I bet that everyone these days can hear things like "New Unreal Engine 3 based MMO" or "Next gen MMORPGs that uses Unreal Engine 3". And then some of questions appear on our minds like "What is Unreal Engine 3 after all?" and "What kind of changes or improvements it will bring tho MMOs?". To clear some of this questions I will try to explain in a simple way what UE3 is and what changes it'll bring to the games that uses it.

What is Unreal Engine 3?

"The Unreal Engine is a popular game engine developed by Epic Games. First illustrated in the 1998 first-person shooter game Unreal, it has been the basis of many games since, including Unreal Tournament, Turok, Mass Effect, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas, America's Army, Red Steel, Gears of War, BioShock, BioShock 2, Tactical Ops: Assault on Terror, Mirror's Edge and so forth. Although primarily developed for first-person shooters, it has been successfully used in a variety of genres, including stealth (Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell), MMORPG (Vanguard: Saga of Heroes) as well as RPGs with Mass Effect, The Last Remnant, and Harry Potter and the