CryEngine 3 spanks UE4

Unreal Engine's tiny linear environments, with purdy backdrops are nothing compared to the might of CryEngine 3. Behold, realism AND scale.

Blisteringly realistic forest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KKgQdq_PRo&feature=related

A whole city, rendered up to room detail

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm7Bb55f-cA&feature=related

An amazing realistic island

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dJZ-hluiug

MUHAHAHAHAHAH

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Videos won't work for me :cry:

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ronvalencia

but when it comes to the real world UE4 spanks CE3 cause the overall dev tools are better :P

In close quarters UE4 makes CE3 look last gen. Ans we sont know how UE4 handles huge scales, but the mountains part of the demo looks incredible.

thats hot.

I thought Luminous had the most impressive tech demo.

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ronvalencia

That looks almost as amazing as Uncharted 3 :shock:!!!Sushiglutton

Lets wait until UE4 is on PC before we can compare. To me based on what i've seen of UE4. Its takes away the crappy blurr effects that helped consoles with its frame rate drops, lack of AA, and screen tearing. Blur blur blur....:?

Crisp HD next Gen visuals.

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Cryengine 3 tech demo

UE4 tech demo

Sorry but no. I think CE3 looks great but the particles and vibrancy of what was in the UE4 stuff looked great. Also the volumetric smoke and the dynamic lighting in it was amazing. Also that last guy, have you seen his stuff in UDK too? he doesn't just do CE3 and his UDK stuff is still mightily impressive.

Here is an example of UDK power

The lighting in CE3 annoys the heck out of me, it's like the sun is always really glaring and neon looking and the lighting coming off it looks artificial sometimes. It does have some tasty particle shadowing though which really adds depth. But there is a map called "My forest" for CE2 and it looks better in some ways than that CE3 video.

Overall we haven't seen much of the power of UE4 yet and only saw a tech demo and a 10 minute editor presentation. CE3 has been out for a long time now and people have found out how to output it's potential. Also more games will use UE4 anyway

I'm waiting for the day when video game graphics reach the level of Pixar, where overall fidelity is more important than anything else.R3FURBISHED

UE graphics dont impress me at all, they are very static and fake. The only thing it does have are pretty textures, im sure every lemm prefers UE engine.ZoomZoom2490

It was the exact opposite of static. The demo almost went out of it's way to show dynamism and avoid being static. If anything the CE3 demos are more static as the only dynamic thing is lighting. Also texture? really? you really don't have a clue do you?

I still come back to a comment on Kotaku where they wrote, a developer left the UE4 showcase and said "It was the most impressive thing I have ever seen in my gaming career" so that should say something about it

Cryengine is better. After all, it's built by crazy graphics wh0res.

That looks almost as amazing as Uncharted 3 :shock:!!!Sushiglutton

Cryengine is better. After all, it's built by crazy graphics wh0res.

Mr_BillGates

Who somehow implement it badly into a game so far. CE3 that is. and now they've gone all free to play

Both are held back by teh consoles and weak-@ss PCs. They would need to target high-end PCs to impress. Maybe UE4's scalability will help.

too bad cryteck is going F2P LOL :lol:

[QUOTE="Sushiglutton"]That looks almost as amazing as Uncharted 3 :shock:!!!greensand24

[QUOTE="R3FURBISHED"]I'm waiting for the day when video game graphics reach the level of Pixar, where overall fidelity is more important than anything else.Blazerdt47

Such good visuals wasted on such a crappy game. :(

[QUOTE="Blazerdt47"][QUOTE="R3FURBISHED"]I'm waiting for the day when video game graphics reach the level of Pixar, where overall fidelity is more important than anything else.ChubbyGuy40

Such good visuals wasted on such a crappy game. :(

lol :P

ue4 is a mediocre update over ue3.

too bad cryteck is going F2P LOL :lol:

inb4uall

[QUOTE="inb4uall"]

too bad cryteck is going F2P LOL :lol:

DemoPan7

f2p is bad

it all about like 10 buck for a gun

and giving up p2p franchises

You trying to fight a engine that still has 2 more years of work to put into it...

I laugh at Epic's catching up game, claiming that their new engine is revolutionary. PURLEASE. They have a real-time WYSIWYG editor, WOW congrats! Welcome to Crytek circa 2001. Fully dynamic lighting with global illumination? WOW congrats! Crytek had it in 2009! ORLY, UE4 now has unique materials that actually interact with lighting? Great, welcome to Crysis 1 in 2007. The only good thing that UE4 had was the particles, and Epic didn't even make that. Nvidia did. Crytek doesn't have millions to spend on a tech demo to showcase how beast CE3 really is, but the modders show how powerful CE3 really is.ocstew

Who cares if Crytek did it first? Unreal engine has produced better games overall and is the engine of choice for a lot of devs. And we will see even more games using UE4 next gen again. It obviously does something better if devs flock to that over CE3 all the time. CE3 may be a great engine but the games it produced so far are crap

Also UE4 is being made for like 10 years at this stage, so they had this stuff in place for a long time, they just never released it

Yes, what matters is the graphical prowess of an engine above all else; not it's ease of use, documentation, and licensing. That's why CE is so commonly licensed... oh wait.

The reason UE3 isn't real-time, is it was built for 'this' generation of consoles, and CE3 doesn't end up looking much, if at all, better than UE3 on the consoles. They're not playing 'catch up' they're keeping up with the times in a realistic fashion. id/Crytek like to be the first develop tech, and some of it is rendered useless or sub-par for a generation or two...

I thought Luminous had the most impressive tech demo.

crimsonman1245

Yeah luminous is the most impressive imo

[QUOTE="ocstew"]I laugh at Epic's catching up game, claiming that their new engine is revolutionary. PURLEASE. They have a real-time WYSIWYG editor, WOW congrats! Welcome to Crytek circa 2001. Fully dynamic lighting with global illumination? WOW congrats! Crytek had it in 2009! ORLY, UE4 now has unique materials that actually interact with lighting? Great, welcome to Crysis 1 in 2007. The only good thing that UE4 had was the particles, and Epic didn't even make that. Nvidia did. Crytek doesn't have millions to spend on a tech demo to showcase how beast CE3 really is, but the modders show how powerful CE3 really is.seanmcloughlin

Who cares if Crytek did it first? Unreal engine has produced better games overall and is the engine of choice for a lot of devs. And we will see even more games using UE4 next gen again. It obviously does something better if devs flock to that over CE3 all the time. CE3 may be a great engine but the games it produced so far are crap

Also UE4 is being made for like 10 years at this stage, so they had this stuff in place for a long time, they just never released it

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Both engines are great and will run best on Xbox hardware cuz of the power of direct X.

Hey TC,the forest and the island dont look realistic AT ALL!

Both engines are great and will run best on Xbox hardware cuz of the power of direct X.

jimmypsn

Too easy

[QUOTE="ocstew"]I laugh at Epic's catching up game, claiming that their new engine is revolutionary. PURLEASE. They have a real-time WYSIWYG editor, WOW congrats! Welcome to Crytek circa 2001. Fully dynamic lighting with global illumination? WOW congrats! Crytek had it in 2009! ORLY, UE4 now has unique materials that actually interact with lighting? Great, welcome to Crysis 1 in 2007. The only good thing that UE4 had was the particles, and Epic didn't even make that. Nvidia did. Crytek doesn't have millions to spend on a tech demo to showcase how beast CE3 really is, but the modders show how powerful CE3 really is.seanmcloughlin

Who cares if Crytek did it first? Unreal engine has produced better games overall and is the engine of choice for a lot of devs. And we will see even more games using UE4 next gen again. It obviously does something better if devs flock to that over CE3 all the time. CE3 may be a great engine but the games it produced so far are crap

Also UE4 is being made for like 10 years at this stage, so they had this stuff in place for a long time, they just never released it

So MechWarrior Online is crap?

[QUOTE="ronvalencia"]

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ferret-gamer

I rather wait for the games to come out...