If you’ve got a spare 25 minutes you’re desperately looking to fill, worry no longer: Crytek have released an extensive video documentary showing off the technical capabilities of the CryEngine 3, delivered by senior field applications engineer Sean Tracy. In the video, Tracy demonstrates features such as liquid reflections, volume fog, lighting behaviour, pixel-accurate displacement mapping and others, all in real-time with the inbuilt level-editing software. Take a look below, or maybe take a look for yourself in the upcoming Crysis 3 open beta (starting some time tonight?)

Source: VG247

Man, there’s a lot of Crying in that title. In any case, Crytek’s latest trailer for their upcoming CryEngine 3 is looking great, and there’s no doubt at least that Crysis 3 is going to be one gorgeous game.

If you’d like to download the trailer, you can do so from our file library. A YouTube version is also available.

Last month we saw footage of the Unreal Engine 4 being demonstrated for the first time, and the gaming world was pretty impressed. Well, for the most part. Those numbering among the unimpressed include Crytek, whose CEO Cevat Yerli told VG247 that there was simply nothing that surprising about the Unreal Engine 4.

“We have been presenting CryENGINE 3 as next-gen ready technology since GDC 2010. And we think that Unreal Engine 4 has done a good job to catch up, but nothing is there that surprised us and we still believe CryENGINE 3 remains the benchmark,” he told them in an interview. When asked about the possibility of the CryEngine 4, added, “We have not clearly defined when, or if, CryENGINE 4 will be released, because the architecture of CryENGINE 3 is so forward-looking that we think of it as having been next generation ready for some years now.”

Source: VG247