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[nelsonroyale]

Maybe that's true. But UE3.0 engine games look and run great on my PC and I couldn't find any acceptable trade-off between performance and image quality for Crysis. So I bought Bioshock and Crysis stayed on the shelf.

crysis looks so much better technically than bioshock though...much much better

 

[Mr. Durden]

Yep, thats the only reason. The graphics are good, but not "that" good to render any system to its knees. People love to say how Crysis is really pushing it, but I really doubt it. IMHO it has always been an unoptimized engine. I love the gameplay though and its the one aspect which saves the whole game.

Are you kidding me? Nothing even just as touches Crysis when it comes to the (technical) graphics department. Gears (PC) is a good looking game, but when in comparison to Crysis it looks like crap. Crysis is just so much better than anything around. Are you sure you're running it at max settings? (+side, Gears ran at 60fps)

So if now Warhead looks better and runs better on crappier systems, what does that mean?

That it's been better optimized. And while I agree with you that the first one wasn't that well optimized, I'm of the opinion that the game looked so incredibly good, it has been forgiven.

 

[godhandiscen]

Are you kidding me? Nothing even just as touches Crysis when it comes to the (technical) graphics department. Gears (PC) is a good looking game, but when in comparison to Crysis it looks like crap. Crysis is just so much better than anything around. Are you sure you're running it at max settings? (+side, Gears ran at 60fps)

That it's been better optimized. And while I agree with you that the first one wasn't that well optimized, I'm of the opinion that the game looked so incredibly good, it has been forgiven.

The game looked incredibly good, but it didn't impress me that much tbh. The gameplay on the other hand...AWESOME!

 

[AgentOtaku]

*reads the OP*

HOLY FUCK!!! ...NOW I'M PUMPED!!!!

 

[bee]

everything can be done in dx9 eh, no shit, lol dx10

another day one game for me

 

[Yixian]

Wonder how this'd run on a 9650M GS...

 

[bill0527]

Crytek built its own machine capable of running the game "silky smooth", with "all the bells and whistles turned on". Considering that it has an 8600GT, I'll take it with a grain of salt, but Dan Stapleton confirmed in a PC Gamer Podcast thread that they absolutely did play the game on this machine, and it was running on High details.

Shuttle SG31G2S Barebone Case - $239.99
Intel Pentium E2180 2.0GHz Dual-Core CPU - $82.99
Samsung SH-S203B DVD Burner - $29.99
Hitachi Deskstar 7K160 160GB hard drive - $48.99
A-Data 2GB DDR2 SDRAM - $45.99
MSI GeForce 8600GT 512MB video card - $94.99
Vista Home Premium - $109.99

Who the hell builds a budget PC and spends 37% of that budget on a case ?!?

 

[Roughmar]

Who the hell builds a budget PC and spends 37% of that budget on a case ?!?

Shuttle SG31G2S Barebone Case - $239.99
Intel Pentium E2180 2.0GHz Dual-Core CPU - $82.99
Samsung SH-S203B DVD Burner - $29.99
Hitachi Deskstar 7K160 160GB hard drive - $48.99
A-Data 2GB DDR2 SDRAM - $45.99
MSI GeForce 8600GT 512MB video card - $94.99
Vista Home Premium - $109.99


Who the hell builds a PC without a motherboard?!

 

[bill0527]

Shuttle SG31G2S Barebone Case - $239.99
Intel Pentium E2180 2.0GHz Dual-Core CPU - $82.99
Samsung SH-S203B DVD Burner - $29.99
Hitachi Deskstar 7K160 160GB hard drive - $48.99
A-Data 2GB DDR2 SDRAM - $45.99
MSI GeForce 8600GT 512MB video card - $94.99
Vista Home Premium - $109.99


Who the hell builds a PC without a motherboard?!

Heh, good catch. I missed that one as well.

 

[bee]

Who the hell builds a PC without a motherboard?!

shuttle comes with a mobo in it already

 

[M3d10n]

Yeah why the heck did they pick an 8600? wtf cheap 100 bucks off the other parts and get a 8800 or 4850. My x1950 is comparable to the 8600.

One word: laptops.

The vast majority of "gaming" laptops have an 8600gt, and laptops are becoming increasingly popular. It makes sense to optimize Warhead for the 8600.

BTW, Crysis on medium is very playable on an 8600gt if you didn't push the resolution too much.

 

[panda21]

can you actually get laptops with an 8600gt in? my macbook pro has an 8600M gt and i think the M makes quite a big difference.

i tried bioshock on it expecting it to look good since it was (at the time) a brand new top of the range laptop... it didnt look good.

 

[Yixian]

8600M GT is poopy doop.

New MBPs soon anyhow.

 

[Jacobi]

What the hell? I think the 8600gt is a typo

 

[Zaraki_Kenpachi]

"Who the hell builds a PC without a motherboard?!"


Barebones come with them just like the power supply they didn't add to the list either...

 

[nelsonroyale]

8600M GT is poopy doop.

New MBPs soon anyhow.

I dunno, I can play most of the games fine on mine (bioshock on max, ME on max...crysis looking good, supreme commander on max...) its better than people give credit

 

[Beer Monkey]

Shuttle SG31G2S Barebone Case - $239.99

Jesus, right now for $244 at Newegg you can get an Antec Solo case + Antec three-rail 550W PSU + Asus P5K SE EPU motherboard. That's twice the 'barebones' system as a SG31G2S.

 

[Haunted]

Sounds fantastic!


1,5 million copies sold and Crysis making a profit is the reason we're seeing this game getting made.

Good stuff.

 

[GameGamer]

Yerli admits that announcing Crysis too early may have hurt the game - Warhead will ship this year, and from now on, he hopes to announce games merely 3 months before their release

Best news I've heard in a long time.

I am sick of hearing about games so long before >actual< release.

This just happened with God of War 3.

They just leaked out their target of holiday 09. Over a year away. And it will probably get a delay (or 3) before actual release.

I'd much rather hear about a game and get it in my hands within a few months than waiting year(s).

 

[Zzoram]

Sounds fantastic!


1,5 million copies sold and Crysis making a profit is the reason we're seeing this game getting made.

Good stuff.

The nVidia advertising alone probably paid for the development :lol

 

[dLMN8R]

IGN just put up their own preview of Crysis Warhead: http://pc.ign.com/articles/884/884351p1.html

I'm mostly stoked for this:

The designers gave us a view of one of early levels in the game, Ambush. Right off the bat it's intense. VTOL transports are coming in to drop off Marines, the radio is full of chatter, and jet fighters are dropping bombs left and right. Think of the opening of the Crysis level Assault, but with that amount of energy sustained throughout. It's all very loud and frantic, but this isn't an attempt to make a linear-game like Call of Duty. Warhead still embraces the series' philosophy of the nanosuit, the high-tech power suit that lets you alter your strategy and tactics on the fly. The battlefields are still large and open, and this gives you an incredible number of options when in a fight. You can stealth and hide to restore your health or ambush an opponent. Use strength to leap atop buildings and hit your enemy from above. Or you can use speed to zip from one location to another. "The core gameplay is still Veni, Vidi, Vici," Yerli said, referring to the Latin term "I came, I saw, I conquered."

With Assault being easily my favorite level in Crysis, seeing as it's basically a combination of the intensity of Call of Duty 4 but with the openness of Far Cry, I couldn't be more happy to read this.

They mention the same $652 computer that PC Gamer does, so I'm starting to think that the 8600GT making the game look good isn't a fluke after all. They say:

"Performance was astonishingly smooth and fluid even with a high level of graphical detail."



Mod, think you could possibly change the thread title to be more general Crysis Warhead information? Thanks!

 

[AgentOtaku]

The designers gave us a view of one of early levels in the game, Ambush. Right off the bat it's intense. VTOL transports are coming in to drop off Marines, the radio is full of chatter, and jet fighters are dropping bombs left and right. Think of the opening of the Crysis level Assault, but with that amount of energy sustained throughout. It's all very loud and frantic, but this isn't an attempt to make a linear-game like Call of Duty. Warhead still embraces the series' philosophy of the nanosuit, the high-tech power suit that lets you alter your strategy and tactics on the fly. The battlefields are still large and open, and this gives you an incredible number of options when in a fight. You can stealth and hide to restore your health or ambush an opponent. Use strength to leap atop buildings and hit your enemy from above. Or you can use speed to zip from one location to another. "The core gameplay is still Veni, Vidi, Vici," Yerli said, referring to the Latin term "I came, I saw, I conquered."

FUUUUUUUCK YEAH!