Video Shows What a Skyrim Remake Would Look Like With Unreal Engine 5

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There's no modern game engine quite like Unreal Engine 5, and there are few games that have defined the gaming community in the past decade the way The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim has. Over ten years and several versions old, this Elder Scrolls title has been the staging ground for an unprecedented modding scene, but mods can only take things so far before the limitations of the Creation Engine – robust though it may be – slow performance down below a playable state.

One of the key features that Unreal Engine 5 boasts is the underlying technology allowing modern machines to render scenes in real time at an insane level of detail, rivaling the production quality of movies and television shows. There's a reason why many game developers choose to build their next title using Unreal Engine 5 such as the newWitcher game, and given the stance of Epic Games on allowing everyone to download the engine freely, it's no wonder that someone attempted to propel Skyrim forward into the future.

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Christian Gomm, a freelance environment artist familiar with the engine, posted a video on YouTube showcasing Riverwood, one of Skyrim's most iconic locations, rendered in Unreal Engine 5. While the video isn't rendered in real time given that it offers a 4K resolution (past the limits of Gomm's hardware), it nonetheless provides a tantalizing glimpse into the wondrous capabilities of Unreal Engine 5, as well as showcasing the beauty of the original game in a new light.

This is hardly the first and only thing Gomm has rendered from the Elder Scrolls franchise, as he has previously used the gates of Kvatch from Oblivion to demonstrate just how breathtaking the graphics in