven FPS game especially by today's standards: It's not short, it has a really good mix of standard and unique weapons (like the spider gun and singularity cannon) of which you are not limited to carrying just a few, health doesn't automatically regenerate, the combat is very good with challenging and varied enemies, and it has decent dialog and voice acting with some interactivity. And, if you didn't shed a tear or weren't moved emotionally by what happens to your crew at the end of the game, then you have no soul. Unreal II didn't have the ground-breaking visuals, multiplayer, and moddability of the original Unreal, but it's still a great game, and it is a better single-player game than the original Unreal if you value story and dialog. This comment was edited on Sep 7, 2012, 11:04.