Embark Studios has released a test engine video for Embark (working title), showing the capabilities of Unreal Engine 4. Embark is a cooperative free-to-play action game set in a distant future, about overcoming seemingly impossible odds by working together.
This game is still in a very early development phase and the team’s goal with this terrain test was to see how far we could push visual fidelity on a large scale (256 square kilometers), with completely dynamic weather & lighting.
According to Patrick Söderlund, everything in this clip was created by three people over three weeks, using real-world scanned data, procedurally placed objects, and some great tools.
“This is a big vision, and we’re realistic about the challenge. It will take time and effort to get there. And for a small studio like ours, the right way to tackle this won’t be to hide away for years, trying to develop something big and complex that may or may not succeed.”
The team behind Embark aims to get something out there quite fast that it can build upon, and will be sharing more details about this project in the coming months.
Now before closing, we should note that this clip does not represent the game itself. This is an engine test that shows what Unreal Engine 4 is capable of. As such, the final game may not look as great as this test engine video.
Enjoy!
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I can already imagine how boring this will be.
…hmmm OK
The result is stuning!
Yes stunning, but indeed the game will not even look as close to that.
Indeed!
this will not be out for years. By the time it comes out, next gen will be out, so it’s possible
“According to Patrick Söderlund….”
lol Wow, talk about deflating ANY interest whatsoever in this pile of crap.
lol was just about to post this very comment.
My thoughts exactly – screw that guy, I wont ever be touching anything he makes, that guy is 50% EA to his core – hes just so corrupted by now. Get him away from gaming already.
Looks phenomenal
Patrick Söderlund
So he’s back to “educate” us on something new following his contribution to the relative failure of Battlefield V and departure from EA after having trousered $48.3 million from them in 2017.
Let’s see if Soyderlund repeats his disgustingly shameful tactic of weaponising his 13 year old daughter in the desperate effort to justify his poisonous SJW politics and revisionist history being thrust into video games he’s associated with.
Embark? Disembarked.
you’re dumb
Star Citizen developers would take 5 years to make that trailer
Looks amazing, but I hope that when Patrick mentions “three” people were responsible for this that none of them were the dreaded evil white males? Right Patrick?