Unreal Engine 4 is one of the most popular engines out there. Why?

Unreal Engine 4 is used by both large companies and small indie studios. Final Fantasy VII Remake, Returnal, Gears 5, Borderlands 3, Fortnite, Abzû, Observer and many more games have been created with UE4.





We found out from game enthusiast Vladimir Semykin and teacher of the course " Game Designer " Anton Tokarev, what are the reasons for such popularity of Unreal Engine, and what is better for a novice game developer - Blueprints or C ++.





Gears 5, a shooter from the Canadian company The Coalition, uses the UE4 engine
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