looks awesome

dunno if peeps have seen this before, but its demos of a lot of the effects crysis will be using
and a 8 minute demo on the level editor which also looks awesome

We could go on and on about the vast array of features added to this engine. There’s just so many things that it does right. Let’s just skip it all and say that the new engine looks almost as good as reality. While the system requirements for high level visuals are bound to be a bit high, Crytek has incorporated an automatic occlusion system that keeps the poly counts as low as possible, even in the busiest of scenes

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/gdc-07-crysis-footage

edit: converted all i's to y's

woah.

ga mirror?

Very nice!

its all exclusive stuff afaik now

... crisis special effects trailer ...
... a lot of the effects crisis ...

Crysis dude.

The only thing I dislike more than exclusive content is ingame advertising (in commercial games, free games are OK) :/

last edited by parabol at 11:32:52 12/Mar/07

meh, ingame advertising doesnt bother me in the slightest, even less if it helps pay for features like these

totally deformable environments, realistic lighting, advanced physics

that nuke going off and the shock wave rolling through, was amazing

The only thing I dislike more than exclusive content is ingame advertising (in commercial games, free games are OK) :/

Does it really matter tho? I mean, we are surrounded by advertising everyday in everything that we do. I dont see the big deal about product placement in games. thats just my thought anyway.

I wouldn't care if it was a free game, but when I drop $90 on a new title I'd like to be able to play it without fear of getting smashed in the face with ads. That said, subtle in-game product placement probably wouldn't bother me - in some cases it'd probably be cool (seeing Coke machines and stuff for example). As long as it was subtle.

yup, fair call eds

im not even bothered by ads on foxtel

I think advertising is cool, the way they did it with splinter cell double agent and rainbow six vegas. Just advertising that you would expect in an urban environment anyway. What I don't want is player models clothes turning into race car driver clothes.

So long as it doesn't impede game play

Also that level editor looks so n00b friendly, even I could make my own maps. Not since C&C Generals have I understood how to create a map, but this is just like painting.
This is how editors should work, your scope is only by limited by your imagination not your technical know how.

Does it really matter tho? I mean, we are surrounded by advertising everyday in everything that we do

Just because something surrounds you doesn't mean that you have to embrace or accept it.

Having a game developer try to greedily squeeze an extra few dollars out of their game at your expense, despite the fact that you've already handed over some cash ... really annoys me. I don't like cable tv for the same reason.

But as I said, it's different for free games, or aging games that cost the developer in terms of internet bandwidth (think of the ongoing costs of Steam + HL1 CS).

omfg

Wow, the specs that would be needed to run that engine scare me :(

I was thinking this looks really good, then I saw the nuke explosion.. wow.

n some cases it'd probably be cool (seeing Coke machines and stuff for example). As long as it was subtle.

I like shooting at the drink machines in cs, or making them pop out bottles & shoot the bottles around.I'd love to hammer the crap out of a coke machine and show it just what I think of it's sugary tooth rotting goodness.

As much as I hate windows vista, if it's the only dx10 OS I may upgrade just for crysis, damn that game looks hot.

Wow, the specs that would be needed to run that engine scare me :(

the specs to run cs source would have scared a lot of people back when quake came out. I'm sure by the time crysis comes out there'll be some decent enough hardware at a low enough price to let us run it at medium-ish graphics.

last edited by whoop at 01:07:33 13/Mar/07

its due this year apparently.

I still cant get over the graphics of super mario brothers on the gameboy.