The New Generation of Engine: Cry Engine 3 – Unreal Engine – Frostbite 2 Comparison

This post presents the very last news about the upcoming Engine: Cry Engine 3, Unreal Engine 3.975, Frostbite 2. It's a good way to consider which is the best engine according to you and according to the very last demonstration of these engines.

[TurboGamer]

Crysis 2 for pc demo was locked at DX9, CryEngine 3 has full DX 11 support. Frostbite 2.0 has no DX 9 its only DX 10 and 11 and the Unreal engine 3 is good but is getting old...fast.

[Incipio]

Unreal Engine needs to be dumped completely. Textures and lighting have looked the same with minor revisions for years and years.

Make a new engine, Epic.

Frostbite is improving rapidly. Cryengine is nice, but it obviously doesn't scale too well (as evidenced by Crysis on consoles).

Frostbite > CryEngine > Unreal Engine 3.whatever

[a08andan]

Well I think that CryEngine3 will scale nicely. They have said that it is compatible with the NGP so I guess it has to be really good at scaling :P

[starchild]

Oh and you know how Frostbite 2 will scale for consoles? The answer is, no, you don't.

Crysis 2 looks great on 360 and is easily one of the best looking games I have seen on a console.

Battlefield 3 is a day 1 buy for me on PC, but we don't have a clue how it will look on consoles. As much as I love the Battlefield games I have to admit that I wasn't that impressed with how they looked or ran on the consoles.

Crysis 2 on consoles utterly destroys the Battlefield games thus far released on consoles. I know Frostbite 2 is a new engine and it might achieve amazing results on consoles, but until we see Battlefield 3 running on consoles we can't say how well the engine will perform on consoles relative to the CryEngine 3, which in my opinion has already proved itself.

[Incipio]

Hey thanks for telling me what I do and don't know.

[Stealth20k]

yay more games that will look artistically the same.........if you can even call just plain realism artistic

[theonlylolking]

I think Cryengine, Frostbite, then the unreal engine.

The cryengine looks very good, and it is easy to make great looking games at the cost of performance.

Frostbite looks great but it probably is not as easy to make a game as cryengine or unreal but it has destruction which is very nice.

Unreal looks about the same, no destruction, but easy to make a game with and runs very well.

edit:If the cryengine 3 runs well then that just makes it even better =)

[plb]

I think CryEngine is very well optimized now. I ran hardcore on 1280x720 very smooth and my laptop isn't exactly the best out there.

[starchild]

Yep, it is very well optomized now and that is one of the best things about it.

[Shackdaddy836]

Well, its hard to say. If your going for the engine itself and not the graphics then Cryengine is probably the best. It basically does the whole thing for you. If your going by graphics then I say its more of a tie between FB and CE. Its hard to say though. Maybe Frostbite has slightly better graphics.

[Hazmat13]

CryEngine3 is first place, second place is Frostbite 2.0, and last is Unreal Engine 3. that being said Enslaved2 will be epic, Enslaved with Cryengine3 will be god like.

[starchild]

Wait, was there an Enslaved 2 announcement and that they would be using Cryengine 3? If so, that is awesome news. Enslaved was a fantastic game and Cryengine 3 is an awesome engine.

[Hazmat13]

yes on enslaved2 but no on cryengine3 just my own lil world where bacon is president and war is play time and the moon is made out of RADIOACTIVE RUBBER PANTS!!!

[sak500]

I think not one engine can take the claim of being teh best however as far as real world physics/destructability goes, FB 2.0 is the best out there. However we should have a same demo done on all three engines which can show whatever best each engine can do and then rate them.

[PhantomT1412]

Unreal Engine: for a moment I thought it was the real deal. Well, it's still not fair considering that's it's cam-captured, "everything" could look real through it.