| HappySqurriel said: Regardless of whether you're talking the Playstation, PS2, or PS3 one of the core reasons why late generation games often look substantially better than mid generation games is that developers find 'tricks' to create effects that are (somewhat) similar to more advanced effects; and artists (after several years of working on similar projects) have become far more efficient with their models, animations, and textures. I don't know for sure but I wouldn't be surprised if Crytech spent a lot of effort looking for these tricks in (pretty much) every effect they used in Crysis and implemented them in Crysis 2; and the end result is that you get similar looking graphics off of substantially lower end hardware. |
This can be true but isnt always the case. Metro 2033 for example runs farly well on 360 and looks good. On the PC it looks a lot better but its an absolute resource hog. The game is even worse than Crysis 1 when it comes to requirements.
Crytek made an engine and a game in Crysis 2 that will look great on a PC even if you have something like a HD4870 and GTX260. Gamer setting (lowest setting for some reason) still looks sensational and I am pretty sure sub 100 dollar video cards can get good frame rates with it.
Ive played console ports on PC which dont run this smooth (Transformers, Singularity) and look much worse. My thinking is that all the magic is done by Cryengine 3 here no matter which platform you put it on...
