Crytek didn't show PC footage of Crysis 2 yet. Noone knows why, but rumours say it could rock. We don't like rumours that's why we trust in tech demos. PC Games shows 10 Cry Engine 3 Tech Demos that show off the real PC's power. Power that will definitely make PC Crysis 2 kick consoles' asses. Check the tech after the jump!
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I can't wait until march! I definitely gonna play Crysis 2 on the PC!
it to be honest. Ever sinse i played crysis on my friends pc ive wanted crysis on consoles. Even at 720p it blew anything on my ps3 and 360 away easily. I thought the demo looked stunning especially due to the fact that its running on a really limited console now but hey valve got halflife 2 to run on the original xbox.
There's a few games that could rival Crysis2's graphics on either consoles. Still, Crytek is trying to put up a visual show. Competition is always nice to push things forwards.
Can't wait for the PC version, though. That's the one I'm getting ;) better be more gorgeous than Crysis 1.
The tech Crysis 2 is pushing is amazing for consoles.
Obviously the PC version is going to crank everything up to 10!
Nah, C2 on consoles isn't as visually impressive as also KZ2, TLG and UC3 - there are other games but they're too different to compare.
The tech crysis 2 is pushing for consoles is pitiful. The LOD is ridiculous, the geometry and environment texture resolution is far from the best seen on consoles, the tearing isn't too impressive and the edge AA is awful - even QAA would've done a better job
PC version FTW. Console version FTFL. Not even great graphically by console standards.
Crysis 2 on 360 looks a lot better than Reach does.
And we've seen so little of TLG that making any conclusion about whether it will look better than Crysis 2 is moot.
Crysis 2 way overrated
Crysis 1 boring ass gameplay overrated
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
silly article is this trying to dismay console people. look flamebait. i have a very high powerd rig. every pc gamer knows you dont compare or boast about how a game runs looks to a console version. its gonna do the dogs dangles. but what crytek have been trying to do with the help from cryuk' (freeradical) is get a built engine to run on consoles to make them shine and perform well on consoles give gamers what they want. pc gamers who can affors to have a decent rig will always be in first place. and console gamers know this. so why is this article even being put threw.
its lame.
it would suck. Xbox 360 Demo gave me nothing =(
Started playing Crysis 1 with NaturalMod and hi res texture pack again right after the crappy paddle demo..
Who would have thought this would be true?
In similar news, internet speeds today are much faster than they were in the 90's. What a world we live in.
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My PS3 is a fucking beast of a console, powerful as hell as far as other consoles are concerned. But still, it baffles me when console fan-boys proclaim that their machine would destroy a $1000-$2000 gaming rig - hardware wise.
I'm not one for PC gaming myself (not my style) but if you want the worlds best graphics at the fastest speeds, buy the next graphics card. I don't really see how anyone can say that PC's are limited, if you know how to build one, you'll always have the best hardware.
Thought I'd show some love - 360 Live is awesome, the PS3 is a f-cking monster and Gaming Rigs are forever upgradeable. Fanboyism does my head in.
Jrpgs (final fantasy, blue dragon) > Geeky RPG, RTS
and all others genre no matter what d fck does grapphics add up, plays better on with my Dual shock 3 and xbox controller than that fuckery of a keyboard.
In ur fudup pc gamers.
Implying JRPGs aren't geeky -_-
Nice try =)
Its always "the next unreleased game is gunna be bettah than PS3!" Comes, releases, dudgs like alan wake and its onto the next one. "zomg RAGE is going to be the one!"
Fun fact:
While Killzone2, Uncharted 2, GT5 is all compared to Top PC graphical games...
0 360 games ever are.
Theres nothing on the 360 that can even come close to comparing to Crysis and its always been that way. The 360 is capable of running a better engine than the unreal engine for sure, But its not capable of running a MP beta with 32 players with the scale/physics/lighting/animati on/stream loading of Killzone2, let alone 3.
360 fans think this every year, over and over. Everyone claimed Alan Wake & Splinter Cell looked better than Uncharted2\MGS4. Saying one thing is different than the reality when GDC awards & tech analysis are done. Its been 5 years, and of course the only thing that 360 owners can mention once again...is never anything from the past. Never a past release, just a future one. This isn't downplaying as well. Why isn't Crysis 2 compared to Gears2 or Halo? You know the answer.
The hilarious fact, is its a multiplatform game.
You're amazingly admitting that Crytek(LOL), has more know how & the resources to create a game engine better than all of what Sony's and Microsofts first party & third party devs have created, as well as making it multiplatform. Crytek, the same developer that was condemned for building severely bloated engines & buggy ones just on one platform, the PC. Again, its the same thing said every year, and as always.... it has none of KZ's post processing, a limited player count & scale. Doesn't stream load, etc. This means that Crytek is the best developer out, right? Since t hey've done what no 360 dev has managed to do in 5 years? Or I guess. And that means that Id will be the betterest ever-ever?
You guys are seeing deferred rendering done well for the first time, which is why its severely mind boggling to you. I remember people said Vanquish was also better than KZ2.. same pattern, different year.
Replace this years crysis with:
Metro2033
Splinter Cell
Alan Wake
Ninja blade
Enslaved
Mass Effect
Banjo Kazooie
Vanquish
Crackdown 2
Prototype
and its the same folks saying its better than Killzone or uncharted, or ratchet, or infamous, etc.
Edit:
Tachyon, well.. reviewers & media sites are morons. But they aren't stupid enough to compare Crysis to Halo & Gears. Graphically. No one is that blind.
Kalipekona,
No one ever says Killzone3 is perfect, and you're trying to rip to shreds a 800mb demo.
What you're entire useless block of text wont admit, is that KZ3 is the best looking console game out, despite its flaws, that runs 32 players online.
of course you're "I am willing to bet that" Because theres nothing on the 360 that can touch KZ3's performance/scale/lighting/str eaming all combined. Just bits and parts, hell, Call of Duty has better TEXTURES at certain points than Killzone2, but does that mean that it now qualifies to compare to the entire package? No.
The same way you try to be underwhelmed by KZ2/3, by saying the lighting is "OK" you sure as hell can apply that same exact lame comment to Crysis2, and well, every console game.
Same with your Aliasing comments, Apply that to Crysis 2 as well.
The textures are mostly middle of the road. There are a few impressive textures here and there, but generally the textures are just average.
The lighting is ok, but it isn't really that accurate. Much of the lighting looks kind of flat. There are isolated light sources that cast shadows, but away from those direct light sources it is almost as if there is no lighting interacting with the textures. Killzone 3 definitely doesn't have real-time global illumination and true HDR lighting like Crysis 2 does.
Killzone 3 does look sharper and clearer than its predecessor as it seems Guerrilla moved away from using the Quincunx anti-aliasing used in Killzone 2. This results in a sharper, clearer looking game, but the trade off is that the jaggies are now more apparent. Whether they are indeed using the rumored MLAA or not I cannot say. All I know is that the aliasing is pretty bad and much more noticeable than in Killzone 2.
All in all it doesn't look that much better than a game like Gears of War 2. Killzone 3 has the better lighting, but Gears 2 has the better textures. I am willing to bet that Gears of War 3, with its new real-time lighting engine, will look better than Killzone 3.
Oh and Alan Wake looks far better than MGS4. They are both sub-hd, although Alan Wake is lower resolution out of the two, but in every other way Alan Wake is far more impressive from a technology perspective.
Metro aint looking that good ffs!!! All reviews agree on my opinion. The guns and characters look like shit!!! ffs! its just a dark game with great lightning!
Anyway, Crysis 2 looking better than Killzone 3, Rofl! The pc version yes, but the 360 one! lol
@tachyon_nova
You are incapable of seeing good graphics!
@bluwulf
You seem to hate the 360! I think it also got some great looking games! If you look at how Gears of War 1 and 2 turned out, you gotta admit, they were beasts in their time! I can only think what Gears of War 3 will turn out to be!
I do agree that it cant and will not outdo the ps3 in graphics!, but most of the time, it can still compete, and most time the 360 version of the game = looks better than the ps3 one!
Lately the ps3 seem to be getting back at all those years the 360 versions of the game looked better! Maybe they just started developing for the ps3, and not just porting it over!
PS3 win the console war in terms of graphics, point!!!!
I would just like to see if the ps3, in the lifetime it got left, will be able to deliver a Crysis 1 graphics game!! Not taking the tech used in consederation, but just the look of the game! Crysis 1 was and is one good looking game!
Realistic forest mod: http://www6.incrysis.com/sc...
http://www6.incrysis.com/sc...
More here: http://www.incrysis.com/ind...
Anyone who tells me KZ3 looks better than this is lying.
1. PC gaming is a joke & its dying
2. It costs 1000000 dollars to make a crysis rig
3. I don't want to sit at a desk to play...
etc.
The PC has been thrown under the bus this entire generation as far as its significance. But now all of a sudden its relevant again?
The PC renders every single 360 vs PS3 article moot, and console visuals in general moot. However, its not as if everyone owns a PC. Its just hilarious to see how many PC fanboys there are now at days when it comes to visuals. The same way the Wii is ignored due to its appeal to casuals when it comes to sales because "Soccer moms buy them!"
Easy enough, PC is #1, PS3 is #2 since its compared to PC visuals all the time, and the 360 comes out a little bit above the Wii. Since both are never compared to the PC's visuals.
If people are always going to hide behind the PC, then that renders this entire Generation irrelevant when it comes to graphics wouldn't you say?
Killzone \ GOW3 has better visuals than anything on consoles, just like Uncharted, but not better than Crysis.
Crysis is 1 game, that everyone flopped here on n4g as well. I think the PS3 has more variety when it comes to visuals than the PC has as well. While not in wuxga, they are still good.
Doesn't it bother you that pc did not bring out a better looking game than crysis 1 in the last 4 years or so?
Crysis only game looking better than ps3 exclusives!! Just shows you how well the consoles are doing in terms of graphics!
Killzone 2,3 and Uncharted 2 and GOW 3, etc. are all ps3 games that looks better than well, all pc games except crysis 1! I dont care if Call of Duty on pc looks better than the console version! Killzone aint on pc or uncharted and will never be!
Weird that they haven't showed any pc footage?? Hope it looks as good as all think!
Cant wait to see it though!
http://www6.incrysis.com/sc...
http://www6.incrysis.com/sc...
I still find Crysis to be unbelievable.
D3athc3ll
There have been games that look better than ALL console games. Take a look at ARMA 2. Oh yeah and Metro 2033 on Pc. As below says.
Also : http://www.youtube.com/watc...
I'm not a PC fanboy by any stretch. I'm just replying to OGharryjoysticks who believes KZ3 is the end all be all of graphics.
Metro 2033 on PC looks better than Crysis in many cases.
But you're right, not a lot of PC games lately have been pushing the system. That's not a testament to the power of consoles, it's just that developers aren't putting the effort in to push the PC's hardware.
DICE are doing the right thing, developing Battlefield 3 with the PC as the main platform.
omp! anyway, Crysis is king yea, but you still gotta admit, ps3 visuals are outstanding taking the hardware into consideration!
Arma2 looks good yea, but no way u can compare that one on ps3 exclusives! The gun models looks shit, and the charactars looks like half life 2 :D. Great environment and grass and trees and jeeps and helicopters hehe. I sound like a fanboy, which i am a bit, but id still admit when something kick ass in terms of graphics like Crysis 1, and hopefully 2!!
Arma2 is one realistic game! Wow. And what a huge open world! Nice fps! Needs a $300 000 PC to play full graphics :D
Go read the reviews on metro plz! Aint looking that good, nor is it that good!
Has anyone played MOH airborne on pc lately. Im impressed with the graphics for such an old game! wow!!
http://img691.imageshack.us...
Crysis 2
http://img210.imageshack.us...
Next time try not to compare pics in that BIASED manner...
Foggy Vs clear...next///white vs black.
That's off topic though. What you showed were mods, not the original game. Plus, Killzone 3 is not set on planet Earth, so of course it doesn't have that kind of forest.
Metro on pc aint that good! - Yeah better that the console version, but still far behind great looking console games like killzone and uncharted, etc.
gO back to playing crysis, since it's the only game u can stand on, if u want to compare visuals!
Here is my psn trophies in case you don't believe me.
http://us.playstation.com/p...
Show me one action game that looks better than Gow 3? or uncharted 2?
Any racer game than looks better than GT5 premium cars?
Any jrpg that looks better than versus XIII...
And what will be their answer?...bu bu bu bu crisis...GROW D F UP pc gamers...it is not like we care about pc gaming graphics...SHOW US GAME, ^.^
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
"Killzone 3 eats PC graphics like breakfast cereal with the marshmallows in beer"
Only on N4G/PS3 would a stupid fanboy comment like this get agrees.
What a sad lot you are...
Superior graphics and 60fps or greater.
lol good one!!
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
& that's 6 months ago! pure crystal clear textures.. no muddiness like killzone mud engine...
@t 720p 30fps ps3 is pushing it kid!! don't get to happy unless kz4 becomes small leveled like Uncharted 3 then they can up the graphics & actually make a huge leap ahead!! :)ps3 has no graphics kings this year or the next year after crysis sorry!!
Bf3 & crysis 2 use dx11 on top of that they will own though!!
lol controllers? for fps? lmao noob tools!!!
@below or you could just buy a new gpu since cryengine 3 is better optimized this time around!!
http://www.neoseeker.com/ne...
"This isn’t necessarily a game you can’t play today, or where you need another two years to max it out. - crytek
your comment is full of consoleritis & is repulsive to me..
You better watch out too because the next Sony handheld after the NGP might beat your PC as well. That's how they do it in Japan. Those people work just so they can play video games and watch cartoons - it's life.
Crysis 1 looks much better, I agree, but saying things like "killzone mud engine" and "small levelled like Uncharted 3" make you just as bad as him.
1. Killzone 3 doesn't look 'muddy' (very technical term btw)
2. You've no idea of the scale of UC3's levels, so why say that?
Kinda ironic that your name is Xfanboy when you are clearly nothing but a fanboy :P
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@Xfanboy
Bad trolling - not provocative enough I'm afraid. Better luck next time bro!
fanboys are the worst. Every exclusive is the best game ever, if it gets a bad review the reviewer is biased. YOU guys make these stupid comparisons, and I have yet to see a PC gamer with Nvidia for life or Intel till I die in their sig like the sony fanboys.
- Higher frame rate
- Better effects
- Better textures
- Better draw distance
- easier control
- better anti aliasing
- better motion blur
- higher resolution
- better animation
- better physics
Also, I'm sure that EVERYONE knows that the PC can produce superior graphics do to it's constantly changing hardware. I just don't agree with the fact that it constantly needs to be rubbed into console gamers faces and make them feel like they are some form of lower people.
PC elitists coming over here to gloat that their hardware which is 6 years newer than ours and costs more is better.
I love how they claim Crysis is the best looking game. Show me footage from a $300-400 computer from 2006 that looks better than God of War 3 or Uncharted 2 etc.. and then we'll talk.
Posting vids and picks from supped up computers and shit doesn't impress me at all.
Even if the computer costs $600 it wouldn't be able to run all those things above posters are posting. In fact this is footage of Crysis on a old computer. I doubt computers from like 3-4 years ago can run all these mods.
Crysis on newer computer and the second from Crysis on a old computer.
Related video
well, if you want next gen now and don't want to wait around for new consoles you can get this, not to mention this is pre built
http://www.newegg.com/Produ...
form over 4 years ago and it can run all those mods
A top end PC in 2006 still plays anything today at higher resolutions, higher framerates and higher graphics settings.
I love upgrading my stuff. It's exciting.
My first rig back in 2007 would still smash PS3 and 360 at multiplats and it cost less than PS3 at launch.
The money I've saved on getting PC games on Steam has allowed me to save up to get an amazing rig if I dare say so.
My RIG (PC)
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1055T @ 3.6GHz @ 1.325Vcore
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 SLi @ 800MHz, 1600MHz, 4000MHz
PPU: Nvidia GeForce GT 240
RAM: 8192MB PC2-8500 1066MHz DDR2
Storage: 2722GB
I find upgrading fun and exciting.
Just got 3 120mm fans and 1 140mm fan today and there amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
what is it gonna take to max crysis 2 if its all full on dx11? is that even realistic without a top end x-fire / sli which would cost me the price of 2 xbox arcades to upgrade to
i think itll be like crysis 1 and un max-able on current hardware, it will also undoubtedly be the prettiest game to date
everyone fights so much about graphics performance these days i personally wish the focus was on art style
DirectX11 is meant to make games faster by better Multithreading and compute shaders. DX10 on crysis 1 was a mess. Cry engine 3 is much more optimized, accoring to cevat yerli, http://www.next-gen.biz/fea...
edit: i need more bubbles i want to talk more! :(
@below yeah futuremark hates me a bit, ive actually got a pretty crap nvidia card in to fudge some physx for me though
i was talking about the unigene one in particular i can run it but at higher levels of tesselation i get about 15-25fps
i don't think console players are going to lose sleep knowing that c2 runs better on pc.i wise it would've stayed on the pc let them have this crap.
you could talk to four different people who are fully into one platform and they might tell you all the ones they dont play are "mediocre piece's of sh*t" would that make you give up gaming?
its a great game and im not even that into fps'
i'm not big on fps either but i know a good on from a bad one, and that crysis 2 demo on xbl is hideous, especially when comparing it to KZ3 online offering.they should've kept crysis on pc we don't need another fps.
Crysis has some of the best gameplay a first person shooter has seen in the 5 - 6 years.
See: http://www.youtube.com/watc...
How about play it for yourself and not judge something on what you've heard.
PS3 fanboys are always hating on Crysis even though most of them have never played it. Interestingly Crysis has higher average scores than Killzone 3.
Console games can still be good looking because console games are optimized. The first truely optimized PC game has still to see the light (read won't ever happen) PC simply uses excessive unoptimized RAW power (which comes at a price) to produce nice gfx
But true the gfx 'gap' between PC and 360 is growing. PS3 perhaps has some more juice. As xbox FPS gamer I would like to see MS seriously consider a new Xbox. Otherwise I might have to jump ship sooner or later and go back to PC where I once was pre-2002/xbox/halo
10 Reasons why 2011+ technology beats 2004 technology!
Nvidia just released their GT500 series of video cards last month (Jan 2011), and more cards will be out by the time Crysis 2 hits. So yes, it's 2011 technology.
I played crysis,crysiswarhead. On dx9, and then switched to dx10. Was better, but performance was not.
Yes it does indeed look fantastic when maxed. And somewhere in between it looks good.
But you drop a few settings down like alot of people had to when it came out and it looks poor.
Crytek even stated on low, it looks worse then farcry maxed. And it does.
On the 360 side, there is gears of war, bumpmapped to the max, textures are ok. Gives it a unique look. Reach does a fine job in places. But most texturing is on the ground etc.
For the PS3, there's UC1,UC2,GOW3,KZ3 etc, and possibly Infamous2.
Do they look as realistic as crysis, no. But with under 512MB ram. They look great.
Another thing seems to be the 30-60fps thing.
My normal vid card had problems as is being rma'd.
At the momment i'm using an old 1900xt with an old dualcore cpu. Running Deadspace 2 maxed 1440x900(monmax)@30fps. synched. Unsynched it goes to 40-60fps in places.
Shows how decent these cards actually are tbh.
But for PS3, Most games are synched at 30fps. Does not mean they cannot run higher. I know for a fact UC2 unsynched runs at 50fps+
It really depends on what the dev wants.
Personally i will play KZ2, once i get my card back i'll play BF3,CRYSIS 2.
And i'll even check out crysis 2 on PS3.
Most multiplats look better than the crop of PS3 and 360.
you spend 1000+ every couple of years
we spend 299 once
guess what? it plays the same noobs so you lose
This interests me at the start ps3 bottom left xbox 360 bottom right clear difference imo. playstation is stronger graphically by quite some distance look at the ground and wall textures and compare its there for all to see.
The consoles are aging graceful, but today's PC vid cards run circles around the consoles.
But when it comes to PC versus consoles, they suddenly do.
It's a funny ol' world.