Battlefield 3 Looks Nice, But This CryEngine 3 Videos Showing A "Real" Next-Gen Military Project

Here are two brand new CryEngine 3 videos, they will show you an impressive military simulation. Sorry, no embed code. HD screenshots inside the news. Check out the impressive footage and more details after the break!

[milohighclub]

Well they were disappointing.

[awi5951]

LOL this game looks bad it looks like a COD game lol. I mean they move so stiff the animations is way bad. This games lighting and textures are no where near as good as BF3. BF3 in direct x10 looks better than this.

[sovietsoldier]

looks like arma 3

[milohighclub]

I can't wait til next gen. Can't wait til all games have an animation system that at worst is as good as uncharted 3.

[peowpeow]

What awi said. It looks like CoD, animations, character models. Fire/terrain looks better but wow I'm sure they can do better :/

[Perjoss]

Is it like a joke? because Battlefield 3 still looks better, even on consoles. Is it some kind of stealth way of telling Crytek that their new engine sucks? I'm confused.

edit: no offence to who ever created this stuff, as I have no idea of team size and budget etc. I'm sure people worked very hard to make that, they don't deserve to be mocked just because some journalist decided to compare it to a AAA title.

whatever.

[enfestid]

It's a simulation. The purpose isn't to show off fancy graphics.

This article and the people commenting on it are missing the entire point of the project.

[RememberThe357]

Then please, enlighten us.

[Codeman420]

yea was going to say the terrain looks nice but the ppl and vehicles look like trash

[MrGunny94]

Cry Engine is just visuals... Frostbite combines the movement from FIFA, Destruction, awesome textures and models and makes it very easy for some pcs to run... DICE did an awesome job in making BF3 to some old pcs...

[Optical_Matrix]

This. All I see from CryEngine is nice graphics and maybe physics. Frosbite has that, as well as some of the best animation, textures and destruction I've seen in a game. I wonder how far CryEngine would go if you added BF level destruction to it.

[morganfell]

What the RTI site doesn't tell you is that after their announcement things changed and Dismounted Soldier was ordered to adapt to VBS2 instead of CryEngine. VBS2 is being upgraded to the Arma II Operation Arrowhead Engine (RV3) for the US Army, Marines, Australians, etc and the Dismounted Soldier Project will use RV3 as well.

CryEngine cannot stream (page) terrain nor display 10K plus view distances for training and mission rehearsal. It doesn't have a RTE (Real Time Editor), OME (Offline Mission Editor), nor an AAR (After Action Review) tool that is found in VBS2. A dev kit and dev tools are not the same thing as an OME or RTE which is needed so end users can rapidly build missions and change missions on the fly while they are in progress.

[CoD511]

fyi guys, textures aren't engine specific >__> Neither animation for the most part.

[Diver]

hes talking bout this

http://armory.bisimulations...

http://armory.bisimulations...

this is the old engine

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

an here is the new RV3 engine that will be used in dismount soldier

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[Fylus]

Exactly. And Crytek are the whiniest bunch of developers in existence. I lost so much respect for them after all their complaining before the release of Crysis 2. But like you said; CryEngine is just visuals.

[Orpheus]

No matter what they say i still bliv crysis 1 looks better than crysis 2 ... the shading is totally degraded ... the new techs like tessellation , dof doesnt compensate for that ... leaves used to look like leaves ... specially banana tree leaves

[enfestid]

This post is highly uninformed. Textures and models? That has to do with the specific game, not with the engine itself. Both engines are capable of similar texture and model work.

You're right, though. Cry Engine is just visuals... because it is a GRAPHICS ENGINE. That's kind of the point. Your post seems to be comparing Crysis 2 to Battlefield 3. That's not the same as comparing the engines that power each.

[Rainstorm81]

Look pretty good to me....thats a leap toward Next gen ....now only if they can ppull it off in an actual game

[milohighclub]

Dude, really? current Consoles can pull that off.

[Rainstorm81]

the first vid doesnt look bad at all (like alot of the helicopter scenes) the second vid (like the fire fighter scene) does look like it can be done currently but some of the bullet penetration stuff looked really good too

But i do agree their animations are not too good

[Iroquois_Pliskin]

Hmmmm penetration....

[KeiserSosay4788]

Looks good until you see the soldier animations. This is where I believe Frostbite destroys CryEngine 3.

[RyuDrinksTheDew]

ah man, those animations are so bad, completely breaks the immersion.

[MizTv]

i like both crysis games but i like 2 more.they are just fun to play but i dont like the multi.that is where bf3 comes in

[SSKILLZ]

someone be trolling frostbite2 ! ^^

[Jocosta]

Anyone else getting at least a little tired of military shooters? Especially in the desert?

[awi5951]

No im not i want a proper ghost recon and rainbow 6 without all this fancy future crap. I want my ghost recon back with no auto aim. Hell back in the day even console ghost recon didnt have auto aim. Did the team that made swat are they still around ill take that too. The new counter strike isnt going to do it for me i played that game for years when half life 2 first came out i dont wont to see it anymore.

[TheHardware]

those soldiers all suffer from the G.I. Joe crotch syndrome (looks like their legs are to far apart) to say they are packing is an understatement ...lmao

sorry no dice..I hope you guys get that..lol

[DigitalAnalog]

One dedicated resources to PC the other dedicated to consoles. Crytek lost the bar the moment they became "consolized".

[Mrmagnumman357]

Parts of it look pretty good, like the landscape, But... those character models are absolutely horrible, they look like they are from cod 3 http://www.vooks.net/images...

I use cryengine 3 for level designing, and i have made some very real looking stuff, which makes me really scratch my head when i see this video. BF3 pc is a generation ahead of this, their is nothing else out that looks like BF3 on pc, the character models are amazing and it looks almost real. The only thing that stands close to it is crysis 1 modded, and crysis 2 heavily modified DX11 times square level. Frostbite 2 is without a doubt the best engine on the market for graphics, physics, and destruction. I wish they would release it to me and the rest of the mod community.

[xX-StolenSoul-Xx]

Looks very good. But I don't know if I can compare just yet. I mean battlefield has so much more going for it than visuals. Look at the destruction and Animations for Bf3 and compare

[specialguest]

Looks good, but still lacks the "wow" factor I got 6 years ago when I first saw the 360/PS3 tech demo(whether real-tme or not). It looks like current PC gen.

[bozebo]

"It looks like current PC gen."
Which is what next gen will look like at the start.
Then at the end of the next gen, games will look a lot better.

[OC_MurphysLaw]

While its not flooring me wow good, it is pretty damn nice. I suspect Homefront 2 will benefit greatly from Crytek taking on the development in the visual department.

[Gamer-Z]

Are they kidding... BF3 blows this out of the water. Those are some of the worst character animations/movements I've seen in a while and as for the graphics they look ok kinda but not better than BF3.

[FlareDReborn]

Lol Frostbite 3 will shut everything down.

[TheGamingArt]

Old videos, old shit... and I pray that next gen isn't that small of a step forward.

[rattletop]

cryengine 3 is better than frostbite 2 as far as lighting is concerned. in BF3 the glow from light bulbs etc. don't look realistic. also the tactical light. but the destruction, animations look better on frostbite 2. also frostbite 2 dx11 implementation is way better. if only you could combine the best of both engines. :D

[pumpactionpimp]

Wow... Maybe I need a new glasses prescription. Because that looked like crap to me.

BF3 is no gem, but compared to that demo video its light years ahead. Crysis 2 Graphics are better than BF3 no doubt. But evidently its capable of rendering small corridors, or sections that well. BF3 has scale and quality.

Just my 2 cents.

[peowpeow]

Are you talking about consoles though? BF3 on PC smokes Crysis 2! Even with the larger scale. Crysis 1 (probably not vanilla) is more competition than 2

[0321]

Animations look fine, In my opinion. I was wondering why there was so much hate, Then I remembered I was on N4G.

[Braid]

Could someone please tell me how different this is from Battlefield 3 in terms of visuals?

I mean the graphics in this video looks great, that's for sure, but have you tried BF3 on PC with DX11/highest settings?

[one2thr]

I have/can and yes BF3 still looks better than both of this videos, hell BF3 recorded off screen with a camera looks better than what I seen within those two videos....
And why does everything looks so "static" in those two videos, compared to how BF3 environment(s) simulate the feeling that there "living" and ever changing, why is that?.....

[Banok]

I agree this looks worse than frostbite 2.0

Although in certain aspects crysis 1 still has better than battlefield 3!

cryengine 1 was really a huge step, 2 was just console porting, and this 3 looks underwhelming too.

[peowpeow]

You are lost sir.. Crysis 1 was developed on Cryengine 2

[bozebo]

Looks great. Stiff animations though but I don't think that was the point :P

BF3 looks better though most of the time.

[NeoTribe]

Same old shit with the cryengine, all talk but once its out nobody cares.

[death2smoochie]

Are they joking? They are trying to tell us that this cryengine whatever it is that really looks like MW3 comes even close to this:

[0321]

Looks like MW3? I'm most likely going to get suspended for this, But you are fucking retarded.

[blackhammer]

Frostbite sucks.

It's "not mod enabled."

[PersonMan]

Looks like a Naughty Dog game ;-)