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CryENGINE 3 Updated, Crysis 3 Announced

Posted by Soulskill on from the still-won't-run-crysis dept.

zacharye writes "The next-generation Xbox and PlayStation consoles currently being developed by Microsoft and Sony will make the disparity between console and mobile gaming even more vast, adding more fluid animation support and a number of additional enhancements that will make video games more realistic than ever. But even when confined to the capabilities present in today's home consoles, new video game engines show us just how amazing gaming will be moving forward. Ctytek, the lab behind the popular Crysis franchise, recently released the CryENGINE 3 SDK 3.4.0 DX11 update for developers, along with a quick reel to highlight some of the engine's capabilities." Crysis 3 has also been officially confirmed. They're aiming for a Spring 2013 release date, and the game will be set within a dome in New York City that contains an 'urban rainforest.'

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  1. I wouldn't count on it by Sycraft-fu · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Crytek has sucked at games from day one.

    --Farcry was a tech demo that didn't run well on any hardware out at the time that featured a massive world that would be good for free roaming except the gameplay didn't allow it. It was a reasonable sneaky-shooty up until it became a monster game and really sucked.

    --Crysis was a tech demo that didn't run well on any hardware out at the time that featured a massive world that would be good for free roaming except the gameplay didn't allow it. It was a reasonable sneaky-shooty up until it became a monster game and really sucked. Oh and it's last level was just about the worst thing ever.

    --Crysis Warhead was just Crysis, with a different main character. Same island, same basic story, same engine, same shit.

    --Crysis 2 was a step back technologically since Crytek decided the reason they were "only" selling a millionish copies of their game was because of evil PC pirates, and not because their game sucked or because it required, as Yahtzee put it "A hypothetical future computer from space." It ran well but was a bog standard rail shooter, giving up any pretense of free roaming. Ran fine on account of having to be reduced to run on consoles.

    So I wouldn't hold out a lot of hope for Crysis 3. Crytek likes making tech demos for an engine that looks good simply by requiring a stupid amount of power. They don't even appear to understand what their engine or level design is good at (meaning actual free roaming games).