Gazillion supercharges ‘Marvel Heroes’ with Unreal Engine 3

Gazillion Entertainment has today announced that it has licensed Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 3 (UE3) to power its free-to-play 'Marvel Heroes' massively multiplayer online (MMO) game for PC.

Marvel Heroes is a massively multiplayer online game where you get to play as your favorite Marvel Comics super-heroes…for free. In this free-to-play game, you get to experience a world-spanning storyline written by Brian Michael Bendis featuring iconic locations and classic scenes drawn from the history of Marvel Comics.

“We love Unreal Engine 3’s streaming system. It’s made our entire technical approach possible and is easy to work with,” said Jeff Lind, studio director of Gazillion’s Secret Identity Studios. “We also love the flexibility we get from the actor components, which have empowered us to make all kinds of customizations without sacrificing the built-in features of the engine.”

Secret Identity Studios Art Director Josh Book added, “Our artists love the Unreal Content Browser, the visual art pipeline, and how functional UE3 is with different 3D packages. We had assets in the game within hours of starting work with the engine. In addition, Unreal Lightmass is a very advanced global illumination tool that has helped push the look of our game further than we thought it could go.”

Marvel Heroes is expected to be released for PC in 2012. Console releases are yet to be confirmed.