Now in glorious 8-bit sound! Hi-Fi 11kHz sampling rate! And BUILT-IN-DISTORTION! Looks nice, though.

I say CryEngine2 > Source and Unreal 3 :)

This game is going to rock on teh Wii !!

Yeah it will! good one jason!! yea!!!

seriously though THAT is how you make a fuckin editor toolset! If more devs built tools of this calibur for the engines they developed the world would be a better place. Good job on this one boys...gonna be a slick game for sure :)

OMG! Did you guys see that explosion at the end of the first video? That was hot.

The game simply looks amazing!! WOW

Wow, looks amazing once again.

yeah, that low quality footage really lets your imagination fill in the blanks. but with that said, some of the hq stuff dropped my jaw.

destructable vegitation. reminded me of predator. this game looks fuckin amazing!! its so gay that computers get all the love these days. consoles get boatloads of shovelware with the rare exeption and the one game that i want on a console just HAS to go to PC. BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If Microsoft wanted to compete with Sony's Home, they should just license this engine. Make it cross-platform between PC and 360, so that you can edit and modify your island/world/whatever on the PC(and thus sell more Live Gold subsciptions).

I would send invites through my friends list to come and see my island. Then I would close the gate behind them and say "Welcome to my Jurassic Park, Muahahaha" and watch thier VR bodies get torn to shreds by my dinosaurs.

What? I can dream, can't I?

Whoa Steve17. Are you being sarcastic? The PC got the same amount of AAA titles as the 360 last year. It probably won't get as many this year. Sure, you can argue one is better or not all day, but you sound like you think it is the difference of night and day. Surely it is not.


AAA PC games from 2006 (based on metacritic 90+)
Oblivion
Company of Heroes
GTR2

AAA 360 games from 2006 (based on metacritic 90+)
Gears of War
Oblivion
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter

its official...im trading my wife in for a new pc. that was some of the most amazing shit ive ever seen. what was the reaction of team epic and that "old" unreal 3 engine?

jake, i didnt mean it quite like that but i see your point. i just love FPS!!! i an FPS guy to the bone. i was just SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO hyped about this game. i wanted it on 360 so bad. this is just a huge personbal dissapointment to me.

pretty incredible. who cares if it is better than the ureal 3 engine. variety, and competition can't hurt. Can't wait to see some of this implemented in gameplay.

This is a nice game.

@ Jake

I've always been interested as to what criteria people use to determine an AAA game

If you go by your scale for grading, you miss games like Dead Rising (can't deny that was AAA), or such sales smash-hits as Wii Sports

And as jaw-dropping as these engines look, wow,I still love the creativity of the guys over at Crytek, though

Crytek makes the CryEngines and a game called Crysis

maybe we can call it Cryetivity

Wow, that video was pretty amazing. Especially the physics part at the very end.

Hopefully, it will come to the 360 eventually.

I just can't see spending as much on a single video card that is as much as my whole 360 system just to run a couple games, and yet my CPU would still probably be too slow.

Wow. Appearently graphics do matter. Could this even run on the 360/PS3? I'm guessing no.

I'm very glad that I decided to hold off on getting a college laptop...with some luck it might be able to run Crysis.

@LordMinogue

For college, get a sturdy lightweight laptop with a small screen, good wireless, and maybe even a camera/mic. That way lugging it from class to class is easy, you can go on the internets during class, and you can record your classes.

Then just get a powerhouse desktop at a later time.

If only Duke Nukem Forever could have been build on that engine... What an awesome game it would be...

I am seriously considering buying a 8800GTS / GTX pc for this game alone. It looks so incredibly hot. And i absolutely loved Far Cry.

as nice as these game engines can look, especially in demos under the best possible conditions like this, i would still trade all the flashy visuals and go back to quake 2 or 3, or even original HL visuals for 100%, every single thing on screen can be destroyed, right down to your gun and uniform destructable environments and objects.

i would rather spend processing horsepower on that kind of thing than on lightbeams, bloom lighting, depth of field effects, soft shadows or any of that other flashy crap.

gimme all that power pushed into physics and its related bits any day.

still, it's hard to deny that stuff like this is amazingly slick, if a little garish/technicolor-y for my tastes.

uh...gee...am I the only one that read that CryEngine uses DirectX 10...ummmm 360 uses DirectX 9...isn't there like...a lot of shader and physics technology that DX10 uses that DX9 doesn't...so if this is true, how would 360 run the full CryEngine? Unless a gimped DX9 version is made? Just a thought.

I remember when the Doom3 engine was making the rounds and people swore it was the second coming...then Unreal3 Engine debuted and Doom3 Engine was "teh junk". Why the hell is it when these engines debut they always have to be another "me-too, muscle-head, douche-bag" FPS game? Is this all PC developers can make now? FPS, RTS and MMOs?

For those that hope this is going to the 360 PS3 or Wii.

It never will it just doesn't have the power to run that at near full. The 360 doesn't even have DX 10.

It won't come to the PS3 because of it's processor design and not capable of DX 10(I would assume it would take way to much optimization.)

It won't come to the wii (do I even have to explain?)

Modern PC games can sometimes take over 256 mb of Video memory. When in a 64 man server and running at a fairly high resolution. That is why the 8000 series comes with over 512 (with the exception of the 320 mb one)

Crytek is killing our rainforests.

Even the dev's have stated that if they were ever to port it to a console (speaking specifically about the 360) it would have to be downgraded considerably. The 360 doesn't run a pure DX9, it's sort of a DX9 DX10 hybrid. I love that they are pushing the graphic envelope and what was shown here does look better than what we've seen from other engines. But I think smart dev's make a engine that runs on many platforms. It's just like with HDTV's, just because it looks fantastic if it costs a ton of money your not going to sell a lot. I don't know many people that will spend the cost of a console on a graphics card to play this at full settings. If you want it to look like these videos you better have one powerful PC. I think despite the limits of console hardware these levels of detail can be created if the dev's are creative enough just give it a couple years.

RE: 13. jake, i didnt mean it quite like that but i see your point. i just love FPS!!! i an FPS guy to the bone. i was just SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO hyped about this game. i wanted it on 360 so bad. this is just a huge personbal dissapointment to me.

Posted at 4:05PM on Mar 9th 2007 by steve17


You're a "FPS guy to the bone" but it doesn't seem that you play FPS on the PC?

!Woooww i want to Cry, this is the more amazing graphics engine i ever seen in my entire life, i know Gear of War looks pretty cool but this graphics looks soo realistic that make you think they are real humans playing in the game, simple amazing and nice work from Crytek, now excusme i need to think how can i save money to buy a new PC with a powerfull directx 10 video card......