Far Cry 2 needs more power than Crysis

Posted at: 3:37pm 8th August 2008 by Ben Hardwidge

Ubisoft reveals the official system requirements for Far Cry 2, showing that it takes advanatge of multi-threading, and needs a more powerful PC than Crysis

Although most of us have already bought, tweaked, played and completed Crytek’s unofficial sequel to Far Cry, Crysis, Ubisoft is still going ahead with the official sequel Far Cry 2, and has now released the system requirements.

Surprisingly, the minimum system requirements are even higher than those of Crysis, which is amazing considering that Crysis brought most high-end PCs to their knees when Crysis was first released. The official minimum system requirements for Far Cry 2 are as follows:

• 3.2GHz Pentium 4 or 2.66GHz Pentium D (looks like it takes advantage of multi-threading)
• 1GB of RAM
• 256MB GeForce 6800-series GPU or Radeon X1650

The game also requires Shader Model 3, so it won’t work with ATI’s older X800 GPUs. By comparison, the minimum specs officially required for Crysis are a 2.8GHz Pentium 4 and a Radeon 9800 Pro. However, a machine based on those specs would be reduced to a gibbering wreck by Crysis at anything approaching half-decent settings.

Meanwhile, the recommended system requirements for Far Cry 2 are as follows:

• Core 2 Duo or Athlon 64 X2 5200+
• 2GB of RAM
• 512MB GeForce 8600 GTS or Radeon X1900

Do you think your machine will be up to playing Far Cry 2? If so, are you interested in playing it, or has Crysis already stolen its thunder? Let us know your thoughts.