Crytek shows CrysisENGINE2, innocent trees shot

News Reader · Post by **News Reader** » March 9th, 2007, 10:10

Crytek shows CrysisENGINE2, innocent trees shot
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Crytek occupies a medium-sized booth space at this year's GDC show floor. The company, showing its CryENGINE2 to developers, announced that it found its first customer in Avatar Reality, Inc. Hoping to land more interest, the company is hosting a series of rotating presentations about its level editor, sound system, character animation, engine, and other features.

Harald Seeley, Development Director for Crytek briefly spoke with us about the engine and its outlook, saying that it's at alpha now for the PC, and they'll ship the SDK to AVI in four to six weeks. Seeley said that Crytek is working to bring CryENGINE2 to the PS3 and Xbox 360, but those plans don't mean that Crysis will be released on those platforms.

Modders and indie designers should look for a PC version of the development environment bundled with Crysis. Seeley said that the consumer tools offer nearly all of the features of the fully licensed engine, and that modders may be able to work out terms to release commercial software created with the free editor.

Seeley thinks that the commercial version of CryENGINE2 will lead other middleware engines because it was developed for DirectX 10 instead of being prettied up from an older version of the API. He said, "This will become the standard. ... [Gamers] won't be willing to settle for titanium trees any longer. If it looks breakable, if it looks like you should be able to pick it up, [you will.]"

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cashy · Post by **cashy** » March 9th, 2007, 12:27

I really am expecting this to be a shit game. Any game where 90% of the hype and even selling point is a fucking tree has got to be shit

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » March 9th, 2007, 12:30

cashy wrote:I really am expecting this to be a shit game. Any game where 90% of the hype and even selling point is a fucking tree has got to be shit

I imagine it'll pull a doom3 - look cool, play well enough, but be nothing more than a tech demo for the engine.

Post by **Grimmie** » March 9th, 2007, 12:31

cashy wrote:I really am expecting this to be a shit game. Any game where 90% of the hype and even selling point is a fucking tree has got to be shit

THEN OBVIOUSLY YOU'VE NEVER PLAYED SIM TREE!

BASTARD!!

Post by **Dog Pants** » March 9th, 2007, 12:52

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:I imagine it'll pull a doom3 - look cool, play well enough, but be nothing more than a tech demo for the engine.

Just like Far Cry then.

Grimmie wrote:THEN OBVIOUSLY YOU'VE NEVER PLAYED SIM TREE!

BASTARD!!

Sim Brick FTFW!

Chickenz · Post by **Chickenz** » March 9th, 2007, 12:55

Bollocks to the above comments. If its anything like Farcry it'll be brilliant (before the spastic gorillas).

Look at the power.

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Post by **Dog Pants** » March 9th, 2007, 12:58

Far Cry was quite good, but it wasn't as brilliant as many people made it out to be. I'd rather have a game that played well and looked like the top screenshot than an average game that looked like the bottom one. I'm hoping Stalker will be the best of both, and I have to admit Crysis does look quite good. I'll wait for the reviews before committing though (unlike Stalker, which I've pre-ordered seeing as it doesn't look like I'll be moving until the summer).

Lateralus · Post by **Lateralus** » March 9th, 2007, 13:01

As an SNPG, all your comments are null and void for the duration of the rank. As such, consider yourself muted.

Also, you're probably just about the only person here who is going to be able to make it look anything like that. The rest of us mere mortals are going to have to play it greatly scaled down I imagine, assuming people have actually upgraded to Fista by then. I certainly won't have done, especailly not just to play a game at half (if I'm lucky) of its prettiness.

Lateralus · Post by **Lateralus** » March 9th, 2007, 13:02

Dog Pants wrote: I'd rather have a game that played well and looked like the top screenshot than an average game that looked like the bottom one.

Umm, is the top one not a reference photograph, used as the basis for the realtime rendering of the bottom image?

Post by **Dog Pants** » March 9th, 2007, 13:06

Lateralus wrote:Umm, is the top one not a reference photograph, used as the basis for the realtime rendering of the bottom image?

Pffffft, I thought it was a 'this is our old engine' picture. Crysis's graphics are better than real life

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » March 9th, 2007, 15:01

M4niachicken wrote:

Sorry what?

MORDETH LESTOK · Post by **MORDETH LESTOK** » March 14th, 2007, 15:36

Another thing that blew me away was the demonstration for Crytek's CryEngine 2 technology, which powers the upcoming Crysis. I've seen Crysis a number of times, as well as played it at CES earlier this year, but nothing prepared me for just how amazing the latest footage is. After talking with the Crytek team, it definitely sounds like the game will scale so it'll run on a wide range of hardware, but if you want maximum graphics, you'll need a new dual core CPU, 2GB of RAM, and a state-of-the-art DirectX 10 card.

uggh...think i'll just buy a new Fista PC instead of upgrading this one...$$$$

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » March 14th, 2007, 15:50

but if you want maximum graphics, you'll need a new dual core CPU, 2GB of RAM, and a state-of-the-art DirectX 10 card.

But this has always been the case, any new engine'd game coming out always requires the best currently available hardware to max out the settings, come to think of it Doom 3 could barely be played on Ultra settings with the best hardware available at the time. (And Oblivion I guess)

What remains to be seen is how it plays on lower specced hardware, graphics will obviously be poorer but if it is just about how it looks it'll be a shit game anyway.

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » March 14th, 2007, 15:54

I would never spend 400-500 quid on rebuilding my machine just to play a computer game. It just doesn't make any sense whatsoever and it's a complete waste of money.

The only time I would upgrade is when the machine is uncapable of playing newer titles reasonably well, and even then I would hold off upgrading.

As it stands I may need to upgrade my machine because of the shitty incompatible power supply's in my hp workstation, but I would "never" upgrade my entire PC for a new game, it's an utter waste of money.

MORDETH LESTOK · Post by **MORDETH LESTOK** » March 14th, 2007, 16:10

well thats the games whole point is to make us buy Fista or an XB360 heh...my PC is gettin a tad old anyways...only a 2.8Ghz...plus I could box a few more accounts at 1 time

Post by **deject** » April 4th, 2007, 17:00

I need some lube...

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Gunslinger42 · Post by **Gunslinger42** » April 4th, 2007, 17:04

Ah, big explosions and killing enemies by throwing inanimate objects at them. Excellent.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » April 4th, 2007, 17:04

Yup, that's pretty

Post by **Roman Totale** » April 4th, 2007, 18:33

deject wrote:I need some lube...

Don't get too excited - I went to the future and asked Chicken. He said it was shit.

Gunslinger42 · Post by **Gunslinger42** » April 4th, 2007, 18:51

I went to the future to ask chicken about it as well, but he was still muted so I don't know what he said.