DOOM III Vs. Half Life 2 Engine Wars

[ammusk]

In this topic i would like to find out which engine ( doom III or Half Life 2 Source) do u guys feel more comfortable with i.e. which ones graphics, effects, physics, AI, etc. is better

personally i like the source engine which powers Half Life 2 because i think the one which powers doom III is kinda overdone with the graphics... the character like plastic action figures while Half life 2 characters are much more believable ...

also for a direct comparison i have uploaded some images for u guys to view
plz note that the images are from different games that are developed using the said engines

DOOM 3 ENGINE

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/122...reen0024uu.jpg
http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/458...reen0016bl.jpg
http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/364...reen0012yy.jpg
http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/331...reen0012al.jpg
http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/503...reen0054jh.jpg




HALF LIFE 2 ( SOURCE ) ENGINE

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/1964/4668482dz.jpg
http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/2951/4710153wt.jpg
http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/470...reen0030nt.jpg
http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/914...reen0333pj.jpg
http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/627...reen0012fh.jpg

plz tell me ur opinions guys

[deathvirus_me]

Doom 3 engine for me ....

[Hells_Fury]

The doom 3 engine. The lighting effects are simply superb.

[aceman]

Doom3 engine obviously

this has already been discussed many time, plz search before posting

Both the engines are good & both bad,

hl2 is good for outdoor sceans, sunlight, while D3 is good for indore, so it depends on the game being made, to clerify which is better

[drvarunmehta]

The Half-Life engine is a lot more versatile and has far better physics than the Doom 3 engine. That's not something you can see in screenshots.
The screenshots you have linked too are really bad. They don't do justice to either game engine.

[cvvikram]

I agree with @gxsaurav

[aceman]

Originally Posted by drvarunmehta

The Half-Life engine is a lot more versatile and has far better physics than the Doom 3 engine. That's not something you can see in screenshots.

I am not quite sure about that physics part.........all the objects in Half Life seemed a bit too light....never got the feel of a heavy barrel or a small barrel...........Doom 3 on the other .........the physics ( which ever U can move by the way ) were more in my opinion good.Check ROE physics with the Gravity gun ( Called as some plasma levitation ..god knows what name) .........will seem much better than Half Life 2.

[vmp_vivek]

I will go for Half Life 2 U ROCK BABY ! 8)

[rockthegod]

here I'll go for D3 engine... but amongst the current crop of games.. I'll say that the F.E.A.R engine is the best graphics engine till date.

[mohit]

Another vote for HL2 from me. it simply rocks !!

[tarey_g]

this topic is already present in the gamerz section , and lot of flaming too was done last time in such topic .

for the engines , before commenting anything upon the doom3 engine abt being good only for indoors see the 'enemy territory : quake wars' screens. but yes the chracter models made in source engine are better and lifelike then made in doom3 engine, and this is the +thing for the hl2 engine . imo both engines are good in their ways .

if we compare games based on both engines then hl2 was waayyyyy better than doom3 (visually doom3 was better though), and the upcoming games on doom3 engines look all the same(prey/quake4) no varity , quake4 will be disappointing(but sure better than doom3), i saw the quake4 vid/screenshots every thing looks plastiqy and the outdoor environments suck. Mars is not made of plastic or metal i think ....very bad .
on the other hand see the screens/videos of 'enemy territory :Quake wars' which is based on the same doom3 engine , it looks lifelike and has quality outdoor levels .

upcoming games on source are intresting
sin
aftermath
day of defeat

on doom 3 engine
quake4
prey
enemy teritory : quake wars

[aceman]

Originally Posted by rockthegod

here I'll go for D3 engine... but amongst the current crop of games.. I'll say that the F.E.A.R engine is the best graphics engine till date.

I will reserve my comments on the FEAR till the point the game releases.........the engine did not do justice to itself considering its requirements .....my 6800GT framed a bit on 1280 resolution ( bought a 710N.....cannot go anywhere below the native resolution)....though the AI was great.

[Nemesis]

@aceman: You can very well run your LCD below the native resolution. I run mine at 800x600 when playing Doom 3 even though the native resolution is 1680x1050. Don't stress your system just so that it can run a game at the native resolution of the display!