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Crysis: Warhead detailed
Author: Joe MartinPublished: 5th June 2008
Crysis: Warhead looks to be a PC exclusive standalone expansion for the original game.
Mainly because you aren't going to get it here.
Speaking to Eurogamer briefly, CryTek boss Cevat Yerli outlined what Warhead is exactly and confirmed a few of the rumours that are currently circulating.
It turns out that rather than the next game in the series, Crysis: Warhead is a standalone expansion pack for the original game which, much like the original Half-Life expansions, will tell the same story as the original game but do it through the eyes of another character. In this case, that character is the British Sergeant, Psycho.
The expansion will feature new weapons and vehicles over the original Crysis and will be the first game to be released from CryTek's Budapest studio, who are also aiming to introduce new multiplayer content to the game.
Expected to hit shelves this Autumn, CryTek has also confirmed that Warhead will be a PC exclusive title, despite rumours that a console release was also planned.
"With Warhead, we are focusing on refining our storytelling and game performance, while also delivering more of the visually stunning graphics and immersive, free-roaming gameplay everyone loved in Crysis," said Cevat.
Glad that the game is PC exclusive after all, or were you hoping for a Xbox 360 version instead? Let us know in the forums.
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Where can I preorder it?:D
No matter if it ends up as a good game or not, I'll have to reward them with buying it just for the fact that they wont release it on consoles.
I'm with the above poster, I'll buy this either way just because of that. I liked the original, far from perfect and incredibly boring during the alien mothership stage and beyond. Thankfully we're assured there'll be none of that crap now seeing as Psycho stayed far away from that place..
Then you'd better hire someone who can tell a story.
i suppose i'll just wait and get this with the original...
Reason why the pc is better than consoles:
You can always upgrade my pc
You can do more activities on a pc
You can mod the game on a pc
You don't have to pay for parts to cheat on a game that doesn't have cheats (go trainers)
Downsides:
Cost:(
A retread of the same crap.
Yay. Excuse my enthusiasm :/
Can you guys explain to me why you'll be supporting them just because it's PC-exclusive (for now)? That doesn't make any damn sense to me.
Subtle attempt to get some freebies? :D
It doesn't matter how much you polish a turd your still holding a lump of crap.
If I knew how But no
This sounds like it may provide the opportunity to focus more on killing people and less on aliens. Which is bad out of context but great for the game. I'll reserve judgment until release, or at least until we have more deatils.
However I really hope they don't charge the normal full price on it. I won't get into my usual spiel about the economics of download-based distribution and all of that, but will leave it at there being even fewer people that would want to buy the same game of Crysis through a different POV at full price unless they REALLY add in something compelling (and a couple of guns won't do it). $20 and I'm in, $25-30 if it gets very solid reviews. And I'm going to end up downloading it in some form or another, so please let me pay you to do it (the only thing I hate more than retail shopping is having to deal with discs; I may order from Amazon and download from Sweden if that's the easiest download option).
Come on, Crysis story was as good as most any other big name shooter not called Half life 2. The gameplay was excellent, people don't play shooters for stories, that's what RPG's like The Witcher and Mass Effect are for.
LOL, many actually loved the ga,e crysis, and ane xpansion showing psycho's story sounds interesting to many. Your opinion is not everyones. I will buy this for sure. If yuo were a true PC gamer, you would know, obviously you are not. How do yuo know what happens when psycho is doing his thing, make assumptions much? Geez. do people always whine and talk SB before a product is even out the door? hell, we don't even have any info yet and your already whining.
You can have your patch if you pay for it.
360 is modified ati card of last generation
ps3 is modified nvidia card of last generation
out of dateness ftw
Brought orginal crysis will buy expansion
Umm, new game and patch are slightly different no? Drama queens, lol.
Blue Shift was ****. Opposing Force on the other hand...
what do you think psycho and 'little asian lassie' were doing in the bushes at night?!
Muchos Kudos for dedicating this to the PC crowd. Am mega pleased with this and pretty much on those grounds alone will support them and buy this. Should be more fun, the graphics are proven, let's get some serious gun play 'Psycho' style
The first game is from Nomads perspective
The second game is from Psychos perspective
The third game in from Prophets prospective <-- The awesome one
CryTek you've got yourself a loyal customer on this title :)
as long as it's PC exclusive, i'll buy the collector's edition. if it's not, pirate-bay here i come.
blaming the piracy for going console...... i'll make you blame yourself for the bad sells. (crappy console can't render CryEngine2 => wasted efforts for port => no one buys console ports + loosing PC customers )
Opposing Force was great Iunno what your saying.
Will look forward to this one.
It doesn't matter what you do - Unless you prove conclusively that consoles are terrible and turn everyone into a PC gamer.
Console game sales are on the increase, and are making more money than the PC games.
From a purely financial perspective, releasing on PC only is a negative move.
Piracy isn't helping anyone - The sooner it can be majorly shot down, the better.
Console games sales are mostly another version of a diffrent game. Best console game in recent years is ment to be gta4 if you took sales alone. (multiplayer wasnt really a selling point. Grand theft auto games have always had a brilliant story. And a few rekless modes were you can blow up the world( which is fun)
Take a look at the big online games of this year. Can you name one for console that has over 500000 online?
I think this is the key bit going on the feedback from crysis and if they can manage it, they should get a much bigger success rate than they did with crysis. If nothing else, another launch using a slightly improved (performance-wise, not neccessarily graphics-wise) engine a year or two on from the original should help a bigger portion of the market to run it decently, in itself helping sales.