Crysis demo out

[luttman23]

It's a bit dodgy, but you can get it to work with some fiddling. You can get it from here (http://www.crysisdemo.com/download.htm).

Word of advice - don't bother maxing out the settings unless you are a recent lottery winner. or a lottery winner from a while back who is still loaded - and by winner I don't mean a tenner

[Thunderjew]

I tried it, but i almost killed my computer in the process, so i exited it.

It seems cool though.

[CoX]

Downloading, but this computer definitely won't be able to run it. I'll have to wait until I get my laptop next month.

[Coroona]

Managed it on medium...

[Fishmonster]

I ran this on high and found it rather lovely. The water has always been fantastic but seeing it properly is awesome.

I only have a couple of issues. That is that it seems to actively not work with Ati's crossfire technology. Now I have played other games this way and the only "way to play" them was apparently with an Nvidia card. But none of them suffered the massive glitching I get with crossfire.

Also it killed my PC when I quit. I knew EA had some dodgy practices but seriously!

[retardedhell]

There are optimised drivers out for nvidia cards, grab them here: http://www.gamershell.com/news/42871.html

I've been playing it on high settings (as very high is meant for new generations of cards to come so that the game is still current in the future as far cry was) and it runs rather well on an 8800gts.

I Love the game play and as a player of the multiplayer beta aswell, I can say the demo is DEFINATELY an improvement. FPS is up and the little animation when you pick up a gun wasn't in the beta, also general image and physics quality is much better too.

Here's a trick to try: Shoot a red barrel once so that it is burning, switch to strength mode and then throw it at a group of unsuspecting koreans :D much explosive fun to be had :D

[Erskien_Parkour]

Woah

cool.

Im downloading right now, hope my measly graphics card can take it.
Come christmas i'll have a decent graphics so yeah!

I hope my balls can take it


EDIT: oh wow

best part of it

beating up a crab with maximum strength

[Shpox]

Friend Elxx got some stuff working.

Disable Annoying Stupid Intro Movies
Go to Program Files/Electronic Arts/Crytek/Crysis SP Demo/Game/Localized/Video and move/delete/rename all the files that start with trailer_ and end with .sfd.

Install the Editor
The installer is located at Program Files/Electronic Arts/Crytek/Crysis SP Demo/Sandbox2 Installer. Once you have installed it, you can start the editor by launching Program Files/Electronic Arts/Crytek/Crysis SP Demo/Bin32/Editor.exe.

Try out the Tanks, Boats, and Helicopter
If you haven’t done so already, File->Open and open up either of the two maps. Basically, hold down the right mouse button and use WSAD to move around the map in the editor. Find a somewhat empty spot on the map, then in your “RollupBar” on the right make sure the first tab is selected. Click “Archetype Entity” and head into the Vehicles folder and find one you like. To use it, drag it to the map wherever you want it. If nothing seems to show up, they didn’t include that vehicle in the demo.

Love it, only con, too short. Frogs = Pure sex.

[doctor_fruitbat]

My laptop wouldn't run Bioshock, and it sure as hell isn't going to run this.

[Haroshi]

You can apparently get DX 10 features in XP by copying one line of code.

http://www.crysis-online.com/forum/index.php?topic=11837.0

Though I guess if your computer can't handle high settings you shouldn't try this unless you want it to run at 4 fps. :p

[Stealth Chimp]

Though I guess if your computer can't handle high settings you shouldn't try this unless you want it to run at 4 fps. :p

I gave this a go for a laugh, and my god it actually ran, and it ran at 25fps pretty consistently, I doubted my system could run the game playably at all let alone with all the bells and whistles.

[Erskien_Parkour]

God

this game is awesome

I picked up a kiwi and drowned it.
Im going to hell. =[

MAXIMUM STRENGTH

[Stealth Chimp]

MAXIMUM STRENGTH
Doesn't really last long enough? A few seconds of SUPER RUN or a few SUPER PUNCHES and then you're out of suit juice, bit irritating actually. Also why can these bad guys take what seems to be an entire clips worth of bullets to kill?

[Erskien_Parkour]

I know, you sit there trying to pick them off with 1 shot and they take ages to die

you have to get headshots to make long range shots worth it.

[Stealth Chimp]

It never seems to work quite like that though, sometimes a headshot is an instant kill and sometimes I can see quite easily that they are taking bloody loads of bullets in the head and not dying. I've started just using sleeper bullets on everyone from afar and then polishing the bodies off with dual pistols. Your armour doesn't last long enough on the harder difficulties to make running in and beating everyone to death with a chicken a valid tactic, which is a shame

[Erskien_Parkour]

I know.

Isnt it a kiwi or something, kiwis are cooler. I suck at this game, I spend too much time exploring and running about trying out really weird ways to kill people :D

[Stealth Chimp]

If you stray too far off the beaten track those big ships in the distance fire a missile of instant death at you, pretty neat trick for disguising an invisible wall actually. Apparently there is a turtle somewhere but I can't find it, shame, I'd quite like to beat KPA patrols around with endangered species.

[Erskien_Parkour]

Oh i'll try going around the island the long way then, see what happens.

Ive yet to catch a fish =[

[Stealth Chimp]

I've tried getting to the other side of the island via the coastline and I'm pretty sure you can't do it, haven't tried overland but I doubt that's possible either. I do enjoy exploding crabs with grenades when they bunch together, I've yet to even see a fish though.

[Erskien_Parkour]

You have to go swimming, to find those lovely little fishes.

Overland has alot of inscaleable cliffs I think, I love chasing the crabs then pummelling them into the ground and laughing manically afterwards while throwing boxes at them.

[Stealth Chimp]

Geez, I'm a week behind on an essay and instead of writing it all I want to do now is play more Crysis. It's going to be an expensive November with this and Gears coming out.

[Erskien_Parkour]

Crysis > life

[Socks]

To me, that Crysis fellow looks like, Smoke (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_%28Mortal_Kombat_character%29). Of course, I might be blind.

[The Grim Reaper]

I think i just completed the demo, it ended with some alien thing that looks like a UT3 darkwalker grabbing someone, then the guy saying we have to move and then it goes black

Pretty nice fixes over the MP beta, its a lot smoother with less lag. I couldn't find the grenades, when it said to kill the forces up ahead with them, i just switched to single bullet and headshotted them one by one in cloak.

The dart gun thing doesn't put people to sleep long enough, i used it on a boat driver, and he only went out for 20s or so before starting to drive in a hunched over position

I think i skipped a fair amount of fighting just by gunning the humvee down the track and along the beach, though you have to get out and cloak pretty quickly.

I agree with suit juice, i hope they allow like award upgrades to it, or like some kind of enhancement, because strength and cloak run out really fast.

I'm definitely getting this, as well as too many other games (Crysis, UT3, Gears PC, Super Paper Mario + others)

[Pkhunter]

it's just far cry, 'cept you can punch through walls.

Fight anonymous asian men on the beach, get in a jeep, fight anonymous asian men in the jungle, get to a beach, fight anonymous asian men in a boat, get ammo from shanty-town building, fight anonymous asian men in a helicopter, discover existance of mutants/aliens and realise that the anonymous asian men have lost control over them.
Sound familiar?

That's not saying it's not good.. it's great fun.. It's just a little unoriginal.

[tom93]

I'm assuming that the suit must eventually get upgrades, otherwise it's just a bit ridiculous.
I needed a bit of a slower intro. Not the intro video, that was ridiculously long. The suit. It tells you "hold down middle button to switch modes" but until the end, I barely understood what that even meant, which is fairly nasty, considering that they laboriously take you through all the things that are the same in every game; WASD, left shift to sprint, etc.

[ray]

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/?p=522

[Youlikeyams?]

As awesome as this game looks, the AI is retarded. Enemies can't swim and swear at the same time. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJkCWQcZYKo)

I wish I could run this game :(

[Fishmonster]

As awesome as this game looks, the AI is retarded. Enemies can't swim and swear at the same time. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJkCWQcZYKo)

I wish I could run this game :(

That video is awesome. Though I'm sure he probably just reached his swim limit or something. In any case it sounds to me like he is trying to impersonate a Murloc to scare off the super soldier chappies. I now I'd run if I ever heard that noise.

[ray]

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/1231/ghostridedo3.gif

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/3367/whatep5.gif