A PC game being made by the developers of the award winning FarCry Crytek looks to try and push the boundries of First Person Shooters to even further heights. Set in 2019, players will take the role of Jake Dunn, who is an United States Delta Force Soldier who is sent into a mysterious island in the South China Sea to investigate an unidentified flying object that has crashed in the area.
Crysis is already one of the most highly anticipated games of 2007, as it will be one of the first games to use DirectX 10. Which will allow it to utilize dynamic day/night cycles, fully interactive environments, sunrays and diffuse transmissions, real time soft shadows, soft particles, interactive/destructible environments, volumetric clouds, and advanced shader technology. Which should make the game one of the best looking games ever created.
Following its recent debut at E3, Crysis has received an outstanding 13 awards and 10 further nominations at the show.
The full list of awards Crysis has won are:
1UP Best Visuals
IGN Best PC FPS Game
IGN Best Technical Graphics PC
IGN Technological Excellence PC
IGN Best FPS (overall)
IGN Best Graphics Technology (overall)
Gamespy Best Graphics
Gametrailers Best PC Game
Gametrailers Best Graphics
Gametrailers Best Shooter
Gametrailers Best of Show
Gametrailers Best Graphics
Yahoo Best of E3
Screenshots
Videos
GameTrailers.com - Crysis (PC) - Media, News, Reviews, Previews
YouTube - New Crysis gameplay video
YouTube - Crysis New Video
YouTube - Crysis - CES 07: Camp Assault Gameplay
YouTube - Crysis - Crytek - PC - Game footage
YouTube - [PC] Crysis Multiplayer Vehicles Gameplay
YouTube - Crysis Gameplay Footage
According to reports:
Minimum Requirements
CPU: Athlon 64 3000+/Intel 2.8ghz
Graphics: Nvidia 6600/X800GTO (SM 2.0)
RAM: 768Mb/1Gb on Windows Vista
HDD: 6GB
Internet: 256k+
Optical Drive: DVD
Software: DX9.0c with Windows XP
Recommended Requirements
CPU: Dual-core CPU (Athlon X2/Pentium D)
Graphics: Nvidia 7800GTX/ATI X1800XT (SM 3.0) or DX10 equivalent
RAM: 1.5Gb
HDD: 6GB
Internet: 512k+ (128k+ upstream)
Optical Drive: DVD
Software: DX10 with Windows Vista