Entropia Universe, the safest virtual world utilizing a real cash economy, has signed a license agreement to use the stunning high-tech game engine CryENGINE 2, from German developer Crytek, creators of "Far Cry" and upcoming "Crysis."
This will make Entropia Universe the closest-to-reality looking massively multiplayer online game ever seen. The transition to an Entropia Universe platform built around this new technology is expected to be finished by mid-2008, and will be available to all Entropia Universe partners.
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it will fail, MMO's that are high on tech always fail, they have to be a bit ugly tech to do well.
E.g EQ2 looks great graphically, but its also sitting at 300k cause so few people have a high end computer good enough to play it, and most of those people don't play MMO's.
Then you look at WoW 9 million people and while anyones comp can run it cause its graphically old, its art makes up for it.
Ehh there is another MMO using Cry Engine 2 in development already so can't say for sure this will be the prettiest :P
To use that engine to make an MMO, that's crazy.