The environmental rendering in Unreal Engine 4 is, contrary to its branding, real. Youtuber koooolalala has been posting spectacular demos created with Epic's latest game development tools.
Mario looks quite out out place in the demo below, by aryoksini: "Here is Mario running in Unreal Engine 4, all the environment assets were taken from the Unreal marketplace, all the character actions were scripted using blueprints only, all animations were re-created from scratch as well as the PBR ready textures."
In 20 years this will look like Pac Man.
P.S. Here's the best part: the tools are free of charge—you only have to pay a royalty, and even then get your first $3k in sales gratis.
