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I got put into prison by these fish people in KOTOR!

Never could return to their planet.

Oh yeah, cool tech video.

They should finally make a good game with this engine. XD

KOTOR 3 with CryEngine 3! I might shed a manly tear if that happens.

It'd still look and animate like garbage though.

Damn they have that whole human flesh and water rendering thing down perfectly. I really would love to see a lot more adoption of this especially for PC. Epic is talking big game about the next proper iteration of Unreal Engine but this has been around for ages, why is no one using it??

it looks pretty amazing

all these features were present in Crysis 2 DX11, why is this new?

Because the features in the SDK have been improved?

oh right, what's cry engine 3.4 though? At the end of the video it says cry engine 3...misleading heading ftl

It's 0.4 better than Cry Engine 3, duh!

I know, right?

Have Crytek not heard of 1080p60? Seems a waste to watch such a demo in 720p30.

Its built on consoles like Xbox 360, PS3 and then it scales up...

Crysis 2 still represents the best showing of graphics this gen for me at least on console. Not sure what exactly but they do something with the light that's different and better than what i see elsewhere

I would agree if these bastards would just make a blurry image into a sharp image.
By that I mean from sub-Hd to a 720p native, I would agree.

But until then, IMO, it is one of the best one, but not the best since Gears 3, Uncharted 3 and Killzone 3 looks way better especially since they all have native resolution of 720p which makes colors and image just pop and vibrant and look sharp.

I doubt Crytek will make a 720p will Crysis 3 on 360/PS3. It may look better on 360 since Crysis 2 had slightler higher resolution but on PS3 it looked blurry and just plain annoying.

*yawns*

I'm only interested in engines that focus on dynamic AI and animations. Anything else is just a bunch of whip cream and cherries on a pie. Detail shouldn't stop being worked on, but I would hope developers would start focusing on things that can drastically change gamers approach to games.

You can critisize Crytek for Crysis 2 being a lesser game than Crysis (mainly because of the limited sandbox experience which is due because of the limitations of the consoles). But Crytek is an amazing company when it comes to technical evolution. In contrary of what peaople are saying about not focussing on animations and dynamic AI, Crytek is still the leading developper in expanding the AI and animations. The reason why I believe that people say that the AI in Crysis 2 was poor, is that the WERE using dynamic AI in contrary of most FPS and TPS. Dynamic AI is very dificult to program. But at least they try. Yes, the AI in Crysis 2 made mistakes, but that is just the thing with dynamic AI: it makes mistakes. Perfect dynamic AI is still far away, again because of the limitation of powerfull hardware and smart software. But again: Crytek tries to implement it, where other companies don't dare to touch it.

Crytek and Epic are pushing Sony and MS to enhance the next generation of consoles with more power, so developers have more freedom and less limitations. Those 2 companies are really pulling the car in terms of technological innovation. They both deserve praise for that. I don't see any other companies doing that (Activision, Ubisoft, etc...).

I thought Reach's AI was better and a lot more fun to play against. I've never found Crytek's animations to be anything more than average either.

I played many games where the AI has been vastly more interesting than crysis 2.

only FPS that i've noticed to have a decent AI was the halo series..

This engine does look sexy

Max Payne 3 with RAGE/Euphoria looks far better than the CryENGINE to me as a player because they have demonstrated (at least hypothetically) how the engine can change the experience and approach to playing a 3rd person shooter. Same thing with Backbreaker showing lots of potential.

Play FEAR or Half Life 1, even Killzone 2 has pretty good AI

what about HL2 episode 1-2 that was decent, many games out there with great AI that to me wiped the floor with what i saw in Crysis 2..

I beat Half Life 2 many times and honestly, I wasn't impressed by the AI at all. In fact, when I was playing it the first time, I was expecting really great AI....

The AI in Half Life 2 and episodes is serviceable but not extraordinary. The only game that has impressed me with its "AI" is FEAR 1. In that game the AI was designed with the environment in mind and it uses the environment to a very great effect.

Agreed. The AI in Half-life 1 and 2 was not great. Those are very linear games and you can't compare it with the more sandbox styl gameplay in Crysis. I don't know any other shooters that had sandbox-style gameplay AND had good dynamic AI. Maybe Far Cry 2, but that AI was crazy accurate and could see you from 100+ meters away even when you were in cover in tall grass.

I certainly don't agree with the AI in Halo Reach. Just pay attention to what the enemy is doing and you can see that they mostly use zig-zag AI, or just go forward and then retreat again. But that is just my opinion.

The AI in Fear was the most impressive dynamic AI I ever saw. But also that game was extremely linear and can't be compared to Crysis' style of gameplay. AI in confined spaces looks more impressive and is much easier to program because of the strict bounderies.

Every other shooter that I've played (with exception to Arma and Operation Flashpoint) has scripted AI or very limited dynamic AI (eg Gears of War, Call of duty, Medal of Honor, The darkness, Battlefield 3 to name a few recent shooters).