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CryEngine 3

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?
 
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?
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Crysis 2 story will be a continuation of the original crysis but this video is just a tech demo.
 
Originally posted by: yusux
Not bad but could be better, but the physics still slows down during heavy scenes
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Yep. I'm sure this was completely pre-rendered too.

I don't think this will turn out so good.
 
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
 
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.
 
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).
 
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.
 
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.
 
l love the engine but despises the name of it. why can't they name it something cool like Genesis engine etc.
 
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.
 
Originally posted by: fleshconsumed
I didn't see much difference.
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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.
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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.
 
I think it looks really good for a console engine. Not quite as refined as CryEngine 2 obviously but still looks really really good.
 
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)
 
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