Crytek to launch CryEngine 3 at GDC

Posted Mar 11th 2009 11:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Hardware, FPS

In a bit of a surprise annnouncement, Crytek has revealed that it plans to demo the next generation version of its CryEngine game graphics technology at the Game Developers Conference later this month. CryEngine 3 is the first game engine from Crytek that is not just for PC games but for "console, online, MMO and Next-Gen game development."

Crytek developed the first generation CryEngine to use for their 2004 first person shooter Far Cry. CryEngine 2 made its debut in 2007 with the release of Crysis and was used again in 2008 for Crysis Warhead. Both engines have been licensed by a number of different game developers in the past. Crytek states it will be giving public demos of CryEngine 3 during GDC along with holding meeting with developers who are interested in licensing the game engine.

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

I wonder what would be system requirements to play at ultra settings of a CryEngine 3 game? Shader Model 4.1, DirectX 11, 3Ghz Core i7?

Love the logo thoughPosted at 10:39AM on Mar 12th 2009 by mko

I'm looking forward to seeing the kind of requirements for this engine. The prospect of it being used in MMORPGs is interesting.Posted at 11:01AM on Mar 12th 2009 by Nadril

It will be interesting to see how it looks on consoles.Posted at 8:51AM on Mar 14th 2009 by Smurfy

CryEngine 2 was meant to be getting used for Entropia Universe, maybe they had to develop the CryEngine 3 to be a lot more compatible with MMO's because of that.Posted at 1:16AM on Mar 14th 2009 by Ihavepants