Pre-rendered. Just like the clips which had thousands of barrells flying and falling that were made with Cry-engine 2 (sandbox editor).

I do say pre-rendered, or they have some kind of advanced CPU and GPU we never heard off, even the most expensive machine cant run that smoothly.

Hmm..

Strange, a Sony commercial, and crytek uses there cry engine 2(running on something?) to display the power of its engine on that system.

*hint sony hint*

This video states realtime at the end:

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/30965.html

Oh. Well, that's impressive then, although the camera is more or less fixed in every scene. The FPS would probably drop to low single digits (or even lower, it's hard to tell) if you were freely walking around in that world. It also doesn't say what the hardware used was to get that running in real time, but I'm assuming 8800GTX in SLI or something similar.

I read the CryEngine is heavily multi-threaded, so if the PS3 port is done right it could serve as a showpiece engine for the Cell.

Some interesting comments from a Heavenly Sword engine designer from the NeoGAF "Crysis = OMG! :O" thread:

User comment 1:

Dev response:

User comment 2:

Dev response:

Crytek dev regarding multi-threading:

"We're headed for eight-core gaming and frame-rate independent "work crew" modular gaming, where rendering, particle systems, physics, audio, A.I. logic, and input/output process independent of each other."



Also:

"Our PS3 development is going deeper than many people assume right now," studio boss Cevat Yerli told GI.biz."

Hope this means we will see eyeopening results from PS3's CryEngine2 version.

 Erm, as far as I know those clips were not pre-rendered, they were recorded at the likes of 5fps maybe (very slow speeds anyway), but the still frames were dropped in the recording process to make the videos run at full speed.  They were rendered in realtime but at incredibly slow rates.

That is awesome, pretty close to real, i cant wait for the next "cry engine" it very may "better" than real. Lol

Thats awesome!!! Consoles cant do such a thing which makes me smile even more :)