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3.5 stars
"Could be great, but for now plagued with issues"
Pros: As always, the Crysis engine looks beautiful, providing detail beyond any other fps game. The nanosuit functionality is unique to the Crysis franchise and adds a tremendously enjoyable variety to the game.
Cons: Huge number of compatibility issues causing random game crashes and full system crashes -- this is new, Crytek, Crysis played fine... Much slower load times than Crysis and overall performance seems worse than the original.
Summary: Warhead is new - I preordered and have had it for only 2 days now - but during those two days the game has crashed every single time I've played it, ranging from within 10 minutes of starting the game to perhaps 45 minutes. Considering that I was playing Crysis (the original) this morning on High Graphics at 1680x1050 with 50+fps, its extremely disappointing to have Crysis Warhead crash in the middle of my gameplay - its ruining the experience and I think Im going to wait for a patch before I play it again. That being said, what I did get to play was amazing - the graphics look largely the same as the original, but the new vehicles and improved vehicle handling make a big difference. Performance seems slower than the original, which is very odd considering the hype about how this game would be playable on a $700 rig... I have a SSD hard drive which made levels load for Crysis in about 15-30 seconds, and in Warhead its taking a little under a minute to a minute and a half... Crytek, get your patches together quickly please!
Game played on: Intel Core2 Duo 6750 Conroe, 4 Gigs DDR2-800, Samsung 32GB SSD SLC Primary HD, nVidia 9800GTX+ 512MB
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Same problems here. Random crashes, even BSODs (!), etc. I even thought those were due to hardware issues. But the original Crysis runs fine. Maybe videocard drivers? And wasn't this supposed to be an "optimized" version of the Crytek engine?! Guess not, no noticiable "optimizations" seen here! Well, at least we still have some beautifully detailed landscapes to look at...
System: Vista 64 SP1, E6750, 4GB DDR2-1066, 8800GT 512MB w/ Forceware 175.19 (now testing 178.13, no BSODs so far...) -
Same problems here. Random crashes, even BSODs (!), etc. I even thought those were due to hardware issues. But the original Crysis runs fine. Maybe videocard drivers? And wasn't this supposed to be an "optimized" version of the Crytek engine?! Guess not, no noticiable "optimizations" seen here! Well, at least we still have some beautifully detailed landscapes to look at...
System: Vista 64 SP1, E6750, 4GB DDR2-1066, 8800GT 512MB w/ Forceware 175.19 (now testing 178.13, no BSODs so far...)
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