Earth, 2019: A colossal asteroid crashes down to Earth.
The North Korean Government quickly seals off the island chain, claiming the mysteries of the asteroid for themselves. The United States responds by dispatching an elite team of Delta Force Operators to recon the situation and report back to the Pentagon. Amid rising tensions between the US and North Koreans, the asteroid suddenly bursts open, revealing a massive, 2km high alien ship. The ship generates an immense force sphere, freezing a vast portion of the island and drastically altering the global weather system. The invasion of Earth has begun.
Crysis offers players a highly immersive FPS experience in which they will have to adapt their tactics, weaponry, armor and gameplay style to survive and defeat the alien invasion.
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The Good News: Electronic Arts and Crytek are still releasing a demo of their forthcoming PC shooter Crysis. The Bad News: The demo has been delayed to October 26, three weeks before the game goes on sale. “We are taking some extra time to make sure you that you have an amazing experience but also we did not want to risk the [November 16] release date of Crysis at this stage,” Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli explained in a statement.
Yerli partially assuaged impatient gamers’ ire by announcing the Crysis demo, which will be available via GameSpot Downloads, will ship with the CryEngine 2’s Sandbox 2 game editor. This will give “the community the opportunity to get familiar with the vast amount of tools they will have at their disposal” when the highly anticipated game arrives on store shelves, said Yerli. For more information on Crysis, peruse GameSpot’s extensive previous coverage.
At long last, EA has released the official minimum specs needed to play Crysis. These were gleaned from EA’s very own online store, in case you were wondering. Here’s the poop:
CPU: Intel P4 2.8Ghz or AMD equivalent
RAM: 1GB
Video Card: 6800GT (256mb) or ATI/AMD Radeon 9800 Pro (256mb)
HDD Space: 16GB
OS: Microsoft Windows XP/Vista
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c Compatible
And there we finally have it!
The news leaked out last week but today Electronic Arts released details on what will be contained in the multiplayer beta test for Crysis, the upcoming FPS developed by Crytek. Multiplayer beta keys will be given out in batches in the next few weeks at the Fileplanet web site. Here is a snip:
“Players who enlist will be among the first to test “Power Struggle”, an exciting new open-ended, team-based multiplayer game mode. As always, your objective is to reduce your enemy’s base of operations to rubble – it’s how you get to that point of ultimate satisfaction that sets Power Struggle apart from the rest.
Teams will need to rely on their ability to strategize as much as their cumulative marksmanship skills. Those who work together best to manage resources, seize specialized factories and exploit mysterious alien technology will be able to build the hyper-advanced weapons and vehicles needed to lay waste to the opposition.”
