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Crysis Warhead release date revealed
Psycho’s sequel will be out in the very near future
Just nine months after Crysis came out and made even the most expensive PCs burst into tears, Crytek has already announced that the sequel, Crysis Warhead, will be out in just a few weeks. The UK release date has been set for 19 September at a price of £19.99, and it’s a standalone game so you won’t need a copy of Crysis to run it either.
Following the complaints about high system requirements after the release of Crysis, Crytek promises that Crysis Warhead has been ‘optimised to run better on a wider range of PCs,’ as a part of a strategy to make the sequel ‘more accessible for gamers new to the Crysis franchise.’ The developer also says that the game’s story works fine on its own, without prior knowledge of the first game.
As well as the single-player game, Crysis Warhead will also feature three multiplayer modes, adding TeamInstantAction to the InstantAction and PowerStruggle modes found in the original game. Crytek claims that the new mode ‘mixes fast-paced action in a team-based environment,’ and that it will add six new maps, which can also be used in the InstantAction mode.
Crysis Warhead follows the story of the original Crysis through the eyes of Nomad’s bluntly vocal Cockney sidekick, Sergeant ‘Psycho’ Sykes. See the Crysis Warhead website for more information.
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Comment by redcut at 7:37pm 18th August 2008
Scan had a pre-release demo on their White Cobra at i34, it didn't feel too different to Crysis, sadly, either the system or the software was unstable as it crashed within a minute of gameplay. A poor show for both Scan and Crytek. 3.6GHz on a QX9770 on water isn't exactly hard to stabilise.
Comment by Initialised at 11:13pm 17th August 2008
and thats all i think as well its just a good lookin bench mark to me as soon as i wack a new driver in its the first thing i fire up iv played it thru once but benched it a million lol
Comment by damafia at 4:40pm 17th August 2008
Look at Halo when it was released. It was an absolute graphics hog, wouldn't play well on any setup, but what made it a classic was the originality of it. Crysis was fun but it didn't take the genre in a new direction, it relied on tried and tested gameplay and cliche characters. It kinda spoils the magic a bit when you make such a complex game but falls down on the little things. Yes people going for a wizz once in a while will make it a classic :D
Comment by Zhaoman at 2:23pm 16th August 2008
They should do a little more comedy in crysis... just making a man go for a p*ss isn't funny... so then, if the gameplay is dull, then they always have something to fall back on!. - I wouldn't mind hiding somewhere and watching the koreans argue about something and have a fist fight, and when someone splits them up, one of them kick the other in the ars*... lol :P
Comment by NikoBellic at 1:18pm 16th August 2008
Crysis is the king of free-form fps's and the most beautiful by far. And it's still state-of- the-art after a year. But it's crap because it made me spend too much on graphic cards.
Comment by Cybersciver at 12:49pm 16th August 2008
Im always blown away when people say they didnt like crysis, i honestly think it's the "best" (most fun) fps I've ever played. Must have gone through the single player about 10 times now which is really rare for me. It still erks me how much crytek missed the point with the trigens/aliens though! "hahaha! yes, we wont put mutants in our games again!" yeah, great, you'll use fucking aliens instead
Comment by borodin at 12:11pm 16th August 2008
I agree - when ever I think that I want to have a go of Crysis, I dont think that I wanna go and do a few missions... all I think is, "I wonder how my latest setup with the latest drivers will handle such an such in Crysis"... and thats it really :(
Comment by NikoBellic at 8:45pm 15th August 2008
ive played it the ai is dumb graphics are exalent but i want gameplay it it dont do it for me cod 4 was and is a million times better and i agree Turok was crap, Doom 3 was crap, but i would still rather play IL2 OR OP FLASHPOINT THEY R GOOD GAMES ALL ABOUT GAMEPLAY
Comment by damafia at 5:52pm 15th August 2008
From what has been said they have taken the high graphics level (not very high) and set that as the highest for this game and tweaked a few other things with it. for all the people out there who moaned that Crysis required too high a pc they would have been happy playing the game at high detail rather than very high if they hadn't known there was a very high setting (some people will always set graphics details to max even if they cant tell the diff and complain about
Comment by ajhwork at 11:46am 15th August 2008
Whoever is saying it is either doesn't know anything about games or hasn't played it
Comment by mrjimmyos at 10:50am 15th August 2008
Crysis was anything but crap, contrary to what damafia thinks - Turok was crap, Doom 3 was crap, Crysis wasn't, its just that it was like a remake of Far Cry and Far Cry Instincts. All they did was replace the animal serum with a clever suit. Luckily Far Cry was great up until the trigen's appeared, so it's not such a bad thing. I'll definitely be buying this, especially for £20. I agree with Niko on the American thing. I've got nothing against them, but it is nice to play games that don't have them from time to time. Yet another reason why S.T.A.L.K.E.R. was great!
Comment by gavomatic57 at 7:44am 15th August 2008
this is successful enough to encourage game devs to use more british characters in their games!!... I'm personally sick of playing as guys with american accents/personallitys, the american characters are starting to feel dull, I've already decided that the character in FC2 that I'm gonna choose is the Irish guy lol... the people of the UK have great Unique personallitys, and I wanna see that show in the games we play! - I like NikoBellic in GTAIV because hes different and hasn't got the same sort of personallity that every other game character has... and he has a funny comical personallity too!
Comment by NikoBellic at 5:51pm 14th August 2008
I love the fact that they decided to try and optimise it to work on a $600USD system!! (roughly around £300GBP)
Comment by NikoBellic at 4:49pm 14th August 2008
If they are keeping the same high standard of graphics, but it nows runs on more machines, doesnt that amount to them admitting they could have made crysis not be such a system killer if they had wanted to?
Comment by NotFred at 4:13pm 14th August 2008
i think crysis was crap so they must do sumthing special to the gameplay to get me interestid
Comment by damafia at 4:03pm 14th August 2008
Sorry, Custom PC comments are now closed.
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