Are you still consoling your PC every night, saying its inability to play Crysis is okay? All the while, you know you're lying to both yourself and your poor rig, just wishing you could sneak out and buy a better machine and feel the sweet embrace of Crytek's excellent game. Well, there's no need to tell the PC you're "just going for a jog" anymore.
The supposedly less hardware-intensive Crysis Warhead is ready to show you what it's made of and will supposedly run quite well on a €600 rig. It may not be as stunning as Crysis, but it won't require a second job to keep happy either. Check out the first screens below and a new trailer after the break.
I find it kind of funny that Crytek is blaming the fact their game didn't sell on piracy.
It didn't enter their mind that the game was total shit. Not only could only .005% of PC games run the damn thing but it was a BAD GAME. Guns could of been shooting BB pellets for all the damage they did. Also the mutiplayer was so increadably bland that no one wanted to play it for more then 5 minutes.
Aww come on, It wasn't that bad, but it wasn't that great either. The problem with crisis is that it was a game clearly aimed at the sort of hardcore gamer that refuses to play a game on anything less than full settings. Asking a guy who takes pride in a rig it cost him a fortune to build to put the settings on "medium" is clearly asking for trouble. And blaming the poor sales on piracy is just ridiculous, piracy didn't kill the game - the demo did.
Replying mainly to Mode~7 but also to the rest of you in this comment string.
First off, you do not even need a 1000 dollar computer to run Crysis on maximum settings, my PC set me back about 800 dollars and it runs on hacked very high settings on XP constantly over 30fps, it was people like you that made this game fail, spreading bullshit across the internet that no computers could run it just because your crappy 6 year old PC's couldn't handle it very well. Can the Xbox one play Gears of War? NO IT CAN'T, oh noes.
The game even looked great on low settings which can run easily on a low-mid end machine.
tmacairjordan87, the word is that Crytek isn't dumbing it down, just trimming the fat off of the engine so it doesn't unnecessarily hog your resources. I got the feeling there was a whole lot of fat to be trimmed from the first game.
Crysis is a very solid shooter. I don't know much about the MP though as I only played through the single player campaign. And, Fernando, I have a hard time believing you played through the entire game... especially "at a friend's house".
Hey now, I thought the original was good. Sure, I had to run it at 800x600 on medium settings, but I thought it was a fantastic game. It looked pretty and played well.
Hopefully Warhead will do as it says and run a bit better than its predecessor, but either way I'll buy it just like I did the first.
Good news. I thought Crysis was awesome for the many creative ways you could take out enemies and use the destructible environment to your advantage. My personal favorite was the "drive a truck towards a gas tank and jump out guns blazing right before it explodes". Follwed closely by "run up to an enemy while cloaked, grab them, switch to 'strength mode' on your suit and throw them 20 feet in the air".
And my computer runs it great, so suckit jealous beeotches!
Yea, not so much jealous, it's more like I have less disposable income than you. I'll take TF2 (which my $500 PC can run pretty well) over eye candy that tastes like shit.
See, that's the thing. My PC can run TF2, also! I'm really sorry if your tastes aren't as highly refined as mine. I'll bet you like the wine that comes in a box, too. Am I right?
OH SNAP! LUL, PWN3D!!!
Just kidding, my friend, in my original post, too. But I did think Crysis was a damn fine game, if a little short. And I tend to judge the quality of a game by it's single-player experience. It's pretty easy to have fun with multiplayer.
My friend ended up upgrading his computer to play this. Needless to say, he was pretty pissed off. Watching this trailer, I find nothing that makes this game stand out other than its ridiculous graphics. It screams Generic FPS from over ten miles away
Am I the only one who actually thought Crysis had some incredibly fun, and wildly emergent gameplay? I spent many hours saving and reloading a certain section just to do it in a different way. The enemies were relatively intelligent, and kitting out your weapon in different ways was rather enjoyable.
But the last half of the game wasn't nearly as cool.
I still dont know what this game is supposed to be. Is it like an expansion or is it Crysis 2?
Eitherway I thought Crysis kicked ass. One of the only non-linear FPS games out right now. I found this game much more enjoyable than the uber-linear shooters like COD and GOW.
So all the people who forked out big to run Crysis maxed out are now left with computers overpowered? This is BS. Its been ages since the first Crysis came out and since then we've seen the release of the 9000 series and new 200 series Nvidia cards which are quite capable of running Crysis on High. Even my 9600gt, which is the lowest of the above videocards, runs crysis in 1440x900 in High setting smoothly, and that card is so cheap now. They should have kept the game identcial in specs to the original, especially since a computer needed to run Crysis smoothly when it first came out can now be picked up for the price of a 360 Elite, not to mention spending a few extra bucks to run it even higher.
OK, the new Radeon 4850s are really fast and really cheap, so people need to shut the fuck up about PC gaming being too expensive, because it's not. I could design a $600 build that includes a Radeon 4850 (and relies on overclocking the CPU, but I've heard cheap Core2Duos overclock like mad) and could run Crysis at Very High probably around 25-30fps. I'm not going to look up the exact price because it's annoying, but I'd probably use a C2D E2160, some midrange $60ish motherboard, Radeon 4850, Seagate 250GB HDD, Vista x64 OEM, 4GB RAM, and an Antec Sonata III. I have a feeling that comes out to around $600, and if you overclock the E2160 a lot (people can get it to 3ghz easily, from 1.8 stock) it should scream.
OK, that comes out to $650 after some rebates and coupon codes, and I can guarantee it will be able to run Crysis on Very High decently and very well on High. Smart PC building ftw. A $800 PC built around when Crysis came out could play it on Medium at good speeds too, people are just sissies about computers, especially on certain console-centric sites.
