Remember "Freedom Force"?
Lovely game. And it hasn't exactly been capturing the market lately.
When the devs switched to unreal, it gave me an idea.
I wonder if we could find the folks behind Freedom Force and buy the coding for their power effects?
As far as a costume creator went...they were terrible. But on the other hand...their power effects...perhaps even their approach of letting you design the power itself...was as good as I've seen.
I don't know how compatible with Unreal Engine it would be...but given it's activity level of late, such a purchase might be a giant leap forward...and not even be all that expensive.