Best engine : Unreal 3 or Crytek2?

I think there are 2 major engines today: unreal3 and crytek2. Imo unreal3 is the best engine today because the engine looks very good but also offers great performance.

Unreal3 ist great doing metal and shiny surfaces, shadows too, but crytek2 ist great doing open spaces like islands.

So what do u think?

? You haven't even seen the Unreal engine do much yet. The demo doesn't show much, but it shows enough. wait till the games actually come out.candid_llama

this should settle the matter...

http://www.imagtp.com/?p=17

Unreal engine 3 is by far a better experience then Crytek2 due to suberb visuals at no cost of performance. I highly doubt Crytek2 will be a major engine on console platform due to such requirement to even surpass Unreal engine 3.OoSuperMarioO

Rofl do you know anything about the ENGINE and not Crysis _THE GAME_

Judging from recent demos from both engines i think the both suck right now. UT3 and Gears are both FUGLY but performance wise they are great. Crysis looks superb but its too much of a system hog. tramp

Yeah, that's pretty much how it is at the moment.

I've been waiting to talk about the Unreal 3 engine for awhile.

The Unreal 3 engine is lame. All of the games that use it share the same grimey look. It's system hogs and the games themselves don't look that great. Very disappointed. Rainbow Six Vegas, Gears of War, and UT3 just don't look good to me.

I just finished crysis on DX 10 .... with a 2900 XT 512 & it run just fine 40-45 FPS's but besides the outdoor envirometns & the face animations ... i was not impressed unreal 3 can do alll sorts of stuff & does it great starting from the effects to the enviroments .... but then FarCRy 2 looks evan more awsome with a larger space & weather system , fire effects that spread animals / wildlife ...& lets not forget bu the upcoming tech 5 engine from ID that looks very realistic & because of the megatexture tech it works superb on alll kind of computer ... & everyday i wonder what are those 150 ppl fom VALVE software doing .... heh EPIC has only 98 ! Who knows what SOURCE 2 will be like :D !

Well, on my specs (p4 2.8, x1950pro agp), if I turn the settings on Crysis to low and run on a low resolution, I can get high framerates. If I do the same with the UT3 demo, (or even worse, make it look like legoland) I get same framerates. I can't get acceptable framerates in UT3, but I can in Crysis. And crysis looks much better on low that UT3.

I'm impressed with cryengine 2, not super cpu bound, I can't wait to see how it runs with my new cpu that'll be in next week.

crytek 2 is better in graphicsandunreal 2 is better in performance,to me crytek 2 has more potential than unreal 2,it justhas toget its bugs fixed to improve on performance.

Judging from recent demos from both engines i think the both suck right now. UT3 and Gears are both FUGLY but performance wise they are great. Crysis looks superb but its too much of a system hog. tramp

"too much of a system hog" ? well it's because you want it to have good physics and visual right? that's why it requires high end equipment.