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Crysis demo on 25th September

Published on 28th August 2007 by Tim Smalley

There will be a Crysis single player demo available for download on September 25th.

Electronic Arts has announced that a single player demo for Crysis, the eagerly-anticipated first-person shooter from Crytek, will be released on 25th September – the same day that Halo 3 is released for Xbox 360 in the US.

The demo will feature the first level of the game, “Contact”, which is the same level that we had chance to play at i31 earlier this month.

At the time, we thought there was still quite a bit of work to be done on the shooter, but I’m still pretty optimistic about the title considering the code we played on was pre-alpha, and let's not forget that I was a huge Far Cry fan too.

Crytek is yet to announce the minimum and recommended system specifications, but we can expect to find out when the demo hits the net, if not before.

The game will be released simultaneously in Europe and North America on 16th November. Are you looking forward to it, and if so, will you be upgrading your system to play it? Tell us in the forums.

Thanks to bit-tech forum member The Stig for the tip.

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steveo_mcg 28th August 2007, 16:29

Looking forward to this, lets hope it learns some leasons from the bioshock release... also more importantly lets hope it'll run on my computer!

plagio 28th August 2007, 16:35

the time for the switch to vista has arrived ...... unfortunately.
Is it confirmed that this game will run on DX10 only ? I was hoping to wait the first service pack before switching to vista for good.

steveo_mcg 28th August 2007, 16:38

You sure, why did they bother with the comparison vids earlier in the year?

Also given the valve survey from earlier only a small % of gamers can run dx10, this would be a stupid decision.

Hamish 28th August 2007, 16:40

Quote:

Originally Posted by plagio
the time for the switch to vista has arrived ...... unfortunately.
Is it confirmed that this game will run on DX10 only ? I was hoping to wait the first service pack before switching to vista for good.

no, it was confirmed a long time ago that it would be both dx9 and dx10 :p

Bogie 28th August 2007, 16:42

Screw Vista i'll be playing in dx9

Bauul 28th August 2007, 16:44

To convince people to upgrade to DX10? If it's DX10 only, I simply won't be playing it, and it's their loss. Lets hope it isn't, though I'm pretty sure it won't be, as I'm sure most people know just how small the Vista penetration is into gamer's machines.

samkiller42 28th August 2007, 16:45

Screw XP, i'll be playing in DX10

WarningFromSpace 28th August 2007, 16:46

YYEEEAAAHHHH

Delphium 28th August 2007, 16:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by samkiller42
Screw XP, i'll be playing in DX10

Here Here!!!
Though TBH, screw the demo, I want the full game already!! :'(
Ok ok, at least by the time ive finished Bioshock =]

will. 28th August 2007, 16:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by WarningFromSpace
YYEEEAAAHHHH

Ewwww. Get that man a new keyboard!

plagio 28th August 2007, 16:58

ups, sorry. I thought this was going to be the first real DX10 only game. My bad

Tim S 28th August 2007, 16:59

Quote:

Originally Posted by plagio
the time for the switch to vista has arrived ...... unfortunately.
Is it confirmed that this game will run on DX10 only ? I was hoping to wait the first service pack before switching to vista for good.

It's DX10 and DX9 - the version we played at i31 was DX9 running on XP.

TheVoice 28th August 2007, 17:11

Awesome, will be interesting to see just how well this runs on my machine. Quite impressed with how smoothly Bioshock ran, as well as Medal of Honour Airborne.

dom_ 28th August 2007, 17:25

This is why i upgraded. It is getting closer!

devdevil85 28th August 2007, 17:28

This is the title that SHOULD start the DX10 revolution....it better be good......

WarningFromSpace 28th August 2007, 17:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by devdevil85
....it better be good......

all that and a bag of chips :)

completemadness 28th August 2007, 17:42

im getting a bit worried, all we ever see is this tree level bit, im starting to wonder if there is anything else in this game :p

mattthegamer463 28th August 2007, 18:18

Its too bad I'll be at home sick that day.

zr_ox 28th August 2007, 18:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by plagio
I was hoping to wait the first service pack before switching to vista for good.

It's not necessary since it does everything XP can and more. The sooner you upgrade the sooner you get used to the changes :)

I upgraded to the PC in my sig to play this. Bioshock runs smooth with everything maxed out at 1600x1200 so hopefully Crysis should too.

DougEdey 28th August 2007, 18:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by mattthegamer463
Its too bad I'll be at home sick that day.

So will I, but it'll be for Halo 3 :p

DXR_13KE 28th August 2007, 19:06

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/24070.html

if the game is this beautiful then i am sold.

edit: i only hope there is a little gore....

Bungle 28th August 2007, 19:37

Would love to play this game but unfortunately in the UK we have a ban on Guns so can't play..........................oh wait a minute, thats real life......phew, got worried there:D

LeMaltor 28th August 2007, 20:26

Not infested with rootkits etc is it? :p

D3s3rt_F0x 28th August 2007, 20:33

Looking forward to it although not really seen much new from it tbh just seems like another fps with advanced graphics and they aint gonna keep me warm at night I mean look at Doom 3 a game I got bored of within an hour.

But should be quiet intresting.

johnnyboy700 28th August 2007, 21:22

This is the one I've really been looking forward to, I hope we don't have a repeat of the Bioshock copy protection problems - I didn't let it spoil the game, just got a bit narked with the whole situation.

I don't remember it saying that Crysis was a DX10 only game, I'm pretty sure I saw in a recent interview with the developers in PC Gamer that it would be DX9 compatable - I'll have to check on that. I hope its not DX10 only, I'm not touching Vista with barge pole at the moment, there's still plenty of life left in XP yet.
As for Vista, I mean, take a look at one of the "flagship", "must by" games (I'm looking at you here Halo2!), come on guys what on earth were you thinking when you try to push a three year old game that runs on a X-Box as gaming highlight of your new wonder O/S? The original on the X-Box was a big disapointment in terms of gameplay so when they roll it out for the Vista launch and its fugly as well, what chance does it have.
Sheesh who the hell green lit that project? Did they think we'd fall over ourselves to buy anything with the Halo name slapped on it? You conned me once with the X-Box version, not this time - I guess I'm still a bit peeved that H2 was so poor. I didn't buy myself a 360 (yet) so H3 isn't tempting me at all.

leexgx 28th August 2007, 23:07

hope thay do not use Secrom on this game just frign key it

the game is DX9 and DX10 and will work on XP and vista. Thay are not Daft by filltering out 90%-98% of the market, who ever thought up H2 to only alow it to staup on vista when the game is Native DX9 game {not even sure if the game supports DX10 for that matter} theres an patch for that any way to alow that to startup on XP

keir 28th August 2007, 23:13

Simply cannot wait for this, any idea on the file size?

24-1 6th September 2007, 16:48

i dont care what size it is..its a must downlaod

Ayrto 6th September 2007, 18:02

It might not have the Bioshock protection issues ,but with EA's involvement... I'm sure they'll have found some way to balls it up.

mikeuk2004 6th September 2007, 18:20

Looking forward to Halo 3 the day after

Delphium 6th September 2007, 18:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ayrto
It might not have the Bioshock protection issues ,but with EA's involvement... I'm sure they'll have found some way to balls it up.

My sentiments exactly :/

steveo_mcg 6th September 2007, 19:30

I've been trying to avoid thinking about that tbh.

The_Pope 24th September 2007, 12:43

Demo now delayed to 26th October
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/09/24/crysis_demo_is_delayed/1