Shakycam Video of the CryEngine 2 Tech Demo.

Ahh.. the first glimpses into the Farcry maker’s new graphics engine. There’s some very impressive stuff in here. For one the engine is as bright as ever - virtual archipelagos never looked this good (I love that word). There’s also some impressive new technologies here . Foliage models brush and bend as people walk through them, and there’s an impressive scene of a truck crashing through a hut, crashing down the walls, supports and the roof in different directions. All of the pieces interact with each other in a very believable way.

Two newsworthy side-bits attached to this story. #1 This screenshot is from Farcry 1 (I couldn’t find any official screenshots of CryEngine 2). #2 There’s some potential downside to this news. Current rumors have the game shipping simultaneously with Windows Vista and DirectX 10. We’re nearing a new OS cusp, and dammit, I don’t want to upgrade to a crappy bug-ridden Windows OS just to play games. Here’s hoping XP will have DirectX 10 support.