The one of the main strong points in the PS3 is the physics and calculations the CELL can compute in fractions of a second. I really hope they make a game with this graphics engine some time in the PS3's bright future.

Man I wish my computer wasn't a Gateway from 2001. I'm missing out on so many awesome games.

the rig he is running that sh!t on that is.

Was this ran on the triple SLi getup? That seems to be the only way to get this game running on very high. It's good to see videos like this just makes the next 6-10 years very exciting just imagine the possibilities! Just hope it won't take over $1800 worth of videocards to make a game run.

u guys think a qx9650 OCd to 4 GHz , 4 Gigs of ram, anad dual 8800 GT ( 512Mb) will be able to handle the 3000 barrel explosion? im going all out on my next PC ( sometime in january), but am not sure about the GPUs, GT? GTX? GTS?

awesome vid...

Crysis Mod makers are gonna come up some awesome stuff. This game has so much potentiel for mods.

That's what i love about pc gaming, you don't have to follow the rules, u can sacrifice something to get another, for example if you follow the recent crysis tweak guides, you can sacrifice edge AA, volumetric effects , and shader quality to gain performance and enhance other eye candy such as post processing and sunshafts, and it's very easy to tweak, u just need to know which command controls which feature, i'm playing on a tweaked very high setting in dx9 on vista with enhanced motion blur and shadowing(better than very high) at the expense of high shaders and reduced volumetric effects(who needs real-time rendered tactile clouds in the day/night cycle, it's not like you'll be flying to touch them), along with several other performance gain tweaks that change the way textures are streamed and rendered
This gives me a solid 35 fps at a 1360 x 768 hdtv resolution with 2xAA on a Quad Core, 4gb and single gtx, pretty good for a $900 upgrade system, i'm not even thinking about how this game will look with all bells and whistles on because i am more than satisfied with the visual fidelity i have,
And one thing, crysis framerates are very weird, and sometimes i could have sworn framerates i perceived were twice as much as what was displayed on screen, even though i'm a framerate whore, i still feel 25fps in crysis as playable, it feels like 45fps pace in another game, imo 40 fps would be the optimum crysis experience, i don't know if it's the motion blur or the animation fluidness, but when i get past 60 fps on whatever settings, things are faster than usual, motion blur disappears and it doesn't feel as good or realistic,

words cant describe how cool that was

In case any of you didn't realize, this is set to render frame by frame, which means all these massive explosions, effects, and physics aren't being rendered in real time. They're being rendered at a fraction of realtime speed and then sped up in the video to playback at 30 fps.

In other words, it's basically just prerendered CG, FMV video.

Holy $hit...amazing

you can sit here and do all this stuff...but really it means nothing if its not implimented right, I saw alot of affects in that video that we're very unlifelike.

I get sick of devs touting physics...ect because half the time a gamer isn't gonna notice this stuff, now by all means get real life like physics down so we can do stuff like chain reactions and such based upon angles and physic implimentations...but till that time its not life life, in life you can usually predict based upon mass, velocity...ect where a thing is gonna go but not in games and not in that video.

It would be fun to make a fully physics based game with thousands of explosive barrels and stuff. Something fun and unique based on a strong engine (And not the free Physics card based games like Cell Factor).

Is that the game can still keep running the physics for a good while. I guess it's the graphics that would make it crash, but I wonder... how many GPUs would be necessary to run the graphics? I mean seriously, the 50 barrel explosion was impressive, it almost looked like an atom bomb (Crysis are geniuses for at least making us think it's genuine, even though it may not explode exactly like that in reality). I wish I could have seen that 3000 barrel explosion =( lol

That was incredible.

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It is future proof. I haven't played a game like Crysis since and probably never will. Wasn't the greatest FPS but certainly it was special

Crysis looked MINDBLOWING in 2007 (at least the few frames I could render on my PC did), still looks good today, which is an amazing feat. But has definitely aged when you consider the wow factor it once had. Braid is a game from 2007 that's future proof bc the graphical style is so simple. Looked good then, looks as good now.