Nvidia announced today new ForceWare beta drivers that offer several game and application compatibility fixes, and are also the recommended drivers for running the long awaited Crysis (coming out this Friday). This new release is the third set of beta drivers in less than a month that tries to improve compatibility and performance for the latest generation of games, which includes BioShock, Crysis, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Hellgate: London, Team Fortress 2, World in Conflict, and TimeShift. This holiday season is just such a great time to upgrade and be a PC gamer...
Alternate Reality Games. They're either done spectacularly right or horribly wrong. In Crysis' case, it seems to be the latter. Trying to pull off an ARG, they sent a military style document, complete with blacked-out sections and a prepaid SIM card in hopes that they'll be able to pull off a successful viral marketing coup. Needless to say, the people who received it weren't too amused.
inCrysis reports: "Reports from the Crysis community bring news that you can already get a copy of Crysis! Well... at least if you live in Germany, Austria or Norway, that is. We've got a report of this on our forums and also the Crysis-HQ forums show a proof of it in photo form. Thanks to BuffaloJack and Jadda for the tips!"
Word on the forums is that the pre-loading has started for people who have pre-ordered Crysis from EA Store. Apparently the game will be "unlocked", or playable, on November 14th! Two days earlier than the official release date.
According to IGN's GamerMetrics, the current top ten most-anticipated titles are as follows (ranked by percentages of mindshare among IGN's audience):
MSI's latest gaming creation, simply called GX600 will play Crysis. This notebook offers impressive specs including an Intel T7300 dual core 2GHz CPU with 4MB cache, 2 GB of RAM and 250GB hard drive.
One Crysis fan hasn't sat on his creative laurels following the release of the single-player demo and has been quick to whip up a new level for the taster of Crytek's shooter. Frozen Island, as the single-player level is named, is a reworking of the official level featured in the demo and, as you can see in the screenshots, it's all gone a bit wintry.
There is more problems for EA. It might have been the wrong demo released, or just a major cockup, but the execs at EA is probably screaming at someone. First, the script for the entire game was discovered lurking in the demo files. Then a simple config file edit activated supposedly DirectX 10 and Vista-only graphical effects in DirectX 9 and XP. And now, someone faffing about with the bundled level editor has managed to dump a load of good stuff from later in the game into the demo map and make it playable.