Crysis

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Crytek say that comparing the engine of Crysis and Far Cry is a 3 generation gap, yet Crysis in DX9 to Crysis in DX10 will be only a 1 generation gap. Fairly vague language admittedly, but it certainly doesnt point to the 6x speed boost that Microsoft claim is possible.

Sub-surface scattering is a new tech that helps make the quality of the skin surpass all previous attempts, in addition to the mentioned wizardry.

There is an article here that raises some interesting points about photorealistic faces in computer games. I wonder how well Crytek will have them animated and alive looking.

[DeltaOmega553]

Those are jaw-dropping graphics; however, graphics alone won't cut the cake if the gameplay isn't good.

I personally did not enjoy Farcry's gameplay style. I hope they improve upon it.

[Spriggan_X]

Originally Posted by DeltaOmega553

Those are jaw-dropping graphics; however, graphics alone won't cut the cake if the gameplay isn't good.

I personally did not enjoy Farcry's gameplay style. I hope they improve upon it.

what!? Far Cry was a real good game, I don't know how you didn't like it.

[vdu]

I remember when the first farcry demo was available it had incredible graphics for that time, and still, if you had a good pc it ran really well. I think the guys of crytek really know how to code stuff, so I'm pretty certain that Crysis will run surprisingly good once it come out.

Next generation graphics doesn't necesarly mean it will run like crap

Still I think we'll have to wait at lest 1+ years before seeing some real DX10 stuff.

[DeltaOmega553]

Yeah I'm kinda surprised myself. I thought I would love the game but it just didn't click for me. I got bored really fast. It was too simple of a game.

You had 4 or 5 slots and you could fit in whatever weapons you wanted in those slots, run around, shoot and kill. It seemed totally pointless to me :/

It didn't have ANYTHING special about it (besides amazing graphics) to keep me wanting to come back and play more. I got no sense of accomplishment through killing the bad guys or sneaking around. It was all so base, boring, and linear to me.

[Syranetic]

We're so damn close... The next gen is probably going to hit the mark of CGI. Unreal 4.0... DX11 & PS4 & XBOX3 ... Just imagine.

I'm looking too far ahead aren't I?

[aggies11]

Originally Posted by bisby

interview

my fav part was

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Originally Posted by Interview
Will it be playable at E3 and do you have any firm release date yet?

Cevat Yerli: It will definitely be playable at E3 and we're shooting for winter 2006 right now. We don't have to wait until Vista ships either.

Bernd Diemer: Everything you've seen has been running on DX9 and normal hardware you can get in the shops right now. It's all normal spec and doesn't even use a dual processor or anything like that, we don't have any special graphical hardware inside these boxes. However, with DX10 and a dual core CPU, you're going to see something very special indeed. When we compare Far Cry to Crysis we're talking about two to three levels better in terms of generations, but if you compare DX 9 to DX10 it's at least a generation better, so there's a tangible difference, visually as well as from the intensity.
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OMG. If I'm reading that correctly, it means that the videos we have seen so far have been running on current gen (DX9, 7900, 1900 etc) cards? So even if you don't get dx10 cards, it will still look as good as the videos. BUT if you go DX10 then it will simply look EVEN BETTER and run FASTER?

That simply boggles the mind. Although my wallet really likes the idea

Aggies

[Syranetic]

Not to be a drag... but the faces look superb, on par or better than Unreal 2007... but the environments honestly look... sub-par... At least when comparing to things like Oblivion. I hope this is either just because it's not done, or because the screenshots are bad?

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Beauty IS in the eye of the beholder, but how you can compare the wonderous visage of pea soup to this crysis footage is beyond my imagining.

Even after a thousand patches, Oblivion could never hope to look like this

[DeltaOmega553]

I think oblivion graphics look more animated and shiny almost like the way reality "should" look like but Crysis graphics look more like what I would see if I went to some tropical rainforest (based on pictures I saw). They look more real and life-like.

But there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that in terms of human faces, Crysis wins by a landslide.