... but in any of those cases the scalability of this engine is not very good compared to id-Tech or Unreal technology.

Even though I find the graphics nice, it's not what I find most breath taking (well, the shadows are nice). What amazes me most is the world objects interaction and physics...the way one moves...and how the sounds work...

I don't care that much about graphics. With medium details (dx9) turned on it looks a little better than Far Cry, only more detailed but it is the small things I like: mud and rain drops on the screen and the post processing effects in general.

I like the style of the demo (and hopefully game?) that is more military and squad based than the "lonewulf" far cry way (makes the game feel more real). Too bad the demo was that short...

low settings and high settings are two totaly different games.

some nice ideas (not new but well added):
+grabing other enemies
+lots of life on the island (animals)
+vegetation rig and collapsing trees
+reinforcement calls

the gfx are not even compareable to what was shown on screenshots, but still very nice and very dense.

lod is irritating a lot, especially on low settings (rocks and walls dissapear infront of soldiers)

i hate switching enemies in games (monsters or aliens). so a big minus point for me.


good and solid shoter game. might be on my budget list next year.

cheers

This is interesting:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QBgcIfFOJbE

Some people found out that you can just change the config files of crysis to get the same visuals with XP (but even faster) compared to the DX10 version under vista. So is the DX10 version just a fake?
Look at the waves in the video above!

One of the users of this thread wrote:

"So Crytek basically greyed out the very high options under XP, simply because they and their buddies in the industry want us to buy the worthless resource hog that Vista is and the overpriced 8800GTXs. This move on their part is absolutely disgusting. Nothing new of course, but it hurts to see it coming from someone you respected."

Here is the whole story:
http://www.crysis-online.com/forum/index.php?topic=11837.0

I think DX10 isn't even available in this demo yet, but since I haven't tried this demo on Vista yet I don't know..
However if I recall correctly Crytek at some point mentioned a DX10 demo would be out a few days later.

It smells like conspiracy talk, but on the other hand Crytek themselves said already dozens of times that they were going to implement DX10 in Crysis bút that this was not going to mean that Crysis in DX10 would be a whole different game. If you're looking for a DX10 benchmark game Crysis is not it, it's comparable to Lost Planet as far as it's DX10 implementation....

Cheers

The very high screeenshots are absolutly amazing.
But actually I think, that they just didn't want to allow Very High to avoid thousands of users complaining about low fps in the demo And maybe even because it IS a demo and not a full game.


The whole athmosphere is amazing. Not only the Graphics, but also the sound and the animations. The Control of the Nano-Suite is also very innovative.

i'm too occupied with playing stranglehold atm... there are lots of so-called next gen games currently available, aren't there? crysis, enemy territory, stranglehold, bioshock, ut07. wow. we are at the dawn of a new era, or is it just me? games today have a minimum spec of, say 3 - 3.5 GHz CPU, dx9 PS/VS 2B/3, 1 GB+ RAM. aww

isnt it if you have everything on hing and mostin importent shaders on high then you comp while outomatical change it to dx10