LOL

Agreed.

@ 1.1

dont blame the engines mate. blame art directors, texture artists, modelers and anyone else responsible for asset creation and overall look. All you have to do is look at games like shadow of colosus, ico and okami to see that you can make good looking stuff regardless of hardware or engines. All you need is talented artists and the person in charge of them to know what he/she is doing.

Agree x5000

God please kill the developers that use the aged and ugly UE3

Just noticed they have added a new trailer to the article!

Whats the problem with UE3? Didnt it power Gears of War 1/2, one of the best looking games this generation? Bioshock? Mass Effect?

Didnt it more recently power Batman Arkham Asylum?

Oh, its cuz it powers more 360 games, got it.

listen mate, I absolutely love Bioshock. It's a gaming gem that I would advise any gamer out there with a PS3 or 360 to play at least once. (I've played it through twice already, first time on the 360 and then on the PS3. I've just got to play it through one more time to get the platinum trophy. Looking forward to it too.)

The one criticism I have about Bioshock is that the graphics really let it down. The colour pallet used by the Unreal engine is awful and if the story to Bioshock was not as good as it is I would have traded it in just like I did with Turok a week after it was bought.

It's not just the look and colour but things like floating artefacts and the lack of detail in character features really irritated me. I expect a lot more from this gen.

The Unreal engine just can't hack it. The only game I'm willing to give it a pass on is Bioshock and MAYBE Bioshock 2.....

no lubdzz, it's because UE3 really is outdated at this point. And two, frankly the 360 WOULD benefit from a newer development engine anyway. And yes UE3 games looked GREAT in 2006, but that was THREE (3) years ago.

if this replaced the unreal engine imagine how big of a leap games would take that would be crazy but im looking forward to seeing this game on the ps3 and 360

Great engine just lets hope a decent dev does something great with it though like Timesplitters 4!

...RTE Engine for WarDevil.

I had doubts about this so-called engine for WarDevil, but from what I hear it could in theory put a high-graphical game on the Wii; since it can for the regular xbox. From what I hear, the Wii is supposed to be more powerful than the original xbox.

So this will be interesting; as I personally root for my PC brethren with the CryEngine, but the New Unreal has yet to be revealed, and this WarDevil is impressing people, but what can these engines actually do?

i refuse to believe that they can achieve those graphics (as seen in the first couple of seconds) on a console, even the PS3 i dont think is capable of such reality, i think GT5 and UC2 are gunna be the best looking console games of this generation. Cant see it ever being topped.

But the Cryengine3 is gunna release a new era of OMGness on PCs. I think its almost about time i make the jump to PC gaming.

CAN NOT WAIT for Crysis 2 on the CryENGINE 3. sh*t will be awsome

although ultimately relegated FPS bland , Amazing tech!

Wow, just wow. This completely destroys Uncharted 2 in the graphics department.

A Tech Demo is just eye candy; it's practical application in a game is what is what will make it better than a game that's already out or not.

I'm sure Naughty Dog could put out a tech demo that could put this to shame if it was showcasing one or another thing; I remember some of the best things I've seen in '04-'07 were PS3 tech demos. Remember that tech demo with the guy's head that played doctor octopus?

really? lat time I checked, Crysis had achieved an 91/100 average on metacritic, most reviewers also took the time to mention that while the graphics were amazing, the gameplay itself was also to praise.

Next time, you might want to back up your claims rather than just spew out numbers from nowhere.

Gamespot wrote : "Crysis is visually stunning, packed with intelligent, thrilling gameplay, and easily one of the greatest shooters ever made."

PC Gamer : "Destined to be a classic, Crysis is a creative and technological marvel that eclipses every other shooter released this year"

And out of 56 critics on metacritic, the lowest one is at 80, so I don't really see your 7s.

Edit : GWAVE beat me to it

You see, there is this phenomenon whereby people are blinded by great graphics.

As soon as a game has great graphics, people start asking quesitons.

What would it be like without the great graphics?
Haven't we seen this before, but with worse graphics?
Can the gameplay live up to the awesome graphics?

They have already made up in their heads that because it looks amazing, even if it plays well, the gameplay can never live up to the graphics and thus it is poor. Great graphics raise people's expectations of the gameplay.

Fact is, that both Crysis AND Killzone 2 have FANTASTIC gameplay. They are really fun to play. Take away the great graphics, and they wouldn't have received the hype, sure, but they would have been fun in their own right. Further to that, there are the production values, which transcend just the graphics, and help build atmosphere, pacing, clever AI. Do you want to take all those things away to make it "fair" on games without all that stuff? I even think that graphics improve a game. After all, it's what you're looking at whilst you're playing. How are graphics and gameplay REALLY completely distinct things?

Killzone so much. I thought it was boring...
But the graphics where good.

The physics in Crysis make it so much fun. Busting through walls, dropping trees on trucks, popping wheels out from under hummers as they come after you, explosions that devastate, that's fun stuff.

Man, every game with CryEngine will kill every custom PC, in a good way obviously... damn is so powerful

Dude, it's multiplatform. I doubt it'll blow away the Uncharted Engine and currently the Uncharted engine is the best looking engine on consoles. Yes Crysis had better graphics, but that was on PC. I'll be waiting to see if they can pull off similar graphics on consoles.

What the heck are you knuckle heads talking about? Are we talking consoles here, or PC. Crisis, although it has great graphics the game is mediocre at best and the environments are stale, there is not much going on most of the time. And why are we comparing pc graphics to Uncharted 2 again? You guys need to chill a bit I am not bashing Cryengine. I'm just saying I hope it's not all hype. I haven't seen anything done with it on the consoles yet so I will reserve judgement.

I have 360 , ps3, and Pc. Relax people, damn this n4g stuff is serious.

"The tech of the Crysis engine blows what ever Uncharted uses out of the water as shown with demos " <---DEMOS is the keyword here.

TECH DEMO =/= FULL RETAIL GAME.

I'm wondering if I missed something because I didnt know Brink, BF:BC 2 and all the other PS3 slim is talking about were already out. And about Crysis, isnt it a PC game?

FarCry was a Crysis Engine game.

Unfortunately it also blew chunks. It looked good, but not that good. I always saw jagged lines in the leaves. That might've been a PS3 vs 360/PC development issue, but if you expect their games to look better than Uncharted that is an hump they have to get over.

And is this engine limited to FPS, or have I just not seen anything else done by them?

why are you bringing in FarCry? you mean, the game that was released years ago on PC and had some console spin-offs on the orinal Xbox and PS2? Of course it will look dated compared to Uncharted 2, but what's the point? Might also want to say that Killzone 2 looks better than Unreal Tournament 2004?

FarCry was a CryEngine game for the PC.
FarCry2 was a Tunia Engine game for the PC/360/PS3.

CryEngine(3) has not delivered any game on consoles, yet.

I remember people going on about Operation Flashpoint 2, and how it would blow away all PS3 exclusives in terms of graphics.

Guess what, the graphics were disappointing.

Don't show anybody clips/trailers of upcoming games saying they will have such amazing graphics. For one thing, 90% of games have about the same graphical quality. Even those that we say have amazing graphics are not that far ahead.

Bad Company 2's graphics look about standard for this gen. They look about on par with Modern Warfare 2's. Uncharted 2 bests it. Killzone 2 bests it in turn.

Not consoles or games.

Actually the CryEngine 2, whilst very advanced in terms of features, doesn't completely blow away Uncharted 2's engine. Imagine if the PS3 had the latest PC tech - then Naughty Dog's engine would be able to render Crysis-esque scenes. Sure, the CryEngine 2 supports advanced features such as Subsurface Scattering, but then, so does Uncharted 2's engine! They are closer than you think. CryEngine 2 just allows you to do more since it's not restricted by the limitations of the PS3.

Ah, that clears things up.

I thought 'Cry' was a prerequisite for all Crysis engine games.

Now it makes even less sense why the game was called "FarCry2"

Because FarCry is a Ubisoft intellectual property, developed by Crytek (CryEngine1). FarCry 2 is still owned by Ubisoft, while the engine remain(ed) the property of Crytek.

Crytek is associated with EA now a days, and thus Ubi had no interest in working with Crytek on FarCry2, thus resulting in their own proprietary Tunia engine used in FarCry2.

Crytek moved on to CryEngine2 and Crysis (under EA). Now with CryEngine 3 they bring this over to consoles (as well).