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[edit] 'Alien attack' image

Here is a game that is praised for having the best graphics in the history of gaming, and yet the screen shot for the plot is of a black void with a glowing green thing in the middle. What happened to the lucious forests, with the dust gently settling on the ground? What happened to the cystal clear waters with the light bouncing of the coral reefs? --Simpsons fan 66 04:18, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

In that image the main character is sky diving out of an airplane, so you are in the middle of the air in the middle of the night. Theres not much to see until you get to the ground. The purpose of the image is to show the alien creature that disrupts the main characters jump, causing him to lose his position with the rest of the team and landing a good distance from the others. Zeroxysm (talk) 17:18, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
I know what the image is, I'm just saying we could have a better screenshot that shows off this game's graphics to their best potential. --Simpsons fan 66 10:38, 1 February 2008 (UTC)


The graphics aren't as good as they were hyped to be; there were complaints that the pre-release screen shots had much, much better graphics that the final game. I have to agree. 213.78.183.91 (talk) 20:50, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

No, the prerelease SS are possible with the current game, its just that there isn't a computer that can currently run it at that setting 71.79.85.191 (talk) 03:15, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Error?

The system requirements section lists the minimum requirements as 2.8GHz for XP or 3.2GHz for Vista. But the recommended sys reqs show 2.2GHz. Is there a reason the recommended is lower than the minimum? Or is this an error?

recommended is a 2.2ghz DUAL core processor, min is for SINGLE core processors.

Actually, the 2.8/3.2 GHz requirement is for a P4 machine. The requirements are 2.0/2.2GHz for Core based machines. Their website gives separate requirements for AMD CPUs. I'm going to update this section with the full info from the official website. -Athaler (talk) 20:03, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
The 'recommended' reqs are a bit of a joke - everyone who's played Crysis knows that the game requires a next gen machine in order to run it on very high or ultra. I doubt you'd get the game playable with the minimum specs. 99.226.189.64 (talk) 03:21, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
a quick search through many fourms will lead you to another conclusion. many people have been able to get the game to run quite well on computers that are of lower specs than what the minimum requried is, even so far as the geforece 6100s. in any case, on your other point, no. the game has erratic performance, but it is possible to get it to run very well on all very high with a current machine, also, ultra high doesent exist, it is just a designation that people creating custom config files use, but there is no ultra high.

[edit] Hacker problems

As of this posting, Crysis is completely overrun with hackers in the online multiplayer. The development team acknowledged it in their announcement of adding punkbuster, and the chat channels are full of players complaining about the issue. I think that justifies being added to the multiplayer section of the article, unless anyone has any objections....? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.171.61.223 (talk) 06:43, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Only if you can find reliable, third-party sources to back up such a claim. Otherwise, it's original research. Xihr (talk) 01:28, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
Are you completely insane? Crysis is probably the most hacked game on the planet. Reliable, third-party sources? You're nuts —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.178.99.212 (talk) 16:30, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
If what you say is true, then you shouldn't have any trouble finding reliable sources which back up the claim. Xihr (talk) 21:41, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Sources:

http://www.incrysis.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=18026 http://www.gamereplays.org/community/index.php?showtopic=330262 http://crysisfreedom.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=146&mode=threaded&pid=942 http://crysisfreedom.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=131&mode=threaded&pid=990 http://www.incrysis.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=311511 http://gamersunitednetwork.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=901 http://www.incrysis.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=305481 http://crysisfreedom.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=131 http://crymod.com/thread.php?threadid=13207 http://www.crysis-online.com/forum/index.php?topic=17799 http://clanfr.eu/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=417 http://elitestargaming.el.funpic.de/index.php?forum-showposts-37-p1 http://crysisfreedom.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=132 http://www.incrysis.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=17837

-Mudkips, February 1, 2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.86.28.149 (talk) 23:09, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Random discussion groups hardly constitute reliable sources. Please review Wikipedia's guidelines. Xihr (talk) 21:41, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Input methods

Should we list the Xbox 360 Controller & the Xbox 360 Controller for Windows even though there is absolutely nothing different about them? I wouldn't want someone to read this and think they have to get the one sold specifically for Windows and pay more than they should have to. If they have Vista it will recognize the controller automatically but if they have XP or lower they would need to download drivers for free from Microsoft's website. --The Virginian (talk) 12:36, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Crysis for Xbox 360?

My freind (he may be lying) says that Crysis could be comming Xbox 360, I mean if tiberium is coming to Xbox 360 and its based on the CryENGING2 than, technically crysis could come to Xbox 360, but untill its confirmed ignore my comment. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gears, Gears, Gears (talk • contribs) 02:51, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

tiberium uses unreal 3, the rumors that it was using ce2 are false. that being said, its POSSIBLE in the same sense that anything is possible, however the devs as well as the publisher has said many times that there is no development on a console version at this time. anyway, to be put on the page it needs to be CONFIRMED first, not speculation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.241.14.153 (talk) 07:30, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Crysis is not coming on Xbox 360. The rumour is for ps3 because Crytek games have started employment of ps3 programmers. Although it could be any other game but rumour is that it would be Crysis.

Crysis IS NOT coming for the Xbox360, however it is most likely in development for the PS3. I wrote about it, and guess what - deleted! —Preceding unsigned comment added by SchumiChamp (talk • contribs) 19:38, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Rumors, both ways. Mr. Yerli has said that there is very little chance of a console port; however, Crytek has been working on a console game for a few years now, so their porting of the CryENGINE2 is logical. This in no way means they are developing Crysis for consoles. · AndonicO Engage. 20:13, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Prophet "presumably killed"

Am I the only one who thinks that it is unlikely he dies? There's something strange about him after the aliens drag him off initially, and the fact that he grabs a gun and flies straight back to the island (without you seeing his fate) suggests he's gone off to do some sort of personal mission.

In addition, he seems too.. mystical.. in the aircraft carrier to just go and get himself killed by a nuke. His codename Prophet implies he knows what to do, although that is of course speculation.

However, to remain encyclopedic I don't think we can state that he's probably killed, all we know is that we don't know what happens to him. (217.43.255.179 (talk) 19:02, 21 February 2008 (UTC))

In the final cutscene, Psycho said he can detect Prophet's signal, and that he was "alive and kicking" in the ice sphere. · AndonicO Hail! 18:01, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Disk check/launcher .exe?

Anyone else install Crysis only to find that the ONLY way to launch the game is to insert the DVD-ROM, activate autoplay, and then click on 'Play' on the launcher window? Is there ANY way to create a launcher .exe that can be placed on the desktop, or did EA screw us again? 214.13.173.15 (talk) 22:44, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

you know there are better places to ask this question than the wikipedia discussion page. go to start and the games tab on the right side of the start menu if under vista, if under xp than it should install an icon to your desktop automatically, if no just go into the install folder and make a shortcut of the crysis.exe file in bin32. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.241.14.153 (talk) 09:52, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
Sorry bro, there aren't a lot of websites that aren't blocked from our filter here in Iraq, so I asked where I could. Thanks for the tip, I'll give it a whack. 208.79.15.2 (talk) 13:32, 24 February 2008 (UTC) (same guy, different computer)

[edit] 1-1.5 GB

What does 1-1.5 GB in the requirement stand for? Is it RAM? --Octra Bond (talk) 06:27, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

It's RAM. Added the word in. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gamer007 (talk • contribs) 07:16, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

how come the RAM requirements is more for Vista than XP? TranscendantX (talk) 08:27, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Because maybe Vista requires more RAM to run as an OS than XP? 99.226.189.64 (talk) 03:22, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

i hav to either buy a new RAM or downgrade to XP if i wanna play Crysis TranscendantX (talk) 08:27, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] another review

I suggest adding a reference to the review of crysis by Ben Croshaw, views Crysis as a pretty but "somewhat above average" fps shooter (see the review at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Punctuation#Zero_Punctuation. It's another example to give a more balanced "reception" section, because the other reviews (Gamespot, PC Gamer) are so skewed to the maximum score. Zero Punctuation praises the graphics and nano suit, but critisises the vehicles controlling, the overall lineairity of the game, the game has too many controls and that you need a high end pc. Markus. 130.89.165.44 (talk) 09:22, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

I don't really see the need for this. The article already includes the X-Play review which was sufficiently guarded. Reviews have overwhelmingly been positive but cautious about the ferocious hardware requirements, and that's reflected accurately and reasonably in the current state of the article. Furthermore, this "Zero Punctuation" is hardly as notable as the other, already-included, reviews. Xihr (talk) 21:14, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

That said, parts read like a Microsoft marketing promotion.

--UnicornTapestry (talk) 17:45, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Controversy

There has been some controversy around this game. Some say that the developers withheld certain features from the game in DirectX 9 that are supposedly only possible with DirectX 10. This was reported here: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2222414,00.asp

There is also considerable talk of hackers within the multiplayer gaming community, as mentioned previously. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Somnolence (talk • contribs) 00:15, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Languages

Crysis supports English, Turkish and German languages. --144.122.250.137 (talk) 11:23, 16 March 2008 (UTC) log --Ilhanli (talk) 11:24, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Company

As far as i know the company belongs to three turkish brothers.. so it can not be said its a German Company.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.253.4.120 (talk) 00:56, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

The company's headquarters is in Frankfurt and the owners were all born in Germany, but are of Turkish descent. --Daniel J. Leivick (talk) 00:58, 9 April 2008 (UTC)