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That's great news, hopefully we will see projects/engines in the future using this, similar how Doom/Quake stuff is still being worked on.

I'm not familiar with the engine, is it any good and how does it compare to others?

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It's slightly updated version of engine their early games used in 2001 so it's older than Doom's 3 engine id Tech 4. Should be still interesting for fans and study how old games work though.

It's actually a good contrast to the biases of id tech 4 - bright, huge scale outdoor landscapes and arenas with hundreds of AI opponents vs. dark interiors with mood lighting and smaller engagements. It's an early example of heavy usage of "modular" model instances to add detail instead of relying on brush geometry to do everything. There are plenty of nifty features like split screen.

From an overall technology standpoint, both engines should prove worthy of study given the radically different focus.

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