Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 Will Continue to Use Unreal Engine 4 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 27 January 2026 / 2,667 Views
Final Fantasy 7 Remake game director Naoki Hamaguchi in an interview with GameSpot revealed the team will be sticking with Unreal Engine 4 for the third part in the remake series rather than moving to Unreal Engine 5.
"We’ve been using Unreal Engine 4, but we’ve made a lot of modifications to fit our needs," said Hamaguchi. "It’s more beneficial to have something we’re already familiar with and have customized to fit our needs."
He was also asked his views on the use of generative AI in video games.
" My stance hasn't changed on depending on AI to produce something or to create something," said Hamaguchi. " I don't rely on AI to come up with ideas and things like that.
"That said, AI is a tool that I and other colleagues would utilize so that our tasks would become much smoother or some of the menial tasks are taken care of by AI. I think it's becoming more and more necessary. I think the purpose of utilizing these tools is so that creators will have a better environment so that they can work more efficiently and they can explore more creative options."
When it comes to using generative AI for some automation in quality assurance he added, "Some of the quality control testing requires very menial tasks, like collision check. "[It’s] a tedious task that's very repetitive. By automating that using AI, we reduce the stress on the human that is required to check on it. It would just flag an alert and then the developers would get that information. And so we're hoping that that would lower the bandwidth that is required of our people."
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im ready for the completion of final fantasy vii to end, i love it but im ready to move on
Honestly the cheaper and sooner they get the entry out the better, so it makes sense. Especially with S2 being a launch platform things like Nanite and lumen won't get used anyway.
Couldn't care less about nanite and lumen when micro-shuddering is still so common lol
If they stick the landing on Part 3 this really might be the greatest game trilogy of all time.
Put 150 hours into a single playthrough of Rebirth... hurt when it finally came to an end
Its been a long long time since a game grabbed me like that... probably since Oblivion or Fallout 3
Same.
Can't argue with that.
I love his response on the use of AI. Ideally, it reduces the workload of the human developers and creators without replacing them. Less crunch and stress, not less jobs.
Right....
But was crunch ever about a lack of people? Or was it underhiring an making people overwork to compensate.
If its the latter Ai is not gonna help.
Games made on UE4 have been far better optimized than UE5, even AA games.
Honestly, makes sense. UE5's big gains in open world development and performance would have come right in the middle of development, switching to UE5 and keeping up with all that would have been highly impractical.
As long as they solve the low textures issue that plagued rebirth
There was no technical reason or "issue" for low textures, just that 60fps wasn't the target as SQE didn't think it mattered much until very late in development... it was just poor foresight and planning
The game was developed for 30fps... just like Remake so when 60fps quickly became the "standard" SQE was caught off guard and unprepared so the solution was a quick-and-dirty performance mode that dropped resolution / texture quality / draw distance
Yes there was the low textures not loading. Issue for rebirth. They fixed it with ff7 remake integrade but went backwards in rebirth. I was referring to the quality mode having low texture issues not performance mode
They should improve their anti aliasing. Since FFXV it's really awful.
Ue5 is still unstable they dont wanna tamper with something they don't understand
I would be happy if developers went back to UE3.
Fucking hell. Square Enix sucks money balls.
