Behold: CryENGINE2 GDC demos
by James Ransom-Wiley 
{ Mar 9th 2007 at 1:42PM }
We first showed you a glimpse of Crytek's GDC booth, now see why it was built. Talk about a convincing sales pitch. Something tells us Avatar Reality won't be the only studio with a CryENGINE2 license for much longer. (Better quality videos available for download at Crysis-Online.)
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
W. Brent Latta @ Mar 9th 2007 1:51PM
Now in glorious 8-bit sound! Hi-Fi 11kHz sampling rate! And BUILT-IN-DISTORTION! Looks nice, though.
Thursdae @ Mar 9th 2007 2:13PM
I say CryEngine2 > Source and Unreal 3 :)
NomBomB @ Mar 9th 2007 2:55PM
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.
Jason @ Mar 9th 2007 2:16PM
This game is going to rock on teh Wii !!
arrrgh @ Mar 9th 2007 2:20PM
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 :)
VampireHunter Z @ Mar 9th 2007 2:28PM
OMG! Did you guys see that explosion at the end of the first video? That was hot.
F8X @ Mar 9th 2007 2:50PM
The game simply looks amazing!! WOW
F8X @ Mar 9th 2007 2:51PM
Wow, looks amazing once again.
steve17 @ Mar 9th 2007 3:00PM
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gimbal @ Mar 9th 2007 3:33PM
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?
jon @ Mar 9th 2007 3:44PM
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 @ Mar 9th 2007 3:38PM
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
steve17 @ Mar 9th 2007 4:05PM
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.
boog @ Mar 9th 2007 4:22PM
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.
Uh_Oh @ Mar 9th 2007 4:43PM
This is a nice game.
Mr Khan @ Mar 9th 2007 4:56PM
@ 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
OGHowie @ Mar 9th 2007 5:23PM
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.
NeverSage @ Mar 9th 2007 6:10PM
Wow. Appearently graphics do matter. Could this even run on the 360/PS3? I'm guessing no.
LordMinogue @ Mar 9th 2007 6:40PM
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.
Aex @ Mar 9th 2007 6:48PM
@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.
Keith L. Dick @ Mar 9th 2007 8:14PM
If only Duke Nukem Forever could have been build on that engine... What an awesome game it would be...
tho @ Mar 9th 2007 8:49PM
I am seriously considering buying a 8800GTS / GTX pc for this game alone. It looks so incredibly hot. And i absolutely loved Far Cry.
Tony Bowman @ Mar 9th 2007 9:06PM
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.
Striderhayasa @ Mar 9th 2007 9:15PM
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?
Kicker @ Mar 9th 2007 9:23PM
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)
Pat @ Mar 9th 2007 10:41PM
Crytek is killing our rainforests.
razer @ Mar 10th 2007 2:21AM
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.
miles foreman @ Mar 10th 2007 9:46AM
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?
Geo @ Mar 10th 2007 11:58AM
!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......