CRYENGINE environments look better than real life

Crytek's Senior Cinematic Artist uses CRYENGINE for amazing mountain/forest environment images.

@anthony256

Published Aug 20, 2017 11:04 PM CDT
Updated Nov 3, 2020 12:54 PM CST

37 seconds read time

CRYENGINE is one of the best-looking graphics engines available, it's just too bad that game developers don't harness the power of today's PC technology like 8C/16T processors like AMD's Ryzen 7 1800X, or high-end cards like the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. Because if they did, this is the result of that.

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Crytek's Senior Cinematic Artist, Joe Garth, made two environments inside of CRYENGINE. The first, is the beautiful mountain and forest tease. I mean, just look at these screenshots.

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That fog looks so real it would probably bring NVIDIA TITAN Xp cards in SLI to their knees.

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There's more detail in this screenshot than big AAA titles on consoles.

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Even the snowy mountains in this environment, look out of this world.

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You could fool people into thinking this was a REAL photo.

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And again...

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Amazing work, isn't it?

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Anthony Garreffa

Anthony joined the TweakTown team in 2010 and has since reviewed 100s of graphics cards. Anthony is a long time PC enthusiast with a passion of hate for games built around consoles. FPS gaming since the pre-Quake days, where you were insulted if you used a mouse to aim, he has been addicted to gaming and hardware ever since. Working in IT retail for 10 years gave him great experience with custom-built PCs. His addiction to GPU tech is unwavering and has recently taken a keen interest in artificial intelligence (AI) hardware.