From the Crysis franchise to Far Cry, Crytek Studios has dominated the visual graphics department in the video game industry. (We even proclaimed their work on Crysis 2 as the best achievement in technical design of 2011.)
Utilizing their CryEngine 3, Crytek Studios have done it again, revealing a stunning spectacle of a demonstration that unveils the true power of what they can do with next generation visuals. Not only have CryTek unveiled this awesome demo, but it has also come to our attention that they have a big announcement in-store for April.
CryTek has set the bar high with their CryEngine 3, and with their intent to support the Kinect and Wii U, it comes as no surprise that they are focusing on next-gen graphics. With their push to go to the Kinect and Wii U, it wouldn’t surprise us if they’re aiming their targets on the Xbox 720 and PS4 as well. It has even been rumored that CryTek may be working on Timesplitters 4 for the Xbox 720.
Displayed in the video is a great example of what the CryEngine 3 is capable of with character shading, tessellation, ocean tessellation, advanced particle shading, real time reflections, enhanced lighting effects, and more! Check out the highly impressive CryEngine 3 next-gen visuals demo reel that was presented at GDC last week below:
But these new visuals aren’t the only thing buzzing around CryTek Studios. Nick Button-Brown, the general manager of games at CryTek offered up this tasty nugget at GDC about a new game that’s in development:
“The best of that kind of project we’ve ever done. It looks spectacular, the team are doing really, really well and it’s just really nice to see the team really enthusiastic about what they’re doing. They’re really happy. You know about Homefront, you know about Ryse. We are working on another project… [laughs] all three of which are looking really good.”
What could we take from this overly enthusiastic tease? We’ve just been given word about CryTek’s free-to-play game, Warfare, but what else can we expect? We’ll just have to wait until April to find out.
Homefront 2 and Ryse do not have a scheduled release date currently, but expect us to cover their announcement when it is revealed what’s up their sleeves in April.
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Ok…next generation now please!?!
that wasn’t nex gen, it was just highly rendered trash. this studio is a joke b/c they lied to everyone about the features crysis 2 would bring to gaming, like realistic hit detection on enemies, destructible environments etc. if warface is anything to go by then homefront 2 is gonna flop, i don’t want a copy/paste of bf3 or tf2, i want something new and unique to its own, homefront 1 had some nice features, it just needed a visual polish with some modern mechanics (like being able to vault over stuff or into/out of windows etc).
“Highly rendered trash. The studio is a joke”
Harsh much? Idk man sometimes you guys exaggerate so much, like it’s personal. Not just you, but a ton of gamers diss these people with a passion. Crytek is one of favorite studios, I think they’re pushing the industry forward. It’s these “superior race” attitudes and negativity that hold us back or do nothing to advance.
i don’t hate them, i just dont like how they straight out lied about crysis 2′s promised features, like enhanced destruction, facial animations etc. i liked the game as a whole, but it definitely doesn’t stand out amongst the onslaught of FPS’ currently out, not to mention the mp was pure garbage and poorly done (that’s what happens when you have 2 different teams make sp and mp).
My question is, who actaully baught Crysis 2 for the multiplayer? Everyone I know, baught it for the campaign. It just so happens that it came with a multiplayer. They weren’t lying to you, they were exagerrating the game like all other game developers do. It’s called marketing. You just have it out for Crytek for whatever reason. I can assure you they weren’t lying to you and they are not plotting against you. Nobody wants to hear about your bad experience with Crysis 2.
honestly i agree with him. crysis 1 was spectacular even without a multiplayer. the story was good and the graphics were groundbreaking. i was so pumped for crysis 2 and i was let down especially by the story, but also that there was no destructible environment. the things that made me love crysis 1 just werent there. (with the exception of the nanosuit)
jwalka, i’m going to be honest with you. I hate 99% of your posts. And i disagree with some of what you said, but I agree about Homefront. Homefront was a solid game with great ideas, it just needed a nicer coat of paint on it, so to speak. There are too many bland shooters out today. Frontline, Crysis 2, etc. just blend in with the crowd. The only console FPS games that stand out are CoD, BF, and Halo. I would love to see more shooters, but they each need to bring something new to the table, like the 3 franchises I just listed do.
I thought Homefront was terrible. There was absolutely no plot or narrative at all, it was just a very linear shooter that went from one gunfight to the next. Yes, the graphics needed to be improved, but so does a lot of other things like the writing, gameplay mechanics, everything… I had high hopes for the game, but it was a MAJOR let-down…
I hate the Kinect…with a passion. I love Xbox, but Kinect is just dumb. Sure, it’s fun and whatnot. But it makes no sense to create a family-oriented product AFTER the Xbox 360 has so many things geared into it that pertain to hardcore gamers and CoD maniacs.
Crysis 2 was cool though. The graphics were amazing, in my opinion.
Kinect has a ton of potential, I wouldn’t call it a “family” product, with the right devs it could easily be geared towards the core crowd.
Honestly, I see Kinect to be something that can be more useful on a PC than a console. And NOT for gaming BTW. Just that its two lenses allow it to see in 3D, which could allow for a lot of things like allowing you to manipulate things in three dimensions. Imagine if you’re doing AutoCAD and all you have to do was reach out and use your hands to move or rotate something that you’re designing. Or just simple browsing, like in the movies where people use their hands to drag things from one place to another, or to “pinch zoom” so-to-speak. Well, I was always against having that in real life because I don’t like the fact that you’ll be smudging your screen with fingerprints and would need to clean it. But with something like the Kinect, you don’t actually touch the screen, it’ll recognize if you’ve reached your hand out and then would register your hand movements to manipulate things on the screen. Being able to see depth would allow you to use gestures to do almost everything on your PC… They did release Kinect for Windows, but they’re trying to get people to write stuff for it…
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love crytek, they deliver great games. I can’t wait for Far Cry 3.
Farcry 3 was maid ubisoft
well then mr. piss in my corn flakes I love ubisoft to.
“Mr. Piss-In-My-Corn-Flakes” = Epic
Now I think we all need to take in consideration that its very early in the next gen consul ara now the engines aren’t going to be way better for a little while. I remember getting my xbox 360 and buying perfect dark zero and when I started to play it I thought Halo 2 had way better graphics
Hopefully Ryse comes to PC.
jwalka is a troll, constantly. If only Skyrim had looked this good.
Those graphics are amazing!
Jeez, 3 or 4 titles in development… Crytek’s really stepping up their game. I seem to have vague recollections of looking at a bunch of prototype screenshots on their German website many years ago, before they’d actually released any games. Seems like they’ve come a long way.