Crytek’s Harald Seeley: PS3, 360 CryENGINE 2 to look near high settings on PC

Crytek‘s CryENGINE 2 is definitely making it big in the gaming industry. Previously, Harald Seeley spoke about the engine’s MMO expansion. Now, Seeley has said that CryENGINE 2 for the PS3 and 360 could resemble the high setting visuals of PCs. Find out more on this in the full article.

Doubting the title? Well, don’t. According to Crytek‘s Harald Seeley, CryENGINE2 caters to specific consoles such as Sony‘s PlayStation 3 and Microsoft‘s Xbox 360. In an interview, Seeley claims that their engine for the consoles would look closely to the high setting visuals of a PC when playing games.

Seeley said that they definitely tailor their engine specifically to each platform. In order for them to do so, they had to consider various factors. These include video hardware capabilities of PCs and consoles, memory budgets, “the lack of a hard disk on some models, and the acceptance of requirement of the hardware vendors themselves.”

Once everything was put into place, Seeley said that they “expect the final outcome will result in games that look like they’re running at high settings, or nearly high settings, on a PC.” The only challenge they encountered was with the memory limitations of the consoles when they were converting the AI systems.

As for the console differences, Seeley favored the PS3 engine that they were developing over the Xbox 360. This is what he said about it:

Well there is no doubt that porting our engine to the PlayStation 3 is the more challenging of our two ongoing conversion projects, but that works to our advantage in the end.

We feel certain we have the ability to get the most that is possible out of that platform, and therefore PS3 games which run on our engine in the future will definitely stand significantly apart from other games that donÂ’t.

Curious to know more about what Harald Seeley had to say in the interview? Don’t worry. You can read the whole interview log by clicking the link below.

Via IGN UK