New Cryteck engine displays a hint of the future

[lifeguard1999]

Thanks for the info Regs!

 

[framerateuk]

Very impressive, nice to see the trailer in widescreen!

No doubt EA will find a way to remove the widescreen though just as they did with NFS:MW......

 

[Chadder007]

Originally posted by: Regs

Originally posted by: rstrohkirch

Originally posted by: shabby
If crysis is supposed to be a dx10/sm4 game, what exactly are they using to show it off?

Well if it isn't gpu accelerated then it is rendered by the cpu

No, it's a game based off of DX8/DX9 with the likely hood of DX10 optimization for performance. I have not heard anything about DX10 that will offer more visual quality but an overall system performance boost.

Thats what Ive heard too....DX10 and Vista will offer performance boosts for games, not extra eye candy just yet.

 

[Regs]

IGN Images

 

[roguerower]

Mouth is hanging open, god i want. So much for my laptop or desktop. Gonna have to upgrade to a 7800go

 

[beatle]

The EA logo is somewhat of a relief to me. Remember what happened with Halo? Bungie was set to release it for PC until Microsoft bought them out. The fact that EA has its big, sweaty digits into it shows that it's less likely to be sucked up by a console-oriented publisher down the road. Let's hope that EA doesn't change their mind and put it out on consoles or delay the release to put out PC and console versions simultaneously.

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: beatle
The EA logo is somewhat of a relief to me. Remember what happened with Halo? Bungie was set to release it for PC until Microsoft bought them out. The fact that EA has its big, sweaty digits into it shows that it's less likely to be sucked up by a console-oriented publisher down the road. Let's hope that EA doesn't change their mind and put it out on consoles or delay the release to put out PC and console versions simultaneously.

Interesting point...as long as Crytek really remains "independent" of EA (that is, doesn't get bought out or anything), it shouldn't be too bad...then again, I may not be up on all the latest EA-bashing news

 

[Alaa]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: beatle
The EA logo is somewhat of a relief to me. Remember what happened with Halo? Bungie was set to release it for PC until Microsoft bought them out. The fact that EA has its big, sweaty digits into it shows that it's less likely to be sucked up by a console-oriented publisher down the road. Let's hope that EA doesn't change their mind and put it out on consoles or delay the release to put out PC and console versions simultaneously.

Interesting point...as long as Crytek really remains "independent" of EA (that is, doesn't get bought out or anything), it shouldn't be too bad...then again, I may not be up on all the latest EA-bashing news

didnt EA buy crytek already?

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: Alaa

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: beatle
The EA logo is somewhat of a relief to me. Remember what happened with Halo? Bungie was set to release it for PC until Microsoft bought them out. The fact that EA has its big, sweaty digits into it shows that it's less likely to be sucked up by a console-oriented publisher down the road. Let's hope that EA doesn't change their mind and put it out on consoles or delay the release to put out PC and console versions simultaneously.

Interesting point...as long as Crytek really remains "independent" of EA (that is, doesn't get bought out or anything), it shouldn't be too bad...then again, I may not be up on all the latest EA-bashing news

didnt EA buy crytek already?

If they did, I hadn't heard about it. Don't know...

 

[Drayvn]

Nope they havent, theyve just taken over the publishing and producing rights. Crytek are still their own.

Otherwise youd have seen about 10 million sequels already put out j/k

 

[Drayvn]

sorry double post

 

[ArchAngel777]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: Alaa

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: beatle
The EA logo is somewhat of a relief to me. Remember what happened with Halo? Bungie was set to release it for PC until Microsoft bought them out. The fact that EA has its big, sweaty digits into it shows that it's less likely to be sucked up by a console-oriented publisher down the road. Let's hope that EA doesn't change their mind and put it out on consoles or delay the release to put out PC and console versions simultaneously.

Interesting point...as long as Crytek really remains "independent" of EA (that is, doesn't get bought out or anything), it shouldn't be too bad...then again, I may not be up on all the latest EA-bashing news

didnt EA buy crytek already?

If they did, I hadn't heard about it. Don't know...

Yes, EA owns Crytek

Edit ** Actually, it is more a partnership... Not to sure on how that works, but I think EA has more pull than Crytek for final features of the game... Who knows how they have it worked out.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: Regs
IGN Images

Whoah! Images 3 and 4 are incredible!

 

[ArchAngel777]

I have nothing but respect for Crytek. I think they are easily on par with id, epic and valve. However, those screen shots, with the exception of #4 do not really impress me. Yes, they are good, yes they are slighty better than what we have now, but no, they are not leaps ahead by any means at this point.

The greatest change they have made right now is using better textures/artists for the most part. The problem with Far Cry was that the colors were unrealistic. Everything looked too perfect, too shiny, too fake. Even the models skin shined bright like a barbie plastic doll. But they appear to have fixed that in these screen shots, since the jungle looks a LOT more authentic in these screenshots than in the last game. Also, the rocks in the first game looked fake too, along with the water... Does it seem like I am trashing the game? Yes, but that isn't trashing the devs or the technology behind it. All of the problems I mentioned in the last game could have been fixed with better textures and better artists with no changes made to the engine whatsoever.

 

[Polish3d]

Originally posted by: hans030390

Originally posted by: tanishalfelven
i'd not recommend mouth watering just yet. remember how awesome oblivion looked at e3. then compare it to oblivion now.

Yeah...and it looks the exact same. The game was using the exact same graphics at last years E3 as it is now.

Bullshit it is

 

[MBrown]

Originally posted by: Regs
IGN Images

Those images are insane!

 

[MBrown]

GameTrailes now has an HD trailer of the footage in the OP. Text

 

[Regs]

I'm thinking that the first 3 or 4 pics came from a few months back.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Has everyone seen the HD version of the trailer seen here ??? The Gamespot ones are crappy resolution and don't even hint at just how good this game looks.

Warning: I think it's encoded in mp4 and is a huge CPU hog. More than worth a d/l though!!!

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
Has everyone seen the HD version of the trailer seen here ??? The Gamespot ones are crappy resolution and don't even hint at just how good this game looks.

Warning: I think it's encoded in mp4 and is a huge CPU hog. More than worth a d/l though!!!

I'm pretty sure it's WMV-HD, not mp4/h.264 (so it wouldn't be quite as high on the CPU requirements). But yeah, I saw it the other day...I was just blown away by how awesome it looked at 1280x720. I posted a link to it a few days ago, but now that I think about it that was probably over in the Software forum (within which there is a thread very similar to this one )

 

[cwoz94]

I can't wait to play this game at 640 x 480 on low settings with my current hardware.

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: cwoz94
I can't wait to play this game at 640 x 480 on low settings with my current hardware.

lol, my thoughts exactly (or maybe closer to 320x240 like we used to have to do in the mid- to late-90's....)

At this point, especially given that I run a relatively high resolution monitor (1680x1050), my video card is just about on its way out. Need to find upgrade money...somehow...

 

[firewolfsm]

I wounder what requirements for 10x7 are?

 

[Regs]

I'm thinking today's high end systems could likely push 35-40 fps @ 1024x768. It looks like Call of Duty 2 with higher shader counts and CPU bound tasks.

 

[ballmode]

i think ive seen this before