And roam, and create (I don't know when Sandbox3 is out) and destroy and level the entire city, and run around at maximum speed?

I think that would've been the best campaign ever.

It would have been pretty amazing to see the destructibility of Lingshan in an apocalyptic NYC. Too bad we can't even knock down a god damned signpost.

maybe crysis 3 will have a destructible metropolis.

i would have loved to see a sandbox NYC more than anything but imagine the processing power needed. in c1 you could destroy trees and small little houses with few furniture. youll need a whole power plant for the rig that can calculate a collapsing skycraqer with 1000 rooms filled with furniture, stairs, windows and so on. and if you THEN use TAC GUN, omfg

you're right men!
i hope you can do that in crysis 3!!

Want destruction think BF3, want to be beat to death with a controller think crysis 2 - 3.

all the destruction in bf3 is going to be pre-baked scripted stuff, be cool to see a game with a real world physics system in it, maybe in 10 years

the problem wtih getting REAL WORLD physic's ingame, is that it would A. require like a billion lines of code and B. the laws of physics are most likly wrong and not how what we call physics really works, becuase you cant destroy or create matter right? so what ever is, has always been, and will always be.


also to put something like that into a game, we would also need to know the math behind it, like how we think the universe makes it, and the problem is we honestly dont know

^ WE can ignore some rules of physics when doing a game simulation. For example, to collapse an entire sky scraqer, we dont need to calculate every little detail INSIDE the sky scraqer. All we need to do is run a 'kill check' inside the skyscraqer the second it starts collapsing (i.e. to kill whoever is inside, if its a fast collapse), and then run a cull on every object but the first floor (i.e. gut the building). Then we only have to deal with the physics of the objects on the first floor (which we could cull once there was a giant dust cloud). Basically through a little bit of cheating we only REALLY have to calculate the physics of a few dozen objects and the building itself - which is much easier. However, even this would not be possible without a very high-spec PC, and amazingly well done physics threading / coding.

If we really want to simulate every object in every room for all time, then yes, we cant do that at all. Even the highest-end super computers / render farms cant calculate that in a reasonable amount of time (i.e. 30 sec vid in a day), let alone real time.