Crysis Warhead To Sell for A Modest $30

[H.Bogard]

From N4G (http://www.n4g.com/pc/News-166430.aspx):
With Crytek announcing their next game to be released so soon after the full-priced Crysis, many gamers were wondering whether the next installment would require them to fork over another fifty bucks to revisit the Crysis universe.

Well, Amazon.com and Gamestop.com have recently put up Warhead as costing a modest $30.
Do take the time to check out the screens and new game features (http://www.twistedpolygon.net/news/pc/crysis-warhead--new-details-emerge.html)revealed recently.

I loved the first game and can't wait to see what they're going to do with this one, sounds like they're addressing the gripes and flaws of the first in every way.

[Qoz]

Lets hope it's a fun-patch.

I liked Crysis, but it really fell apart towards the end for me.
80% because of serious graphics-lag and 20% because of the boring Alien-ship-levels.
There were also many glitches for me, with some huge black textures suddenly spanning into the horizon. Very strange.

Now people have the rig to actually play the game.
It is made by Cryteks east-european branch, so nobody really knows how this will turn out. I hope they make a killer game, because I will finally have the horsepower (4870) to enjoy it.

[alienchild]

If they want to make big bucks on this, they should put this and the original on steam. $49 for Crysis, $29 for Warhead, or $69 for both... or something. I'd sure rebuy Crysis just to get it on steam.

[Qoz]

EA games on STEAM? Do they have any on there?
I could see why they probably would hesitate.

[H.Bogard]

EA games on STEAM? Do they have any on there?
I could see why they probably would hesitate.

It is theoretically possible, since EA distributes Valve's games on retail, then why not vice versa?

[Esquilax1138]

It is theoretically possible, since EA distributes Valve's games on retail, then why not vice versa?

Well EA is trying to push their own horrible download service, and Steam is leaps and bounds better than EA's so no one would ever use it if EA games got on Steam.

Shame, I am starting to really love getting my games from Steam or Stardock, but EA's digital download store sucks so bad I'll never use it again.

[Dingobloo]

It is theoretically possible, since EA distributes Valve's games on retail, then why not vice versa?

http://eastore.ea.com/ ?

[H.Bogard]

http://eastore.ea.com/ ?

I said theoretically. -_-

[mister_slim]

Also EA may theoretically approve me distributing their games on my brand of muffins. The muffins are delicious and difficult to pirate and also theoretical.

[BloodPack]

If it is actually $30 I might actually buy it, instead of downloading it.

[Itchyeyes]

Good to see this. $30 seems to be my threshold for what I'm willing to pay for anything other than a truly exceptional game these days anyways. May actually pick this one up when it comes out.

[Deadend]

I want the guys I use as bullet shields to last longer.

[Kryopsis]

Count me in. It's a CryTek game and it's 30$. All the arguments I need to decide on a purchase.

[Klade]

Can't find it mentioned anywhere but I wonder if you need the original before you can play the expansion? Most expansions are that way, in which case if you don't own the original then the actual price of the expansion is $70.

I sure don't own the original and have no plans of buying it anytime soon. So if Warhead isn't a standalone you can count me out of buying it.

[Syl]

If i can pick up Crysis + Warhead for $50 or less, i might bite. I've been holding off on crysis, waiting for a couple worthwhile patches to come out. I think warhead should be a worthwhile patch.

[Schnoogs]

Cool...I loved Crysis and $30 is a drop in the bucket.

[Inspector Fowler]

...sounds like they're addressing the gripes and flaws of the first in every way.

So there is no retarded plot involving aliens and some bizarre zero g fighting sequence at the end that totally turns me off of what has thus far been an awful story with some fun gameplay and superb graphics?

What will they fill the time with? ;) I keed, I keed. As much as I liked the look of Crysis, I really didn't like where they took what story they had. I realize that the game is essentially a showcase for their engine, which they hoped to license out. So they have to include levels that show off what the engine can do. "Look, we have water stuff! And free fall stuff! And loooong draw distances! And you can deform most of the levels with your weapons! And...and...umm, if you wanted to make a game about somebody who can fly, we can do that too!"

But once I got there, I was done. The graphics in the aliens ship sucked balls to me, because the hard-edged realism of the rest of the game was gone. I was kind of hoping I'd have a Doom-style, kick the shit out of these alien mothers kind of invasion of their ship, but after an hour or so of floating around, I uninstalled Crysis.

Now if only we could get Fox to license the engine for a Predator game, and whoever owns the rights to Rambo needs to do the same.

[Telefrog]

$30 for a standalone expansion is pretty par for the course nowadays. I wonder who really thought it would be the same price as a full game?

[Schnoogs]

$30 for a standalone expansion is pretty par for the course nowadays. I wonder who really thought it would be the same price as a full game?

The same people who still think Crysis takes 8 way SLI to play at 800x600

[Maskatron]

EA Store charging $10 to redownload a game after a few months = Dead to me.

Crysis is a pretty fun $20 game. I'm still playing through it slowly. I can wait a bit for this one.

[H.Bogard]

So there is no retarded plot involving aliens and some bizarre zero g fighting sequence at the end that totally turns me off of what has thus far been an awful story with some fun gameplay and superb graphics?

I don't get this. Nobody played Far Cry, RTCW or even PainKiller for the story... why is it that people are proritizing the dialogues and cutscenes before the gameplay in every thread about Crysis?

If its any consolation, they have the writer of Bioshock on board with them for Warhead.

[Bingley Joe]

I don't get this. Nobody played Far Cry, RTCW or even PainKiller for the story... why is it that people are proritizing the dialogues and cutscenes before the gameplay in every thread about Crysis?

If its any consolation, they have the writer of Bioshock on board with them for Warhead.

I think making comments about the story in Crysis are completely fair. The game features numerous cutscenes - some of which are quite lengthy - and characters you're supposed to care about.. so much so, in fact, that they've deemed it a good idea to build the story for the expansion around the experiences of one of the secondary characters.

That says to me that they care quite a bit about the story they're trying to tell (further evidence of this is found in their hiring a 'celebrity author' to write Warhead's).

They sure are taking their storytelling pretty damned seriously (much more so than they did with Far Cry, although they also went to considerable lengths to give that one a story as well), so it's completely valid to discuss whether or not they succeeded in telling it well.

[Isamura]

Awesome, can't wait for this. Hopefully if there are aliens (and I can't imagine there won't be) they will be bipedal and won't fly around my screen.

[Disgustipated]

Awesome, can't wait for this. Hopefully if there are aliens (and I can't imagine there won't be) they will be bipedal and won't fly around my screen.

Here's the thing that a lot of people seem to miss: Crysis Warhead is just an alternate take on Crysis. It's the same story, same characters, but told from the perspective of Jester, one of the other supersoldiers.

So there's going to be the same aliens, maybe some overlapping scenes... but mostly it'll be new action-oriented locations.

[GigaFuzz]

Here's the thing that a lot of people seem to miss: Crysis Warhead is just an alternate take on Crysis. It's the same story, same characters, but told from the perspective of Jester, one of the other supersoldiers.

So there's going to be the same aliens, maybe some overlapping scenes... but mostly it'll be new action-oriented locations.

I thought it was from Pyscho's point of view....

[Disgustipated]

I thought it was from Pyscho's point of view....

My bad, you're right. Jester, Psycho... sorry. Easy to get these wonderfully detailed characters mixed up. ;)

[H.Bogard]

Here's the thing that a lot of people seem to miss: Crysis Warhead is just an alternate take on Crysis. It's the same story, same characters, but told from the perspective of Jester, one of the other supersoldiers.

So there's going to be the same aliens, maybe some overlapping scenes... but mostly it'll be new action-oriented locations.

I'd sure as heck like to play as the guy who got raped by the alien...

I meant that in a non-sexual way.

Ugh... anyway! This one's supposed to be a lot like the 'Assault' level (the one with the planes crashing and all out war going on)... which was my favourite in the whole game. So the direction is great, and if there's more scripted stuff like that level throughout the game, then I don't care even if its the same levels and assets all over again (They're re-doing the assets too, btw).

[H.Bogard]

Some good info from the Crytek community Q&A:


10. Will you play the whole story over again, but with Psycho? (tolgapaksoy, Crysis-Online.com)


Answer: With Psycho you will encounter a completely different story on the other site of the island which is quite dramatic, full of action and more intense and explosive than what you experience with Nomad.


11. Is Cytek (Germany) helping Crytek Hungary? Or are they on there selves? (Linkin, Crysis-Online.com)


Answer: Crysis: Warhead is being developed by Crytek Hungary.


12. Will the game be using Games for Windows - LIVE for its multiplayer infrastructure or Gamespy or something else? (Nightmare225, Crysis-Online.com)


Answer: Crysis: Warhead will be a Games for Windows game, and we will use Gamespy as our online service again.


13. Is the game broader and less path-driven, less linear? (Even though I never thought Crysis was much linear.) (Shletten, Crysis-Online.com)


Answer: In some areas, especially in the last levels of Crysis, the game was linear to drive the story further and to give the player a more intense feeling while playing the missions. We listened to the general feedback from the community and we have changed this in Warhead, where you’ll have a lot of the freedom in the first ¾ of Crysis throughout the whole campaign. For instance, vehicle based sections can be accomplished in various ways and the player is not bound to a specific route. You still have mission goals you need to achieve in order to proceed with the story, but the decision how to achieve them is up to the player from beginning till the end.