What If Street Fighter IV Was Built On The Unreal Engine?

Kotaku writes: "Some forum dwellers over on Game Artisans have taken it upon themselves to run a little competition, see who can come up with the best 3D Street Fighter character render. The results show that it's a fruitless contest, because everyone who even glances at the thread is a winner."

[Bathyj]

The texures would pop in halfway through the match.

[LeGenDx]

capcom is smart, they wouldnt.

[saphiron]

no thanks.. i prefer the more colorful cartoony style for streetfighter. Not an UE fan, but nice models..

[Lich120]

Yeah, not to mention the poly counts in those is way to high for in game. However, whoever did that guile model is extremely talented. Actually, the blanka is good too, but that Guile is really impressive to me.

[SaiyanFury]

Then it wouldn't run well on PS3. The UE3 engine has already beenproven not to run well on PS3 hardware.

[vitz3]

@SaiyanFury

You don't know what you're sayin. UT3, Bioshock, Fatal Intertia EX, Army of Two, Mirror's Edge. All games running UE3 tech on the PS3.

You're an idiot.

Also if SFIV was using the UT3 engine the colour pallete would be limited to like 5 colours and everything would be brown, grey, and rusty. IMO.

[Doppy]

Honestly that doesn't look bad. Either would have been fine, but I really wanted the paint brush effect in the game too bad.

[CobraKai]

Yeah it would look completely generic. Unreal Engine looked fantastic 2 years ago, but since every game utilizes it, it just looks plain. I mean C'mon, Guile looks like he's a gears of war character. Where's the art? Where is the style?

[Tony P]

C'mon people. I don't think UE needs to be used for SFIV, but this is awesome work. Grats to the artist.

[phosphor112]

UE3 engine is BASED off of bump mapping and normal mapping. The models in a UE3 based game all are very low poly count, but what gives them its detail is the mapping and pixel shaders. The RSX is not good with pixel shaders, while the Xenos is. Most PS3 devs end up using the Cell to do it's pixel shaders.

While the PS3 CAN pump out more pixel shaders, this is the thing:
RSX + Cell = can pump out more PPI (pixels per inch) with lots of pixel shaders than the 360.
Xenos = Since it works by itself and not with the Xenon, its PPI is lowered with each pixel shader.

Since the UE3 engine is more compatible with a PC, the UE3 engine is easier to program for the PC + 360, while for the PS3, its hard to split processes (or any pc engine port) up between the Cell and RSX.

Oh, and I'm not a fan of UE3, my experience with it has been good, great quality for its power usage, but I prefer to have soldiers not look like they are drenched in vaseline.

[ThatCanadianGuy]

Then i wouldn't buy it.

[Cajun Chicken]

NO.

[Mr Tretton]

UE, go away plz.

Guerilla Engine...hello.

[BLUR111]

id Tech 5 I think will be the most powerful

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

You haven't seen the White engine in action yet, have you?

[shocky16]

No thanks.

[Eiffel]

BLUR111 is correct ID tech 5 rapes all.

[Marquis_de_Sade]

The Killzone 2 engine would be a poor choice for smaller scale games, at least based on the poor textures in Killzone 2. ID Tech 5 at least sounds phenomenal, superior to the Crystal tools in use at Square Enix anyway.

[Trebius]

Unreal Engine is played out...

Lets come up with Unreal Engine 2 Devs!

[Fishy Fingers]

Epic are working on UE4 now. Doubt you'll see it this generation though.

[jlemdon]

dude last time I checked, it's the #1 engine most devs use.
with a mix of Havok as well.:) b.o.t. if they could use toon shaders on the guile model it would pwnsome.

blanka reminds me of a pixar character.

[phosphor112]

For the most part, yes, but it's only because you can get good quality, with ease of programming. It really is easy. Because one does not have to model details with polygons, but only with texture mapping, it really cuts down production costs and time.

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Oh, almost everyone uses Havok. It's a great engine by the way.

[vlazed]

I hate the Unreal engine, but I don't like SF4's art direction either.

[Gobuz]

What If Street Fighter IV Was Built On The Unreal Engine?

It would be crap, i got MK IV and i wish they went back to 2D. I think allot of people are going to want beat-em ups for nostalgia reasons, Street Fighter is beautiful and the reason why i bought it.

I want to feel like i did when i played in the arcade, loved SF.

[Beg For Mercy]

to mention it would be stiff as a board.

[thereapersson]

Well for starters, the fight would start before the textures finish loading...

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

Agreed.

[xabmol]

Nice one.

xD

[Marceles]

It's already gay enough it's built on the Unreal Engine, but who would model him with a space between his shirt and his pants and think that was badass?

Seriously though it looks good...just....tuck your damn shirt in Guile...god...

[CobraKai]

I didn't even notice that before. Couple that with his stance and he looks kinda gay

[Deios]

Maybe they can add Guile as a guess character in Gears Of War 3 :)

[typikal82]

Yeah so SOMEONE ELSE can cry about their wife thats turned into a crack whore the whole game.

[Pheonix03]

If this happened I would lose all faith in Capcom forever!

[ultimolu]

Ewww, no...

[kewlkat007]

It would make a for a better "real" looking SF, then the "Movie" one that had the realism look to it, a while back, on 3DO.

[DirtyLary]

Lu Kang in MK vs DC with all the veins, an unreal game.

[tee_bag242]

It would suck! thats what.. total sacrilege. I think there's enough evidence to see capcom's engines ARE Streetfighter.

Lets move along now.

[DirtyLary]

Stallone on growth hormone getting ready for his next movie.

http://tinyurl.com/bz3jdk

[xabmol]

Eehhueheehehh

Geezus...

[Hiruma Youchi]

I prefer the SF4 art. But yeah those Unreal Art work of Guile are really well done.

[jesuisankit]

for all those who say the model sucks... jus hold on and look into all the hard work put by the artist in the models.. they are not made so that a realistic UE street fighter game is made.. it was done purely by their love for art and street fighter... in a way expressing in their way what street fighter means for them.. Most of the N4G members here have got it wrong. The guy who did Guile is a hardcore street fighter fan.. if you jus visit his thread where he posted the work.. you will know.. and maybe jus much more of a fan then ppl out here.

[lordgodalming]

Well said. Very few people understand the amount of work and love that go into pieces like this. +Bub

[Uzesgelen_Goo]

I wish capcom working CG movie of SF and characters looks like this can you guys imagening other character how will look? (^_^)

for the game i like it how looking now so no new look like this.

[DFresh]

Texture loading.
I've seen it on every single Unreal style Game that has ever come out.
From Unreal Tournament all the way to Gears of War 2.

My guesses PS3 wouldn't have such a great port just for some reason Unreal Engine and PS3 don't really get along well. (Weird.)

The game just wouldn't run as well.

Thank God Capcom didn't f*** up by choosing this engine and make their own engine good for them.

Anyways can't wait to play Street Fighter 4 on PS3 this month.

[Bumpmapping]

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[specialguest]

The texture and character model might be more realistic, but the faces will probably be off. Remember this SF2 box art from the 90s? haha http://www.insertcredit.com...

[Thoreau]

licking the boots of anything microsoft related.

[KKanjiAnkh]

sniffles, sniffles, I miss the 3rd Strike art direction, and House Music sniffles, sniffles. This why I LUV SNK, they stuck with their fans, KOF XII= gorgeous, Taito Type 2 FTW. sniffles, sniffles.

[yojoe26]

like he's ready to tear the crap out of somebody....blanca looks..........retarded.

[ShadowRyuX]

If it ran on the Unreal Engine then you would win/lose the fight before the textures loaded...

BUT

If it looked like that and ran on a nice Engine I'd definitely buy the game considering Tekken being so far off...

[Magnus]

As far as i remeber I played Ureal 3 and no probs on the Ps3, Last Remnant wich has the engine had problems on the xbox when i played it. I like the way STF4 looks now and the Guile pic looks awsome maybe STF5 the chracters will look like that i hope

[xabmol]

Don't read this.