takeshi7 :
FWIW I was running the beta at 720p on a Pentium EE, which is considerably worse than the Q9450 they recommend at that resolution.
Good for you, would you rather be told that game will run on you PC just to find out later it wont or be positively surprised when you find out it runs better than expected?
Requirements are just suggestion and if anything they will always be a little of "overkill" just to make sure they will be correct in terms of expected performance that will be"as described or better" but not worse.