Rate the new FPS demo engines

[warnea1984]

OK we've all had a really good few weeks for fps demo's, and I was wondering how you would rate their engines.
The games are Crysis, COD4, UT3,
Give each category a mark out of 10
The categories are;
-Visuals
-Physics
-Stability
-Speed
If you want next to the score you can put a sort reason why you gave it that score in brackets.
Please keep in mind that we are only reviewing the demo engines, not the full retail or future patched engines.

So for me I've only played Crysis and UT3 and my marks are below.
Crysis
-Visuals = 8 (Best looking game ever but not a good as we were first lead to believe)
-Physics = 9 (Not perfect but its very interactive)
-Stability = 10 (Not crashed once for me)
-Speed = 6 (Runs ok but it seems very hard to get any where over 30fps for myself)
UT3
-Visuals = 7 (Looks good but the graphics weren't as good as crysis)
-Physics = 6 (Nothing special)
-Stability = 10 (Not crashed once for me)
-Speed = 10 (Was able to run on top setting and still managed over 30fps)

 

[warnea1984]

COD4 runs absolutely stunningly (on 360) and apparently is more or less identical on PS3. That aloe to me is pretty remarkable It looks amazing and manages to keep a really steady framerate no matter how much action is goin' on. I especially like the FOV and heathaze/explosion wave effects!

Yeah I've got the demo downloaded gona get round to it this weekend, I've heard that the performance and visuals are quite good.

 

[warnea1984]

Crysis has not mislead us. Someone was able to re-produce the same visuals with the sandbox editor. Also how mant TIMES have they said the engine will scale 2 years ahead.

I've seen that video and its close but if you watch it look at the ground shrubs, they only cast shadows onto the ground and not onto themselves as was shown in the original media release. I imagine the engine can do it but it would be a huge drain on gpu calculations.

 

[warnea1984]

Oh for crying out loud who cares!

It's far better than anything else out even without them tweaks, the gameplay footage we have seen in videos was in the demo, they haven't mislead anybody.

The Jungle Fight footage, well quite frankly I didn't expect the end product to look like that, the majority of the footage is what we was given in the demo graphics wise.

Dont get me wrong the engine is awesome the best I've seen, i dont feel mislead at all I understand that developers start we've great ideas that have to be cut, like i said ifthey had implement the full shadows it would kill every system out there and no one could play it. If i'd been crytek I would have done the same.