Crytek: Crysis cost $22 million, next engine due 2012

Dyre Straits · August 20th, 2008, 10:54 AM

"Speaking at the outset of this year's Leipzig Games Convention, Crytek boss Cevat Yerli revealed that the developer's graphical tour de force, Crysis, cost an estimated $22 million to create. Yerli has previously lamented the effect piracy has had on the title, but reiterated that it's still recouped the development costs, saying, 'If it wasn't profitable I wouldn't be able to stand here.'"

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http://www.joystiq.com/2008/08/19/cr...gine-due-2012/

Nanogrip · August 21st, 2008, 05:54 AM

Thanks Dyre Straits for the news. It might be better if Crytek can start making merchandise, imagine a Crytek mug, t-shirt, Crysis action figure, or something. Have they thought about licensing their engine as well? I like the company so it is sad that piracy is mentioned to have an effect on their Crysis title.

AfterLife · August 21st, 2008, 05:57 AM

I agree that crysis was good, but the only game to come close to cinema quality graphics was Doom 3, although the gameplay was kinda monotonous and not that scary , the visual effects , lighting , light sourced shadows and textures were just awesome .

Unixlord · August 22nd, 2008, 07:04 AM

Doom 3? Come on now.

omagic · August 22nd, 2008, 04:01 PM

Yes Doom3 had great graphical efects at its release time, but only in closed sceneries. Lights were rally nice...

nCaine · August 22nd, 2008, 04:55 PM

Somehow i tryed to play doom3 for like 3 times , and every time got bored after 2-3 hours .

DOOMJESUS · August 22nd, 2008, 07:24 PM

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Originally Posted by omagic

Yes Doom3 had great graphical efects at its release time, but only in closed sceneries. Lights were rally nice...

it still does i think, ogl can do about anything dx can do.

i was playing classic doom3 recently and i am impressed with the look of it. it is much better looking on the 3870 than it was on my old 1800xl.

if it has been a while since you looked at doom3 it might be worth it to check it out on a modern gfx card. ogl fuckin' rulez!...

Dyre Straits · August 22nd, 2008, 09:43 PM

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Originally Posted by nCaine

Somehow i tryed to play doom3 for like 3 times , and every time got bored after 2-3 hours .

Same here. I couldn't get interested in it, either.

AfterLife · August 25th, 2008, 07:02 AM

Come on guys .........I agree the gameplay was highly monotonous but what I appreciate is the cinema quality graphics even till date i see no other game even crysis coming close to that visual quality , sure crysis has great visual effects and some good physics but doom3 graphics were closer to real life.

One more thing for those graphics at that time Doom 3 dint require a killer machine to run on , even at 640x480 resolution the game looked great !