Crytek’s Ryse: Son of Rome last week scooped a prestigious award for Best Game Design at the annual Animago Awards ceremony in Potsdam, Germany.
Now in their 17th year, the Animago Awards honor the best works across the entire spectrum of digital media, with a jury of experts singling out the cream of the crop in disciplines titled “Still”, “Film” and “Interactive”.
As the press release reads, Ryse, which was also nominated for Best Trailer/Opener, claimed the Best Game Design trophy in spite of tough competition from other high profile and critically-acclaimed contenders.
Ryse: Son of Rome was first released as an Xbox One launch title in November, 2013, and last week arrived as a digital download for PC. The game seeks to capture the grandeur and grit of the Roman Empire as players take charge of Marius Titus and lock horns in brutally realistic combat. PC players can also enjoy the added bonus of experiencing the game with stunning 4K resolution support.
The Best Trailer/Opener award nomination came for Ryse: Son of Rome’s distinctive “Damocles” trailer, which was created in association with Platige Image over a five month period, and can be seen below.
The Animago awards attracted over 1,000 entrants from 66 countries last year, with a panel of 12 jurors from diverse creative backgrounds deciding on nominees and overall winners in 10 different categories.
Enjoy!
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Is this some kind of joke?
No, it is a Tech Demo.
And its Cool 😀 I like the Visuals in Ryse
i never took german awards seriously, they only give awards to their games which suck gameplay wise.
Sad days indeed .
Nice Trailer. Well done!
Not the greatest game for sure, but it does look pretty with my overclocked 970 on 1440p.
Better try it at 4k, that what 970 deserves! at high of course to achieve 60FPS!
I’ve just spent £600+ on the ROG Swift, so no 4k for me just yet, unless you meant the new DSR Nvidia tech?
He probably means the SSAA option in Ryse which is effectively 2x/4x your native resolution.
Hey Sean, if he does then I have everything on full.
Nope. 4k native gaming! Super and Upscaling off!
Sampling I had to have turned, as it no likey but I am still running that i7 920 from 2009, so upgrade with Devil’s Canyon next month 🙂
Provide proof then.
“—- All graphics options Maxed Out —-
– GTX 970
– i7 3770 3,40 GHZ
– 8 GB DDR3
– 2160p (4k)
– Shadowplay
– 20 – 25 FPS Average”
U could search on youtube: gtx 970 4k ryse
I just posted you a quote of the specs and frame-rate of a 970 at 4K with Ryse so read it.
yep. saw that now! hahaha.
Off-topic: Im smiling like a brat…EVGA is giving two free blackplates! …aehooooooooo!
as i said at high settings(no super and upscal) at 4k to achieve 50FPS!
Good call mate, the Rog Swift is damn amazing and worth every penny in my book.
And that g-sync ooh F*CK yeah, totaly wonderful monitor in, well every damn way 😀
Alien Isolation on this beast in glorious 1440P with that perfect 8bit colour is F*CKN AWESOME ..LOL!
Well to much talking, back to Alien with 100fps + 🙂
And I should say to all 4k’ers, they dont know WTF they are talking about, 4k and 60hz pff, WTF is that crap.
When Say a new Rog Swift with 144hz in 4K, then it should be interesting but truth to be told, 1440P is perfectly enough!
This monitor is crystal clear!!
Glad you’re also enjoying the Swift (Swifty) mate, it’s a beast! I’ll be also playing Alien this weekend, but I’d also like to play it on the Oculus next year too (:
Yeah it is without a doubt the best HW upgrade I have ever done, I frikking luuve my Swift 🙂
Well enjoy Alien Isolation mate, it’s one hell of a good game and looking awesome to!
And yepp, cant wait myself for the Oculus, finaly beying able to step into the gameworld literally, will be just crazy.
Well you can’t get 144fps at 4K anyway so 144Hz 4K monitor is irrelevant. Also some 4K monitor do support G-Sync so 40fps at 4K on G-Sync will be smooth and tear free.
Yepp thats what I just said, 4k = 60hz (fps) 🙂
I know that Acer just released one 4K g-sync monitor that seems to be pretty good.
But as said it doesent matter to me.
It may be relevant to me if when a say 32-34 monitor with 4K and 144fps G-Sync, that maybe will be interesting. But right now I am more then happy with my Swift, you to I hope ?
I wouldn’t buy a G-Sync monitor since it’s restricted to NVIDIA cards and I have an R9 280 now. :p
Huh, bohoo to BAD for YOU BOY, get a real gpu mate 😉
Their is only one and that spells nVidia!!
Been there, done that and don’t see the big deal.
If you like playing at 20-25fps yeah
Nope. 35 to 40FPS at maxsettings! GTX 970 pair up almost a 780ti!
Not at 4K, there are videos on youtube with a 970 max settings 4k averaging 20-25 FPS.
This game is a console port on pc dont get mee wrong graphics looks great but if you look at crysis 1 and crysis 3 and see the trees react to the wind or the grass look more sexy than real life and look at ryse you say why the flag react to the wind and trees barely move or they dont move at all and and the grass look sh*t. for me I was very disappointed I was expecting mind blowing effect not just great graphics
There’s no way this game could be prized for anything other than graphics, these Animago guys must have been high.
or Crytek wrote a cheque that didn’t bounce, zing!
Animago awards, what the F is that lol.
When I watched this in-game I was pleasantly surprised.
Just like the cutscenes for the actual story, I enjoyed those as well.
I don’t see what the problem is, Ryse is a good game on PC and the story isn’t half bad.
Well deserved, looks stunning.
Am I missing something? It’s a pretty game, sure. But since when does game design have to do anything with graphics? Unless they actually mean that a tech demo filled with cutscenes and QTEs is good game design.
LOL
German games industry in charge of keeping a lid on rampant corruption. And I wonder what possessed Crytek to pay for this award. Did they think it would really fool anyone after all the reviews AND all the actual players said the game was bad a year ago?
I have ordered gtx 970 g1 gaming 3 weeks ago and if evrything go well i willl have it sometime next week. Ryse will be one of the first games i will play due to it amazing graphics. I have 1080 p monitor but with DSR 1440P can a single 970 run it 1440p with dsr max settings at 50+ fps?
i currently have a 560 ti heavily OCed to 570 levels and only with evrything on low is playble
Rest of the system is i5 2500k 3,3ghz 12 gb ddr3 1600 mhz.