Skyrim comes out for PC, Xbox 360, and PS3 on November 11th next year. Howard added that the new engine would make people “almost feel like a new console,” He said that it was based on the technology for Fallout 3 – which was part GameBryo and part Bethesda’s own work – but had received some pretty heavy modification, particularly in the parts that handled characters and animation. When pressed on whether “new” meant entirely new, or some new version of GameBryo, Bethesda community manager Nick Breckon said that “new” meant a brand new, internally created, “gameplay/graphics engine.”īack in August, Bethesda’s Todd Howard briefly talked about the engine for Skyrim, although the game obviously hadn’t been announced at that point. Specifically, it’s out with the old GameBryo engine that Bethesda has used for Oblivion, Fallout 3 and even Morrowind, and in with a custom-built engine.Ī tweet from the official Bethesda Twitter feed said the developer had seen a lot of speculation about the technology that Skyrim would use, and confirmed that it would run on a “spectacular” new engine. This is an issue reported in games based on older versions of Gamebryo. For example: the frame skip/stuttering issue. It’s out with the old and in with the new for the fifth Elder Scrolls game. Whether you want to call it Gamebryo or not is a pointless game of semantics: the core engine descending from Gamebryo has issues that plague the Fallout and Elder Scrolls series to this day. Not sure where the Wii really fits into this.The next Elder Scrolls game will look “fantastic,” says Bethesda’s community manager. I'm still trying to catch up and understand last gen technology like the GC, Xbox, and PS2. Is the gamebyro very powerful? I never seen any of the games. Is there an Xbox (NOT 360) game the also makes use of it? The site has Wii listed now and even includes the Platform-specific optimization. This engine looks pretty damn good, but I can't imagine how badly toned down it'll look on the Wii. Heck, I don't even remember hearing about a PS2 game making use of such a powerful engine.

Now, I have a very hard time thinking up any PS2 game that even looked CLOSE to the Gamebryo Engine, but I don't claim to have seem every PS2 game ever made. The reason I ask is that according to the official site, Gamebryo was also ported to the PS2 and Xbox. Apparently, it's being ported to the Wii.

How old is the gamebryo engine