Crysis Warhead here in September

By Robert Purchese Published 14 August, 2008

Side-by-side with Crysis Wars.

EA plans to release PC standalone expansion Crysis Warhead and dedicated multiplayer excursion Crysis Wars in Europe on 12th September.

Crysis Warhead relives events from Crysis through the eyes of Sergeant "Psycho" Sykes, who landed on the other end of the island and has his own nanosuit, as well as an expanded armoury and more vehicles to choose from. But can he roll a pick-up truck into a hostile camp like Dutch?

Crytek designed Warhead to be more accessible, which means optimising the game to run on a much wider range of PCs.

Crysis Wars introduces TeamInstantAction to the existing multiplayer modes, which is the same as returning mode InstantAction, but in teams. PowerStruggle is also back.

There are 21 maps to stalk around; six are new for TeamInstantAction and InstantAction, and one is new for PowerStruggle.

Crytek may shun the spacebar, but has, more importantly, put a team in place to solely look after the Crysis Wars community.

Head over to our hands-on impressions of Crysis Warhead to find out more.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (19) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • xAx #1 4 years ago

    I haven't heard anything about crysis wars before, is it bundled in with warhead?

  • Macross #2 4 years ago

    ARGH EVERY GAME EVER IS COMING OUT IN BLOODY SEPTEMBER!

    /me strokes poor starving wallet

  • Eraysor #3 4 years ago

    Where the hell did Crysis Wars come from?

  • Red-Moose #4 4 years ago

    Not sure about the Wars, haven't heard about, and it wasn't mentioned in the Warhead preview. Daddy/EG what is going on? Can I plays the Wars or is it a seperate also sort-of-budget-priced MP expansion? If it is, I'll give it a miss I think, not too interested in modular games*

    *until GT5 comes out

  • BiscuitBase #5 4 years ago

    Sorry Crytek, my PC still hasn't caught up with your system requirements.

  • DFawkes #6 4 years ago

    I did have no interest in the Crysis games, but I decided to try the demo and was surprised that my PC actually ran it. It isn't nearly as hungry for high-specs as reviews had me believe - I'm guessing they all insist on cranking up every detail, I'm happy as long as it's playable.

    I'm hoping that they'll release a double pack (triple if you count Wars) so I can catch up.

  • Whizzo #7 4 years ago

    Crysis Wars is incorporated into Warhead, also Shopto need to revise their pricing, Play are doing Warhead for 15 quid!

  • BlackKraken #8 4 years ago

    I wont get my hopes up for the multiplayer component crysis wars. If its anything like multiplayer in crysis then itll be an unbalanced gank-fest

  • ChrisOTR #9 4 years ago

    Really loved the first game...

    But, if Crysis becomes another EA yearly franchise, then no sale. The last one still has loads of bugs they never bothered to fix.

  • BadBoyBonner #10 4 years ago

    Q&A on Gamepsot about Crysis Wars

    [link url=http://uk.gamespot.com/pc/action/crysiswarhead/n ews.html?sid=6195832&om_act=convert&om_clk=newlyadded&tag=ne wlyadded;title;1
    ]http://uk .gamespot.com/pc/action/crysisw...[/link]

  • BadBoyBonner #11 4 years ago

    The Crysis Warhead minimum system requirements for those that are interested :-

    CPU: Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz (3.2 GHz for Vista), Intel Core 2.0 GHz (2.2 GHz for Vista), AMD Athlon 2800+ (3200+ for Vista) or better
    RAM: 1GB (1.5GB on Windows Vista)
    Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (Radeon X800 Pro for Vista) or better
    VRAM: 256MB of Graphics Memory
    Storage: 15GB
    Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c Compatible
    ODD: DVD-ROM
    OS: Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Microsoft Vista
    DirectX: DX9.0c or DX10

  • IneptPercy #12 4 years ago

    Just put my order in along with a 4870 to replace my 3870 :-) happy days

  • Nithron #13 4 years ago

    You know what? Graphics cards need catchier names.

  • ChthonicEcho #14 4 years ago

    You know what? Graphics cards need catchier names.
    Like... nVidia Nithron 3000?

  • bushwod #15 4 years ago

    like the Predator reference there Rob.

  • Apologie #16 4 years ago

    i have a very high end PC... 2 ATi 4870 in crossfire, rampage, 4Gb, monitor HP (24), quadcore etc... and i must say that this game is shit, at least the first one was... it's not optimised and that's why even strong Pc's can't play it properly, i hope the sequel show's a better code, otherwise, it will be another huge failure... they just want to justify the purchase of absurdly expensive graphic cards, that's why they downgraded the compatibility and make this crap exaggeratedly demanding... well, that's just my opinion.
    Edited by 2 at 14/08/08 @ 16:09

  • Hypercube #17 4 years ago

    I've got a dual core CPU with a single nVidia 8800 GTX and Crysis ran fine on very high settings on DX9 on my machine. So if it ran like shit on 2 ATI 4870 cards I can only conclude that ATI's drivers are shit. I played through the whole thing and it ran well and looked great.

    Shit drivers != shit game. Remember that.

  • Apologie #18 4 years ago

    Hypercube

    yeah, it runs like shit, but it's not because of catalyst or ATI drivers, it's because the game was dimensioned for Nvidia... they needed to patch the game, but never did. it's a marketing piece of shit... i hope all these compatibility issues are resolved in the second one, otherwise they wont see my money. oh and by the way, what resolution do you use??
    Edited by 1 at 14/08/08 @ 16:48

  • IneptPercy #19 4 years ago

    The risk of crossfire I would say, some games can make no difference or even run slower on a crossfire setup. (same for Sli really)
    I ran it on a Dualcore at 3ghz with 4gb ram and a single 3870 from vista with no problems at 720p with no AA.

    Will try for 1080p with a 1GB 4870, maybe some AA, if not it may look better at 720 with AA.

    eitherway it could do with some more optimisation, the patches helped but it could be better.