Perfect term for it. We can all spot the UE games that look like UE games. Same goes for people who are confident about being able to spot AI.
replyI think it used to be more true than it is these days.
replyI used to be able to pick graphics/physics engine by feel alone. PhysX and Havok used to feel very different. Quake 3/Half Life/Unreal used to feel very different. But that's all largely been paved over.
Actually I think I can still spot Crytek tbh.
> Quake 3/Half Life/Unreal used to feel very different.
replyFair on the Unreal Engine part, but Quake 3 and Half-Life are basically built on sibling engines that share one direct common ancestor (though I fully agree with you that they felt different).
Quake/Quake 2 used idTech2. idTech3 for Quake 3 was built on top of idTech2, and GoldSrc for Half-Life was built on top of idTech2 as well (it was a heavily customized and modified version of it).