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Epic Flaunts More Unreal Engine Tech with Samaritan Demo Video

Post by Dan @ 02:30pm 10/03/11 | 18 Comments

Epic Games have released a trailer of their "Samaritan" demo, the impressive technology showcase that the developer was exhibiting at the recent Games Developer Conference event to highlight the recent additions to their popular Unreal Engine 3 software.

The most important thing to note is that although it might look like a pre-rendered cut-scene, this demo reel was actual exhibited running in real-time on their beefy demo rig at GDC.

Past Unreal Engine tech showcases have included scenery and characters from Unreal Tournament 3 and Gears of War so -- based on nothing but pure speculation -- it's reasonable to expect elements of this tech demo could also very-well be part of an unannounced Epic title.

Check it out below or click here for the HD option.

epic games unreal engine tech demo samaritan

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bepatient
Posted 02:31pm 10/3/11

Just saw this and was about to post. Looks absolutely amazing.

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Steve Farrelly
Posted 02:36pm 10/3/11

Please. Make. Game.

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trog
Posted 02:39pm 10/3/11

This was, I believe, running on brand new nvidia technology; I am not sure how much info is public about it just yet but I had a meeting w/ the Nvidia guy where they talked about it a tiny bit - it's basically an SLI rig, on a single card. So it's a pretty high end device for serious gamers.

term found this thing from AMD which is their closest offering but it sounds like the Nvidia one is still going to be the shit.

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Steve Farrelly
Posted 02:43pm 10/3/11

The next two or three years are going to be the return of high-end PC gaming

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Mordecai
Posted 02:47pm 10/3/11

In the past Epic have shown demos like this and then made games from them. Epic Citadel/Infinity Blade for one. So heres hoping this happens aswell.

Trog: Over at Kotaku they have a cam version of this and the presenter showcasing it (Not show who) says three GTX580's is what this is running on.

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carson
Posted 03:00pm 10/3/11

The next two or three years are going to be the return of high-end PC gaming

Yes please!

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Reverend
Posted 06:05pm 10/3/11

I got a hardon watching that ))

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Sc00bs
Posted 06:16pm 10/3/11

fuck that looked awesome

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3dee
Posted 06:24pm 10/3/11

Finite depth of field ftmfw.

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icewyrm
Posted 06:32pm 10/3/11

The next two or three years are going to be the return of high-end PC gaming

Time to start saving for a new rig I guess, haha. Frankly, I can't wait till something FORCES me to upgrade.

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rrrocket
Posted 09:31pm 10/3/11

intro reminded me of police quest 1.

but I think it's max payne 4 ever

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euphoria
Posted 10:07pm 10/3/11

That world looked a lot like Syndicate.

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Vash
Posted 10:08pm 10/3/11

Hopefully they can do this without increasing the power requirements of PCs... getting over 500W requirement is going to be excessive.

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Trauma
Posted 02:26am 11/3/11

The next two or three years are going to be the return of high-end PC gaming

Till the next generation of consoles hits, but i will enjoy it while it's there! Also vid is sexy.

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Crakaveli
Posted 03:52am 11/3/11

The next two or three years are going to be the return of high-end PC gaming

I seriously doubt it.

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Bah
Posted 05:40am 11/3/11

The next two or three years are going to be the return of high-end PC gaming

If you mean console ports at high res with lots of aa, then yes, but games made for pc with ridiculous graphic engines that only run on powerful pc's, then i doubt it.

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fpot
Posted 06:42am 11/3/11

When people are jumping up and down in their living rooms playing Sailboat Adventure 2 and they see those graphics playing on someones PC they are going to be all "what am I playing this sailboat shit for?" run out and upgrade. People go where the graphics are.

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