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I think the GTA 3 family of GTA games did, yes. They were PlayStation 2 games first, and RenderWare was relatively common for PS2 games.

Source: worked in game dev using RenderWare on PS2 back then

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Since you were in the industry, was RW the first big 3rd party engine?

I know it’s common now, and seems to have really taken off in the Wii/PS3/360 era. My understanding is it wasn’t in the PSX generation (at least early?).

> RW the first big 3rd party engine

RW is RenderWare, it's not a game engine.

> really taken off in the Wii/PS3/360 era

No? RW have/had the immense success as an engine used in more than a dozen commercial games (compared to idTech1/2/3), but it's usage explodes in 2001, with 18 titles, compared with 4 in 2000.

> PSX generation

Too early.

https://en.everybodywiki.com/List_of_RenderWare_games

It was everywhere in the 90s that I remember when I was a game dev. I don't know if you would call it a game engine? We just called it a 3D engine back then. Back then at least I only remember it doing the graphics, no physics, animation, sound, etc?

It must have started off as a purely software renderer as I can remember trying to compete with their published stats on tris/sec.

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