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The Havok Game Dynamics SDK, better known as simply Havok, is a middleware physics engine (in this case Dynamical simulation) designed for computer and video games by allowing interaction between objects or other characters in real-time. By using collision detection Havok allows for more lifelike worlds and animations, such as ragdoll physics, that adds to the overall game by making these interactions appear natural.

Havok is available for the Microsoft Xbox, the Nintendo GameCube, the Sony PlayStation 2, and the PC. Havok Version 1.0 was unveiled at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in 2000. Version 2.0 was launched at the GDC in 2003.

Since the SDK's launch in 2000, it has been used in over 100 video and computer games. Those games have primarily been action titles of the first-person shooter genre, but Ensemble Studios incorporated it into its real-time strategy game, Age of Empires III . The engine has also been used in movies such as The Matrix trilogy . Havok can also be found in Autodesk Media & Entertainment's 3ds max as a bundled plug-in called reactor. A plugin for Autodesk Media & Entertainment's Maya animation software is also available.

Havok is also the name of the company that develops the physics tools. The company was founded in 1998 by Hugh Reynolds and Dr. Steven Collins of the computer science department in Trinity College, Dublin. Research and Development is carried out in Dublin, with a sales and support office in San Francisco. The Havok development studios are licensed middle-ware developers on the Sony PlayStation 2, Microsoft Xbox, and Nintendo GameCube platforms.

Games using Havok

As of 2005, there are more than 100 games that have been released or that are in development using Havok. Notable games include:

Age of Empires III
Amped 3
Armed and Dangerous
Astro Boy
Auto Assault
Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home
Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes the Neighborhood
Brute Force
Crash Nitro Kart
Counter-Strike: Source
Darkwatch
Day of Defeat: Source
Destroy All Humans!
Deus Ex: Invisible War
F.E.A.R.
Freelancer
From Russia with Love
Full Spectrum Warrior
Half-Life 2
Halo 2
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault
Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction
Middle-earth Online
Painkiller
Pariah
Perfect Dark Zero
Pitfall: The Lost Expedition
Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy
Robot Arena 2: Design and Destroy
Robotech: Invasion
Second Life
Seiken Densetsu 4 (tentative)
Sonic the Hedgehog
(2006 next-generation game)
Spider-Man 2

Starsky and Hutch

SWAT 4

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

The Matrix: Path of Neo

The Punisher

Thief: Deadly Shadows

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

Torque: Savage Roads

Tribes: Vengeance

Uru: Ages Beyond Myst

WWE Crush Hour''

Other software using Havok

Adobe Atmosphere

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