So, what are the truly so-called "next-gen" games out now or coming soon? I am talking purely about graphics tech and not gameplay.
I just tried a few game demos this last week after last playing the 4-yr-old Doom 3 which I thot was awesome graphics for its time.
For sure, Crysis with it's CryENGINE2 is a next-gen game, it just looks beautiful, especially the moving vegetation and water/ocean effects. And it was smooth/playable at 1920x1200 (25-30 fps) on my stock q6600 with 8800gt/512 at high settings (and also adding the fake very-high config file options like edgeAA etc) which surprised me.
The CryENGINE2 spec page also lists "optimised for multicore" for physics, AI, sound, networking, I hope it really uses all 4 cores of a quad. I'm starting to think this AGEIA PhysX hype is a waste of time. The tree/grass movements, object destruction and ragdoll character physics looked pretty good to me.
Assassin's Creed looks good too from the screenshots posted here.
Disappointed with UT3 engine based BioShock, no way it can be called "next-gen". Waiting for my UT3 download to complete to check it out, but I don't have hopes for it. Other disappointments are CoD4 (tried the demo) and ET:QuakeWars - maybe the gameplay is great, but the graphics are not too exciting.
Also downloading World In Conflict demo, the screenshots look good, want to see what framerates I can get at WUXGA.
For upcoming games, Far Cry 2 with it's Dunia engine (Dunia: persian/hindi word for Earth/World
), looks promising but it looks just like a sequel to Crysis even tho its being developed by Ubisoft and not Crytek with a different engine.
Then there is id's new game Rage based on the new id Tech engine, the videos of it look good too.
I just hope the games coming in 2008 don't require me to upgrade my desktop which I only just got a week ago!
Please list any games and engines (existing or upcoming) you think are really deserving of being called next-gen... I'm interested in trying them out to drool over the eye candy and experience the graphics technology first hand.
I just tried a few game demos this last week after last playing the 4-yr-old Doom 3 which I thot was awesome graphics for its time.
For sure, Crysis with it's CryENGINE2 is a next-gen game, it just looks beautiful, especially the moving vegetation and water/ocean effects. And it was smooth/playable at 1920x1200 (25-30 fps) on my stock q6600 with 8800gt/512 at high settings (and also adding the fake very-high config file options like edgeAA etc) which surprised me.
The CryENGINE2 spec page also lists "optimised for multicore" for physics, AI, sound, networking, I hope it really uses all 4 cores of a quad. I'm starting to think this AGEIA PhysX hype is a waste of time. The tree/grass movements, object destruction and ragdoll character physics looked pretty good to me.
Assassin's Creed looks good too from the screenshots posted here.
Disappointed with UT3 engine based BioShock, no way it can be called "next-gen". Waiting for my UT3 download to complete to check it out, but I don't have hopes for it. Other disappointments are CoD4 (tried the demo) and ET:QuakeWars - maybe the gameplay is great, but the graphics are not too exciting.
Also downloading World In Conflict demo, the screenshots look good, want to see what framerates I can get at WUXGA.
For upcoming games, Far Cry 2 with it's Dunia engine (Dunia: persian/hindi word for Earth/World
), looks promising but it looks just like a sequel to Crysis even tho its being developed by Ubisoft and not Crytek with a different engine.Then there is id's new game Rage based on the new id Tech engine, the videos of it look good too.
I just hope the games coming in 2008 don't require me to upgrade my desktop which I only just got a week ago!
Please list any games and engines (existing or upcoming) you think are really deserving of being called next-gen... I'm interested in trying them out to drool over the eye candy and experience the graphics technology first hand.
