EPIC Reveals Stunning Elemental Demo On Unreal 4

Last year at GDC 2011, Epic Games unveiled their Unreal Engine 3 Samaritan demo in partnership with NVIDIA, giving gamers a preview of next-generation graphics. Pushing three GeForce GTX 580s operating in SLI to their limit, Samaritan wowed all with a level of fidelity previously unseen in a real-time demonstration. At GDC 2012 Epic showed the Samaritan demo once more, but instead of three GTX 580s the demo was powered by a single ‘Kepler’ graphics card, later revealed to be the GTX 680, our flagship GPU.

Unbeknown to most, Epic was also showing its closest partners a first look at Unreal Engine 4, the studio’s next-generation development platform said to feature all of Samaritan’s enhancements, a new development pipeline, and a raft of new technology. Sadly, all footage and info was embargoed, preventing us from telling you about the demo’s stunning visuals and technological advances.

Today, that restriction was lifted, so below you’ll find an in-depth, technically-minded interview with Unreal Engine pioneer Tim Sweeney, two glorious HD videos, and two-dozen super-high-resolution screenshots that will give you your first proper look at the next-generation of videogame graphics. Please note, each asset was captured in real-time on a single GeForce GTX 680 and was in no way edited, Photoshopped, or pre-rendered.by andrew burnes