The Unreal Engine is a game engine developed by Epic Games, first displayed in the 1998 first-person shooter game Unreal. Although mostly developed for first-person shooters, it has been successfully used in a variety of other styles, including stealth, MMORPGs, along with other RPGs. With its code written in C++, the Unreal Engine features a high degree of portability and is a tool employed by many game developers nowadays.
It has been awarded by Guinness World Records as “the most effective video game engine”.
The current release is Unreal Engine 4, made for Microsoft’s DirectX 11 and 12 (for Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, Windows RT); GNM (for PlayStation 4); OpenGL (for macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, Ouya and Windows XP); Vulkan (for Android); Metal (for iOS); and JavaScript/WebGL (for HTML5 web browsers).
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