Mobile Game Engines - Mobile Game Design Essentials - page 214

Unreal/UDK
The Unreal Engine is the 3D game engine developed by Epic for its popular Unreal
saga, available today in its 3rd generation and which powered games such as Gears
of War , Batman: Arkham Asylum , or the Mass Effect franchise, just to mention a few.
In 2009, Epic released to the general public a free version of the UE3 SDK, called
Unreal Development Kit, thus offering the community of indie game developers a tool
like they never had before.
Though the engine was designed with shooters in mind (the Unreal games were first
person shooters), it has been successfully adapted over time to several other game
genre and applications, ranging from 3rd person games (shooters, action games,
and RPGs), stealth games, melee fighting games (we suggest you to have a look at
the very interesting Chivalry Medieval Warfare shown in the following picture. The
link to the game is http://www.chivalrythegame.com/ ), and MMOs, but also to create
detailed 3D simulations, serious games and training software:
The rendering capabilities of the Unreal Engine are what makes it better than most
of its direct competitors, as it supports many advanced features such as HDRR, pixel