Yes, but that's because Gamebryo is designed as an open world engine meant primarily for MMORPGs and Oblivion-like games. In these kind of games there's so much stuff going on in the game world in real time, that you just have to cut off a lot of stuff that's outside your 'activity bubble' (under normal circumstances).

But you can set that bubble to have no borders and achieve a line of sight distance that covers the whole game world. This is easily done with a simple mod for Oblivion. On PC of course, and it requires a powerful graphics card, but that still proves that the Gamebryo engine is easily customizable with regards to pop in and actually a lot of other stuff.

i am with you guys in the source engine but cry engine? is powerful alright but its not very optimized ... its very hard to get some smooth gameplay of it in the higher settings... hopefully the 3rd generation of it will be better... until then no number 1 for crytec

So no Crytek or Gamebryo engine? I'm sorely disappointed that neither of these game engines have been mentioned, considering they are both superior to some of the engines you mentioned.

No Crytek 2?!