Once upon a time, CRYENGINE was considered a video-game engine with a lot of potential. Things have changes though. Nowadays, we’ve got a lot of engines powering games that perform well and look great. REDEngine 3, Frostbite 3 and id Tech 6 are just some of them. Still, CRYENGINE can produce some really amazing scenes as showcased by CRYENGINE members enes77, evgeny83 and neverfollow81 (as a bonus we’ve also included Crytek’s Damian Stempniewski Forest Map). Enjoy!
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Damian Stempniewski
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the problem for cryengine it’s not really optimized. frostbite 3 was the best for me. i have much constant framerate across whole game in dragon age inquistion than crysis 3.
LOL Dragon age inquisition doesn’t look nearly as good as crysis 3. Also, don’t compare to crysis 3, that was on a very old version of cryengine and wasn’t optimized as well as possible. Look at Ryse: Son of Rome on PC. It runs very very smoothly while delivering amazing visuals. Frostbite is very well optimized but it still isn’t as dynamic as cryengine
inquisition looks really good on pc max settings … don’t really know if it’s as good as Crysis 3 … but yeah … I just had to mention Everybody’s gone to the rapture …. man that game had really inconsistent performance on an average modern pc …. and didn’t look THAT good …nor it had a lot of npc’s or whatever … plus …I don’t belive that devs did that on purpose…
Cryengine always looks so clean and natural. Just wish that more people would utilize Unreal Engine 4 properly. So many people are recreating parts of games in the Unreal engine but don’t even bother to tweak the engine but instead opting for the default lighting which ends up looking cheap and unpolished.
What do you mean by “still”? Of course it is!
It’s CryEngine.
I was just going to say the same thing. If it was impressive before and real-life like.. it should be still good enough.
It can produce some stellar results in the hands of the right people. It’s definitly gained ground this “generation” alongside Frostbite, while Unreal Engine 4 has seemed to take a step back, at least when it comes to AAA games.
My favorite CryEngine game looks wise is still Ryse, even at a few years old that game looks amazing
I’ve heard that indeed it looks gorgeous, never saw myself (mostly because the gameplay seemed quite uninteresting), but it’s Crytek and who’s better than they to push the engine right?
More people should make good use of the CryEngine, right now it’s just Star Citizen and Kingdom Come, I mean they are great but I would love to see more. 🙂
“while Unreal Engine 4 has seemed to take a step back, at least when it comes to AAA games”
in 2006 targeting AAA publishers was a good idea
their wasn’t anything close to UE3
but now major publishers now have their capable in-house engines
targeting them isn’t good idea
*Yes I know Crysis released in 2007 and it looks better than any game even after few years but CryEngine 2 is for Windows only
After you see some of the maps in games like SW Battlefront (best example being Endor), especially in 4K, you’re no longer impressed by literally anything CryEngine related. FB3 is just that good.
Play Ryse in 4K and you will again be impressed.
4K is only if you want games locked at 30fps though.. not much good for those of us who want a smooth solid 60 or even 100+fps with a high end gpu.
best engine.
Lol ?? Still ???? mmhhmm more like as always
There is one problem with CryEngine,——- only crytek know how to use it 🙁
I always felt like it was easier to use then UE3
Only Crytek ever did anything -barely playable- with it…
What’s with gaming and hyperbolic statements? 😐
Even Crytek doesn’t now and that’s why «Cryengine is capable of producing incredible visuals only on static pictures».
Most Cryengine game that I’ve ever tried tend to be on the heavy on performance side. Unlike UE.
Yea, but if they are properly optimized they would run really well. Look at Ryse, it looks incredible and even runs on crappy laptops smoothly while looking good.
I read title and was like wait… Who said it couldnt?
Indoor lighting and shadows on the first set of pics is amazing.
In my opinion, those screenshots show decent graphics, but they are in no way incredible.
I think the artist deserves more credit than the engine. A lot more.
What a Shocker!
this engine eats your PC alive
very sources hungry
*resource.
😉
Is there a playable demo of the one from Damian Stempniewski?
Yeah it can do some amazing visuals. Then you suddenly realize that you have to nerf those visuals, because only few people have actually powerful enough system to render that stuff in real time.
And BOOM, we’re back in square one. But hey! Atleast we can now port it for consoles too!
Cry Engine, the engine that still makes PC’s cry. 😉