Unreal Engine 5 Was Overhyped

But it’s still a promising platform

Unreal Engine 5 demo screenshot captured by the author. Look at that amazing blur and all those details! Will we ever see this stuff in a real console game?

Four years ago, Epic dropped a lengthy tech demo video onto the internet, describing in detail all the new graphics features that we would soon experience thanks to the “magic” of Unreal Engine 5.

It’s typical for these videos to feature PC-level assets running on high-end hardware that’s never fully disclosed behind the scenes…