Crysis demo delayed until Oct 26 -- spurred by Halo effect?

by Ross Miller { Sep 24th 2007 at 1:14PM }

If you were expecting to play a new futuristic online shooter tomorrow on your PC, we've got some bad news for you. Crytek has announced that the Crysis demo has been delayed from its initial September 25 release. Instead, the one-level trial will hit the internet on October 26.

Additionally, Crytek has announced that the originally-teased "huge surprise" coming with the demo is the CryEngine 2 - Sandbox 2 game editor, now also due out next month.

Though they are on separate platforms, we can't help but wonder if this delay was in some way influenced by the oncoming flood of Halo 3 copies invading gamers' cerebral cortex tomorrow. Master Chief is very likely going to overshadow everything, Bratz notwithstanding, in the near future. Crytek's official reasoning is that they needed some extra time and did not want to risk affecting the November 16 release date.

Tags: crysis, crytek, demo, ea, electronicarts

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Shmil @ Sep 24th 2007 1:23PM

i had completely forgotten that the demo was coming

upz @ Sep 24th 2007 1:37PM

Ross's point exactly.

Though I'd like to think that the entire world does not revolve around Halo, it sure seems like it this week.

Tom @ Sep 24th 2007 2:59PM

HAHAHAHA Scared

WiNG @ Sep 24th 2007 1:28PM

considering

Jeff @ Sep 24th 2007 1:31PM

Wow. Frigging lame.

Why do gaming companies always do this? They always have to wait until the absolute last second to decide that their game needs a whole extra month...

E.J. @ Sep 24th 2007 2:04PM

Well, considering the Halo hype train, they don't want to get derailed PR-wise.

Besides, with such a high-end game for the PC, they'd probably wanna punch out the kinks and make the game compatible with more hardware.

I'm all for a quality demo that will work with my already-obsolete DX10 card.

tetracycloide @ Sep 24th 2007 1:47PM

oncoming 'flood'

halo pun, double point.

Jake @ Sep 24th 2007 1:51PM

It is almost like some kind of gravity based melee weapon knocked Crysis right into next month.

Shawn @ Sep 24th 2007 2:40PM

this is over a week old. Looks like joystiq is officially caught up in the halo hype, as Crytek announced the delay in the middle of last week.

I doubt the majority of us PC Gamers would choose Halo over a Crysis demo anyway, and I think Crytek just wants to make sure the SDK is functioning the way they want it too, and of course they want to optimize the demo as best as possible. Even still, there's plenty of room to have both Halo and Crysis, not sure why there is a need to pit one game against the other....

If anyone wants to get their Crysis on right now, get a fileplanet sub, I've been in it for a few weeks now. Gorgeous is an understatement, and it's pretty damn fun on top of that as well....Also, the Frontlines Fuel of War beta started as well, it's a ton of fun as well, but very very buggy compared to the Crysis beta...