EA to build “Warhead Computers” made specifically to run Warhead?
Seems kind of weird to me, but here’s the rumor:
At Electronic Arts’ Comic-Con booth today, an EA rep mentioned that the company plans to market pre-built PCs in conjunction with the release of Crytek’s upcoming PC-exclusive shooter Crysis Warhead. The idea seems to be to try and circumvent some of the intimidation that exists for gamers who are either new to high-end PC gaming, or have been out of the scene for some time, and reassure them that it is not prohibitively expensive to acquire a machine that can tame something like Crysis and its followup.
Apparently, the rigs will come in various configurations, which will correspond to Crysis Warhead’s levels of graphical detail, with a likely price range being $600-$800 (I doubt EA will want to market a machine that meets only the game’s minimum spec), and they will probably be named accordingly–the Crysis Warhead Performance PC, and so on.
I like the idea of Electronic Arts looking for ways to make the PC platform more approachable, and this idea is sound–buy this PC that says Crysis on it; it’s designed to run Crysis, and you know that if it plays Crysis it’ll play anything else on the market. I was also impressed that EA had no less than three PC exclusives–Crysis Warhead, BattleForge, and Warhammer Online, and other games on display like Mirror’s Edge and Dead Space are in development for PC as well–in its booth at Comic-Con, a mainstream show if there ever was one.
As the rep also mentioned to me, EA’s own internal analysis indicates the PC market is growing–publishers just have to learn how to capitalize on it.
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Brand new gameplay trailers for Crysis Warhead!
So Crysis has put out a new trailer, and it’s actually of gameplay this time instead of just some stupid mini-movie. The driving gameplay redefined looks improved in my opinion, I remember driving in the first Crysis was really hard and awkward.
Another thing I noticed when watching this trailer is that at about the :40 second mark, the machine running the game starts to lag and get choppy when the battle intensifies. Crytek already said Warhead will be able to run on mid-level PC’s, so it would be interesting to know what kind of machine was running this. In all fairness, the lag could have very well been caused by FRAPS or whatever game cam they were using. I usually don’t have that problem when using FRAPS, but who knows.
To watch the HD trailers, click on the Crysis Warhead Videos tab.
Some more Crysis Warhead screens…
VE3D posted some new Crysis Warhead screens today. The images look very similar to the original Crysis game. To take a look, click here .
Why does Crysis Warhead look just like Crysis1?
Crytek was quick to point out that Crysis Warhead was absolutely not Crysis2. I wonder why Crysis Warhead looks exactly like Crysis1 then? Is it because the Warhead trailers are really just Crysis1 trailers to throw us off? Take a look at this "Crysis Warhead" trailer and tell me it doesn’t look like Crysis1. Oh, also tell me your don’t see one of those damn aliens in the trailer too, have we not made ourselves perfectly clear? Would Crytek be dumb enough to have us fighting aliens AGAIN?
Yeah…let’s hope they are just doing this to confuse us and throw us off then on release day it will be a bigger supprise…let’s hope. Here is the link to the story I pulled this video from too.
