Real Virtuality (game engine)

Screenshot of Dawn of Flashpoint, a 1997 demo of the engine (then called Poseidon).

Real Virtuality is a proprietary computer game engine developed by Bohemia Interactive Studio (BIS), originally called Poseidon. It is used in the first Operation Flashpoint game, as well as Arma, Arma 2 and Arma 3. It is also used in the military training simulators VBS1 and VBS2.

Versions

Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis

ArmA: Armed Assault

The different versions of the engine are:

Real Virtuality 1

• Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis (PC): 1.00 - 1.46
• Operation Flashpoint: Resistance (PC): 1.75 - 1.96
• ARMA: Cold War Assault (re-release of Cold War Crisis and Resistance)
• VBS1 (PC): 1.75 - 1.99

Real Virtuality 2

• Operation Flashpoint: Elite (Xbox): 2.85
• ArmA: Armed Assault / ArmA: Combat Operations (PC): 5089 - 5151 - 5163
• VBS2 (PC): 1.0 - 1.6

Real Virtuality 3

• ARMA 2 (PC)
• ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead (PC)
• Take On Helicopters (PC)
• Iron Front: Liberation 1944 (PC)
• VBS2 v2.0
• DayZ Standalone (PC, 2013) Modified Engine

Real Virtuality 4

• ARMA 3 (PC, expected release Q3 2013, Beta Expected Q2 2013, alpha began 3/5/2013) - Currently in Alpha version 0.56

References

• Bohemia Interactive Wiki
• PC Games Hardware - Comparison of the engine (German)

External links

• Bohemia Interactive Studio homepage
• Bohemia Interactive Studio Wiki
• Demo of the original engine (zip file download link)