CryEngine 3

[Aberforth]

Has anyone seen this?

http://pc.ign.com/dor/articles...ngine3_trl_032309.html

 

[Andrew1990]

sweet looking. I still need to pickup the original crysis soon to play through the campaign.

Is this a continuation of the story by chance?

 

[Aberforth]

Originally posted by: Andrew1990
sweet looking. I still need to pickup the original crysis soon to play through the campaign.

Is this a continuation of the story by chance?

Crysis 2 story will be a continuation of the original crysis but this video is just a tech demo.

 

[SSChevy2001]

Finally a console engine!

Hopefully those optimizations will make there way in Crysis 2 for the PC.

 

[roid450]

Seen it today, amazing stuff.

 

[yusux]

Not bad but could be better, but the physics still slows down during heavy scenes

 

[TurtleCrusher]

Originally posted by: yusux
Not bad but could be better, but the physics still slows down during heavy scenes

Yep. I'm sure this was completely pre-rendered too.

I don't think this will turn out so good.

 

[skulkingghost]

THat looks incredible. I cant wait

 

[nosfe]

CryEngine 3, it will make your system cry

 

[ViRGE]

Just so we're clear, you guys realize it's a console engine, right? It's not for PC use, and it's not going to be capable of the level of detail that CryEngine 2 was because of the weaker CPU/GPU in consoles.

CryEngine 2

CryEngine 3

 

[Keysplayr]

That almost looks like a draw distance setting. Nice detail. But the video didn't look much different than the last engine. And it will still probably be a pig. Sadly.

 

[fleshconsumed]

I didn't see much difference.

 

[stipalgl]

From a technical standpoint, the CryEngine 3 is somewhat visibly inferior to CryEngine 2 as proven in those two comparison screenshots. You can see that the textures on sand and on boulders aren't as sharp or detailed as they were in Crysis and Crysis: Warhead.

You have to give Crytek credit however, for still managing to deliver a fairly faithful adaptation of its predecessor to the console market (assuming of course everything goes to plan).

 

[habbakuk87]

Hope they announce some game using this engine pretty soon.

 

[cusideabelincoln]

We can't make a true direct comparison yet. IGN's pictures are always very crappy, even the higher resolution ones. If you look at the gun for the CryEngine 3 pic, you can obviously see pixelation. And historically their videos, when viewed from the website, have bad quality too, although they've improved it greatly within the last week or two.

 

[Insomniator]

Crytek engine 2 cost me like 300 bucks in upgrades alone... and still manages just 30 fps...

Almost glad to see engine 3 isn't going to cost me 300 more.

 

[Raider1284]

the video for cryengine 3 looks like crap compared to cryengine 2... certainly wouldnt call it amazing or incredible.

 

[nyker96]

l love the engine but despises the name of it. why can't they name it something cool like Genesis engine etc.

 

[chizow]

Only potential benefit here is the possibility of better multi-threaded support of console ports based on CryEngine 3. The demo, despite its reduced visuals does seem to have better physics implementation in some areas, which would be a clear benefit of better multi-threaded support and use of the console hardware.

 

[nitromullet]

Originally posted by: fleshconsumed
I didn't see much difference.

That is sorta the point. CryEngine 3 is the console port. Looks pretty good so far. I guess we'll have to see what sort of resolutions it can end up supporting on consoles.

Originally posted by: Raider1284
the video for cryengine 3 looks like crap compared to cryengine 2... certainly wouldnt call it amazing or incredible.

No, it doesn't quite touch the PC version, but for a console engine it looks pretty good. Besides, I'm all for Crytek branching out to consoles... It seems to me that Crytek is really deep down a PC gaming company that likes to push the envelope, and if they have to whore themselves out to the console market a bit to keep pushing and innovating on the PC side of things, I don't have any issues with it.

 

[Cheex]

I think it looks really good for a console engine. Not quite as refined as CryEngine 2 obviously but still looks really really good.

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

Hmm, I didn't think the consoles were able to output graphics this close to Crysis, even at 720p. (assuming that the engine comes out as hoped)

 

[njdevilsfan87]

Well, I hope future titles on the PC remain CryEngine2. CryEngine3 looks good but I've been spoiled.

 

[dguy6789]

Originally posted by: GundamSonicZeroX
Hmm, I didn't think the consoles were able to output graphics this close to Crysis, even at 720p. (assuming that the engine comes out as hoped)

Why not? A 733Mhz Pentium 3 based Celeron, 64MB of ram, and a Geforce 3 did this:

http://tech2.in.com/media/phot...lery/halo2_450x360.jpg

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: dguy6789

Originally posted by: GundamSonicZeroX
Hmm, I didn't think the consoles were able to output graphics this close to Crysis, even at 720p. (assuming that the engine comes out as hoped)

Why not? A 733Mhz Pentium 3 based Celeron, 64MB of ram, and a Geforce 3 did this:

http://tech2.in.com/media/phot...lery/halo2_450x360.jpg

Not exactly...it wasn't 100% off the shelf like that