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Battlefield 3 already looks better and BF4 will be no contest.
Also this will provide an interesting read for you: new engine turns out to be a not so new engine
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That's not saying much. No "new engine" is actually new. It's extremely rare an engine today, especially a big one, is built from the ground up. CryEngine 3 is based upon work they did with Far Cry, Frostbite 3 engine is built off of work they did with Battlefield Bad Company on the PS3/360, Unreal 4 engine is built upon Unreal 3 engine tech, so on and so forth. No need to reinvent the wheel.
You can upgrade major parts of the engine without actually rewriting the whole thing. A well designed, modern game engine is very modular.
Yeah but there is only so much you can do with an old engine before you have to rewrite entire parts. You can't just fit DX11 and physics in an engine like Quake 3s I imagine without major work.
From what I can tell they keep upgrading it and it shows in the screenshots how it tries to look like modern games but just doesn't have the latest effects. Things Cryengine, Frostbite, UE do have. I can't imagine the Unreal engine being upgraded anything but majorly for it to be able to come from its very first version up to the latest.
Engines do get upgraded time after time. But there is a big difference between a new engine and a new engine. Frostbites new engine was a big step, this not so much.
Also the COD: Ghosts site claims it's an entirely new next gen engine. Haha :P
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