Crysis preview

After much delay it is finally close to RTM.This is the alpha built beta ran on non optimised driver.169.01 have many issues as it is still a beta, so i didnt not give it a test run.Firstly,my outdated graphics card is pwned badly by this cry enigine 2.Even with the optimised driver, i doubt it would make any significant difference to my aging card.As speculated by developers,G71@600+mhz should be able to run at 1280 at medium high mode,but this is not the case.I am running at 1024x768 at medium settings.Hell yeah,back to the days of oblivion a year ago.8800gt will be released tomorrow with rather spectacular perfromance,but the temperature is horrible,so is noise output of the cooling system.Maybe the 8800gts with a dual slot will save it from this mess but i still want to wait till rv670 is out.But time is running short,with AAA titles start gushing out from 30th this month with the first contender,hellgate london out the gates of hell.
At 1024x768,no AA,all medium settings, physics,sound,post processing,particle to high.Texture set to high drag the frame rate by 10 due to lack of vram,high object will increase foilage which my 8 vertices couldnt handle in forest foilage,set shader to high,my 24 shaders will wave the whit flag with 10 frame reduced too,so they are reduced to medium.Get a decent frame rate of 25 to 33 at such pathetic settings,but this game still look gorgeous,best ever to run on my PC.Even with such low settings,dynamic shadows, depth of field,motion blur is all present.Depth of field and motion blur is exaggerated and doesnt look realistic and sometime to the extent of being irritating.Since this is a demo, i wouldnt waste my time digging into the system config to tweak them manually.Gameplay wise,nothing groundbreaking like the graphics,nanosuit prove fun to play with various special abilities to spice up the dull FPS genre.AI is generally ok,north korean speak in english which sux,i rather have a setting to change them to korean to make it more realistic.It could be changed actually, in a diffculty call delta mode,but i want it in hard mode too,since i am to dependent on cross hair to shoot properly.Environment throuhout the demo is on a tropical forest which is like farcry,you landed at night and slowly as you excute your mission,it slowly change to dawn.A spectacular sight indeed but they are not the first with such technology implemented.Physics is great without physics decceleration technology call ageia,trees fall realistically during forest fire fight and you can ram your vehicle into a hut and it will fall as you expect in action movies.Still looking forward to this blockbuster,but some of my excitment have died down after playing the demo.Still curious how nanosuit will play out in multiplayer but the single player is average, the graphics still have some glitches but definitely the right way forward.

looks like farcry with an upgraded engine doesnt it?



Bad kids get eaten by aliens, with motion blur.