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Just the other day, Crysis developer Crytek announced that CryENGINE 3 was locked, loaded, and ready to be licensed by other developers who may find themselves fancying the tech. In the post, we presented all of you with a single still image of Brad Nicholson’s backyard as rendered with the engine. That moist jungle -- the same place where man was trained to weight lift by a group of bipedal badgers -- never looked better. But now we have some moving pictures to show you.

The above is a debut trailer of sorts, your first-ish look at what CryENGINE 3 can do on the Xbox 360, PC, and PS3. In addition to this, it also shows off a bit of that next-generation stuff mentioned in the announcement yesterday. Give it a look and grab that drool-cup -- that old dude's head looks stellar.


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Crunshii's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/15/2009 17:36
Crunshii
wow holy smoking goat balls... that is friggin awesome graphics...
fetusmilk's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/15/2009 17:38
fetusmilk
this is awesome, now developers cant complain its to hard to program for the ps3.
timesplitters 4 using this tech would be the greatest game n the world!
Onlineatron's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/15/2009 17:38
Onlineatron
The little girl/boy running through the forest looked amazing!

Although I'll believe it when I see it... if games will truly run like that on CryEngine 3 ... colour me fucking gobsmacked!
dj-anon's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/15/2009 17:40
dj-anon
That looks sick. I hope some good devs get their hands on this engine.
greks224's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/15/2009 17:40
greks224
This looks amazing. Hopefully developers act on it (and I assume they will).
Brandnamecommercial's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/15/2009 17:42
Brandnamecommercial
That head blows my mind. I couldn't procreate a person as real as that.
TheDirtyHobo's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/15/2009 17:44
TheDirtyHobo
I wonder if they'll pull a Killzone 2 and announce in a few months that this is a sped up video originally running at 5fps.

I have a hard time believing the 360 can push out that kind of beauty in realtime 30+ fps.
prolifikstudio's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/15/2009 17:47
prolifikstudio
definitely next gen looking. I want kill zone 3 . I am getting tired of this gens grimy unreal 3 engine look.
mourning orange's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/15/2009 17:47
mourning orange
Give me Elder Scrolls on Cryengine3 please.
gamadaya's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/15/2009 17:51
gamadaya
@TheDirtyHobo: I doubt it, given how they won't shut up about real time.
Niero's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/15/2009 17:52
Niero
Very cool. I love that software is ahead of hardware limitations -- it's just a matter of time before truly photorealistic games are possible. We're closer every day.
reindall's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/15/2009 17:57
reindall
Everything advances fast. Recently I've reinstalled TES:Oblivion and tried to max out the graphics with plugins, texture packs and .ini changes and it looks 'meh' compared to some current games... Mind boggling.
ArrestedDeveloper's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/15/2009 17:57
ArrestedDeveloper
That is one old ass head.
SWE3tMadness's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/15/2009 17:57
SWE3tMadness
Yay! Now your linear, cliched, and repetitive shooters can look even more realistic! Wow your audience with 150 more gradient shades of grey and brown! Watch how fluidly and naturally these one-dimensional, dull, and annoying characters move in the environment!

...Sarcasm aside, it all looks very pretty, and major props to the developers behind this. But I'll be much more excited when someone actually integrates this engine into a game in a way that contributes something meaningful to the experience besides just "OMG PHYSICS! Isn't this so cool!?"
Xzyliac's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/15/2009 18:08
Xzyliac
Old people are gross.
Monodi's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/15/2009 18:19
Monodi
I wonder what could come out of this. Anything but generic shit, please.
Steel Squirrel's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/15/2009 18:20
Steel Squirrel
GRAFICKS!
Strandli's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/15/2009 18:27
Strandli
Consoles are weaker than the PC, so I wouldn't be surpriced if the console versions will "look worse" than PC versions, even if they try to hide it in that video.
But prebuilt engines like this encourage people to make generic shooters, and I am not interested. Good graphics with good animations can be achieved without CE3.
EnigmaticHarle's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/15/2009 18:29
EnigmaticHarle
Hopefully this will cure the porting issues that every ported game has. I believe they did state that developers could make a game once simultaneously for PC, Xbox 360 and the PS3. Even if that's not entirely true, CryENGINE 3 should make it easier and faster to develop games, which is a damn good thing with all these delayed 2010 titles roaming about. I, for one, am tantalized.

@SWE3tMadness
Your whole statement made me want to vomit. Vomit hate, that is.
Glenn Morris's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/15/2009 18:52
Glenn Morris
Patrick Stewart will still find work long after he's dead.
pedrovay2003's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/15/2009 19:04
pedrovay2003
Oh man, that looked good...

I second fetusmilk. Developers shouldn't still be complaining about the PS3's programming as it is -- This takes any right to do that away completely.
Professor Pew's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/15/2009 19:08
Professor Pew
Looks good just like the previous two engines. Which never turned into fun games. So meh!
broonor's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/15/2009 19:29
broonor
@Glenn Morris I was wondering if anyone else noticed the Stewart lookalike angle of the screenshot
brainderailment's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/15/2009 19:30
brainderailment
What generation are they referring to when they say "Next Gen Ready"? I thought people finally stopped referring to 360/PS3 as "Next Gen"
xe-cute's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/15/2009 19:41
xe-cute
@ brainderailment - I presume when it says "next gen" instead of PS3 or XBox360 that it means the video is of it running on an ultra high-spec PC.

So basically saying it can handle the next generation to come with the consoles (as they are always behind the top spec PCs).
Reginald's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/15/2009 19:46
Reginald
this is definitely the "more is more" approach... working with that engine looks like a nightmare. no sense in having all of this when you don't have procedural animation systems to ease some of the workload off of animators and 3d artists. no wonder the average AA game budget is 10-25 million these days
Gyrael's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/15/2009 19:47
Gyrael
Nice, man. I hope this helps with multi-platforming.
Ikey Heyman's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/15/2009 20:11
Ikey Heyman
my god, my eyes melted with how amazing that looked. I'm normally not one to care for OMG NEXT GEN GRAFFIX but...wow.
Aziel13's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/15/2009 20:23
Aziel13
now I really creamed me self x3
Cowboy TTop's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/15/2009 20:37
Cowboy TTop
Okay guys, start shipping those CryEngine3 demos out to every developer in japan. Most of them are aren't that great at this kind of stuff.
bigduo209's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/15/2009 22:26
bigduo209
@TheDirtyHobo

Actually its showing the engine running these graphics (for both consoles) at 20fps.

Seriously, check out Digital-Foundry/Eurogamer if you want to see what I'm talking about.
HammerShark's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/16/2009 01:53
HammerShark
WHAT!!!?? I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND OF THE FAPPING!!!!!
RonBurgandy2010's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/16/2009 06:41
RonBurgandy2010
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PRETTY!!!
MCChampaignMillionaire's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/16/2009 10:45
MCChampaignMillionaire
Elder Scrolls 4, F.E.A.R. 3 and Condemned 3 are perfect for that engine...
the guy with the hat's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/16/2009 12:00
the guy with the hat
mmm... sexy graphics
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