New Crysis Screenshots

9 Responses

1. Anuban

   December 24th, 2006 at 5:07 pm

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   Are those concept drawings, renderings, or actual in game footage? Again all I can say is how much I wish EA was not involed in anyway whatseover. But they are so I will HAVE to pass in order to maintain my self-respect.

2. monir

   December 24th, 2006 at 6:31 pm

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   they look like art drawings, doeant’ look as smooth as most cgi, and it doesn’t look like gameplay (the background doesn’t have the look that its far away)

3. Jim2k

   December 24th, 2006 at 9:00 pm

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   They’re in-game renders, like all the previous screenshots

4. monir

   December 25th, 2006 at 1:19 am

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   the middle one doesn’t look in-game to me, but if it is…well.

5. Anuban

   December 25th, 2006 at 2:21 am

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   I tend to agree with monir on this but whatever … as long as we know it is NOT in game action. why is that so hard for gaming companies to do? Especially since they have been bragging about how well optimized it is … show us some meaningful pictures then, please.

6. Jim2k

   December 25th, 2006 at 3:23 am

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   Well, who cares anyway, we’re all seen the gameplay footage. I can’t wait to play this game, hell I’ll even spend a few hundred bucks upgrading my PC just for Crysis.

7. Anuban

   December 25th, 2006 at 3:42 am

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   Yeah I guess since I know for a fact that I am NOT getting it the point is moot.

8. NRG753

   December 27th, 2006 at 5:44 am

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   Actually all 3 of those are graphics, except maybe that 3rd one.. it’s just that freaken huge alien structure that makes it look odd. The first 2 are definitely in-game though, it’s just that they are using very high levels of Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic-Filtering. If you look closely you can see some of the polygons in the vegetation and landscape. I’d also guess that everything was still when they took the screenshot, most of their screenshots would not be live-action.

   Here’s a screenshot that has the same level of detail, except they are not using any AA, and not much AF.
   http://crysis-online.com/Media/Images/Screenshots/Nano-Tank.jpg

   For those of you who dont know what AA and AF are, Anti-Aliasing blends and smooths out pixels so you cant see that they’re there. Think ClearType for example, which smooths out fonts.
   http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Anti-aliased-diamonds.png

   Anisotropic Filtering smooths out the transitions between textures of different resolution, so textures further away appear to have more detail, and you don’t notice the textures gaining more detail as you move closer to the object.
   http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Anisotropic_compare.png

   You can enable these technologies on your graphics card at a cost of performance.

   Here is a good example, the first shows COD on maximum detail without AA or AF, the second shows the same level of detail, except with 8xAA and 8xAF. They would have used 16x or higher in those crysis screens.
   http://www.nvnews.net/reviews/3dblaster_fx_5900/nv38_cod_1024_0xaa_0xaf.png
   http://www.nvnews.net/reviews/3dblaster_fx_5900/nv38_cod_1024_8xaa_8xaf.png

9. NRG753

   December 27th, 2006 at 4:05 pm

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   3rd one you mean, the other two are in-game for sure