Crysis 1 coming to PS3/Xbox 360

Notorioux

It'll be out next month (talk about short notice!), and has a few new features courtesy of developers Crytek's advances over the past four years, including new lighting and new effects.

The clip below is showing the 360 version, and for the 360 version, it looks pretty damn good. Not top of the range PC good, but then, an Xbox 360 isn't a top of the range PC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB7mP2CQfAs

source: http://kotaku.com/5838629/four-years-later-crysis-comes-to-console

PogMoThoin

LOL @ greatest shooter ever made. Graphically beautiful yes, but it wasn't a great game, it was amazing up to a point then went to shít, about a third of the way in.

Kiith

Should be interesting to see how the game looks on the consoles now, compared to how it looks on the pc. Would be great if they could make it look as good as it did on the pc.

gizmo

As the first comment there says...

So, this takes nothing away from PC gamers as it was originally a PC game. And console gamers get another game made available to their platform. Nice deal all around it seems. But I'm sure some asshole will find a reason to complain.

The original engine has enjoyed several performances boosts from optimisation since the original game, most of which were seen in Warhead, so it should be interesting to see how it runs on the consoles now. That is, assuming it's not just running in the Crysis 2 engine.

ShadowHearth

Crysis 1 was more of a benchmark product then a game back then. It was devided in to 3 parts, from which part 1 was the best and the only part worth playing. Part 2 was just... ****... Part 3 picked it up a bit, but it left a bad taste in my mouth.

Dunno if crysis 1 has a place now. I can't say that crysis 2 was such a win... So now they want to get people to buy crysis 1....

ShiverinEskimo

I was travelling for the Crysis 1 period and didn't get a chance to do it any justice so it passed me by. Really enjoyed Crysis 2 although it became a bit formulaic towards the end.

I'll probably give this a whirl on the Xbox.

tonydude

Enjoyed the second so might pick this up

Notorioux

To those of yas PC players who played Crysis 1 and 2. Is Crysis 1 better than 2? I played Crysis 2, but i just think its just an alright game, there are some very few good moments innit, but it's nothing really special IMO... And the multiplayer suck balls!

Skerries

i'm currently playing Crysis 2 and I think it is a lot better than the original game
the problem in the first one was the first half was made up of you fighting Koreans which was good but then in the second half was you killing flying alien squid monsters which was very annoying and then the horrible zero g fight against them at the end

They have tried to address this with the second game by having the aliens land based which makes it a lot more playable but can feel a lot like the Resistance games

Shiminay

To be fair, on their own admission, they put their focus on the production of the game engine rather than a game. Like most, I enjoyed the Korean bit, especially the "circular" level design that let me approach the game from several different angles... (sorry, I couldn't resist).

Crysis 2 wasn't a bad game, but it wasn't great either. The campaign was reasonably fun. There's no harm in C1 making a console appearance, but I feel most Console people are gonna look at it and wonder what PC people have been ranting and raving about this Crysis game for.

ShadowHearth

just to add: i love how this 360 trailer shows only part 1 and part 3 of game. even developer knew that part in mothership was total ****....

Azza

First 60% of the game was very good. The A.I of the Korean enemies is pretty decent, you have multipal angles to approach objectives and mixing up all the nano suits ability (and not overly using stealth) is good fun. You can really toy with your opponents.

Problems started when you get inside the Alien ship in zero gravity (and the comically bad boss battle before it). The game becomes alot more linear. But the main problem with that level was its confusion. On repeat plays throughs it holds up alot better once you know where your going. Fighting the aliens in zero-g is pretty fun.

After that brief enough section, it turns in a linear corridor shooter, and the alien are less interesting opponents than the Korean soliders, hence why the aliens underwent major changes for the sequel. Its pretty buggy. The very end boss battle is also hindered by a memory leak issue on PC.

CombatCow

Cool, I can enjoy not playing this all over again!

Taltos

Enjoyed 2 on the 360. Have to admit towards the end I got a bit jaded with it all.
Will hold off on this until I see the price - if cheap might throw it in a drawer to play on a rainy day - especially if the comments above are true.

cherryghost

I much prefer Crysis 1 over its counterparts. I personally thought the game was great, slightly repetitive at times, but one of very few games in this generation I've actually bothered finishing. Some of the mods that's come out in recent years are unreal too.

Crysis 2 wasn't too bad mind you. It's rather good in a sea of mediocre generic shooters. I didn't care too much for the story though, and the gameplay mechanics are essentially the same as the first game.

Looking forward to graphics comparisons when its released on console :pac:

quinnd6

This looks brilliant, very impressive in my opinion but apparently
it is a digital download only on xbla and psn.
Its only going to cost 20 euros and is single player campaign only so no multiplayer.
The reason I say but is because I'd prefer to have a disk version of it as I've only got a 20gb hardrive and this looks like it would be a very big download.
Plus for this type of game boxed copy makes more sense I think.
I guess they're going download only to reduce costs for publishing as its a budget title.

marco_polo

quinnd6 wrote: »

This looks brilliant, very impressive in my opinion but apparently
it is a digital download only on xbla and psn.
Its only going to cost 20 euros and is single player campaign only so no multiplayer.
The reason I say but is because I'd prefer to have a disk version of it as I've only got a 20gb hardrive and this looks like it would be a very big download.
Plus for this type of game boxed copy makes more sense I think.
I guess they're going download only to reduce costs for publishing as its a budget title.

I was thinking that it couldn't be a full retail game at that short notice, given what else is coming out over the next few months.

marco_polo

gizmo wrote: »

As the first comment there says...


The original engine has enjoyed several performances boosts from optimisation since the original game, most of which were seen in Warhead, so it should be interesting to see how it runs on the consoles now. That is, assuming it's not just running in the Crysis 2 engine.

By all accounts it appears to be a remastered version of the game using Cryengine 3.

Mr. K

The original Crysis so good...I'll be getting this version too.

johnny_ultimate

marco_polo wrote: »

I was thinking that it couldn't be a full retail game at that short notice, given what else is coming out over the next few months.

Then again Crysis isn't a small game by any stretch, especially with all those HD textures. I know Microsoft have relaxed their XBLA limits, but 7GB + might be a ripping the piss

Could just be a games on demand release though! And hopefully budget whatever form it may take.

Sisko

This makes total sense.

As mediocre as Crysis was gameplay wise for a PC game, compared to the kind of shooters on consoles I imagine this would go down a treat for many console FPS fans.

The game is like 4 years old. But I'm sure despite them likely having to lower the graphics a bit, it'll look stunning to the console peeps. Can see this doing really well, better than the 1st.

Mr. K

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Then again Crysis isn't a small game by any stretch, especially with all those HD textures. I know Microsoft have relaxed their XBLA limits, but 7GB + might be a ripping the piss

Could just be a games on demand release though! And hopefully budget whatever form it may take.

Ooh, it'll probably be like the Resident Evi CV and 4 releases then. They're going to cost 1600 points though, it'd be nice if Crysis was cheaper.

NunianVonFuch

1600 MSP on Xbox and £15.99/$19.99 on PS3. No euro price there, but it probably converts 1:1 with dollars as usual :pac:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-09-09-remastered-crysis-1-coming-to-console

I'll be getting this for sure as my laptop can *just about* run the original but only for a half hour before it starts overheating and the framerate halves. Great game, hopefully they'll keep the wonderful physics fun intact.

Jeep + Ramp + Destroyable shacks filled with enemies = fun

Trevor451

No thanks. I like playing my games in true 1080p

Chris_Heilong

Crysis 1 was brillant, I dont base my opinon on what I read online just what I played and I enjoyed the change in gameplay with the zero G and the aliens were good if not a little repetitive, the end fight was brillant and the story was good too just wanted it to last a bit longer is all. I didnt like warhead as much as Crysis 1, Crysis 1 was epic and war head was good but lacking a little in areas. I am happy it is getting the cryengine 3 treatment, will give me another reason to buy it again and will also sort out alot of the issues the PC version had like the DX10 problem on the last level. Crysis 2 was brillant, great graphics, music and gameplay, only issue were the Alien parts, they were too long and ytuor main character didnt talk which felt like they were just copying HL2 which I hate. HL2 was terribly boring.

gizmo

Trevor451 wrote: »

No thanks. I like playing my games in true 1080p

If you're going to try to be smug about it, at least do it right.

Andy!!

If Crysis Wars is not included in the re-releases multi; or worse still, gets released as paid DLC, no deal. I'm getting sick of being ripped off with DLC nonsense.

Notorioux

Chris_Heilong

I wasnt really impressed with that video.....:(

kearneybobs

I'd pay for Crysis 1 to be released again on PC in Cry Engine 3. I might just have to pick this up, again. I'll see how the reviews are with it though.

Notorioux

Here's a longer video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXvRJ_rFP_s

5uspect

This is an old video comparing CryEngine 2 on PC to CryEngine 3 on console:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WJG14uLA3k

You can see how they've cut corners to get it up to speed but it still loots great.
Also things like motion blur have since been added to CE3 on console.

Overheal

PogMoThoin wrote: »

LOL @ greatest shooter ever made. Graphically beautiful yes, but it wasn't a great game, it was amazing up to a point then went to shít, about a third of the way in.

HL3 needs to hurry along and put that myth to bed, either way.

Potential-Monke

Considering i did not like Crysis 2, and didn't even finish the story, can anyone convince me to get Crysis 1? Bearing in mind that futuristic shooters where it takes 2 clips to kill an alien are not for me (i'm looking at you Halo).

5uspect

I really disliked Halo for the same reason. The first 2/3 of Crysis 1 before the floaty aliens show up is good fun. If you've played the original FarCry you should know what to expect (before the shaved gorillas show up). Crysis 2 was a CoDified mess in comparison.

The environments are much more open and you can stalk your prey, plan your route and take your time. C2 constantly screams at you to hurry up and shows you the bloody paths in the fairly cramped environments. Also where C2 utterly fails to give you the impression you're in a metropolis like NYC the scale of C1 really feels like a real tropical island. FarCry 1 was perhaps better in this respect tho.

Since they've put the suit controls from C2 into this one I'm not totally sure about the gameplay tho. The original had armour as the base state and you could pick speed/cloak/strength. C2 felt a bit gimped in that you only had cloak and armour. Strength and speed were demoted to contextual events and a standard sprint. For example in C1 could could hold shift to sprint as normal but also switch to Max Speed and move up a gear on your normal speed and then sprint really really fast for a short burst. Max Strength affected how high you could jump as well as how far you could throw a poor North Korean.

Azza

Crysis 1 is more open ended than Crysis 2. However the last third of Crysis 1 is very linear.
There is less weapons and no suit customization in Crysis 1.
The nano suit in Crysis 1 is better than the base nano suit in Crysis 2. But the upgraded suit in Crysis 2 is just as good if not better than Crysis 1.
I thought the A.I in both games was generally quite good but the A.I doesn't bug out as much in Crysis 1 or if it does it isn't as noticbale.
Compared to other shooters Crysis 1 is quite slow paced.
Crysis 2 on the other hand started off slow but paced itself well after than.
The last third of Crysis 1 is quite weak. Game becomes a corridor shooter. The aliens are quite bland and uninteresting to fight and there is a terrible section where you have to fly a votol.

Still all in all I'd give the gameplay in Crysis 1 a slight nod over Crysis 2.

Graphics are better in Crysis 1 (both are amazing looking). Also the enviroment is more destructable.
Storyline is weak in both games.

Potential-Monke

I may give it a whirl so, but only if i can get a physical copy at some stage, can't imagine how long it would take to download something which will more than likely be as large as 7gig!

5uspect

Potential-Monke wrote: »

I may give it a whirl so, but only if i can get a physical copy at some stage, can't imagine how long it would take to download something which will more than likely be as large as 7gig!

You're clearly not a steam user.
I usually just leave such big downloads overnight.

kearneybobs

That's why god made UPC. Boom! 25meg is your friend.