It is possible that CryEngine3 may go over peoples heads. In that the engine is doing alot more than other engines in terms of realtime calculations all at once. Where other games confine areas or use tricks for certain things ( like cars in the streets being unmovable, so the physics engine doesnt have to worry about them ). In Crysis 2 even the cars in the streets that litter the place are movable by the player. It's a pretty amazing feat what Crytek have achieved.

Thats cool. :)

I'm fairly confident though in terms of technicality CryEngine 3 is ahead of other engines. It's the first time anything like this has been attemtpted on consoles. The level of Realtime calculations I mean.

Everything. From physics on all objects, to Full realtime Global Illumination. Realtime bullet tracking, ( bouncing of a concrete block and changing direction ) to multiple light sources. Crytek stated on stage at E3 last year if you remember quite openly: I think the quote went something like this

" unlike other console engines this gen, we are doing everything in realtime. No smoke and mirrors. Everything you see is fully realtime. "

No developer to this day has challenged Crytek on this matter at all.

This is a fire fight video. No spoilers. But impressive to say the least.

no its running on pc

It's 360 code. It's the mode where the devs test the 360 platform code. It's the same code you'll get on your 360 disc. Right down to the texture quality.

except that it's not as has been said the Mega textures the game uses take so much time and effort to make that they are only making one texture pass, that means that all three versions of Rage will have the same textures and terrain geometry. The differences in the versions will just be the draw distance, effects, AA etc tweaks needed to get the game to run at 60 frames per seccond on each platform.

That's not to say the game will look bad on any platform and you are garrentead 60fps and exelent textures which ever platform.

Except if that is actual console gameplay it has Killzone 3 beat. Sorry to burst your bubble.

IF that is what the 360 version actually looks like then you can call the graphics war over. That destroys anything I've seen on console including anything on the PS3. I guess I will be buyinng this game to see if this is real or not.

Do you want to see how the 360 version looks? Here:

As I said, looks nothing special. Its the official 360 version running on a 360 shown off by crytek whereas everything else is running on the PC with leaked version of the beta, with 360 settings turned on.