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Next-Gen Tech Showcased By Mafia Developer

Mafia developer Warhorse Studios is working on an untitled medieval RPG, set to be released in 2014 or 2015. A recent YouTube video showcases a tech demo of the project, which is build on a modified version of CryEngine 3.

It isn't the most crystal clear footage, but you can notice some tiny details throughout the course of this nearly ten-minute video. Check it out below.

Source: Eurogamer

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  • This makes me really excited, I love this kind of stuff so much!
  • Another medieval RPG, how original.
  • the trees and the white plants (cotton balls?) swaying in the breeze look incredible. I hope this doesnt increase the cost of production so much though that it becomes impossible for smaller dev teams to make games like this without millions of dollars in their budget.
  • Very nice. I'm so relieved to see next-Gen announcements slowly leak out, I.e. Watch Dogs, 1313, possible MGS V.

    This is just the kind of power refresh we've needed. Hopefully the big guys can put out some original, unique consoles and let the software teams play to their heart's content with the next-gen tech.

  • This is exactly why I'm not ready for next gen..
  • Some of the footage looks wonderful! It does get me excited for what next-gen can bring. Not only for realistic graphics, but other types of art styles as well. I do wonder what studios and their artists can do with styles that deviate from trying to be ultra realistic.

  • Nice! I hope alot of the next-gen developers decide to make games in the past instead of the current trend of future-ising things. I'm kind of tired of futuristic.

  • I may be wrong, but isn't Mafia developer called 2K Czech? And I think that Warhorse was formed by industry veteran, including former Mafia developers. Anyway, the game looks nice.

  • I'm almost as excited for that game as I am to hear about the next gen tech. Also, if this isn't a leak why is the video quality so terrible?
  • This presentation is running on an old laptop with a Nvidia 555M graphics card.
  • Since it's using CryEngine 3, this really isn't anything we haven't seen before. Textures are good but the footage isn't the best, so I can't really tell if they're anything that great, lighting seems good but that's the CryEngine doing its thing, and the few moving objects were good but again since it's just a tech demo they didn't have all that much in there (wanted to see more of the water). Still, just a tech build, so here's hoping they can create a beautiful world that actually physically reacts to the player in a believable way (the exact opposite of Skyrim).
  • Looks pretty good.

  • Wow. That's nice.

  • It doesn't look that impressive to me, but maybe that's because I have been playing both high end PC games and consoles. How far ahead is this tech from stuff running currently on PC?
  • Guess this somewhat proves Nintendo's point about how far visuals need to go... this is considerably nicer than anything we have today yet most people seem to be unable to see the difference, or rather appreciate the different, to the point that they even believe they've seen something this good on their PC today.. Maybe the heavily modded Skyrim that cripples even the beefiest cards touches on it.. I think it looks great but, for me I don't want realism in games and would like to see something more fantasy/surreal running on this engine.
  • YES! Ive been wanting a medievil RPG with CryEngine 3 for so long!

  • @ idostuff Well you already need millions of dollars to develop for consoles as it is.

    You have to have publicity and marketing and you of course need a lot of money.

    Consider the average paycheck of a designer or programmer.

    This is way below average but imagine a game like Skyrim which has over a hundred people but lets say a hundred people who earn $10000 each ( which you earn more annually at McDonalds).

    Well the game takes 5 years so $10000 multiplied by the number of people 100 and the number of years lets say 5.

    $1000000 X 5 equals $5,000,000. Of corse our talking about smaller games but still I'm saying most peoe do t realize how much games truly cost to make. Cause I mean most people will be earning anywhere from $30,000 to $50,000 and leads can earn nearly a $100,000 or in he case of Call of Duty the head founders were making a million dollars.

  • i really hope they make this game compietely open world like elder scrolls.so far it seens like Bethesda is the only company that knows how to make a complietely open world.
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