best shooter ever, nice that we germans are getting some respect, this is the game that makes me whant to upgrade my PC,

Crysis > all other graphic games > all other FPS

Crysis is to FPSs as what Doom 3, and much earlier Falcon4.0 were when they came out.

F4 came out when the typical CPU speed of a $2500 computer was around 266mhz. The reccomended? 400-500mhz, and about double the ram of any standard ($2500) computer out there.

Likewise, Doom3 had some insane specs at launch.

It's not always the most difficult thing for developers to make a graphically-amazing game. The real difficulty is in being able to scale it down, and make it run smooth on every setting, with few bugs varying from OS and computer specs.

Yea, Crysis is a DX9 and DX10 game. Though in a 1up podcast, one of those guys asked a developer what kind of computer he'd need to run the game and got an answer like "a quad core cpu, 2 gigs of ram, and an 8800GTX".

I hope the overall game is fun, I know I marveled at Far Cry's graphics and huge draw distance, but everything else about the game made me cringe.

Graphics don't solely determine a game. To me Bioshock and Unreal look like beter games.

That's why I like Source.

I'm not that excited for Crysis...I'm lovin the graphics to be sure...but I don't know how it will play yet...I'm not really into the whole "super-fast" thing.

Source games look pretty good on high-end computers, and they constantly improve the engine. But you can run a Source game on a very low-end computer, and it at least looks decent. The most important part is that it always runs smoothly though...

This is the best game graphicly but that demo shown at the gamespot coverage really was dissapointing the framerate was terrible.

 I think Neos was strictly referring to the degree of visual realism, not the gameplay. In that regard it's more a matter of personal preferences.

Unreal looks spectacular, but hardly realistic, with all the over-the-top eye candy it sports.

@BenKenobi88: Source is a fantastic engine, and scales very nicely to be sure, but Crysis is really taking a different approach with its monster-sized levels and ludicrously far draw distances.

Gameplay-wise, I'm not too sold on the superfast either. Sounds like a souped-up Unreal with realistic graphics, but we already have Unreal for that brand of gameplay! Nevertheless, it'll be interesting to how the developers approach the gameplay. If it retains the right amount of gameplay elements from Far Cry I won't be disappointed. It was a great game.

Ok, this game has just kicked UT3 balls for the best look game out there. One thing I like on games, are good looking environments. And also 'interactiveness' with everything, not like "I shoot at a window and never breaks!"

I loved FarCry, I'm really expecting this game :D

Good time to be a PC gamer :D

I believe that both of the people in the world that have computers capable of running this at full power will definately be getting it. I really don't see a big future for this game. Does anyone have the required system specs for it? I like games like Spore. That game looks promising. All you need is a computer capable of running Sims 2 and you can run Spore.