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Quantum 3 Engine

Posted by ParadoxVoid - May 9th, 2008

Have you heard of the Quantum 3 Engine? It's a little thing that's being designed by a company called High Voltage Games that is behind the new Wii FPS, The Conduit.
According to this news article, the Quantum 3 engine is supposed to be able to achieve graphical quality similar to that achievable on Microsoft's Xbox 360.

So what does this mean for Wii owners? Hopefully it will be the beginning of the end for the tonnes of 3rd Party shovelware titles that are currently flooding Wii bargain bins. With this engine, 3rd party developers will hopefully stop seeing the Wii as a weak powered console, and release their blockbuster hits, such as Call of Duty 4 and Grand Theft Auto IV on the Wii as well as the two established powerhouses, the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360.

This should also be a benefit to the developers themselves, since reportedly the Wii is especially easy to program for, while the PS3 is the most difficult, owing to the Cell Processor at the heart of the machine's grunt. The Xbox 360 on the other hand is similar to a PC's architecture, but without the changing specs, making it easier for developers who often have developed their first titles for a PC.

The Conduit looks like a brilliant show of what the Wii can possibly do. Wii owners should just pray for its success, or else continue to endure the tripe that is the majority of non-Nintendo titles.

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ShadowWest

This new engine looks and sounds brilliant!

ParadoxVoid

I know! Hopefully if Rockstar pay attention to this, we may have the spin-off GTA titles (like this gens version of Vice City and San Andreas) on the Wii.
Bitch-slapping hoes would take a whole new meaning with motion-controls don't you think?

ShadowWest

Yeah definitely! :)

ParadoxVoid

And I think "hot coffee" could become VERY interesting!
But they took all sex scenes and stuff out of the Aussie version apparently... all we get is a rocking car or whatever. Meh, I don't have a PS3 so it's not really that big of a deal for me.

Racoonmario

This sounds quite intresting, I´m definitely going to keep an eye on this new engine. I hate the fact that only games released by Nintendo itself are good. Of course, there are a few exceptions.

ParadoxVoid

No More Heroes being the most famous one, and probably the only one that I would class as "Nintendo quality" from a third party. We just have to hope that "The Conduit" and the Wiiware games utilising this engine are good, though going by High Voltage's track record, it's not too likely.

ShadowWest

The Conduit has actually been mentioned in the most recent issue of the magazine I buy - GamesMaster.

According to them, the game is for release in Q2 2009, and it's about some guy uncovering an alien conspiracy.

Talk about a cliche plot.

ParadoxVoid

Yeah I know what you mean, and he's got such a generic name- Agent Ford. But it is still usable, and the whole ball thing he uses in the gameplay videos means there could be some decent puzzle-solving action in it, which will help differentiate it a little from the multitude of more generic FPSs out there.

DarkComet33

Oh haha

ParadoxVoid

WTF. Seriously?

ShadowWest

Yay, more coverage about it in my mag.

The developers reckon that the Quantum Engine will have the game's graphics BETTER than an average Xbox 360 game.

Talk about optimistic.

Also, there's talk in the mag of other 3rd party developers using it if The Conduit proves to be a huge it. Can you imagine Red Steel 2 using this engine?

ParadoxVoid

Really? BETTER than X360? Now that's something, but I think you're right, most likely a high level of optimism.
And I heard about the rumor that High Voltage would lease out the engine to other developers, similar to what Valve did with the Unreal Engine 3.
Here's hoping they make good use of it!

cast

I'm sorry.

ParadoxVoid

That's OK! But what are you sorry for again?

Viri

Wow looks pretty great. I'm looking forward to this engine being in some games. :D thanks for the video.

ParadoxVoid

No worries! It really looks brilliant for a Wii game though, doesn't it?

Viri

Yes it does, and the Conduit looks rather sexy as well.

ParadoxVoid

Yeah, it's shaping up quite well. High Voltage are taking this one quite seriously from all reports. March 2009 can't come quickly enough, that's for sure! This game, along with MadWorld, are two of my most looked forward to games.

RedStripedd

Yeah.. looks pretty sweet. I haven't been this excited for a game since Brawl came out.

ParadoxVoid

Yeah me too! It looks brilliant, let's hope the gameplay lives up to our expectations!

mrbobbyjoe

Intriguing. The game seems a bit too wobbly though.

ParadoxVoid

I think the gameplay is still pre-alpha, so you can expect some niggles. They should (hopefully) iron out all those by release.

kokonut10

That game looks awesome! Unfortunately I don't have a Wii...

ParadoxVoid

That sucks. I actually don't have mine either, being at Uni. We'll have to suffer I suppose. :(

SeaBoundRhino

2:48 in the second video 'It looks great for a Wii game'

It looks AWESOME for a Wii game! If High Voltage software do lease out the engine- which I think they will because they have mentioned in several videos that they're all for 'improving the quality of Wii games'- this could lead to so much.

Let's hope CoD: Modern Warfare 2 comes to the Wii because of this.

ParadoxVoid

That's my hopes exactly. With a better graphics engine capable of all these high-end graphics, and also I believe the proliferation of GCN and classic controllers are quite high now, so perhaps they could just make a fairly simple port of games like Bioshock 2 and CoD:MW2 to the Wii easily, even if the devs don't feel like using the motion controls.

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