Crysis Warhead preps for battle with debut trailer, screenshots

by Alexander Sliwinski { Jul 1st 2008 at 5:25PM }

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.

Gallery: Crysis Warhead

Tags: crysis, crysis-warhead, crytek, ea, trailer

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Titanium_Orchid @ Jul 1st 2008 5:29PM

This game needs more chainsaws attached to firearms.

Einhanderkiller @ Jul 1st 2008 5:34PM

No, it needs more nuclear explosions blowing down wooden huts.

Jerk Face @ Jul 1st 2008 5:34PM

Agreed, LOL.

MuToiD_MaN @ Jul 1st 2008 6:59PM

Titanium: Hell no. Einhanderkiller: Hell YES.

Isaac @ Jul 1st 2008 5:34PM

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.

Needless to say, I hated the game.

Fernando Rocker @ Jul 1st 2008 5:42PM

I agree. I played and finished Crysis in my friend house. The game is just pretty... nothing more.

Is just not good. I prefer to play Bioshock, Gears or even Halo.

GuardedMarman @ Jul 1st 2008 5:53PM

Ya I guess but the game does have some good mods coming for it so thats why (for the most part) I bought it.

tmacairjordan87 @ Jul 1st 2008 5:52PM

I agree with Fernando.

So this one is supposed to look not as good as the first crysis? So they're dumbing down the only good facet of the game?

Uhh..good job?

Mode~7 @ Jul 1st 2008 5:55PM

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.

LaughingTarget @ Jul 1st 2008 7:29PM

Crysis was stupid because of the horrid cliffhanger ending which they'll probably never bother resolving.

Ihavepants @ Jul 1st 2008 7:34PM

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.

Kael @ Jul 1st 2008 7:49PM

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.

Vidikron (FU) @ Jul 1st 2008 8:34PM

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".

arrrgh @ Jul 1st 2008 5:39PM

good grief that game looks beautiful

i wish i could run it in 10 years :(

but damn that looks nice

John McPoop (PSN:johnnynumber5) @ Jul 1st 2008 7:35PM

We must be looking at two different games

aristokrat @ Jul 1st 2008 9:44PM

Well GameVideos terrible netcoding was apparently all Crytek needed to make this thing run at the same framerate as Crysis1 for me.

SuiXide @ Jul 1st 2008 6:01PM

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.

Jimmyjimjim @ Jul 1st 2008 5:57PM

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!

WiiFTW @ Jul 1st 2008 6:05PM

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.

Jame's jam @ Jul 4th 2008 10:59PM

I CAN TASTE

WITH MY EYES.

MY EEEEYYYYYES

Jimmyjimjim @ Jul 1st 2008 8:06PM

WiiFTW-

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.

UltimateQ @ Jul 2nd 2008 7:18AM

I played the demo, my 7600gt couldn't really handle it. I enjoyed the demo, I particularly liked the stealth mode.

Shaq-Fu @ Jul 1st 2008 6:14PM

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

Ben @ Jul 1st 2008 6:25PM

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.

Foetoid @ Jul 1st 2008 6:58PM

I'm with you. I loved the game and dont understand the hating.

Eh @ Jul 1st 2008 6:55PM

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.

Foetoid @ Jul 1st 2008 6:57PM

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.

Foetoid @ Jul 1st 2008 6:58PM

Its an expansion, and yes Crysis was awesome.

Foetoid @ Jul 1st 2008 6:59PM

That was mean for 'Eh'

/spastic reply system ftl.

iofthestorm @ Jul 1st 2008 7:01PM

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.

iofthestorm @ Jul 1st 2008 7:12PM

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.

MuToiD_MaN @ Jul 1st 2008 7:11PM

Crysis might have felt more polished had the AI been not so dumb. It would be nice if they improved upon that for the expansion. Perhaps max settings will still be nice for the expansion, but medium/low was made better? And the people who complained about performance should try out one of the third party configuration tools that get you most of the cool effects without DX10 or top-end cards.