CRYENGINE Beaten At Its Own Game - New Unreal Engine 4 Map Shows Amazing Forest Environment

DSOGaming writes: "It seems that Unreal Engine 4 will be the engine that most developers will be using to power their games. Or at least it will be more popular than Crytek’s CRYENGINE, as Epic’s engine is now capable of rendering forest – and jungle – maps that look as good (if not better) as the ones of CRYENGINE. YouTube’s member ‘Hristo Rusanov’ has shared a video from his Forest map, showing a map with dense grass and wind physics applied to the vegetation."

[colonel179]

I hated Unreal Engine 3, but Unreal Engine 4 seems to be great.

[AnotherProGamer]

yeah a lot of unreal 3 games were brown and the textures were bulky

[ScottyHoss]

I always thought I was the only one who thought that, and that mouth movement -_-

[hoju69]

Its always funny to me to see how people who obviously have no idea how a game engine works are so quick to criticize them.

[starchild]

Mirror's Edge is colorful and the textures are not "bulky" as far as I can tell.

Seriously, though, the colors used in a game and even the texture quality don't really have anything to do with the game engine being used.

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is one of the best looking games I have seen and it was made with Unreal Engine 3. https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[EZMickey]

like Bioshock, Enslaved and Lost Odyssey :P

Just trollin'. I totally get what you're saying, the way the engine rendered textures and handled lighting became a signature trait in a way that most gamers didn't enjoy.

At least we can leave the era of most multiplatform games suffering from that texture pop-in trait well behind us.

[Supporter]

This looks good compared to OG crysis Buuut... its 7 years later. and the plant movement in the original crysis was based on physics calculations for wind concussion waves from grenades and projectiles as well as player interaction.

Also this map seems to be only about 50 yards of foliage in a skybox, OG crisis was putting out miles of draw distance in realtime. Id love to see how this runs with about 100X more of the map present.

This is just pre calculated flexing evenly on all the plants.

In my opinion not much here is better than the OG at its own game. But very close. UE4 Does MANY OTHER things much better for example particles, Z-depth particle physics calculations on the GPU Displacement, and not to mention the whole new workflow for the editor.

UE4 is superior in every way Except at making crysis' jungles. I have yet to see anything better.

[starchild]

Looks great. I can't wait to see more of what this engine can do in future games.

[Locknuts]

Looks like the original Crysis, only with more things moving.

[Gatsu]

Pretty good.

[andydalum]

This should be interesting for games like the next installment to the Elder scrolls series, mass effect series the kind of games that i came to love last gen could have so many new possibilities with a engine like this :D.

[Omnisonne]

Expect the engine to be used by many (smaller) devs coming years, very versatile and easy to work with

[brich233]

Where are the shadows and dynamic lighting? Looks really good though, and perhaps its a cloudy day in the video.

Found some Cryengine videos https://www.youtube.com/wat...

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[starchild]

Yeah, Cryengine has definitely produced the best looking foliage and jungle environments I have ever seen in a game.

[DVAcme]

This is the last nail on Crytek's coffin. UE4 is probably gonna be more user-friendly and less hardware-intensive than CRYENGINE, and will DEFINITELY get more support from developers than CE. Now it's proving that it can do what CE can equal or even better, that's egg on Crytek's face.

[HaMM4R]

Yeah. I talk to a lot of independent developers and a lot of them are slowly making the change from cryengine across to UDK. I'll always be a unity fanboy though :P

[Funantic1]

I can't wait to see gears of war on unreal 4. I always felt like Epic who created unreal utilized the engine the best. I'm sure Black Tusk will do great with unreal 4 with Rod Ferguson leading the way.

[Xb1ps4]

Ms is using u4 fir gears of war?

[smellslikeralph]

gears of war 4 will be using unreal engine 4

[Muzikguy]

HahahahaHAHAHAHAH!!!! Ok, minor trolling aside... This is good news. Now we won't be missing anything with Crytek gone because UE4 can do it too

[starchild]

Why are some of you so anxious to see Crytek fall?

I think they will pull through this. At least I hope so.

[VanDamme]

Probably the same reason Xbox/PS fanboys want to see the other system fail... No idea.

Other than Crytek being a bit of a resource hog, it's good that it's there. It's another option.

[cyclindk]

Far Cry 2 had more realistic movement in the banana leaf type plants. These are too "bendy" in the wrong places. The Farcry and original Crysis did it right, had the correct "stiffness" to them. But I'm sure this is just demo.

Just out of curiosity, have there been any open-world type games utilizing the Unreal Engine in ANY of its iterations?

[brich233]

Batman: Arkham City was open world and I believe Akham Origins is also, and im guessing the new Batman game will be also.

[cyclindk]

Oooo, those gritty cities were second to none. And new batman footage, which is rumored to be downgraded before release, look freaking great. Heres hoping they dont take too much of a hit on consoles!

[cyclindk]

Oh yeah and birderlands huh? But it has those "sectors" and alll that

[GeraltofRivia]

i saw this on my laptop in 2008, with less plants moving around (Crysis)

[Mr Tretton]

Maybe Crytek should sell Crysis to Epic.