kinda off-topic but you have to remember there wont be any back breaking engines like Crytek in 2008 your more likely to see publishers like Sega, Capcom, EA, THQ, Ubisoft, Activision, Square Enix license the unreal warfare engine 3.0 from Epic Games
http://www.unrealtechnology.com/news.php with the likes of the new Americas Army 3.0, Brothers in Arms Hells Highway, Tom Clancys End War, Tom Clancys Rainbow Six Vegas 2, Tom Clancys Splinter Cell: Conviction, Turok plus about two dozen titles for the XBX. So when building a gaming rig for 2008 you should keep that engine as the bar.
Crysis should of been released in 2008.
- Christine