A look at Crysis Warhead
Crysis Warhead is a new chapter of Crytek, Crysis producers. Developers reassure gamers that this game will not be tied to the purchase of Crysis as some speculated.
Crysis Warhead is the first commercially produced game from the house of Crytek and is based on the same graphics engine of Crysis, CryEngine 2, which has been more enhanced on this occasion.
The director of Crytek promises further improvements to be able to create a product that can appeal to all gamers across the world. During the game your character will be that of the Psycho, the British soldier.
As the game will progress and you go forward, the plot will highlight the details of the story of Psycho and discover new places where life will be even more intense and frantic. Lots of innovative multiplayer modes and excellent graphics are the key strengths of this product and is a must play for all gamers.
In terms of gameplay, Crysis Warhead has everything of Crysis
The water lapping in the beach as the sun filters smooth between the palms, in a dawn that seems eternal. Yet, despite this gentle invitation to the peace of the senses, this time we’ll deal with armies and hordes of aliens, trying to leave no soul behind us.
This is the basic concept of Crysis, one of the most discussed games of last season. Loved and hated, heavily criticized for its excessive hardware requirements but complete with an aesthetic impact that few can boast and after one year update, with stand-alone expansion, Warhead shows us the story from the point of view of a Psycho, i.e. a British soldier.
The yield of audio is very good, with powerful sound effects that can add value to the atmosphere of the clashes. In terms of gameplay, Warhead takes everything that we found in Crysis, with a few little tricks. To compete against the cold for Warhead Aliens, it requires minimum a processor of 2.6 Ghz, 1024 MB of volatile memory, a 128 MB video card compatible with Pixel Shader 2.0, 12 GB disk space, mouse , keyboard, dvd 8x and an Internet connection for activation.
‘Crysis 2’ and ‘Dead Space 2’ to be out in the market before March 2011.
Till now it was well known that work was being done on “Dead Space 2”. Everyone knows that several people were working on the game. But, as far as ‘Crysis 2’ is concerned, it was not known if work was being done on the game. But, now EA has declared that both the games would be released in this calendar year. They have not declared it officially, but they have put both the games on their release calendar which automatically indicates that both the games would be released by March 2011.
According to the CEO of EA, John Riccitiello, as told by him to the investors at a conference yesterday night, EA will release a new version of ‘Medal Of Honor’ a much better ‘Need For Speed’, a more innovative ‘Madden’, ‘Crysis2’, ‘Dead Space 2’ and the much awaited World Cup special ‘FIFA’.
The fans of both the games are extremely excited but it is difficult to tell if the current hardware can support ‘Crysis 2’.
The announcement of the new ‘Need For Speed’ has got the fans excited but some might want to have ‘NBA JAM’ on the list instead of ‘Need For Speed’. But, it is still possible that EA can come out with this game in 2010.
Piracy Hurts PC-Only Games
It is widely known that Crysis 2 will be made available for the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. The game has more potential sales but still there is another pressing reason that Crytek went this direction.
Recently in an interview the Director of Business Development and Engine Licensing for Crytek, Carl Jones, said some of the most important things about the process of delivering Crysis 2 to the console owners. When he was about the new CryEngine 2 and also about the licensing that went along with it, he said that licensing a PC-only engine was difficult in the last few years because of the changing nature of the market.
He also added further that piracy hurt PC-only games in terms of sales figures too much. For this reason the developers and publishers have moved away from making such titles.
Carl Jones mentioned more: “As a result, console middleware was more widespread than PC focused technology such as CryENGINE® 1 and 2, but we have had some great successes and developers are working on great looking games that will launch soon, that started out on earlier versions of CryENGINE®. We’re happy with the quality we achieved, but circumstances limited the quantity of licensees we signed up. That won’t be an issue with CryENGINE® 3!”
Crysis 2’s new environments
According to an executive producer of Crysis 2, the upcoming sequel of Crysis, the game has promised that it will be bringing subtle but significant changes from the past games that some say have gotten stale.
The PCGamer Magazine’s February 2010 issue has offered some new tidbits and also some of the first real in-game screenshots of the new Crysis 2. These also gives some promises from the developer, the Crytek.
Nathan Camarillo, the executive producer said, “We are applying our expertise to a new style of “jungle” which we will discuss more in the upcoming months, but it is definitely far from tropical.”
He also added further, “We are very excited to introduce Crysis-style sandbox gameplay to a different, yet ultimately familiar environment.”
He mentioned that this new games’ environments will be having increased verticality over the original one. The enemy AI will be re-built around the new environments.
Crytek announces free CryEngine for UK universities
Recently Crytek announced that the company is intending to serve the students of technological education in United Kingdom. It also revealed that universities can now make a free use of the sensational graphics engine named CryEngine.
Crytek’s managing director, Karl Hilton, said in an interview there in United Kingdom to the media that the company in near future will be providing free CryEngine for universities in the UK.
Karl Hilton said, “British universities are preparing students very well when it comes to knowledge. Unfortunately, young people who hit the industry, very often fail in practice to use their skills and creativity. By making available free of charge to universities came CryEngine game designers could learn how to solve practical many problems.”
He also added in the interview that universities usually have no idea about what are the educational opportunities available to the private companies. He mentioned further that private businesses should be offering cooperation for universities themselves.
It is heard that free CryEngine will be available in the coming months to UK universities and interested parties have already finalize the discussions on this subject.
Another free trial soon
Crytek earlier announced that it will be offering one another free trial period for all the multiplayer shooter Crysis Wars.
The official website of Crytek writes this recently: “As promised in July’s monthly update a brand new trial period is coming! This is the perfect opportunity to get your friends and family involved in some great online battles in Crysis Wars.”
It also mentions that gamers will get the full access to LAN as well as to online play and they can also use the editor with the trial client and that too for absolutely free!
All those gamers who are having keys from the previous trials then they should be able to use them up. The official website also confirmed, “they will be reactivated on the trial period start date.”
Nanosuit 2 may be played on Crytek 2
One who has played Crysis and Crysis Warhead very well knows about the Nanosuit. This Nanosuit fulfills the task at hand for all the gamers. It has been specially designed of such in the action game.
Recently Nanosuit 2 has also been introduced. It has some more better and new features. With new features this Nanosuit, piece of military equipment, is going to surpass the capabilities of the older model.
To launch this new version of the military equipment Crytek even published the website of the company that developed new body armor.
At the Crynet Systems gamers can get lots and lots of information about the Nanosuit 2. Still it is not confirmed from any of the information whether this Nanosuit 2 will be used in Crysis 2, but I think it is of course possible.
Crysis technology is the best
Crysis is of course an extraordinary if we talk in matters of technology. It features appropriate console commands and also the right set of hardware in which the game runs at resolutions that are even beyond all Donwsampling possibilities. PC Games Hardware explains how it works.
Both, the Crysis and Crysis Warhead, gives gamers the option of changing the screen resolution through console commands. In this gamers get more possibilities than offered in the video options.
If gamers enter certain number of pixels which is higher than the native resolution of their systems display then the engine downsamples the picture.
Let me explain it in a simpler way. If gamers run Crysis with 3,360 x 2,100 pixels on their 21 or 22 inch display then the game is visualized with pure 2×2 (4x) Supersampling Anti Aliasing.
Discipline Kept Crysis Away from Consoles says Demartini
Cevat Yerli last year said that his company was no longer working on PC exclusive titles. This was mainly because of the piracy plaguing the platform.
The company took time to actually come up with a project, which would arrive on the Xbox 360 and the PS3 in addition to the PC. The new project is Crysis 2. It has no release window at the moment. The gamers only got a short look at the E3 trade show.
There is a good question regarding this. Why did Crytek wait until now? We know that the company has brought a game like Crysis Warhead to gaming consoles as well as the PC.
The answer to this may be a simple word, “discipline.” This has been stated by David Demartini, the general manager of Electronic Arts Partners.
He told, “have a reputation for not going to a platform just to exploit the platform, but they go to the platform when they have something that’s as good as anything in the industry, if not the best on that platform, so I think what consumers can look forward to is them setting a new bar against any game whatsoever on those platforms.”
