CryEngine 3 tech demo

mrk · 23 Mar 2009 at 22:35

From the limited video res it looks no different to current gen games.

Delvis · 23 Mar 2009 at 22:38

People need to realise that CryEngine is the actual Engine, where as the 1/2/3 are pretty much version numbers...Which I see no issue with to be honest.

Theres a little info here about it anyway: http://www.crytek.com/news/news/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=143&tx_ttnews[backPid]=9&cHash=6236291d18

Oh...you might want to select all of the above, as it isn't linking properly.

gord · 23 Mar 2009 at 22:41

If the CryEngine wasnt the best looking thing we have when you ramp it up then I would agree with all the complaints about it. But the fact is you only have to look at the textures/shaders/effects to realise where your resources are going. Its an amazing engine in my eyes. Shame the gameplay wasnt at the same level.

Edit: Just watched the video. Its still a mighty impressive engine, even if I cant tell exactly whats changed. Those environments looked great.

Dakotacs · 23 Mar 2009 at 23:40

Well if that footage is a taster of what's to be expected on consoles as well as pc, then I'm very interested. Environments looked great but at the moment not on par with CryEngine 2 yet.

Duran · 24 Mar 2009 at 00:02

iamTakeo said:
I'm impressed, can't see why some of you don't agree, please enlighten.

are you really? come on, i remember the first time i saw cryengine 2 i had to pick up my jaw from the floor. this is just embarrassing...

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Gerard · 24 Mar 2009 at 00:07

Dumbed down for consoles, "shock horror omg etc etc"

Tom|Nbk · 24 Mar 2009 at 00:08

Yup looks very meh. So they made a new engine that looks worse. Yawn.

Duran · 24 Mar 2009 at 00:13

Tom|Nbk said:
Yup looks very meh. So they made a new engine that looks worse. Yawn.

lets hope this is just the console footage and Cryengine 3 for PCs will be a decent improvement.

maxilive · 24 Mar 2009 at 10:35

Still looking good tho, hopefully it will become slightly larger and easier to use, the next ghost recon game would look great in that forest

Guessing its too late for that now...

willhub · 24 Mar 2009 at 10:39

The tech demo is running like a sideshow, is it actually ran on a console?

That should run perfectly smooth on a PC like mine.

Delvis · 24 Mar 2009 at 20:13

willhub said:
The tech demo is running like a sideshow, is it actually ran on a console?

That should run perfectly smooth on a PC like mine.

The video I saw ran fine to be honest.

KNiVES · 24 Mar 2009 at 22:19

Duran said:
are you really? come on, i remember the first time i saw cryengine 2 i had to pick up my jaw from the floor. this is just embarrassing...

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I see you cherry picked the absolute worst bit of the video. I could cherry pick far worse scenes on my max-setting Crysis/Warhead games. The rest of the trailer looked stunning, much better than the vast majority of console games.

Did you guys not see the 360/PS3 logos at the start? It's obviously for consoles. The camera movement implies the use of joypads.

edit: plot-wise, we all seem to be missing one crucial thing; the urban settings in the trailer shows Korean signs :eek:

Crysis to take place in North Korea next? It would make a lot of sense...

Schnippzle · 24 Mar 2009 at 22:24

KNiVES said:
The camera movement implies the use of joypads.

Yea it does look like the guy has a very stiff neck as he isnt looking around a lot

Tummy · 24 Mar 2009 at 22:26

If this is indeed a console engine, it is very impressive.

Streeteh · 24 Mar 2009 at 22:31

Tummy said:
If this is indeed a console engine, it is very impressive.

Essentially the point.

Even if it's a cross platform game it's still very impressive. One of the best looking cross platform games until this was farcry 2 and imo this blows it away (from initial videos which as we all know aren't necessarily accurate)

Nivforever · 25 Mar 2009 at 14:48

Anyone know the music?

Sounds like it's a film score or from a game.

Nymins · 25 Mar 2009 at 14:56

Looks pretty damn good for a console. Hopefully the games will be decent on it though.

KNiVES · 25 Mar 2009 at 15:47

Nivforever said:
Anyone know the music?

Sounds like it's a film score or from a game.

I believe the composer for Crysis worked on a -lot- of famous movie music too. Inon Zur I think he is.

V4NT0M · 25 Mar 2009 at 18:40

Not sure why everyone is acting like the graphics look terrible, most people's rig's wouldn't run crysis much better than that.

This should have really been posted in the consoles section.

Shamikebab · 25 Mar 2009 at 18:47

Skyfall said:
This should have really been posted in the consoles section.

It is, several times.