@Ladi: Not really, your not missing out on much. In truth, Halo 3 multiplayer has brought me more enjoyment then Crysis all together.

Suda51

@shoop da woop: Cartoonish? You do realize that Crysis use's the most close to real life color pallet of any game out there right? I really don't think its necessary for me to start going to get pictures of jungles, so just take my word on that one.

Suda51

@Suda51: That's exactly how I treat Crysis; whenever my friends get a new comp we install the game on it, crank settings up as high as they go and see what happens. The rest is just an afterthought for me (though apparently it's a pretty enjoyable game, if short).

Ladi

The gameplay of Crysis is pretty good, some improvements were made since Far Cry which was already plenty of fun. I get the feeling that most people that complain about Crysis are bitter console only gamers.

Gen.Grievous

My 2 year old PC runs this just fine, quit yer whining!

Aye Mak Sicur

woo @ cartoonish colors. i still ponder weather that's a good thing or not.

shoop da woop

Unfortunately I will never enjoy playing this game, because simply looking at the screenshots make my eyes bleed.

supremesonic

If only I could afford one of those fire breathing rigs that make HAL seem as powerful as a pocket calculator. My PC could tease it "HAL more like CAL"
So will have to wait for the PS3 (vapourware) version

Mr.Monkey

@Dappa: Photoshop makes Crysis look worse.

Suda51

So when are we getting to download this mod?...wait a sec.

zaagis

The only thing I really enjoyed in Crysis was smashing jeeps into shacks and demolishing buildings with Super Strength.

BlackMage66652

@stoneagedan: That should be Screenies, not creenies. They sound like some sort of delicious snack.

stoneagedan

Loved Crysis, hope this one will also deliver.

Fix the multiplayer, get the engine optimized and keep me entertained through the game like you did in Crysis, alright?!

SegevRaz

Why are tehy showing Psycho in the creenies? If it's an FPS, isn't he the last person we should see? There's nothing like seeing an FPS's main protagonist to tell you what you're looking at isn't in game.

stoneagedan

This is like torture for kids.

"Look at this shiny, pretty oh so lush and eye wateringly good game, all you need is a PC worth $1,000,000 and your set ! Better go bug your parents until they die and you can use the health insurance"

"all screen shots may or may not have been given a lick o paint through the wonders of photoshop"

Dappa

Still as jawdropping as ever. And I still can't run it on anything but the lowest settings. (tweaked to be even lower than default "low")

ShaggE

@Suda51: I agree with you Suda51. I felt that Crysis wanted to show off it's graphics and physics and it seemed like gameplay was a second thought. Well that's the way I felt, the game felt repetitive throughout

Don't forget the last chapter, zero gravity in a FPS? With confusing level design? Ewwwwwww.

Pattypie

Color me unimpressed. I have seen plenty of tree's that look just like tree's outside, hell you can cut them down and everything! So yeah, this really just looks exactly like Crysis to me, which wasn't that enjoyable.

Most of the people I know use Crysis to compare there PC specs rather then to play.

"My PC runs Crysis on high max AA 60 FPS"
"Dude I got it on ultra high max AA CONSTANT 40 FPS"
"NO WAY!"
"Yeah but then my Rig overheated, I was using two graphics cards, even the liquid cooling wasn't enough to cool it though"

Suda51

Shiny graphics!

Oh, wait, Crysis...
Zzzzzz...

Fulgurator

Wow. There are really significant improvements; everything seems much more subtle in terms of realism (meaning that, in most cases, when a game tries to look realistic it tends to look too-realistic, and it's really noticeable).

Looking forward to this, yes, budget game.

Flamov

i wanna upgrade my computer... NOW...

i was able to play cryis on some medium settings... and it looked amazing still, but the framerate was still kinda bad, so yeah.

ill invest in a new computer this winter.

ColtBrennan

This games graphics make everything else look like Superman 64

Winterbringer

This is going to be a day one purchase for me. I can't wait for this testament to pc gamings greatness.

MentalNote

Could play Crysis on High settings so I'll be buying this and Far Cry 2 when it comes out. Really should pick up Company of Heroes sometime as well.

zonetrooper5

Those screens look like three things happened.

They saw FarCry2 and went, "let's do that...but greener."
They saw Uncharted and went, "let's do that...but FPSer."
They saw Crysis and went, "let's do that...but make it work."

I wish they had the power to make people that constantly exaggerate the cost of PCs and parts shut up. Sadly, some people seem to think all gaming rigs have to cost the same amount as a top end luxury vehicle.

My Crysis rig runs my various art programs like a dream!

Black-Dog-Howls

@ShaggE: Cell Shading it wouldn't change the color though.

Suda51

Georgeus as ever! It is hard to understand those who dont appreciate this great game and its marvelous graphics.

I understand one may not be a hardcore FPS guy and may not enjoy the gameplay, which I think is unlikely; but those who couldnt play the game because they dont have a GAMING PC throw shit at it, which makes me very angry.

KroKan

Actually, Crysis Warhead will perform much better on lower spec PC's. So perhaps you should try before you cry.

ThursdayNext

@Mr.Monkey: "HAL more like CAL"? Part me says you are trying to make a funny joke here...but what's a CAL?

sarcasmOD

@Suda51: Look closer at these screens. There's some pseudo cell shading going on.

ShaggE

@stoneagedan:

Or something that might accidentally happen to you at an Orgy.

@topic, game looks very nice - isn't this one supposed to be more forgiving of PC's though?

coffeehair

@Suda51: Pfft, *obviously* Tiberium uses the most close to real life color pallet out there: [kotaku.com]

Nirolak

@Black-Dog-Howls: What the hell?

Uncharted? Far Cry 2? Care to explain?

Winterbringer

They're spent a hell of a lot of time recoding and tweaking so it runs better on PC's that aren't state of the art. They even said that they may patch it into the original Crysis later on, but for now they're concentrating on Warhead. Ubisoft have done the same thing with Far Cry 2, tweaked it so it runs much better on lower end systems.

Kapzer

@ThursdayNext: Try before we cry? But Crysis being CPU-intensive IS THE FUNNIEST THING EVER ROFLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Aye Mak Sicur

@Suda51: No, but it does tend to make it look brighter. I think that's what he meant by "cartoonish".

ShaggE

@stoneagedan: Apparently cutscenes are going to be third person this time 'round. That's probably why we're seeing psycho in the screens.

MentalNote

@sarcasmOD: As in CAL-culater, get it? Yeah its not funny to us mere humans but to my fantasy rig & computers, its the cutting edge of wit...

Mr.Monkey

Anyone still think games aren't art??

...

Thought not.

MrThunderfield

They said this game would be more forgiving than Crysis... yet they show even prettier graphics o_O. I hope that means they fixed their code-base and found-out power to be tapped.

Man, if only they made an OpenGL2.1 renderer - everyone with GF8x nVidia cards and WindowsXP would be able to use the DX10 optimizations without installing Vista.

somarix

720p monitor, those look amazing. I've always wondered (and been amused by the joke) about how most rigs can't run the game, so how did Crytek make it? By traveling into the future, making the game with the new technology and than going back in time to print the game. I don't PC game, but Crysis has got the visuals going. Not the greatest there ever will be, but they are up there with the very best of the best.

kylo4

I thought Crysis was ok. I'm not interested in Crysis Warhead because to me it's just a gimped spin-off being developed by a different studio.

Rubezh

@Winterbringer: I was looking at the one with the river in the jungle, and the way they're using fire. It was a joke though.

Black-Dog-Howls

I enjoyed the game, but the later half seemed tacked on and rushed... and the giant flying glowing blue poo boss at the end made me angry. It was as if they shot some blob together in 3ds max and said 'That will do'.

@Keldan: Don't believe what Crytek say. Unless thats sarcasm.

Infamous.mpgEU

I'm not sure if people have been keeping up on Warhead, but I have, and here's the thing:

It's less resource intensive than Crysis.

That is it's main thing. It's a cheaper, more optimized Crysis. Oh, one that also should be fun.

Supposedly with my $450 PC I can run Warhead on High.

Keldan

Haters are fail. The original game is highly scalable and still looks fine on lower settings.

You need an expensive rig to play? What? Has anyone actually looked at the prices of PC parts lately?! Never has there been a better time to get a highly competent gaming machine dirt cheap.

Anyway, I'm really pumped for Warhead as I enjoyed Crysis a fair bit. Regardless of what many of you say about 'gameplay over graphics lololo', I think the visuals added a lot to Crysis, and the gameplay certainly didn't suffer as a result. What I would like to see is a complete overhaul of the AI though. It was better in Far Cry..

Passa

@kylo4: Why does it have to run at a reasonable framerate to make it? Most of the footage released early was made before they even had direct x10 hardware, and they had emulated the effects with dx9 methods. This almost looks as good and is a lot better on the framerate. I believe this is also what they must have shown in interviews and at e3....

Infamous.mpgEU

what would be a bullshot on the current gen consoles is a real time shot on pc.

cihx

Please
Release
This
To
The
PS3
And
360.

xCruciaLx

Crysis is a fun game. If you try to play it like most games in an attempt to simply get to your next objective, you might not care for it. This game is very open ended in the way you can use physics, your Nano Suit, vehicles and stealth, among other things to reach your objectives.

The game is not like CoD4 where the game holds your hand throughout. With Crysis you can go almost anywhere, including underwater to sneak up on you enemies, or you can try to go Rambo on them if you wish. I still believe that many people that say Cryis is some benchmark or a tech demo have some insecurity about the games graphics being the best out there, and/or have never played through the game.

Also, those who say the game is the same from beginning to end have obviously never played. When you go into the alien ship with zero G's, that is like another game all together.

I personally can't wait for Warhead.

homernoy

My computer is just a little over a year old, and I spent $1,600 to make it at the time. It runs it on High Settings at a very steady 60 fps, and I can turn on a few very high settings without it dropping too much. You can probably build yourself better for even cheaper by now. Anyone who complains about Crysis obviously doesn't understand computers at all. However, that said, having ALL options on Very High is still quite difficult, and would at the very least require around a low $3,000 computer.

That all now said and out of the way, this game looks great. I like the burnt building picture especially. Really makes me psyched to play as psycho (pun intended) and I will be getting this day one.

Covert_Knight

As someone who loved the first game (I played it over at least four times), I can't wait for Crysis Warhead.

D4RK_53K70R

The specs for this game have been said to be much lower than Crysis. So, most of you will only need a slight upgrade in GPU rather than a whole new rig :P

zeroknight

@Dappa: That would be life insurance, but whatever.

Heyyou27

@kylo4: Nothing in the ps3 and 360 looks even half as good as crysis...

@xCruciaLx: It will be, but the game its still TBA...

@homernoy: Yea at first it seems like the average easy "follow the little trail and win" console fps, but once you play the you see that you really have some freedom in crossing the level in many ways...

@zeroknight: From what ive heard it will have a wider variety of options and a "gamer" option for older hardware, but the very high settings will still be there, anyway the game runs fine at 1280x720 in high with a 9600GT...

TOCATL

I enjoyed Crysis's sneaky tactical gameplay alot, so I'll deffinently be getting this. Next to Bioshock I thought it was one of the best fps's I've ever played.

belo

I played Crysis on medium with a 2 year old PC, it ran fine apart from the very last section... amazing game, I think the people complaining about gameplay are so used to be led through shooters that they don't know how enjoy themselves in a superlative sandbox like Crysis.

MrScruff

Aren't they releasing some "Crysis ready" PC's? You know like a sticker on the box saying so. Might be a good entry level, and beef it up from there.

jabbathesmut

This game looks even better than the original! They must've improved CryEngine2.

Too bad my PC can't run it. :(

MrMister

Looks good but is it going to look that good on everyones PC's? No.

GreyFoxV1

@GreyFoxV1: Well that statement is academic. Do you comment about this when they show console screen shots? I mean, not everyone has a 65" 1080p HDTV that runs @ 120hz do they? But some do, and it looks superior to people playing on sub-par hardware (tv's). And that goes for sound too. So you get what you pay for either way.

If you want the best looking console game, it's going to cost you. Plenty. Same goes for the PC. I mean every single person playing a PC game has a screen resolution well beyond standard definition television that many PS3 and 360 owners play on.

homernoy

[kotaku.com]

WOW!

Nothing out there looks even close to this good, not even real life!

EnigmaNemesis

@homernoy:

I couldn't agree more. People complain about the objectives ... the point is HOW you complete the objectives -- there's a huge world and about a dozen different ways to infiltrate the encampment where the objective is.

Crysis is a phenomenal quasi open-world FPS. It's easily in my top 5 FPSs of all-time, and I've been playing FPSs since Doom shareware. Everyone is so quick to jump on the "it's only got good graphics" bandwagon ... seems to me those are the same unfortunate souls who's PCs can't run the game.

Strangelove

If you know how to play the game to get the best out of it, then you'll get an awesome piece of FPS right there. If not, then you'll be sorely disappointed. Anyhoo, I do like crysis a lot, and i mean a lot, you can complete objectives however you see fit and is your style and at the same time you can run around pretty much anywhere :D

Stalker, Crysis, and Soon Far Cry 2... some of the FPS's where you have an open world. Although HL2 is an exception of being great without the open worldness, its just brilliant. And hopefully theyll make PROPER use of my other 3 cores this time around.

Fauxe

@Strangelove:

seems to me those are the same unfortunate souls who's PCs can't run the game.

Or own a Wii ... it wasnt until that came out, that people all of a sudden can care less for graphics.

EnigmaNemesis

@EnigmaNemesis:

Yeah, I don't get that. I mean, great gameplay is what makes or breaks a game, but the better the graphics are, the better the immersion/experience, in my opinion.

Strangelove

@Strangelove:

/agree

EnigmaNemesis