Crysis Warhead on the Horizon

Article by Kevin Parrish

Crytek announced this week that the official Crysis 1.3 patch was cancelled, which disappointed fans. But the developer had another surprise that should get gamers excited: Crysis Warhead.

http://www.tomsgames.com/us/2008/06/04/crysis_warhead/

"If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact us."

Now they claim to give a damn what the "community" thinks.
I'm not buying it. I'm not buying SecureROM either, which is part of the purchase price with these programs.

Maybe it won't suck on the console, but with BD+ on the PS3, they can probably come up with a rootkit-like application to make themselves happy.

Here's something else I found concerning CryENGINE 2's cross platform ability:

Due to the nature and size of PS3 titles, they currently are unavailable for download on any sites that I know of. For reference, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune uses nearly all 25GBs of it's single layer Blu-ray disc. Seeing as most developers are encouraged to leave data uncompressed, most PS3 games are considerably larger than their Xbox360 counterparts. To make things more difficult, Blu-ray writers are expensive, and few and far between. I don't believe anyone has even bothered trying to pirate or host PS3 games due to their size and nature, as well as the fact that they would have to be loaded to the hard drive, and even then Sony likely has other copyright protection in place that would require modified firmware, none of which currently exists for this purpose.

Hopefully this latest version of Crysis runs a lot better than the last installment.

Warhead sounds like it will be great! Psycho was my favourite character from Crysis and should be fun to play as him. I wonder if the 3rd in the trilogy will be based around Prophet's experiences? Awesome character and alot of mystery surrounding all that stuff with the thing and the things!!! (trying not to include spoilers. Anyone who played will know what I mean)

It's not so much the size of the titles with the PS3 but the fact that there's no hacked firmware. Rest assured though that there are many people working on that. Most PS3 titles are your standard 4-8GB in size. I doubt a 25GB game will deter people from downloading PS3 games if a hacked firmware does show up.

my friend (game name VOLATILE (a huge crysis fan)) told me that this is an expansion pack not the second part of the trilogy.

that would make sense because if we are going to play psycho we will be playing through the same events.

dont worry crysis 2 will be worth making
the fanbase is pretty big already

I hope Cevat can stop being a whiney bitch long enough to consider using Steam or an equivalent service to distribute and control piracy of the game.

Also, I hope this time he learns from the mistake of leading everyone to believe (unintentionally perhaps) that it is virtually impossible to run without a supercomputer, because that is complete bs. I ran it fine on a mid range PC (7900gs and E6300) shortly after it came out. Sure it wasn't on all high settings, but it was good enough to look and play great! Do you really need to max out a game to consider it playable? It's people with attitudes like Spinacheater (above) that put people off as they assume that you need to spend thousands of dollars/pounds to actually have it run.

Actually, Mothhive, I think Crytek and Yerli did the exact opposite. They've said all along that Crysis was intended to run on two-year old systems (as well as systems built two years from now). And they've touted that company line throughout Crysis' development, promotion and release to try to let people know that their older hardware could run the game. It would be a horrible strategy for a developer to claim that its PC game needs the latest and most expensive hardware. Now, I take issue with Crytek's claim because I don't believe Crysis scales as well as they claimed. But that's beside the point.

Also, you mention Steam and asked why doesn't Cevat just STFU and use it to prevent piracy. Well, there's an excellent reason -- they can't because the publisher, not the developer, controls how the game goes to market. Hence, EA calls the shots, and since EA has its own digital distribution system (which no one uses, apparently) and doesn't have any games currently offered on Steam, that should clear the matter up. A lot of people in previous discussions, including our ST video on Crytek blaming piracy, have gotten pissed off at the developer for those comments and said, hey, just use Steam. I'm telling you, it's not that easy. I wish developers had more control over their product in the games biz. They don't, and that's the harsh reality.

Crysis is a very fun game, the most fun SP campaign I played last year. This is definitely good news!

Although, EA will certainly curb my enthusiasm if they go with Mass Effect style DRM (3 installs, etc) on this and other games they publish the rest of the year.

Regardless of that for the moment though, anyone else feeling a sort of PC resurgence?

2008 already looked like a very good year (Spore, Fallout 3, STALKER CS, etc, etc, etc), now we have Crysis Warhead (exclusive) announced along with other perhaps unexpected recent announcements, which if nothing else seem to indicate the PC is not lacking in attention: Saints Row 2, Burnout Paradise, Street Fighter 4, the PC is the lead dev platform for Resident Evil 5 (no PC version announced though), etc.

Isn't posting Crysis settings getting a little hackneyed?

I'm running it fine with SLI 8800 GT very high - i've played through it twice with SLI 8800 GT and once with single 8800 GT with different settings..

On medium settings with high shaders/texture detail on a single 8800 GT and it was still better looking than any other game on the market.

People criticize Crysis way too much based on graphics performance - if they can't max out graphics settings on a ati 3870 or a 9600 GT its a BAD GAME!!!! lol

The engine was designed with the future in mind - its still an excellent looking game even without the graphics settings maxed out and its almost kind of silly that people always snipe at the graphics.

If anything is worth sniping at, snipe at the bloody AI. Long range combat against enemies from cover or during night with silencers almost trivializes the game difficulty even on Delta. When enemies are being shot at and KNOW they are being shot at they should logically go for cover more than they do :S

I would love to see a mod that disables silencers on everything but the pistol and doubles the energy consumption of stealth powerup - that would significantly ramp the difficulty up =D

lol, true enough I guess

DUH DUH

Well I guess the temptation is always there ya know

Maybe the next time I do play through i'll do that actually - no cloak and no silencers on anything but pistol, that might actually be pretty fun.

aw yea ya know what I don't really play multiplayer games too much anymore cause they keep me up too late and i'm all burnt out if I don't get enough sleep =P I used to love playing online but I get bad with it I can piss away a whole night if I do too much heh.

I've been having a lot of fun with max strength, finding random objects to throw and kill the soldiers is a gas for sure. I mean you'd be surprised how many things there is to kill people with really

Plus the whole knocking down walls and stuff around enemies in huts until the building damage squishes them lol.

I almost think i've played the game too much since I bought it.

well thats fair

Hopefully it gets adopted more widely when gtx 280 and 4870 x2 hit the market - look at how widely adopted UE3 is compared to Cryengine2 yet Unreal Tournament 3 i've heard had even worse sales than Crysis

But all kinds of games use UE3 just cause its got some great effects even if its an expensive engine to license; so in a way i'd imagine they made some of their money back that way

I would expect many people to start adopting ID Soft's Tech Engine 5 soon if it is as scalable, and easy to program with across all platforms as it is claimed to be. It will save alot of money and allow good visuals without the poor performance of a typical port. Wont that be nice! lol

Best,

3Ball