froghawk on 23/8/2007 at 23:45

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First of all, I'd like to state that I hated Far Cry, and am not the least bit interested in Crysis. However, this is surprising:

(http://www.gamespot.com/events/leipzig07/story.html?sid=6177348&pid=942192&tag=topslot;title;2&om_act=convert&om_clk=topslot)

It looks like they took a few hints from STALKER and Oblivion, and decided to make something completely different. Where farcry was mundane for its generic, linear indoor levels, this seems to take all the strengths of the first game and make them much more intelligent. We'll see how many promises they keep.

june gloom on 24/8/2007 at 00:56

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wow, i'm interested.

scumble on 24/8/2007 at 09:21

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To be honest, I don't think CryTek were a million miles from something like that with Far Cry.

I could glimpse something similar to what Far Cry 2 is moving towards, with a game world including various factions of NPCs, some of whom would not necessarily be hostile. Fortunately I realised that Far Cry's engine wasn't quite malleable enough to get something like this working, so didn't waste too much time trying to beat it into submission. Ultimately you need a far tighter integration between the visible game world and metadata hiding in the background controlling events, as opposed to fairly limited AI scripting. Oblivion went some way along this path, but it looks like this bit of work is surpassing that by quite a bit. One can only hope it lives up to its promise!

scumble on 24/8/2007 at 10:29

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Are you confusing this with Crysis? Can you track down the trailers you saw?

Matthew on 24/8/2007 at 17:19

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I think he was talking to Nifft4, Aristed.