The shots look great, but I personally like the environment of Crysis much more. Then again, all these new engines kinda look the same with the HDR/Blur/Softshadow look. I'm having a hard time seeing what the major visual difference is between them all...

About engine pricing: One could probably make the argument that in the next 10 years, game engine prices will eventually level out. Because once the engines look very close to real-life, and computers are so fast culling and the such isn't as big of a deal, what's there to seperate the engines? After all, while one might say 3dgs is a year or two behind the Graphical side of things. Eventually it will catch up when all the $500,000 engines become stalled at "real-life" graphics. At this point you'd have the $500,000 dollar real-life looking engine, and the $800 dollar real-life looking engine.