In July 2001, Epic Games announced that its upcoming game Unreal Tournament 2003 would include Matinee, a machinima production software utility.

In some cases, some game companies may provide such software ; examples include Epic Games ' Impersonator for Unreal Tournament 2004 and Valve Corporation's FacePoser for Half-Life 2.

Unreal is a first-person shooter video game developed by Epic MegaGames and Digital Extremes and published by GT Interactive in May 1998.

Additionally, the games were updated to run on the Unreal Tournament version of the game engine.

The Unreal game engine was seen as a major rival to id Software's id Tech 2 engine, and the Unreal game itself was considered to be technically superior to Quake II, which was out on the market at the same time ( between December 1997 and May 1998 ).

When Unreal was finally released, Microsoft's Direct3D API was growing almost exponentially in popularity and Epic was fairly quick to develop a renderer for their game engine.

An unofficial content port of the single-player maps to Linux was created by several users of icculus. org, which allowed the Unreal single-player game content to be run as a modification for Unreal Tournament.

UnrealScript ( often abbreviated to UScript ) is the scripting language of the Unreal Engine and is used for authoring game code and gameplay events.

By making the process of modifying the game easier, UnrealScript helped enable the growth of a large modding community around Unreal.

Infiltration, a total conversion of Unreal Tournament ( 1999 ), has been described as " turning Unreal Tournament's wild cartoon action into a harrowing game of cat and mouse ".

The practice of licensing such technology has proved to be a useful auxiliary revenue stream for some game developers, as a one license for a high-end commercial game engine can range from US $ 10, 000 to millions of dollars, and the number of licensees can reach several dozen companies, as seen with the Unreal Engine.

For example, the role-playing video game The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and the MMORPG Dark Age of Camelot are based on the Gamebryo engine, and the MMORPG Lineage II is based on the Unreal Engine.

By this time, numerous games based on more advanced graphical technology ( such as id Software's Quake III and Epic MegaGames ' Unreal Tournament ) had already been released, causing Daikatana to lag technologically in the market with its dated Quake II game engine.

* Red Orchestra: Combined Arms, a modification for the American computer game Unreal Tournament 2004

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell is an action-adventure stealth game, developed by Ubisoft Montreal and built on the Unreal Engine 2.

A Universal Translator machine can be found in the game Unreal as a usable item.

The game engine for Doom 3, id Tech 4, has been licensed out for the use of other developers, such as in Human Head Studios ' Prey, Raven Software's Quake 4, Splash Damage's Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Raven Software's Wolfenstein and Splash Damage's Brink ; however id Tech 4 has not been widely licensed compared to Epic Games ' Unreal Engine.

Past winners include software ( such as Photoshop and VTune ), game engines ( Unreal engine ), hardware ( GeForce 3 ), and books ( Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice ).

In the video game Assassin's Creed II, Minerva appears in an ancient vault underneath the Vatican at the end of the game.

Ports of the game were released for the Commodore 64, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Amiga, Atari ST, MSX, Amstrad CPC, Sharp X68000, PC ( MS-DOS, 1989 and 1996 ), Apple II, FM Towns Marty, Sega Master System, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Nintendo Entertainment System, Famicom Disk System, Sega Game Gear, mobile phone ( Sprint PCS ), Texas Instruments TI-8x series of calculators and UltraCade's Taito Arcade Classics.

* Constantinople makes an appearance in the game " Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings " in the fifth scenario of the Barbarossa campaign and again in the third scenario of the Attila the Hun campaign in the expansion pack " Age of Empires II: The Conquerors Expansion ".

The game can be imported or started over in Part II.

The first explanation is that the ancestral game was introduced to Britain from France during the reign of Charles II of England, and was played under the name of paille-maille or pall mall, derived ultimately from Latin words for " ball and mallet ".

In the Aztec campaign of the PC game Age of Empires II: The Conquerors, the player plays as Cuauhtémoc, despite the name Montezuma for the campaign itself, and Cuauhtémoc narrates the openings and closings to each scenario.

* Input: two custom game controllers, hardwired to the console ( original release ) or removable ( Channel F System II )

For example, to market the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops II, dog tags inscribed with the words " CALL OF DUTY BLACK OPS II " were given when a person pre-ordered the game.

The Ultimate Doom, the retail store version of the game, adds a fourth episode, Thy Flesh Consumed, occurring after the three original episodes of Doom and before Doom II.

When the game design phase began in late 1992, the main thematic influences were the science fiction action film Aliens and the horror film Evil Dead II.

The popularity of Doom led to the development of a sequel, Doom II: Hell on Earth ( 1994 ), as well as expansion packs and alternate versions based on the same game engine, including The Ultimate Doom ( 1995 ), Final Doom ( 1996 ), and Doom 64 ( 1997 ).

The game contains several humorous references to pop culture, like some of Duke's lines that are drawn from movies like Aliens, Dirty Harry, Evil Dead II, Full Metal Jacket, Jaws, Pulp Fiction, and They Live ; the mutated women begging " Kill me " are also a reference to the latter.

The introduction establishes that the game picks up right after the events of Duke Nukem II, with Duke returning to Earth in his space cruiser.

Several later editions were made ; RuneQuest II in 1979 introduced many sophisticated game aids, such as Cults of Prax and Cults of Terror, and highly polished game scenarios, such as Griffin Mountain.

Today, new official material is appearing for two game systems, the HeroQuest game system and RuneQuest II, originally produced by Mongoose Publishing but now available from The Design Mechanism.

The ' Runequest II game system was retitled " Legends ", and Gloranthan material removed from the re-released rules.

A new company, The Design Mechanism, was formed by writers who had worked on the game line, and ownership of the Gloranthan supplements produced for the " RuneQuest II " line was transferred to them ( and PDF versions continue to be sold ).

Hexen II also adds certain role-playing video game elements to the mix.

Heretic II is a fantasy action-adventure game developed by Raven Software and published by Activision in 1998 continuing the story of Corvus, the main character from its predecessor, Heretic.

Only later ( about the time of the release of Doom II ) did Id Software release their games via more traditional shrink-wrapped boxes in stores ( through other game publishers ).

The main Asteroids game program uses only 6 KB of ROM code.

* In the 2011 video game Warriors: Legends of Troy, Agamemnon is portrayed as a power-hungry tryant and is the main antagonist.

* Ark, the main character of the video game Terranigma

* In the table-top strategy game Warhammer 40, 000, hyperstructures, called " hives ," are extremely common and are the main method of housing large populations in the billions.

In its list of the top 25 game consoles of all time, IGN claimed that the main reason for the 5200's market failure was the technological superiority of its competitor, while other sources maintain that the two consoles are roughly equivalent in power.

The 2007 Ubisoft game, " Assassin's Creed ," features Altaïr ibn-La ' Ahad as the main character.

The main use of the plate appearance statistic is in determining a player's eligibility for leadership in some offensive statistical categories, notably batting average ; currently, a player must have 3. 1 PAs per game scheduled to qualify for the batting title ( for the 162-game schedule, that means 502 PAs ).

He provided the voice of main character Jake Logan in the PC title, Tachyon: The Fringe, the voice of main character Jake Burton in the PlayStation game Broken Helix and the voice of Magnanimous in Megas XLR.

The main goal of the game is to rescue Bub and Bob's girlfriends from big wind-up toasters, among other enemies.

* Constantinople is the main setting of the game " Assassin's Creed: Revelations ", the fourth major title in the best-selling " Assassin's Creed " series.

The main character from the Namco game for the PlayStation Portable Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception who remains unnamed in the story but rather goes by his codename Gryphus-1 ( as he is the leader of the Gryphus Squadron ) is known as the " Southern Cross ", and his squadron's emblem is an Andean Condor with the Southern Cross in its beak.

For the 2004 video game The Bard's Tale, he served as scriptwriter, improviser, and voice actor of the main character The Bard.

Cesare is the main antagonist of the video game Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, acting as Captain-General of the Papal army in Rome and ordering an assault on the castle-town of Monteriggioni, home to the protagonist Ezio Auditore da Firenze's uncle, Mario Auditore.

Often, these expanded versions, also referred as " complete editions ", will have additions to the gameplay or additional game modes and features outside the main portion of the game.

One of the main additions to the game is commodities, which are a type of secondary resource produced only by cities.

The main feature of this expansion is the addition of ships to the game, allowing play between multiple islands.

The game board consists of the main Settlers island as well as a few smaller islands, which award a special victory point to each player for their first settlements on them.

* Mitochondria Eve, the main villain in the Parasite Eve video game

Blades of Exile consists of three short scenarios set after the main trilogy as well as an editor that allows players to create their own scenarios, which need not be set in the Exile game world at all.

* Frank West, main character of Capcom's Dead Rising game

The New York Times reported in September 1906 on the rationale for the changes: " The main efforts of the football reformers have been to ' open up the game '— that is to provide for the natural elimination of the so-called mass plays and bring about a game in which speed and real skill shall supersede so far as possible mere brute strength and force of weight.