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Old 10-16-07   #1 (permalink)
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Default Crysis: And five other reasons why it's time to smash your old PC into little pieces
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Crysis is really going to punish your hardware budget. The official specs aren't quite as nuclear as we expected, but if you want your version to look anything like these shots you better get cracking with a hammer on that old rig. It's time to blow the savings on a shiny new gaming behemoth.

But is it really worth it? Well, yes. Because Crysis is stupid. We'd never have thought it before our latest hands-on with the game, but that's one of the best reasons to get busy with the smashy. We're not talking sticking-your-soggy-fingers-in-a-power-socket dumb. Instead, we're referring to the game's AI, which is so realistic it messes up just like a real person. Enemies actually trip over foliage and lose their balance getting legs over fences. So stupid, yet very, very smart.

We've plucked a handful of other undeniable reasons to upgrade from the depths of our mush-boxes, inspired by our visit to developer Crytek in Frankfurt earlier this week where we spent a whole day bashing through both single player and multi-player modes. Intrigued? Of course you are...
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This is pretty vague! What do they mean by old.... Like a 1GHz PIII PC.
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basically dont expect to play it on a tape drive machine!

HDD only! ;-)
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basically dont expect to play it on a tape drive machine!

HDD only! ;-)
Can I come over to your house and play some Crysis on your rig?
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Those shots are sweet, can't wait to see what it can do!
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See its reviews like this that prevent me from being frustrated with Crysis.

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Can I come over to your house and play some Crysis on your rig?
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See its reviews like this that prevent me from being frustrated with Crysis.
Which si a good thing, but honestly its about the only game thats going to give my pc a run for its money, what else am I going to use 4 gigs of ram for?
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Let us all have a party at cognoscenti's house!

On the side note, I too am looking forward to Crysis, but hope to purchase the 8800GT or new GTS before it arrives, so I can actually get to try it out at full blown glory, opposed to playing it on crap res and crap details.
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