My question is, how long did it take to render 1 frame of those scenes? The screenshots do indeed look like actual photos, very similar to Crysis, though even better. Unless your computer is an absolute monster (and I do mean a "monster") there is no way anybody would be able to play this game in its full glory without either crashing their computer altogether, or dealing with horrible framerates. There is a game out now called Metro2033, when turned up to max, the graphics in that game are unbelieveable, some of the best out today, but it will destroy almost anybody's setup, so it's not worth it to even bother trying to play that game on max settings. That to me is very stupid, that companies will make games with certain features only the top-dollar video card setups can handle (and by top-dollar, I'm talking $1000+ just for the video card(s)). There is no point in these awe-striking graphics if barely anybody is able to enjoy them. You have to remember that fluid, smooth gameplay is more important than anything. Though Crysis is an absolutely awesome looking game, I believe it was badly optimized, many many people claim they cannot get any higher than 35 frames in that game, even with the settings all turned down to low. That is completely unacceptable, regardless of how nice the game looks. I hope, for the majority of the gamer community's sake, that you focus primarily on optimizing this to run well rather than to look amazing. That being said, you should definitely focus on optimizing this game to take advantage of multi-gpu setups, especially with a game that will look like this.
