Suggest me a game engine

[evilmeister13]

So I've been messing around with project spark and cryengine, but i dont like project spark because its kind of limiting, and i love cryengine, but it seems apparent to me that even though it is possible to make a third person game, it would be a pain in the butt because its more of a fps engine. What engine could I use to make a third person game but have the ability to switch between first and third person at will fairly simply? I want it to have elements from games like assasains creed and tomb raider, but be able to switch it into classic fps mode at will, kinda like skyrim. Any ideas?

[brownninja97]

i only have experience with unity but either way its not dunno be very easy to achieve.

[Katsu-K1L]

Unity engine ?

[Vacsol]

Source

[Aniallation]

Source yo

[SpaceSquid]

Unity is probably better for you, its free and you can try it out for yourself. Also theres more documentation for Unity.

[f22luke]

Darkplaces is an open source engine (think Quake on steroids).  I used to play Nexuiz 2.5.2 which used it and there were some setting for first and third person.  You can even get a blender addon that uses this engine for rendering.

[ThomasTheGameEngine]

Not that I have experience, but all of the games I've played that use Unity 3D have been great. Try starting there! Good luck on the project!

[Annro The Argonian]

For an indie, I highly recommend Unity3D or Unreal Engine 4. If you don't want to pay for your engine, there's a free version of Unity3D and the Unreal Development Kit, both of which have TONS of tutorials and tips all over the internet.

I started with Unity, then moved on to CryEngine. It's not as hard as you'd think to make a 3rd person game, all you have to do is change the way the camera is attached to the "Player" actor. After a while, I found CryEngine to be an optimized mess, so I tried UDK. It was pretty sweet, so I bought UE4. Haven't looked back since.