We are doing our school project with Unity3d, since they were using Shiva the previous year (which seems horrible to me), and I wanted to know your point of view for this tool.

Pros:

• multi platform, I even heard Google is going to implement it in Chrome
• everything you need is here
• scripting languages makes it a good choice for people who are not programming gurus

Cons:

• multiplayer ?
• proprietary, you are totally dependent of unity and its limit and can't extend it
• it's less "making a game from scratch"
• C++ would have been a cool thing

I really think this kind of tool is interesting, but is it worth it to use at school for a project that involves more than 3 programming persons ? What do we really learn in term of programming from using this kind of tool (I'm ok with python and js, but I hate C#) ? We could have use Ogre instead, even if we were learning direct x starting january...