^ No Squirrel.

From the photograph in the OP, it's detail level is so high that you can see the ground surface/rubble is not a texture, u could not simulate that with a flat texture.

And the grass and rest of the foilage is even more detailed. Impossible to render before 2015. And even more impossible to design and develop.

Its called a procedural texture using perlin noise, and is completely possible using hardware as old as an Geforce 3 ...

If only the game was as good as it's graphics. From what I hear, crysis 1 isn't.

It never looks perfect and life-like though. It cannot simulate that ground in the OP. There's always a flatness to all textures.

Show me proof.

I have no proof, but I don't think you're really considering that a company like crytec has the capabilities to produce a screenshot today that will not be representative of what is possible in-game until high-end hardware is released 2 years after the game releases. We're already at a point in time where new Graphics cards can render more polygons per frame than there are pixels at 1080p, and in 3 or 4 years (when this screenshot might be representitive of the game) you could have games rendering 2 to 4 times as many polygons as pixels in game.

^I'll bump this thread every year til we have a computer generated game scene with that quality and detail.

To make my point clearer to you one last time ...

The XBox 360 is (roughly) equal to a 4 or 5 year old high-end PC, Crysis 2 will probably not be released for another 2 to 3 years, and it is likely that (if they maintain the strategy they followed with Crysis) a high-end PC 2 to 3 years after its release will be able to play Crysis 2 at full detail. What this means is that hardware that is as much beyond the XBox 360 as the XBox 360 is above the N64 may be required to play Crysis 2 at full detail.

Regardless of whether this is (or is not) a real screenshot, it is not unrealistic to expect that Crytec could produce a screenshot which is equally as impressive that is representitive of Crysis 2; but that wouldn't be represented in game for quite some time.

Well a forest mod from Crysis 2 or a demo showing from 'CryEngine 4' at a games convention will do fine. I agree and understand that it will take at least an Xbox 3 to run that properly.

But I don't think that still will be enough for truly life-like graphics like the forest scene in the OP. For that I beleive it will require a 100 times more powerful comp (compared to say a X360 or even a HD 4870 X2 equipped Quad Core), like the targeted 2015 hardware Nvidias CEO was talking about the other day.

Do we yet know if CryEngine 3 will be used for Crysis 2?

Looking closely it looks like a tampered photo to me (someone sharpened the edges to make it look "off-real")