Next-gen CryEngine detailed in trailer

Cyrtek has released a new video showing off the incredible power of the next-generation CryEngine.

The new engine takes over from CryEngine 3 and will allow developers to use advanced lighting and weather effects 

CryEngine is being used to power Xbox One launch title Ryse, and you'll be able to see it in action in the video below.

"Since CryEngine 3 was launched in 2009, we've dramatically changed the engine so many times, with so many major new features, it's not the same engine anymore," said Crytek executive Carl Jones.

"We have revolutionised many parts of the engine: we have overhauled our entire lighting system, built movie quality character rendering and animation solutions, vastly improved the speed and effectiveness of our Sandbox editor, and even our rendering has changed with tessellation, pixel accurate displacement mapping and now physical based rendering; all of this while maintaining our first principal: that making games should be real-time, all the time."