Crysis is what I'm drooling over. This is MY game. Who else is getting it?

I am certainly looking at it. Will probably get it.

I preordered this one a loooong time ago.

And Species, remember that you'll be needing at least a Geforce 8 series GPU with Windows Vista for that Direct X 10 goodness.

I'll just have to wait until I have the cash. It should be noted however that most of the trailers were running on DirectX 9. SO it still looks great.

I personally won't be upgrading to Vista even for DX10. The performance hit of Vista itself means that DX10 would probably be unusable except on the highest end machines. I'm thinking RAM will be an issue.

Yay, November 16th 2007 is confirmed.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=41430

I know, I read about it on InCrysis!

It's coming!

Ooooh, nice. It'll be interesting to see how good this actually is after all the hype...

This will be a good game indeed.

Apparently you go about the island on a mission of some sort and the alien invasion happens some time during your mission, totally warping the gameplay. I'd really like to get my hands on this game. My new system should be able to run this system very well.

If any of you have checked out my Bebo (http://azcn2503.bebo.com/) then you will notice that I have a YouTube video on there of a guy with an Intel QX6700 (overclocked to 3.8GHz) and 2 x XFX 8800 Ultra XXX cards in SLI. Even on 2560x1600 at 4xAA and 16xAF, the game never drops below 50 frames per second. This is brilliant! My system should be something along this sort of spec. Hopefully, Crysis shouldn't bring my new system to its knees, well, not completely anyway.

Unfortunately for you it has been stated by the devs that Crysis will have graphical features unable to be used by current hardware (thus making it future proof).

They are going to release a patch (I think it was 18 months after release they said, but don't hold me to that) which would unlock loads of extra graphics naff.

You mean unfortunately for all, then; the 8800 Ultra is the fastest and most advanced graphics trickery on the market at the moment.

Heh, future proof. I bet somebody hacks open those extra features.

Also, the story is you're sent to the pacific (?) to investigate a meteor. You go in with your squad of uber soldiers with their exo-skeletons and stuff (like you have). The Koreans were already there, so you fight them a bit. Then I assume the aliens have something to do with the meteor.

Actually, they changed it.

The story is now that there was an archaeological site in the area which the Koreans invade for some reason. The US nano soldiers are sent in to rescue the archaeologists. The US wishes to avoid a head-on confrontation because Korea is now a major power.

Anyway, as the nano soldiers attempt to carry out their mission, something alien and big emerges at the site and freezes a large portion of the island. This frozen zone begins to expand at which point the US and Korea work together to try and repel the alien threat.

Hmm well I don't keep my eyes on it that much. Meteor would make more sense, though.

November the 16th is currently the confirmed release date. I was reading about the native animals in Crysis. Players were apparently chasing crabs and grouping them together.

Yup, we already new about the release date.

Also, you can apparently be cruel to the animals and powerthrow them at stuff.

Yes, with such a force that they explode.

In a big poof of blood and feathers, yes.

tell me more..

Look it up, lots to read. http://www.incrysis.com is a good place to start.

thanks skill

No problem. I reckon it's going to be the game of the year.

It's also the forum I'm registered on.

PC probably....I mean will it come under this year or next for that? I mean the release date is kinda late in the year, so will it go into consideration for next years contest? If it is next year, its got some serious competition (I mean, if Game of the Year includes consoles)

I think this could be game of the year, too. UT3 will be good, and it will be multi-platform, and probably perform better but I think Crysis will be the pinnacle of PC gaming. Nothing will beat this game at 2560x1600.