Crysis vs Crysis Warhead - comparison

Strife212

Strife212

Strife212

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Having completed both Crysis and Crysis Warhead at DX10 1920x1200 with 2x AA on the max settings of both games, I became convinced that Warhead looks worse for some reason, so I decided to test both games.

Left FPS counters on to compare performance but thats useless because no scenes match and I was also getting low FPS because of constant changing, loading etc. (Although Crysis does have a better FPS in each one... ;))

What do you think?

Crysis:
crysis2.jpg

Warhead:
warhead2-1.jpg

Crysis:
crysis3.jpg

Warhead:
warhead3.jpg

Crysis:
crysis5.jpg

Warhead:
warhead5.jpg

Crysis:
crysis4.jpg

Warhead:
warhead4.jpg



The main thing these don't show is long scale scenes, Warhead has a much lower object draw distance. When I look at the screenshots both games look similar but they look quite different while playing.
 
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I agree with you, Crysis looks considerably nicer than Warhead. The main difference seemed to me to be in the vegetation, as in your second pair of shots. In Warhead it looks 2D and rubbish.
 
Yeah, the vegetation is one of the things that stuck out to me. The lighting is really extreme in Warhead as well as also shown in that shot, which I guess is a matter of preference as its just different, not worse as such.

Both games are excellent looking though.
 
Mammalian said:
what is crysis warhead?
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It's the add-on pack to Crysis, it's set at the same time as Crysis, but you play the role of Psycho from the part where you blow up the carrier in the Harbour.

Those screens highlight quite a good difference.. However, I booted up Warhead straight away and played through it, and not once thought "this looks worse than Crysis".. As long as you're not playing them next to each other i don't think it's a massive deal. Same engine, surely you can use the same configs on both to produce the exact same results? I always ran Crysis with a custom config anyway.

P.s: Why aren't you playing it on Delta? :p
 
Its not an add-on pack, its stand alone.

I don't think those comparisons are fair, totally different environments if you know what I mean, I mean comparing one shot in palm trees to another one with more built up stuff and smoke behind is going to lower performance.

But it does seem slower, the textures on rocks look a lot better but overall the graphics seem more blury even with motion blur turned down.

*Edit*

Never fully read, noticed you said yourself about the comparisons not fully matching :p

Also, anyone want to give any of these a try and report back?

http://www.incrysis.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=735
 
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Just playing through Warhead at the moment, and is it me or are the explosions and lighting better? Shooting helicopters out of the sky has never been prettier :p
 
Crysis looks a lot better to me although i think this is because it uses a slitghly different lighting solution, crysis's lighting looks a lot more natural and the ground textures appear sharper and less jaring to look at.
 
Im running Bustas Enthiast Config on Warhead and it looks much better than it DID look, but im using Natural Mod on Crysis and that looks 1000x better than Warhead
 
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