I swear we’ll need dedicated hardware for Game AI in the near-future…

I certainly hope developers will push for it.

What we really need is a free standard, supported on the bleeding edge of development, by hardware companies.

At the moment OpenGL seems to lag a little behind, DirectX having more leverage due to its connection with Microsoft, therby a superior position in the market.

But the game looks nice enough, and lets hope its AI is good too. With high speed internet connections, games have recently found this convenient way to bypass heavy investment in AI, and instead relied on emphasizing human vis human gameplay.

lol!

I took a look at the techinfo for their game engine. Seems very bent on aiding visual appearances:

Advanced AI System: CryENGINE™ 2 has a flexible and easily customizable AI system which handles both character and vehicle behaviors, it fully supports the complex requirements of the character locomotion system to animate bipedal characters in a believable fashion, and is fully integrated into the CryENGINE Sandbox2 editor.

LUA Script Driven AI System: Allows complex AI behaviors to be created without requiring new C++ code, including extending state machine behaviors from LUA scripts

Dynamic Path Finding: Advanced 2D and 3D algorithms allow the AI navigation paths to be modified in real time in response to events which create new or destroy existing paths, a critical feature for creating believable AI in a highly interactive and destructible environment.

Smart Objects: Provides an easy way for level designers to connect specialized animations to particular objects in the level, so that the character animations and objects are properly aligned at the start and end of the animations, and the correct animation sequence plays.

But, it’s still hard to say from one video, this demo might have been downtuned so that the player wouldn’t get killed all the time while showing off the pretty chickens.