Rumor: Crysis coming to Xbox 360 in November
by Alexander Sliwinski 
{ Jan 3rd 2008 at 3:30PM }
There's currently no PS3 listing on the Austrian website (and we'll spare you the effortless Wii joke) but it'll definitely make for some interesting comparison videos if we get to see the 360 version of Crysis running side-by-side with the demanding PC release.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Shagittarius @ Jan 3rd 2008 3:35PM
2 Platforms 1 Game
Slaziman (B-B-BRUSHED WITH FAAAAME) @ Jan 3rd 2008 8:55PM
@up
I really hope you are just trolling, and will not even try to debunk your points based on that hope.
Slaziman (B-B-BRUSHED WITH FAAAAME) @ Jan 3rd 2008 8:57PM
DAMN IT this was a reply to another post. I'll admit it was my fault though, I don't think the Joystiq reply system is broken.
The above was meant for jack in the xbox below...
Jeff @ Jan 3rd 2008 3:40PM
Crysis is the best game of 2007. The gameplay is simply amazing, and the necessary reduction in graphics will hardly alter the experience. I recently played through it again using my 360 controller, with rumble, and it was one hell of a good time.
The multiplayer is deep, complex, and a shitload of fun. On Xbox-live it will be amazing, and I look forward to hearing all of you whiny bitches who talked shit about the PC version raving about what a great game it is.
Crytek stated that any ports will be handled themselves, so you don't have to worry about any Far Cry: Instincts garbage, or about the crap the Orange Box faces on ps3.
I hope they do it; a game as good as Crysis deserves Halo volumes of sales... and only 360 users seem to be capable of that.
sifer2400 @ Jan 3rd 2008 3:44PM
id have to agree with every thing you just said including the last sentence i really hope that they bring it to the 360
xFenixKnightx @ Jan 3rd 2008 3:53PM
Jeff
Haha, what was I just saying the other day?! Sweet man I really hope this is true. w00t!
Xelloss @ Jan 3rd 2008 3:54PM
The game is simply amazing, but the AI was totally crap. I think that was one of the biggest let downs for me because in a few videos and interviews they hyped the AI up a bunch but it was almost non exist.
Trev @ Jan 3rd 2008 3:55PM
FPS, check. Super soldier protagonist, check. Good multiplayer, check (I'll take your word for it).
Sounds like a game set to appeal to the Halo market, and if it helps the hard-working folks at Crytek make some money then all the better.
L @ Jan 3rd 2008 4:39PM
Very good comment agree with it ....... till it needs the same volume of sales as halo(cult Game) that won,t happen UNLESS they some how can nail this game to run as gd as the PC ver... I really can,t wait to see what it looks like on the 360 0_o
Jeff @ Jan 3rd 2008 4:56PM
Hm, I have seen lots of people referring to it as buggy here and elsewhere. Personally, in multiple play-throughs of the game, I encountered only one main bug: some of the aliens wouldn't explode when defeated, they'd simply fall to the ground. Not game-breaking at all.
As for the AI: best in a game to date, and I mean it. But that's a two-edged sword. Scripted bad guys won't do incredibly stupid stuff, as they're simply too stupid to figure out how. A fully independent AI soldier, however, can decide that life isn't worth living any longer and walk off of a cliff... or accidentally run over some of his allies with a vehicle. Or get a lucky shot when you're cloaked, see the blood, and keep on firing even if you're invisible.
In my opinion the North Koreans were awe inspiring. Genuine surprise and realistic reaction times when you jump up to them using super strength, or decloak, or use super speed to get right next to them. Many people seemed to find their reactions to the cloak unrealistic, but I found it amazing. When you cloak in the middle of combat they seem to shoot where someone trying to hit you really would aim based on where you were. Same with silenced shots, or silenced shots followed by a quick cloak. They search for you; sometimes it can be scary.
The aliens were much simpler, so couldn't exhibit anything amazing, but did their job well. If you tried to evade them by heading onto a roof, or running up a mountain, they'd jump after you. Hiding behind a rock taking potshots and running around it as they seek you... they'll jump over it and do a 360 and start shooting you before you can run. When they hunt in packs it can get pretty awesome...
Oh man, and google Power Struggle if you want to learn about an amazing mutliplayer game mode. Combines everything good about Counter Strike, Call of Duty and Halo. Wow, this game sounds like it was meant for 360 users. =)
jack in the xbox @ Jan 3rd 2008 6:24PM
IN OTHER NEWS...the real Crysis, besides trying to port this graphics powerhouse game over to the "half definition"360, would be that when everybody picks it up and tries to log on to XBL, the servers will crash and you will have to wait a week to play it. I can even envision a system being put in place by MS in the near future, where you are told you can only purchase certain "blocks ot time" to play on XBL. These "blocks" pertaining to a certain "tiered" amount of service you pay for like whats available with cable company packages. Get ready to pay much more than 50 dollars a year in the future for XBL. What's to stop MS from doing this. You guys already pay full price for everything MS makes available. You're already in the mix. IT IS COMING. YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST.
deaftly @ Jan 3rd 2008 3:43PM
I saw some video reviews of this and it just seems like it turned out to be a buggy mess with great visuals. Worth a rental maybe.
Shagittarius @ Jan 3rd 2008 3:54PM
It is very buggy, but a good game.
tmacairjordan87 @ Jan 3rd 2008 3:55PM
it was probably a buggy mess because it wasn't being run on the playstation 8, the platform it was designed for.
jynxycat @ Jan 3rd 2008 7:46PM
I wouldn't call it "very buggy".
The only people throwing that around are the ones who hear it from some random person on a forum, so they spout it like they've played it.
The one major flaw I saw in the game was at the last level, where I fall out of the map numerous times.
Working in the QA business, I can say that it's 100% not acceptable. I've worked on titles with a fraction of the budget, and we had to test levels for hours on end, numerous times during the week, to make sure you couldn't fall out of a level and die. How such a thing slipped by, on such an enclosed area, on such a big game, is beyond me.
That aside, I didn't encounter any "bugs" that stood out, so I guess I got lucky.
Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo) @ Jan 3rd 2008 9:24PM
Oh Tmac. I hate you so much and I hope you'll die in a fire.
But I'll give you +1 for that comment. It made me lolz.
Shagittarius @ Jan 3rd 2008 10:27PM
The game is VERY buggy I played through the whole game, on two occasions the game decided I had completed sections when I actually hadn't.
Upon restarting at my last restore point bosses mysteriously died before me without being killed and the game pushes me onward. As well as having to restore earlier points on the aircraft carrier beacuse every time I tried to reload a weapon I fell through the floor.
Its not the volume of bugs its the major type of bugs that it was allowed to ship with. Perhaps they anticipated a quick patch turn-around and then abandoned their plan when the game didnt sell well (the game is long overdue for an announced patch). Whatever the reason the types of bugs are extremely detrimental to the gameplay, and everyone that plays is it likely to encounter them.
I haven't played a game this obviously buggy in a long time.
Anam @ Jan 3rd 2008 3:47PM
But is it coming to Ma- ctually, forget it. It's not worth my breath...
Smoke_Dawg_187 @ Jan 3rd 2008 3:47PM
Bring it on! I'll snatch this up in a heart beat.
Geo @ Jan 3rd 2008 3:49PM
HA,ha,ha LOL, i toll you people in the (Far Cry 2 for consoles new), this is amazing i better star saving to buy an XBOX 360, i think PC gaming is almost death.....
Baeron @ Jan 3rd 2008 3:54PM
You are a gentleman and a scholar. The eloquence of your prose is truly touching.
ViagraFiend @ Jan 3rd 2008 4:01PM
@ Baeron
lol
Ralod @ Jan 3rd 2008 4:13PM
PC gaming is not "close to death". But it is no longer the platform for hyperactive kiddies who want to blow shit up. Even so the last NPD sales results were well before the holiday season, I would suspect that sales of Crysis have risen from what was reported 5 weeks ago.
PC gaming, not dead. It is just no longer the place to go if you want to play shooters with auto aim.
Baeron @ Jan 3rd 2008 4:39PM
"PC gaming, not dead. It is just no longer the place to go if you want to play shooters with auto aim."
Was it ever the place to go if one wanted to play shooters with auto-aim?
HighFiveJesus @ Jan 3rd 2008 3:51PM
I was beginning to wonder if the xbox was finally gonna get a sci-fi military fps for once.
Shagittarius @ Jan 3rd 2008 3:56PM
Will it get it before the wii gets another mini-game fest?
ViagraFiend @ Jan 3rd 2008 4:02PM
@ Shagi
Most definitely not. Super Carnival Fun Fitness Party VIII comes out next week! Cant wait!
Geo @ Jan 3rd 2008 3:50PM
Sorry for my english guys but english is not my primary language...
NATO_Duke @ Jan 3rd 2008 4:49PM
No worries. You have to admit that his reply to you was funny though.
Anyway, I was wondering when this might pop up. Not going from PC to 360 these days is just a waste of profit potential.
PhoenixSS @ Jan 3rd 2008 3:53PM
Sweet. I'll be on this. Word to your mother.
All of your mothers.
LilCo187 @ Jan 3rd 2008 4:00PM
"...but it'll definitely make for some interesting comparison videos if we get to see the 360 version of Crysis running side-by-side with the demanding PC release."
No, I'm pretty sure it'll just be downright laughable.
AirIntake @ Jan 3rd 2008 4:24PM
Yeah, you're right. It will be downright laughable at how similar the two will look.
Mr Khan @ Jan 3rd 2008 4:56PM
It's possible. PC's, by the nature of their architecture, generally need more power to accomplish the same thing that consoles can do (example: PSO BB on PC required 64 MB V-RAM, more V-RAM than the Dreamcast's total RAM)
Jeff @ Jan 3rd 2008 5:01PM
Here's the thing. I can tweak Crysis to look beautiful and run amazingly on my rig-- much better than the default settings. Many others can do the same for their rigs. But we are not professionals; just people playing with config files...
With the 360, you will have professional tweakers getting the game to look as good as it can with the best performance on ONE piece of hardware. So Crysis 360 will look a lot better than Crysis PC looks on a PC with specs exactly equivalent to a 360. Certainly the PC version will be superior graphically, but the 360 version will probably be better than anything else available on consoles.
SoulBlade @ Jan 3rd 2008 6:58PM
And lord knows the 360 isn't running a bloated version of Vista as its OS... I can see the two games looking comparable, but I wonder if this will push the 360 GPU so much that it'll begin to overheat.
Crazyeyez15 @ Jan 3rd 2008 4:03PM
funny thing is there actually looking for a ps3 developer to do a project O_o http://www.crytek.com/jobs/frankfurt/ps3-programmer/
Hyams @ Jan 3rd 2008 5:23PM
And the PS3 devs have to be good at cross-platform development and porting to the PS3?
Crysis on PS3?
dustandechoes91 @ Jan 3rd 2008 8:02PM
Before crysis even came out Crytek said depending on sales, it would most likely come out on both ps3 and 360 eventually-that they had the engine running already on both consoles.
daedalus @ Jan 3rd 2008 4:03PM
Maybe if you didn't need to shit gold bricks in order to afford a rig that can handle the game, sales would be better.
Neebs @ Jan 3rd 2008 4:56PM
Explain my rig which would cost $600 dollars running it on medium, then.
daedalus @ Jan 3rd 2008 5:01PM
Well then i'm out of ideas as to why this game is selling poorly... you seem to be enjoying it on your rig that would cost $600... what do you suggest is the reason... hmm?
Jeff @ Jan 3rd 2008 5:03PM
Pirates.
Crysis takes place on a beautiful island. Hell, there are even sharks. Pirates just can't help themselves.
Erik @ Jan 4th 2008 3:29PM
Neebs most likely you are playing a flash game called crysis at medium detail. The real game wouldn't run on your computer to well. Unless you are playing at 2 Fps, which I wouldn't really call running.
Neebs @ Jan 4th 2008 10:40PM
You are truly a master of wit, Erik!
I will not dignify such pathetic damage control with a witty response, so I only have this:
Oh, really then?
LiK @ Jan 3rd 2008 4:06PM
big surprise, not.
deaftly @ Jan 3rd 2008 4:22PM
and monkeys might fly out of my butt, schaa
LiK @ Jan 3rd 2008 4:31PM
it'll come out, even if it'll be a crappy port. if MS has anything to say about it, it WILL come out. the made changes to Far Cry when they ported that to the original Xbox so this is no different.
my guess is that we'll get a very linear version with gimped graphics for the 360 version.
Jeff @ Jan 3rd 2008 5:04PM
LiK: wrong. The Far Cry ports were handled by Ubisoft people, not Crytek people.
That is comparable to the Ps3 port of the Orange Box being handled by EA and not Valve.
Crytek has assured that any console ports will be handled by them directly. =)
LiK @ Jan 3rd 2008 5:10PM
well Jeff, if that's the case, we'll still see a port with gimped graphics for the 360 version if they decide to port it. i don't mind playing a version that won't kill my PC.
Jeff @ Jan 3rd 2008 5:23PM
Of course the graphics will be nerfed, but they'll still be better than Halo and Call of Duty 4, which really are its only competition on that platform.