Re: PES2010 News & Rumours thread
Correct me if I'm wrong, but without a good engine animations are limited along fps?
Hulo, there has been much debate about the "new engine" debacle, and that the game cannot be improved without creating a new engine from scratch. But there's been much discussion about whether the necessary need for new engine, EA did a brilliant job of emphasizing their next-gen engine to the public, which is why its understandable that people want KONAMI to do the same.
Found this courtesy of Kojima from WENB.
"The game engine exists to abstract the details of doing common game-related tasks, like rendering, physics, and input, so that developers can focus on the details that make their games unique.
Engines offer reusable components that can be manipulated to bring a game to life. Loading, displaying, and animating models, collision detection between objects, physics, input, graphical user interfaces, and even portions of a game's artificial intelligence can all be components that make up the engine."
Source: gamecareerguide.com
As mentioned before, its easy to blame the game engine for KONAMI's downfall in PES's gameplay recently, but I think its also fair to say that the programmers probably haven't had a full grasp of it and haven't fully utilized it.(which was massively changed in PES2008, if I remember correctly)
Do we really need a new engine just to add let's say, 360 movement,etc?
Or can the current engine be improved to an extent that it can allow visual and gameplay improvements, as well as A.I enhancements?
Now, I'm not comparing KONAMI's PES game engine to other well established names,but if we look at Valve's games which utilizes the Source Engine, and the constantly used Unreal Engine, we can see that game engines
can be further improved and enhanced without totally revamping it, or rebuilding from scratch.
Then again I'm not much of an expert when it comes to game progamming, so this is all just my humble opinion, courtesy of a small research done on the net.
What do you guys think about this?
Just my two cents.
cheers
