CryENGINE 2 game engine

CryENGINE 2 features many graphical, physical and animation technologies as well as many gameplay enhancements, some of which include:

• Volumetric 3D Clouds
• Real time Ambient Maps with dynamic lighting and no premade shadows
• 3D Ocean Technology dynamically modifies the ocean surface based on wind and wave direction and creates moving shadows and highlights underwater
• Depth of field to focus on certain objects while blurring out the edges and far away places
• Vector Motion blur on both camera movement and individual objects
• Dynamic Soft shadows with objects casting realistic shadows in real time
• Realistic Facial Animation that can be captured from an actor's face
• Subsurface scattering
• Breakable Buildings allowing more tactical preplanning on the player's side
• Breakable Vegetation (with possibly heavy foliage) enabling players and enemy AI to level entire forests as a tactical maneuver or other purposes
• Advanced Rope Physics showcasing bendable vegetation responding to wind, rain or character movement and realistically interactive rope bridges
• Component Vehicle Damage giving vehicles different destroyable parts, such as tires on jeeps or helicopter blades
• HDR lighting
• Fully interactive and destructible environments
• Advanced particle system with fire or rain being affected by forces such as wind
• Time of Day Lighting, with sunrise, and sunset effects ensuring realistic transition between daytime and nighttime
• Lightbeams and Shafts when light intersects with solid or highly detailed geometry, and can generate "Godray" effects underwater
• Parallax Occlusion Mapping giving a greater sense of depth to a surface texture, realistically emphasizing the relief surface structure of objects
• Long Range View Distance of up to 16km from ingame measurements
• Parametric Skeletal Animation System
• Procedural Motion Warping

As well as supporting Shader Model 2.0, 3.0 (DirectX 9) and 4.0 (DirectX 10), the engine will be multi-threaded to take advantage of SMP or hyper-threading capable systems. The game will also come in 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Crytek claims that running the 64-bit version will give a performance increase of up to 10-15% per thread. Crytek does not intend to support any sort of Physics Processor such as the AGEIA PhysX. Instead, Crytek have developed their own proprietary physics system, called CryPhysics.