Crysis Warhead Comments by Christian Donlan

Seems like a nice way to put my new graphics card to the test.

Boosh! Didn't expect this to score that highly for some reason. It's on the list for later purchoose now.

Excellent. Wasn't sure if I wanted this but how can I say no to having more of that freedom in the jungle?

Pew pew pew!

hmmmm if only my computer was 10 times more powerful... . then id be half way to playin this game

kind kind words.

Sounds good. No mention of DRM (and it is an EA published game) but I'll definitely be getting this; a pity it's next week! I was hoping for today. The ice levels are a system killer though.

is this coming out for the Wii?

/end annoying post of the day

Well that was a pleasant surprise.

And that CGI shark on BttF2 used to scare the crap out of me as a kid.

Should we drop one point of the score to better suit the game as in the original Crysis?

once it's released on the PS3 I'll get it. I am sure it can handle it in 1080p 60 frames..............

It's friday, couldn't help it... 9 minutes and I am out of here!

I wish I had a more powerfull PC *cries*

What's wrong with elisabeth shue?

A 9? Pish-tosh.

Better than ________ ,then?

Bunch of jessies. Buy decent PCs!

I've a quad core and an 8800gt and it runs crysis fine, and didn't cost me the earth.

Woo-hoo!

hmm, do you need the original game to play this?

No you don't it's a stand alone thing I seem to remember.

Sweet, already pre-ordered, am looking forward to seeing how my 4870 fares in Warhead compared to the original

Wow this sonds pretty good. The pacing is what ruined the original Crysis for me, but I might pick this one up if that's been improved.

I love the spec '1.5Gb RAM for Vista.' You have to be crazy to run Vista on only 1.5Gb RAM, let alone Crysis...

What did Elisabeth Shue ever do to you Mr Donlan! :D

What jungle freedom? The best thing the original offered was forest freedom.. And give me a Crysis without those pesky aliens and I'll bite. For now Clear Sky suits my open-ended needs much better.

Elisabeth Shue was very scary indeed. At least till you became 15.

Faulkner seems to be a popular man to refernce these days.

Oohh, now I want this! I had no such wants before reading this.

i am one of the few lucky guy's that had the oportunity the run the game with everything max (high quality), at 1900x1200 resolution and i must say that it's the best First Person Shooter ever, games like Halo, Bioshok, Resistence and even COD4 look like something compleatly outdated form both gameplay and graphics point of view, the interactiviy and variety in terms of gameplay is amazing, you can aproach every situation in a different way, every object can be broken or used somehow, the suit features are incredible as you can use diferent tactics all the time and the weapons costumization is really good.
graphically no comments, it's the best game ever, shaders, textures, special effects, and the physics, oh my god, dont let me start on thouse, every object, card boxes, structures, trees, boats, cars etc... blow up in a realistic way, the 0 gravity level, the first level in the snow desert when your descending the mountain and all thouse rocks are falling down, it's simply breathtaking.
A lot of variety too in what concerns the levels, boat level, cavern, inside the alien mountain, 0 gravity level, forest... you can play in day/night that change in real time during the levels.

Worth every penny if your considering to upgrade your computer.

In o ther words, these is a Instant buy for me

Then, is it going to sell 500 million?.

I hope for Cevat's sake that the piracy ratio doesn't reach 100 to 1 with this one!

You get the aliens earlier on in this one?

Yeah, count me out then.

I think the processor specs listed in the review are for single-cores.

Great review, amusing read. But yeah, what's with the Elisabeth Shue reference? She's one of the prettiest women ever banned on celluloid in Leaving Las Vegas! :)

Just got myself a decent graphics card and was finally able to see Crysis how it should be last night (quad core system but came with a poor GPU). Looked fantastic so will probaby get this.

No fools yet whining how Crysis is "unoptimised" because it won't run with all settings on "über-ultra" on their PCs? Colour me surprised! Can't be long now.

I feel really bad about the Elisabeth Shue thing now. I think it's the perm more than the performance. Sorry everyone.

I have quad core 2.66 overclocked to 3.72 GHZ, 8 Gb memory DDR2/1066 overclocked to 1120 mhz, Board Rampage and 2 ATI 4870 in Crossfire, monitor hp24 HDMI, two 500 GB dics in RAID... the game runs fantastic at 1900x1200 at very high, i get 40 fps average, and if i play it only on High settings i get 60 fps average... warhead is a little bit less demanding so these on will have even better performance.

"Equally, they no longer have that strange habit of standing around looking like they're trying to recall the name of the actor from Q: The Winged Serpent, while you pump bullets into them from close up, either. (It was Michael Moriarty, by the way, but I sincerely hope you already knew that.)"

*applauds*

David Carradine negligence.

Sounds fantastic, and for 15 quid you can't go wrong!

To get it playable it won't cost much at all, My system for Crysis was 4GB 667 ram (running at 1:1 ratio) E4300 overclocked to 3ghz (hence the 1:1 ratio 333mhz FSB) an ATi 3870, a 40" TV and a xbox wireless pad receiver, for that I had it on a big screen at 720p on all very high and no AA. You could build a system to that spec very cheaply.

At £15 I had this pre ordered a month ago, but I mighht keep it on the shelf until I can afford a 1GB 4870... hmmm

Holy slew of pop-culture references. Even for a videogame review, that thing was saturated.

" have quad core 2.66 overclocked to 3.72 GHZ, 8 Gb memory DDR2/1066 overclocked to 1120 mhz, Board Rampage and 2 ATI 4870 in Crossfire, monitor hp24 HDMI, two 500 GB dics in RAID... the game runs fantastic at 1900x1200 at very high, i get 40 fps average, and if i play it only on High settings i get 60 fps average..."

On that evidence alone, I won't be buying this game.

Who expected less? Honestly? Crysis is badass in all forms.

I haven't even installed or run Half-life 2 or F.E.A.R. on any of my PCs yet. I really can't be fussed with upgrading the gfx card every year to keep up.

Just introduces more faff when I'd rather get on with using my PC of other things.

Maybe in the next year or 2...

ooooh - that's all I've got to say

"really can't be fussed with upgrading the gfx card every year to keep up. "

There it is! I knew we couldn't go a whole page without it.

9/10 ,LMAO!

m$ must have gotten to eg to try and get some sales on its shit vista.

See thats why scores are pointless.. far better to read the words..

sounds like more of the same.. and i didnt really enjoy the first one that much

Between issues of lousy performance on top end PCs on the original, the question mark over whether this actually has any new content, DRM and the fact I spent the entire of the original Crysis being glad I didn't have to do Psycho's crappy missions this is still a big question mark for me.

"No fools yet whining how Crysis is "unoptimised" because it won't run with all settings on "über-ultra" on their PCs? Colour me surprised! Can't be long now"

It is a little bit though... I think Crysis could have ran better than it does. They are simply relying on the latest hardware to run it.

"9/10 ,LMAO!

m$ must have gotten to eg to try and get some sales on its shit vista."

Stupidest thing I have read all day. Have you played Warhead then? In fact have you even played Crysis? And do you think MS give that much of a shit how well it sells. They effort they put into Games for Windows kind of indicates they don't.

Hmmm... 9? Might pick this up at weekend.

It's a shame it's got SecuROM really. Wont be buying it now.

Fucking pirate parasite scum. You like games? Get out your fucking wallet.