Is the New CryEngine Demo the Best Graphics Ever?

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5nB9u4jjy4&feature=player_embedded

If not, it’s pretty damn close. Crysis has always been the benchmark for graphical perfection when it comes to PC gaming, and now with a new engine, they’re looking to top themselves to an even great degree.

This video is a short demo for the CryEngine 3 SDK 3.4.0, and shows that game graphics, if you have a good enough system, and getting dangerously close to complete and utter photorealism, almost entirely indistinguishable from reality. It will likely take quite a bit longer for these sort of graphics to reach consoles, but in another five years or so, I bet we’ll get there. And after that? Who knows. Once games become as real as reality, what makes a real, boring life worth living for some?

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2 Comments

  2. After we reach that point I wonder how expansive the game can be made. How about one that mixes several styles each with a Skyrim large map. One cartoon cel shaded, one photorealistic, one made with only vectors like mad world, one anime-like and one abstract surrealistic like Journey.

    I also wonder if the demand for this level of details will really make grow the size of the development teams.

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