NC Soft has announced today that it will license the Unreal Engine 3 to develop two unannounced massively multiplayer games. NC Soft has previously used the Unreal 2 engine for Lineage II and for Exteel.

“Unreal Engine 3 has a well structured rendering pipeline, and its graphical quality is superb thanks to advanced lighting and shadowing systems,” said Young-muk Choi, lead programmer, Development Unit, NCsoft. “Tools within the Unreal Editor empower us to instantly produce and optimize our outputs, and we especially love how the engine enables designers to easily prototype concepts without the need for programming.”