The Ultimate Showdown: CryENGINE2 vs. Reality

by Griffin McElroy on Feb 23rd 2008 8:30PM

Crytek recently whipped up a tech demonstration for their haughty, hardware punishing software, CryENGINE2, to show off at GDC. Mimicking an unforgettable ad for the Sony Bravia, the demo turned quite a few heads -- but how did the visuals of the ball-droppin' doppelganger compare to the original advertisement? Never one to miss an opportunity for a video comparison, Gametrailers whipped up the above video. What do you think -- are video games nearing photorealism? Or were your discerning, pixel-counting eyes not fooled?

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Tags: balls, bravia, commercial, cryengine2, crysis, crytek, engine, sonybravia, tech-demo, techdemo

Reader Comments (60)

Lowl, chickenz.

Okay Neo, you can take the red or the blue pill. Whatever that means.

/drunk

this reminds of my friend's reaction when he saw ff7's CG for the first time ... it was like "omfg they can't make anything more real !!! it will never be playable !"

.... any dreamcast do it better xD

but the soul edge one took a little more time hehe

Thats pretty damn good.

well i must admit it was pretty impressive... for the long shots you couldn't really tell any difference. Up close and with people it wasn't there yet.

cool tho

Constant heavy motion blur doesn't make it look more real, just makes it look like you're shooting with a webcam.

I'm not impressed by bouncing colored balls at a really low fps.

What is wrong with you people? I can't imagine how miserable it must be to be so jaded with how far we've come. Clearly none of you were alive for the days of Atari, etc.