These environments are rendered at what can genuinely be called a mind-boggling level of visual fidelity. Crysis may very well be one of the most--if not the single most--technically impressive fully playable game from a graphical perspective that we have yet seen. Running on a beefy DirectX 10-capable NVIDIA 8800, the game was never short of gorgeous. There were moments when, for a split second, my brain suggested that I may in fact be watching some kind of on-location modern combat documentary. The subtle and well-implemented motion blur just pushes everything over the top. It is hardly worth describing in detail what can be demonstrated many times better in the screenshots and videos linked in the sidebar. Of course, even on the highly capable machines installed in Microsoft's Games for Windows booth, Crysis demanded a lot. The game looked to be running at a fluctuating framerate in the 20-30fps range--which, to the game's credit, was noticeably better than it was running when I last checked out the game in May 2006 at which time it frequently bordered on unplayable. It is also worth pointing out that a lack of foresight in booth design had led to all the display machines being cooped up in drawers barely bigger than the PC cases themselves, without sufficiant airflow, which led to constant performance issues and crashes across many of the games on display. Plus, you may be interested to know it was being presented in a ridiculous resolution of 2048x1536.