Crysis Coming to Consoles

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   Avery says:

   March 17th, 2008 at 10:41 am

   Hold up, wait a minute… read this recent artile:

   It looks like the report from the UK magazine PSW about Crysis coming to PS3 may have been premature at best.

   The mag had stated that it was “no secret” that Crysis is coming to PlayStation 3 and that it would arrive by the end of 2008. The other big news was that the console version was going to be 50% new.

   Not so fast, says Colin Robinson of EA.

   Asked about the title coming to consoles (Xbox 360 or PS3) Geekpulp, he explained that “There are no specific plans at the moment but obviously it is not something that we will rule completely.”

   So did PSW let the cat out of the bag early, or is Robinson being 100% truthful about there being no specific plans? We’ll find out one way or the other soon enough.

   -Now, I’m not trying to rain on the PS3’s parade because I am 360 owner, that is not my point. There is a lot of news on the web that says both the XBOX 360 and PS3 do NOT have the power to run Crysis (at least to the extent of which it was intented).

   NO, what will probably happen is we’ll (XBOX 360 and PS3 owners) a dumb downed version of the game. To the extreme sense of when you port Assissin’s Creed or Call of Duty 4 to the DS.

   Now, its not entirely the same. Think of when Half Life 2 or Far Cry came to the consoles. For Half Life 2 to run on the original XBOX they had lower the settings and config (lower the frame rate) to have it run on the system. It pushed the XBOX to its limit and pro gaming reviewers saw the differences.

   Now, Call of Duty 4 is an extremely good first person shooter, the best for any console, but that was just it, the game was made for the consoles in mind. Crysis, like Half-Life 2, was made for the PC and the high end PCs at that.

   I’ve seen Crysis in action and I see where it is superior to Call of Duty 4 (or any first person shooter on the market), its the little details they are able to incorporate into the game. I was amazed when they did a demonstration of 3,000 barrels falling and then exploding in the Crysis world, you can’t do that in any game on the consoles (it would kill the system).

   I’m not a programming tech, but I’ve played FPSs long enough to know when a game is making sacrifices for the sake of system power. Its like a magic trick and if done right, you won’t even notice the differences in power between the two games.

   You ever ask yourself why characters and animation looks so great on say Soul Calibur games, but sprites (characters) on the Grand Theft Auto look so bland? Its for the main reason of how many programs are running in the environment. In SC you are confined to a small arena, so more programming power is put into the characters and their animation. In the GTA games, running on the same platform, there is so much going on that if the programming tried to make it look as good as the SC games, the system would run very slow and/or crash. Luckly, systems are getting more powerful so we are starting to see more details in games like the GTA series (that is why I am excited for GTA4).

   After all is said and done, its how fast the technology is moving and that while consoles are becoming more powerful, they will still never be as powerful as a PC (for the main reason that technology doesn’t stop for the consoles).

   So with that said, if and when we get Crysis for the platforms it will NOT be the same exact experience as the PC version (at least visually). They could fool us into thinking it will be with certain programming tricks, but ultimately it won’t be the same.

   I guess we have to ask ourselves, as console owners, do we care? We have FPS games like Bioshock, COD4, and Resistance. And later we’ll be getting Bioshock 2, Gears of War 2, and Kill Zone 2 (and a lot of other original FPSs ready to dazzle us).
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   Avery says:

   March 17th, 2008 at 10:52 am

   With that said, I just got a new laptop and I am interested in playing Crysis for the PC. Here are the specs for my laptop:

   Inspiron 1525
   Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T5450 (1.66GHz/667Mhz FSB/2MB cache)
   Operating System
   Genuine Windows Vista ® Home Premium Edition
   LCD Panel
   Glossy, widescreen 15.4 inch display (1280×800)
   Combo or DVD+RW Drive
   CD / DVD Writer (DVD+/-RW Drive)
   Memory
   3GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 at 667MHz
   Hard Drive
   Size: 250GB4 SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM)
   Video Card
   Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100
   Sound Card
   High Definition Audio 2.0
   Wireless Networking Cards
   Intel® 3945 802.11a/g Mini-card
   Battery Options
   56Whr Lithium Ion Battery (6 cell)
   System Color
   Jet Black

   Will it run okay without having to dumb down the settings too much or should I just stick with FPSs for the 360? I have already played all the best ones on the market now (other than the Orange Box which I will be getting next week). But I own Call of Duty 4, Halo 3, Bioshock, Gears of War, and even Prey (as far as FPSs)…any other good FPSs i should look into? I didn’t like Fear, Jericho, Far Cry, or Timeshift.

   GTA4 is coming next month, so that will be good.

   BUT, I do want to check out Crysis too. What do you think, is it worth it with my specs. I’ve looked around the net, my video card and RAM seem to be able to run it, but am I missing something and/or will be too much of a setting issue that I’ll still see tons of slow downs?

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