Which Engine Is The Most Reliable? Thread

I am going to make a Resident Evil game with Barry Burton as the main character. It will display the sheer horror and pain that he went through with his exploration of the Spencer Mansion. It will also explain many things such as, where did Chris disappear to from the beginning of Jill’s scenario, how did he get into certain rooms without the keys that were needed to unlock them, and where did he first meet up with Wesker and was forced to betray his comrades. All of these questions and more will be answered in Resident Evil Origins. Before I make anything else I need to make geometry. Only one problem, I need to know what engine I should use. I have a little experience with creating video games and I need to know which engine is more reliable and stands out among the others. I some experience with Unreal, but that experience came from small help files and such. Unreal it doesn’t seem to be compatible with many programs that I own. I have heard good things from the Valve engine, but good things from Unreal as well. I need to know which engine will be more reliable and compatible, if not Unreal or Half life then what?

I think you should find out who is your target audience first, then decide for a engine.
If you pick the engine before you know where you wana go you will louse motivation quickly.
I have made very good experiences with id-tech engines, but the unreal engines are also pretty good these days, especially for large outdoor environment.
The Source engine has a solid core from the id-tech engines and it has nice physics and also steam, which can be good and bad, depending on how you are used to it.
Do you plan to use vehicles?

Edited by: Chrissstrahl

doom 3.   most likely perfect for what you want.  but most people own ut2k4/ut3, hl1/2 & doom3, so it doesn't matter if you pick one of those.  I'd only d/l it if it's on d3 because I don't like hl2, prefer non-steam hl1 & don't have ut2k4 installed.

but I'm thinking what you want has been done in d3 before, or at least something similar.

All new-gen engines have just about the same features and capability. So it really isn't a question of which one is the right one because art-direction (talent of the artist) is what decides whether something looks good or bad. If you have the skills then you could probably use any of the current engines.

What you do want to consider (being that you're a modder) is which engine has most community support for one and two how comfortable you are working with the sdk tools of a particular engine.

Using an older engine doesn't necessarily mean it's gonna be easier to make something.