Crytek's Crysis was once the game to show off your PC rig, years before the studio added consoles into its playbook. As a result, console owners never had a chance to see what all the fuss was about, relegated to watching YouTube videos.

That changes next week, with an updated version of the original Crysis coming on October 4 to both Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network next week for $20 (1600 Microsoft Points). This version includes tweaked lighting, support for 3D and other enhancements meant to keep the game looking current.

It'll be interesting to see how Crysis holds up. Maybe some PC owners can drop in some thoughts?

Crytek's Crysis was once the game to show off your PC rig, years before the studio added consoles into its playbook. As a result, console owners never had a chance to see what all the fuss was about, relegated to watching YouTube videos.

That changes next week, with an updated version of the original Crysis coming on October 4 to both Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network next week for $20 (1600 Microsoft Points). This version includes tweaked lighting, support for 3D and other enhancements meant to keep the game looking current.

It'll be interesting to see how Crysis holds up. Maybe some PC owners can drop in some thoughts?

Or games on demand rather? Im not sure about this, will have to wait for the QL

i was expecting 40 dollar, but 20 is even better. Crysis had no online multiplayer right?

Crysis on console and 6 year old hardware? No thanks.

Excellent news! this way I can play crysis before crysis 2 and keep my crappy computer.

Dunno if I will though, my computer is rather crappy anyway...

For $20? Sure.

@Vinny_Says said:

i was expecting 40 dollar, but 20 is even better. Crysis had no online multiplayer right?

Crysis had multiplayer on the PC but this version of the game will not have multiplayer.

i was expecting 40 dollar, but 20 is even better. Crysis had no online multiplayer right?

Huh, all you had to do is press ~

@Vinny_Says said:

i was expecting 40 dollar, but 20 is even better. Crysis had no online multiplayer right?

It had one, but honestly I found it kinda crap. Though I hear the multiplayer expansion Crysis Wars is really good.

Ot: yup, 20's good for me. getting on PSN.

It's kind of jarring to see a graphical comparison of the pc and 360 versions side by side.

"This version includes tweaked lighting, support for 3D and other enhancements meant to keep the game looking current."

You mean it has reduced FOV, view distances and lower resolution textures to make the frame rate playable on the console.

$20? Alright, I'm in. I've always been interested in the original Crysis, not because of the graphics so much but because of the (later?) icy environments. I haven't followed this port at all but I kind of figured it'd be a full priced game, nice surprise.
 
@cbk486: 
 
That's the absolute worst screencap that could've been taken from that trailer, I've seen the rest and it doesn't look nearly as bad as that. Hell, even Uncharted 3 could look like garbage if you took a screencap of the worst graphical detail you could find.

i was expecting 40 dollar, but 20 is even better. Crysis had no online multiplayer right?

There is no way this will look as good as it does on a pc, right?

It's kind of jarring to see a graphical comparison of the pc and 360 versions side by side.

@cbk486 said:

It's kind of jarring to see a graphical comparison of the pc and 360 versions side by side.

Which one is supposed to look worse? I'm not sure what direction I should raise my fanboy hackles.

I am very impressed with the pricing. I have it on Pc, so no need. Still, that is pretty cool.

@wolf_blitzer85 said:

@cbk486 said:

It's kind of jarring to see a graphical comparison of the pc and 360 versions side by side.

Well gotta free up that ram somehow.

Hurr hurr hurr fuck those trees, I run past them anyway.

Also, easy points!

Gonna wait for a sale or something.

@cbk486 said:

It's kind of jarring to see a graphical comparison of the pc and 360 versions side by side.

Which one is supposed to look worse? I'm not sure what direction I should raise my fanboy hackles.

Gonna pick this up but really eager to see the achievement list first.

@cbk486 said:

It's kind of jarring to see a graphical comparison of the pc and 360 versions side by side.

Whoa, it's hard to believe that that is the same spot in the game. o_O I have seen some footage on Gamespot lately and it looked really good. They showed the level where you try to get to the harbor, beginning at nightime and then the sun goes up etc. pp. That ran so good and looked so good that I was really looking forward to this.

Same day as my birthday! And the same day as Rage..and 23 days before Battlefield 3. Fuck.

@wolf_blitzer85 said:

@cbk486 said:

It's kind of jarring to see a graphical comparison of the pc and 360 versions side by side.

Well gotta free up that ram somehow.

Hurr hurr hurr fuck those trees, I run past them anyway.

Also, easy points!

That picture is likely honest because having played Crysis multiple times I can tell you the open areas with massive amounts of vegetation just cannot work on <500MB of RAM. It's just not possible. I expect they have trimmed down the detail in large areas considerably, either that or added tunnel connection.

In any case the most interesting part of this release for me will be seeing all the console gamers who bashed Crysis for just being a pretty face suddenly realize that it's actually a very good game that earned those 9.0 reviews.

Maybe some PC owners can drop in some thoughts?
 
Why would you ask that Patrick, why?

@Rabid619 said:

$20? Alright, I'm in. I've always been interested in the original Crysis, not because of the graphics so much but because of the (later?) icy environments. I haven't followed this port at all but I kind of figured it'd be a full priced game, nice surprise.

@cbk486: That's the absolute worst screencap that could've been taken from that trailer, I've seen the rest and it doesn't look nearly as bad as that. Hell, even Uncharted 3 could look like garbage if you took a screencap of the worst graphical detail you could find.

Dude, the point he's trying to make is that the console version is going to look FAR worse than the PC version. I don't get why console owners get upset when someone points out that their 6 year old hardware is not up to the spec with the latest and greatest on the PC.

best on 360 am confirmed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkfFifSCym0&feature=player_detailpage#t=1722s

Look for yourself, you can see draw-in but I think most of the stuff seems to be in there, especially foliage. Ok, we will have to see next week I guess.

Oh well I guess that the studio will get a few more bucks if they do this.

@Rabid619: It still looks pretty decent for a console game, but I was just pointing out that concessions had to be made. Gameplay is higher on my priority list than graphics, and so far it seems like that aspect of Crysis translates well.

@Rabid619 said:

$20? Alright, I'm in. I've always been interested in the original Crysis, not because of the graphics so much but because of the (later?) icy environments. I haven't followed this port at all but I kind of figured it'd be a full priced game, nice surprise.

@cbk486: That's the absolute worst screencap that could've been taken from that trailer, I've seen the rest and it doesn't look nearly as bad as that. Hell, even Uncharted 3 could look like garbage if you took a screencap of the worst graphical detail you could find.

Dude, the point he's trying to make is that the console version is going to look FAR worse than the PC version. I don't get why console owners get upset when someone points out that their 6 year old hardware is not up to the spec with the latest and greatest on the PC.

It's kind of jarring to see a graphical comparison of the pc and 360 versions side by side.

wow didn't expect it to be ready so soon.  Price not bad either.

wait xbla? so only 200 gp? :( ill stick with the pc version then

$20 sounds fair.

Console gamers should be rejoicing. Crysis is significantly better that Crysis 2 imo. Much more sandboxxy. Awesome price too. Enjoy console gamers!

@Slaker117: Just wanted to point out that I didn't take these. I got this picture from /r/gaming.

@BlatantNinja23: No, it'll probably have a full 1000gs. Its a full retail game sooo....

For as great as the gameplay for this game supposedly is, all anyone seems to talk about is how the graphics look.

Keep it classy, PC gamers.

@Rabid619: It still looks pretty decent for a console game, but I was just pointing out that concessions had to be made. Gameplay is higher on my priority list than graphics, and so far it seems like that aspect of Crysis translates well.

Does this include Warhead?

"Crytek's Crysis was once the game to show off your PC rig..."

It's still up there.

I think $20 is a reasonable price. Graphics aside, the first half of the game is legitimately good, and different enough to most console shooters to make it still worth bothering with. Obviously it goes to shit once the 'I'm going to fly straight at you like I'm in Serious Sam' monsters turn up, just like Far Cry did.

@Slaker117 said:

@cbk486 said:

It's kind of jarring to see a graphical comparison of the pc and 360 versions side by side.

Well, it would probably be more useful if you took screenshots of the same are- Oh. Wow.

Haha, I didn't even realise that. Nice.

@StingingVelvet said:

In any case the most interesting part of this release for me will be seeing all the console gamers who bashed Crysis for just being a pretty face suddenly realize that it's actually a very good game that earned those 9.0 reviews.

Except the fact that PC gamer's are still talking about the graphics and not the gameplay. I wonder why that is?

@Rabid619: On it's own it looks fine maybe, but if that is really the same exact spot then it looks miles worse than the PC version. Not surprising, or really a big deal, but if you can play this game on a PC, do so. lol.

Lol id say graphically its superior to crysis 2 so itll be holding up quite well :) Gameplay might seem really clunky now thoughh, especially after crysis 2

@Jimbo said:

"Crytek's Crysis was once the game to show off your PC rig..."

It's still up there.

I think $20 is a reasonable price. Graphics aside, the first half of the game is legitimately good, and different enough to most console shooters to make it still worth bothering with. Obviously it goes to shit once the 'I'm going to fly straight at you like I'm in Serious Sam' monsters turn up, just like Far Cry did.

I guess I am one of the few people who enjoyed the back end more than the first half. I got sick of killing the same five Koreans over and over again.