Crysis 4 is official — and you might want to upgrade your PC

Crysis 4 is official — and you might desire to upgrade your PC

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I've been holding off on getting a new gaming PC as non only is information technology a nightmare to track downward an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080, but many of the best PC games are also bachelor on the Xbox Serial 10, which I'g fortunate plenty to have.

But developer Crytek has just appear a new Crysis game currently in development and that has me looking dejectedly at my ageing gaming desktop. That'southward because, for the uninitiated, Crysis games have long been incredible enervating on the PC hardware of the time, prompting first person shooter fans to ponder GPU upgrades and PC gamers to pose the immortal question: "Only tin can it run Crysis?"

While the original Crysis was a PC game, its successors accept come to consoles, with an enhanced version of the original game now available on Xbox and PlayStation; heck there's even a Nintendo Switch version of Crysis.

Just given how enervating the first game was and all the graphical pick it threw at my eyeballs back in 2007, it's e'er felt like PC-first game. And while Crysis 4 is officially in the early stages of evolution, Crytek makes very pretty and powerful game engines and I'd be very surprised if Crysis 4 doesn't stop upward pushing the current, and indeed hereafter, gaming tech very hard.

I'd expect there to be high-end ray tracing, advanced texture rendering and filtering techniques, and options for super high and widescreen resolutions. Be prepared for "tin my PC run Crysis 4?" to popular up in PC gaming forums in the near-hereafter.

Across the tease of PC-slaying graphics, Crysis iv is besides exciting to me as I loved the original game.

In information technology, you played the office of a special strength soldier code named Nomad. Just rather than have an arsenal of guns and gear at your disposal, you had the Nanosuit. This futuristic wetsuit-meets-trunk-armor had four modes: ane boosted armor, one that gave super strength, another super speed and the last allowed for a express invisibility cloak.

Combined with a tropical setting and expansive missions that took Nomad from white sandy beaches to sweltering jungles, Crysis was almost a pseudo-Predator game. Being able to sneak up on enemies while cloaked, grab them and bung them into their comrades using super force, then sprinting away at superhuman speeds was a lot of fun.

At that place were some great fix pieces and evolving missions where stealthy infiltration of a base turns into a huge firefight, with support from the U.S. Navy. And Crysis did all this while looking stunning; information technology arguably nevertheless looks very prissy today, specially at high resolutions.

Crysis 2 and Crysis three lost a little of this free-form fun, though the games looked amazing. I'm hoping Crytek draws inspiration for the first three-quarters of the first game (spoiler warning) rather than the more alien-centric last quarter and sequel games.

With precious petty else in the way of data, I can just hope nosotros hear more about Crysis 4 as the year draws on. But for the time being, it's adept news that Crysis could make a comeback, even if information technology might punish all but the best gaming PCs.

Roland Moore-Colyer is U.M. Editor at Tom'south Guide with a focus on news, features and opinion articles. He often writes nearly gaming, phones, laptops and other $.25 of hardware; he'southward also got an interest in cars. When not at his desk Roland can be found wandering around London, frequently with a wait of curiosity on his face.