The Batman Unreal Engine 5 tech demo showcase has been released, and it packs some impressive cloth physics.
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Unreal Engine 5 is the most popular game engine of 2025. Of course, it has its flaws, particularly concerning Nanite and Lumen, but the Epic logo is prominent among the most popular titles. Recent hits to feature UE5 include Clair Obscure, Oblivion Remastered, Runescape, Delta Force, Fragpunk, Split Fiction, InZOI, etc.
UE5 is going to unlock a lot of potential for smaller developers to make big games. I wasn't impressed with earlier versions with texture pop-up and Vaseline. But this engine is finally getting there.
Should be impressive as long as developers don't use the same assets without changing them as we'll end up seeing a lot of me too games looking similar. We don't want that.
I'll say this though, a "The Samaritan" videogame or even "Infiltrator" videogame would look mighty good about now.
whole lot of "meh" if im honest
Apart from the invironment, that looks very ordinary.
The Unreal Engine 5 is the only thing that has looked next-gen this entire generation of consoles. Two years in and every game except maybe Ratchet & Clank could have or actually was done on the last gen hardware. Outside of higher resolution and framerate, not much differences especially if you don't have a newer TV to take advantage of those upgrades. Just go look at Gotham Knights demo compared to this tech demo.....
Arkham knight has better physics