Cryengine2: You won´t believe it

[samuel_bubat]

http://www.gametrailers.com/player.p...=game&type=wmv

drool....

[tom schuelke]

hmm,

could we get a plugin in max, for realtimepreviews ?

aaarrrgh

[RErender]

very nice

[jujubee]

The physics are amazing in this - wonder if we'll need new cards with Physics Processing Units on board.

[Syclone1]

wow

[mike.edel]

The physics are amazing in this - wonder if we'll need new cards with Physics Processing Units on board.

just in case you missed it: nvidia is partnering with havok in order to calculate parts of the phyiscs effects on the gpu
http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_30478.html

ageia had to come up with a product of their own this week...
given the widespread use of nvidia cards, i think their chances are a bit better

ps: as always, i'm quite sceptical about preview videos
looks too good to be usable in a real game (i really like the foliage and the old leaves at the ground)
there isnt only graphics about good games - i was hoping to see a change in crytek's next game but as it seems they are doing it the EA way: sequels, sequels, sequels

[instinct]

Crysis is actually not a sequel to FarCry afaik. It´s a different story...the engine (cryengine2) is of course a sequel :P

Thorsten

[samuel_bubat]

what really shocked me are the realtime ambient maps !
This is (was) the last major piece missing in realtime engines compared
to non-realtime renderer. I expected something like this
in a few years. Actually I don´t know how they work, perform or how much setup this requires. It ´s hard to judge from a Tech Demo.
But their examples are most impressive.

Regarding the physics.. I don´t know if they us some sort of PPU for their engine. However.., I recently red that Nvidia will add PPU´s based on the
Havok engine directly to their Graphic Cards in the future. I like this idea much better than having a seperate PPU in my PC.

[samuel_bubat]

Sorry.. this was a double post. Got an error message when sending and tried again...

[mike.edel]

Crysis is actually not a sequel to FarCry afaik. It´s a different story...the engine (cryengine2) is of course a sequel :P

Thorsten

looking at the content/setting/shooting/crouching in the foliage i can see no difference to farcry - really
the background story might be different, but it seems to be the same principle

[instinct]

The principle will be most likely the same...sadly the principle behind all major fps shooter is pretty similar *shudder*

I´d say lets blame the major publishers....innovation is too risky it seems...*sigh*

Thorsten

[jujubee]

A revamped Farcry with new graphics and same gameplay would be completely welcome by me. The original was amazing!

[jow]

I second that jujubee!!

[DaForce]

WOW

[rpc212]

Wow is right! We need this for Max. Imagine the walk throughs we could all do! Wow!