UE3 Samaritan Real-Time Demo | Unreal Engine

Revealed at the 2011 Game Developers Conference, the real-time demo of "Samaritan" shows what Epic wants to see in the next generation of games.

[cinnamondum]

even in 2024 this looks surprisingly realistic, it looks great alone but in darkness and rain it really hides all imperfection

[jacksepticeye]

Star wars 1313 is finally reaching UE3s upper limit in visuals like this demo

[ItsTeaMagic]

Even after 4 years... It still got me chills

[DrathVader]

Bear in mind, this is 8 year old engine.

[pgp]

Arkham Knight was the peak of UE3 and closest to this demo in terms of fidelity

[Lolwtfrudoin]

Reminds me of the original Unreal.

You folk at Epic never cease to amaze me. You know that? You wowed me as a kid, and you still wow me as an adult. Keep up the good work.

[kurdigamer]

Coming to revisit after unreal engine 5.1

[killa]

That cigarette must have been like 5 pounds for it to make that cop's head

[kudendar]

WOW, is all you need to say! espesually liked 1:51 I was awe-inspired at the detail. not to mention the rain washing the blood off the wall and ground...Congrats again Epic your awesomeness inspires us all!

[MilesDeighton]

This video is seven years old now. Funny how games are only *just* starting to look this good as we go into spring 2018.

[owenstudios]

This to ue5 amazing. Just amazing. Thank you epic games for making this free for all!

[Quarteg]

My mind is officially blown! Thank you.

[TallicaMan]

I'm sure they used their engine to the fullest in Unreal Tournament III.

The lighting, polygons, explosions, and finer details in the maps are gorgeous and this is an early game too.

[oktny]

This stuff is 4 years old and next-gen is nowhere near this good looking...

[CALiiGeddonTwo]

3 years ago I was just in complete shock of how good this looked.  It still looks good now but it's amazing how computers and graphics have advanced in just a short amount of time.

[sunset]

Man I hope Epic makes this into a game. Looks like it could be awesome. Plus, I'd take a Samaritan game over a bulletstorm 2 any day.

[themanlikepaul]

I really love the music and sound effects on this. The graphics are ok too.

[IgelHautOrg]

Do the Samaritan Tech Demo in UE 4, PLEEEEAAAASSSEEEE!!!

[MrSplademan]

To get into the nutty gritty technical, UDK and UREAL as a game engine on the most fundamental level renders and compiles Binary Space Partitioning differently to Quake based engines, such as IW4.1. IW4.1 Radiant builds entire levels out of BSP, then you texture them then it compiles the whole lot into solid geometry where sections labeled as CAULK are ignored and sections with tool textures are converted into "zones" or "trigger zones".

[kayeplaguedoc]

Someone who is more knowledgeable about tech, I have 2 questions:

1. Why does this still look damn good despite us now having better
2. Why does modern Unreal Engine 4/5 have such a different look, particularly in terms of lighting? I kinda miss the stylized look of UE3’s lighting and shading and dunno why that vibe can’t be recreated in 4 and 5. Surely it’s still possible, is it just cause they favor more realistic lighting models now?.