CryENGINE 3 is out and available for other developers to play with. Earlier this afternoon, developer Crytek put out a press release indicating that the fresh engine can now be licensed and touted the engine’s tech to boot. According to that release, CryENGINE 3 will feature a noteworthy thing called Live Create, which will allow developers to create a game for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 with a single editor hooked up to a dev PC.
We suppose that’s f’ing metal in its own uber-nerdy way.
Of course, CryENGINE 3 is said to be much more than convenient -- the press release mentions that the engine is “truly Next-Gen-Ready,” featuring “scalable computation and graphics for all major platforms.” So, in other words, it’ll work for a while.
Hit the break for some comments about the tech from Cevat Yerli, and give the official CryENGINE 3 Web site a look while you’re at it. The stuff we’re seeing at the site is looking quite delicious.
“With CryENGINE 3 we are releasing the best development solution available today and tomorrow. With its scalable graphics and computation it is next-gen ready and with new features like CryENGINE 3 Live Create the best choice for game developers and companies developing serious games applications alike. It is the only game engine solution that enables real-time development and can ensure teams are able to maximise their own creativity, save budget and create greater gaming experiences.” said Cevat Yerli, CEO & President of Crytek.
“We’re delighted to launch CryENGINE 3 and we look forward to seeing what developers achieve with our all-new technology. CryENGINE 3 isn’t just about providing our trademark highest-quality graphics and our out of the box AI and physics for the first time on consoles – it also delivers real benefits to all disciplines in games development. Programmers will create awesome new effects and gameplay; art, design and audio teams can play as they create with the fastest, entirely real-time WYSIWYP pipeline ever, materially reducing development time and risk – even producers, project managers and suits will love CryENGINE 3! Of course, our international team of more than 20 dedicated support staff are available right now to help our licensees make the most of CryENGINE 3; at their studio or at one of our support centres around the world.” added Carl Jones, Director of Business Development CryENGINE.
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7:00 PM on 10.14.2009
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As a PC gamer I am of course more interested in what it can achieve there... I like the idea of making it easier for consol-centric developers to enhance the visuals for PC. So many times the console ports to PC are just the console graphics in higher resolution with more AA and AF, which is nice, but making it stupid easy to add more details, polygons and textures would be extremely appreciated and would drive PC sales.
In any case, I look forward to Crysis 2 and whatever else gets made on this monster.
Holy crap.
Although I must say it's still really bloody impressive what they've achieved, espcecially since it's apparently equal across both PS3 and 360.
lol yeah, it looks like it. But we used the shit out of the phrase "next-gen" this generation. I heard the 360 referred to as next gen as little as a month ago.
That's not really much advanced over what Crysis and the Cryengine 2 have now. The problem is no one licensed the engine because it was made for PCs only, and no one makes PC exclusives anymore in the genres this engine is good for.
Well, some people do, but not many.
With Cryengine 3 we will hopefully see more games with that level of graphics on PC since the same engine can be used for consoles and more people will license it. At least I hope more people will license it.
I meant Crysis games have the best jungles ever, right? :D
But as Narishma said, it would make more sense to liscence some Id tech now that they're flatmates under Zenimax.
That's not a screenshot. That's Brad Nicholson's front yard.
Now let's see some of this action on the consoles where we won't have to spend 2 hours fiddling with options to make Cryisis run properly...
I WANT CRYENGINE!!