The cry 2 engine supports dual core processors.
There are more effects (in terms of lighting I think) on a single tree than some other engines have for a whole game.
The aim/goal(?) of the cry2 engine is to have everything dynamically lit in real time, interactive and destroyable. The sun goes from east to west, clouds and gigantic rock formations throw their shadows properly over every piece of the jungle.
Amongst the cinematic tools there's a speed effect (motion blur?). Objects lose their contours in fast manouvres and only objects in the middle of the picture are focussed.
(Caption to picture of aircraft carrier with yellow vest guy) The cry 2 engine puts emphasis on details like the lettering on the rocket or the vest of the deck officer. The vertical jump jet in the background can navigate around all objects itself.
There are no perceptible level boundaries (mentioned in the context of aerial battles).
You can save freely.
Developers are guessing at only ten hours of playtime, the multiplayer component will be emphasised.
Beside normal deathmatch and team deathmatch is a mode that pits two teams tactically against each other. Artifacts from the middle of the map can be redeemed for new weapons, upgrades and vehicles at each team's base. Robbing the opposing team of an artifact makes them lose those skills.
Crytek unsure of a release date at the moment but guessing at 4th quarter 2006.
(Caption with the sunset) We mounted a silencer for the night deployment. Our compass appears to be broken however; the sun is going down in the north.
Long section which I skimmed over concerning comrades/killing them off, a molecular accelerator weapon, alien enemies, some strange hot/cold/ice dynamic that links in with your nano suit, and using that in combat/shockwaves striking aliens within a 50 metre radius. If people really want that cleared up I'll translate it properly if you ask.
It seems to say there aren't bosses in the game, but some enemies are so huge that you actually have to climb them to defeat them (sounds like a boss to me). Boots with magnetic soles assist you, the aliens are studded with metal (?).
You cannot command team mates, yet they will work together with each other in sieging positions.
Again, skimmed, but it seems some large calibre weapons are tied to your nano suit power and just a couple of shots may drain it.
No cutscenes, they want the player to experience story progression in normal game mode.
Aliens require sub zero temperatures, have a giant ice machine/snow canon which has transformed part of the island to make it inhabitable.
Nano suit keeps Jake (protagonist) hot or cold depending on area of island.
Something about American and Korean troops, I'm not sure if they're working together or opposed or what. Maybe that damn Kim Jong Il sent troops to assist the aliens.
While you can't influence the main story outcome, there are many variables along the way, for example Jake might have a romance with a pretty female soldier, to try and give high replayability.
Trying to make everything destroyable, Level Designer Sten Huebler is quite proud; "The times when a pathetic branch will stop your jeep are gone." Branches can be snapped off trees, plants trodden underfoot etc.
Through an easy menu you can mount silencers/telescopic sights/laser pointers.
Ah now thinks make sense, I've been reading this article backwards... A flying object crashes on an island that doesn't seem like a meteor. The North Koreans send their fleet to investigate. So does USA. I think forces are at first opposed till you find the aliens and then you work with the Koreans. Aliens using a giant ice canon to freeze the island as the need sub zero conditions to live.
The level they saw, air insertion, and from the apparently endless sky to the jungle below and the corral filled ocean there were no distracting loading times.
Start off investigating the flying object, dealing with korean patrols, scanning matter from the found object similar to in Condemned.
Minimum requirements, Cevat Yerli, director of Crytek says is a Shader 2.0 Graphics card. They (article authors) are assuming that you'll also need at least a 2.0Ghz CPU and 512 MB ram top play the title ok. To play at maximum settings you'll need a lot more power and CPUs with two cores are taken advantage of in Crysis. The programmers use a sophisticated load distribution system from the hyper threading chips, dual core processors, but also hybrids like the pentium extreme edition 840 and 955, or to profit from the planned processors with 4 cores in 2007. It's possible that crysis will be one of the first titles to support the coming direct X 10 and shader model 4.0. Suitable cards should appear in the second half of the year.
